“The United States and Iran exchanged fire for a second consecutive night on Thursday [July 9],” the New York Times reports, “extending a pattern of hostilities that has all but collapsed their fragile truce and left the Middle East suspended between war and peace.”...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: At this week's NATO summit, President Trump expressed his view that more Ukrainian missile strikes deep into Russia would accelerate the peace process between the two countries. But what if he's wrong? Also today, Trump re-starts...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Mark Twain was right when he said history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Consider America’s approach to nuclear weapons. Under Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, America’s strategic nuclear triad...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The Israel Lobby is throwing a "Hail Mary" pass amid growing US opposition to support for that country: Language has been inserted into the US National Defense Authorization Act for 2027 that would essentially merge the US and...
In June, a slew of progressive Democrats won primaries in some cases upending incumbents with long careers in Washington. Following in the footsteps Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York City in 2025, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, and Darializa Avila Chevalier...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 2 July 2026, I was on Rachel Blevins’s popular podcast. We talked about Russian progress on the battlefields of Ukraine, where that war is going to be settled and where the Russian are in the driver’s seat. Very importantly, Rachel...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: As NATO member states gather in Turkey for their summit, NATO's great failure looms large. The 2014 coup led to a civil war and finally to a Russian invasion to protect ethnic Russians in the east. The plan was to use Ukraine as a...
Demands for a ceasefire in Sudan’s three-year civil war mounted this week amid reports that more than 300 children have been killed or injured in the northeastern African nation this year alone, mostly by drone strikes. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said...
"Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?" ~ Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In July 1776, courageous colonists came together to declare their independence from the perceived tyranny of King George III. “Rebels” like Thomas Jefferson urged the colonists to start down a new path, one of...
