Jimmy Dore, in his interview last week with libertarian communicator Ron Paul at the Jimmy Dore Show, pointed out that, while Dore calls himself a progressive and Paul is considered a libertarian, the two men “agree on the big things, meaning free speech and noninterventionism — ending our foreign wars and regime change wars.” Continuing, Dore states, “we agree on liberty and we agree that someone like Edward Snowden is actually a hero.” read on...
In a new interview at RT largely focused on United States sanctions on Iran and the threat of a US attack on Iran, Ludwig von Mises Institute Chairman Lew Rockwell urges President Donald Trump to “start being a man of peace.” read on...
Did those evil Russians put Ron Paul 2008 on the map? This is just one of the weird allegations made by high-ranking Libertarian Party officials and their allies. Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams joins the Tom Woods Show to discuss the recent re-Tweet by Libertarian Party chairman Nicholas Sarwark of a bizarre, unsigned article claiming a huge Ron Paul/Donald Trump/Vladimir Putin conspiracy. Also, Sarwark suggested that Ron Paul is a "supporter" of the governments of Venezuela, China, and Russia (because he opposes regime change). Finally, old allegations about the British Helsinki Group are revisited and explained. An airing out of allegations in this Woods/McAdams podcast... read on...
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joined The News With Rick Sanchez to discuss how the neocons are again stovepiping intelligence and serving it up to a mainstream media eager for war. Seventeen years ago they did it about Iraq, now they are doing it on Iran. Same tactic, different country. And it seems to be working... read on...
Results released this month of a new Gallup poll of marijuana legalization supporters in America indicate that 60 percent of them view legalizing marijuana being “a matter of freedom and personal choice” as a very important reason for supporting legalization, while an additional 29 percent see this as a somewhat important reason. read on...
You may recall United States Libertarian Party Chairman Nicholas Sarwark, in a December of 2016 interview, denouncing prominent libertarian communicator Ron Paul’s support for states’ rights. In that interview, Sarwark said Paul, who ran three times for US president including once as the Libertarian Party nominee, “had policy prescriptions that were straight-up wrong and anti-libertarian.” read on...
So, you think the United States government is too big and powerful and that power should be returned to state and local governments? Well, Adam Kokesh may be your presidential candidate — if you are willing to take your thinking to the extreme. read on...
In a new interview with host Scott Horton at the Scott Horton Show, prominent libertarian communicator and peace proponent Ron Paul discussed how Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presenting a “gross distortion” purposed to blame Iran for the harming of two ships last week in the Middle East fits in with a broader effort to “lie us into war” against Iran. “We should be awake from all their shenanigans,” Paul advises. read on...
Did you miss our drug war conference last month? You're in luck - we're putting all the speeches online! In this second speech of the conferenece, RPI Senior Fellow Adam Dick takes another look at Ron Paul's groundbreaking 1988 treatise on why all drugs should be legalized. Speech is from RPI's May 2019 conference "Winning the War on the War on Drugs." read on...
On Thursday, the New York state legislature passed and New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law legislation (S2994A) eliminating the religious exemption parents in the state have been able to exercise to refuse state-mandated vaccinations for their children as a condition for their children attending school. This legal change leaves parents with only a narrow medical exemption given that New York had already barred use of a philosophical exemption. read on...
