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President Ron Paul

The piece below was published this week on Foreign Policy’s website. ————————————- President Paul Ron Paul maybe a long shot in November, but he’s America’s best bet on foreign policy. BY MICHAEL SCHEUER | MAY 3, 2012 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/03/president_paul?page=full Ron Paul’s treatment by mainstream media, other Republican hopefuls, and the punditry makes me think the W.B. [...]
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Obama keeps pushing the bipartisan religion of interventionism

Too often, I believe, Americans think about Washington’s interventionism only as the actual physical intervention of U.S. military forces abroad in places where no U.S. interest is at risk. That activity certainly is intervention, but President Obama’s despicable decision last week to have his administration leak intelligence claiming that Israel has concluded an agreement with [...]
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On Syria: Can Americans’ luck hold? Probably not

It is hard to imagine. For almost a year Syria has been the scene of an increasingly intense civil war between Bashir al-Asaad’s regime and an assortment of its opponents — Islamists, foreign mujahedin, democrats, secularists, etc. Thousands on both sides have been killed, though the paragons of pro-interventionist “truth” like the BBC and CNN [...]
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Slavery in America? You bet — listen to Obama and Romney

Even in the Internet Age, some news seems to travel slowly. Take, for example, the recent activities and words of President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in regard to the coming war with Iran. Neither seems aware that the U.S. Constitution was long ago amended to outlaw slavery. Last weekend, Barack Obama dutifully [...]
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When war comes, Dr. Paul can say: “George Washington and I tried to warn you.”

For much more than a decade, Dr. Ron Paul has warned Americans about the danger inherent in a bipartisan foreign policy that intervenes in other peoples’ affairs, seeks to impose Western values on others, and writes blank-check commitments to fight for other countries in wars where no genuine U.S. national interest at risk. Dr. Paul [...]
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