|
The unemployment crisis of 2025 is unfolding faster than most people realize. In this video, Philip Patrick breaks down the key warning signs you need to watch—from sudden layoffs and hiring freezes to automation, AI disruption, and tightening credit conditions.
Just one month after US CENTCOM condemned Iran for boarding a commercial vessel in international waters, the Trump Administration boarded and seized a Venezuelan oil tanker bound for Cuba and seized the cargo. Is this another provocation hoping for a Venezuelan response to kick off the war? Also today: Massie introduces bill to get out of NATO.
Please consider a year-end, tax-deductible donation to the Ron Paul Institute while we have matching funds: https://ronpaulinstitute.org/donate/
The US military sent two US Navy F/A-18 fighters deeper into Venezuela's area of influence than ever before. They lingered near the coast for nearly an hour - tempting Venezuela to react and get the escalation? Meanwhile, US public support for military action is cratering and the Administration lacks the troops in the region for a ground invasion - even as President Trump ramps up the threats. What's the endgame?
Please consider a year-end, tax-deductible donation to the Ron Paul Institute while we have matching funds: https://ronpaulinstitute.org/donate/
So much for the end of the US as world's policemen. The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act includes another one trillion dollars in spending! Is this all about defending the American people...or protecting the military-industrial complex? And Ukraine's Zelensky has refused to consider any concession of territory to end the war.
Please consider a year-end, tax-deductible donation to the Ron Paul Institute while we have matching funds: https://ronpaulinstitute.org/donate/
President Trump is expected to unveil a $12 billion bill to assist farmers today. It is an unnecessary expense brought about by bad policies. Fortunately there is a better way...
Please help keep the Liberty Report alive. Your donation will be DOUBLED for a limited time: https://ronpaulinstitute.org/donate/
By Ron Paul
Last week the Pentagon, under “War Secretary” Pete Hegseth, carried out yet another military attack on a boat in the high seas that the Administration claims is smuggling drugs. That makes 23 boats blown up by the US military in the waters off Latin America – most near Venezuela – and nearly 100 persons killed. To date the US government has provided no evidence to back up its claim that these boats are smuggling fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into the United States. The US Drug Enforcement Administration has reported that Venezuela neither manufactures nor transports fentanyl to the US. In fact, the DEA still concludes that Venezuela is barely a minor player in the drug game. Is this really about drugs? Or is it about “regime change” for Venezuela? When Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander of US Southern Command, raised concerns about the legality of bombing boats on the high seas and extrajudicial killing, he was pushed out by Hegseth. His concerns were ignored. When lawyers at the National Security Council, Pentagon, and Justice Department raised objections to the boat attacks they were reassigned or fired, according to press reports. Finally, President Trump’s own appointed lawyers at the Justice Department came up with a justification for killings. But it’s classified. Last week the media reported on an incident from September where two survivors of the US strike were left clinging to the wreckage of their boat when the orders came to kill them too. It was clearly an illegal order, even according to the Pentagon’s own Laws of War manual. Many Americans will not want to hear this, but this entire operation is illegal and immoral – from blowing up survivors to blowing up the boats in the first place. There is no legal justification to use military force against boats on the high sea that pose no imminent military threat to the United States. Many supporters of this policy argue that the killings are “self-defense” because “narco-terrorists” are using narcotics as weapons against the American people. That is certainly what the Administration is claiming, having invented “narco-terrorist” as a new term to justify the killings. Sadly, this shows how effective government war propaganda still is. It was used when both Republican and Democratic Administrations wanted to launch wars against Saddam Hussein, against Gaddafi, against Assad, and so on. New slogans are invented and a good deal of the public happily adopts them as their own. Anyone who challenges the new slogans is deemed unpatriotic or weak. When the war goes badly they pretend they were never fooled by government lies. Then it happens again and they repeat the new war slogans. The “war on drugs” was launched by President Nixon a half century ago. It is obviously another failed government policy. Raising the stakes in a failed war is foolish and counterproductive. The solution to smuggling during alcohol prohibition was not to start bombing the bootleggers. It was to come to terms with basic economics: you cannot kill demand by killing supply. More Americans die each year from alcohol use than from fentanyl use. Will strikes soon be launched against “alco-terrorists” who are killing Americans? Of course not…we hope. That is the danger of throwing away the laws of war: anything can happen next. Congress has the authority to stop Secretary Hegseth from killing people on the high seas. It should do so without delay.
President Trump had a very clear choice in front of him starting in January -- Try to save America, or try to save the bankrupt Empire that lives at the expense of the American people. The time had finally come, after 100 years of almost non-stop wars, to make the choice. It has to be one or the other. The American people overwhelmingly voted to "Make America Great Again" as it was before the Empire's endless wars -- drastically cut the government and free the American people. But President Trump chose to do the exact opposite, and the results throughout the economy and American society reflect his choice; in just less than a year.
While President Trump remains preoccupied with foreign affairs, new polling shows an accelerating softening in support among Trump voters concerned with the high cost of living. The buzzword is "affordability" but what does that really mean?
Was he there? Was he somewhere else? The White House and Pentagon can't seem to get the story straight on the "double-tap" murder of survivors of a US extrajudicial killing off the coast of Venezuela in September. Suddenly Congress is waking up to the real problem of President Trump's "shoot first" policy on boats in the Caribbean. Also today...more US bombs on Somalia - who are we at war with?
President Trump's shoot to kill policy on boats off the coast of Venezuela has run into serious legal trouble after the media has reported that his Defense Secretary, Hegseth, ordered survivors of a first strike to all be killed as they clung to the wreckage of the boat. "Kill them all," he was reported to have said. But why are they killing anyone? Are we at war? Also today, NATO slips further into irrelevancy...  Please consider a tax deductible donation to the Ron Paul Institute this Giving Tuesday: https://ronpaulinstitute.org/donate/
|
Archives
February 2026
 
 
 
 
|
RSS Feed