Memorial Day should not be a celebration of militarism. It is intended to be a day to memorialize those who have died in battle. What to memorialize? Watch today's Ron Paul Liberty Report! Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
William J. Astore asks: Will America’s Wars Ever End?
In late 2009, I wrote the following article for Huff Post under the title, “One Grizzled Veteran’s Dream.” This Memorial Day Weekend, I’d like to remember the dream a veteran shared with me and lots of other high school juniors back in 1980. Sadly, that dream is even...
Requiem for a Soldier Suicide: Missing Him
For Memorial Day, here’s an excerpt from my book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. The name of the deceased has been changed and the exact location of the ceremony obscured out of respect.Private First Class...
Veterans On the March: Memorial Day in D.C.
Veterans On the March! Stop Endless War • Build for Peace!“War is a racket: A few profit, the many pay!” ~ Major General Smedley Butler, USMCMay 29 and 30, 2017 in Washington DCMay 29, 2017: Letters to the Vietnam Memorial Wall • Martin Luther...
Ron Paul: Do The Biggest Surveillance States Need More Surveillance Powers?
Ron Paul appeared on the Kennedy Show on Fox Business Channel.
NSA Spying On Americans ‘Widespread’ – Let Sec. 702 Expire!
In October, 2016, the NSA was forced to admit that it had misused Sec. 702 of the FISA Amendments to spy on far more Americans than it should have. Even the normally very compliant FISA Court condemned the ramped up spying on Americans as raising serious Fourth...
Antiwar.com’s Angela Keaton on the Importance of Delivering the Bad News
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Hiroshima and the Scar of Moral Injury
For military historians, walking a battlefield is a special experience. That’s where things previously locked away in books happened, the hill that blocked an advance, the river that defended an important city and altered the course of human history. Historians visit...
Congressmembers Speak Out for Getting the US Out of Afghanistan
Today a news conference was held by co-sponsors of HR1666, to prohibit funds for activities in Afghanistan, and the importance of debating the 16-year war in Afghanistan, the longest war in America’s history. Attending were Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC)...
Ron Paul asks: Was Manchester Blowback?
Western intervention in Libya opened the country up to radical Islamist gangs which had been suppressed under Gaddafi. Just as Gaddafi warned. Same in Syria, where western destabilization efforts have led to an al-Qaeda and ISIS presence that was not there before the...


