The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

In January, with the United States military having just attacked Venezuela and rushed off the South American nation’s president to incarceration in the US all in the name of fighting drugs, I warned...

Hardly a week goes by when Donald Trump is not the centerpiece and source of a lie so outrageous or an accusation so heinous that one has to sit back gazing at one’s computer screen, stunned by the audacity and shaking one’s head in disbelief. But even after what is now more than a year and a half of exposure to Trumpism, there is sometimes an insult, or a gesture, or an insa...

The National Guard was just the beginning.

One year after President Trump deployed military troops to the nation’s capital, we find ourselves navigating a posse comitatus presidency in which the visual trappings of martial l...

The Washington Post is reporting that the CIA had dismissed as not credible an Israeli warning of a plot to harm the president this summer in Turkey. Was the Israelii “gift” of intelligence just a self-serving plot? Also today: US Sailors are attempting suicide after lengthy deployments in the Middle East.

“The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.”
— Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)

The rapid spread of public surveillance cameras represents something far more...