Ron Paul on Facts or Fakes: Can We Trust The Washington Post?
January 3, 2017
In November the Washington Post printed an article accusing some 200 independent media organizations of being “fake news” sites doing the bidding of the Kremlin. Their evidence? They had none, so very soon they were forced to walk back the story. On Friday they breathlessly reported that the Russians had hacked our energy grid, but […]
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WAPO Admits: Russia Didn’t Hack US Electrical Grid
January 2, 2017
It took a few days to get there, but the Washington Post has finally made the circuitous voyage from a headline declaring “Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical security, officials say” to finally arriving at “Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted Vermont utility, say people close to […]
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We Are Still Alive (Non-Hacked Russian Stooge and Terrorism Edition)
January 1, 2017
This is a version of last year’s January 1 article, updated to reflect the new fears of the World’s Most Frightened Nation. I survived. America, and the world, and you, survived. We awoke the first day of 2017 to find that once again, using the extraordinary power of fear, we again held off the terrorists. […]
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Ban Trump, Twitter, and Free Speech
December 30, 2016
In the through-the-mirror world we now live in, people who once unambiguously supported free speech now are finding plenty of things they want censored. Chief among those opposing ideas they want silenced are Donald Trump’s. His remarks – from the silly, labeled unpresidential, to the more extreme labeled racist/sexist/misogynist/hateful – have attracted a surprising group […]
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The Ron Paul Institute for Peace Needs Your Help
December 29, 2016
Ron Paul’s year-end report on the work of his institute.
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Ron Paul and Chuck Spinney on Trump’s Pentagon Budget Time Bomb
December 28, 2016
Legendary Pentagon analyst and whistleblower Chuck Spinney joins today’s Liberty Report to explain the budget nightmares a President Trump will face at the Pentagon. Why do these weapons systems cost so much and perform so badly? Chuck knows…and tells Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams on today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Reprinted from The Ron Paul […]
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Symbolic Failure Point: Female Afghan Pilot Wants Asylum in the US
December 28, 2016
History loves little markers, tidy packages of symbolism that wrap up a big, complex thing. You know, the helicopter on the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon standing in for years of failed war, the Berlin Wall being knocked down to visually note the end the Cold War, that sort of thing. Well, the […]
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Happy Holidays From the Video Asshats at Your State Department
December 25, 2016
So what better use of taxpayer money and time than for your State Department to make idiotic holiday videos? Acting like an asshat is something of a State tradition year-round, but these annual videos seek to memorialize it. The very broad theory is that these things “humanize” American foreign policy in a way drones do […]
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The F-35 Fighter: Not Invisible to Trump’s Radar
December 24, 2016
Is Donald Trump putting coal in Lockheed Martin’s Christmas stocking? Trump has sent another tweet about the F-35 jet fighter (Lockheed Martin is the primary contractor), this time asking Boeing to price out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet as a possible replacement for that jet. Trump’s tweet caused Lockheed Martin shares to dive even as […]
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Ron Paul: Purported Russian Hack in US Election is Insignificant Compared to What US Does Overseas
December 22, 2016
“I think it’s politics more than anything else,” says former House of Representatives Member Ron Raul (R-TX) regarding calls for an investigation of purported hacking by the Russian government influencing the United States presidential election. Interviewed Wednesday on Fox Business, Paul continues that, even if Russia did what is alleged, Paul does not think it […]
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