Lew Rockwell Institute

The true heroic voice of reason concerning the past and present disastrous adventurism such as the Afghanistan quagmire is certainly not war criminals George W. Bush, Dick and Liz Cheney, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. It is 2012 presidential candidate Ron Paul. He remains the voice of clarity directing his Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity in speaking truth to power against the Ukraine/Russia conflict and the present egregious War against Iran.

The principled constitutionalist and noninterventionist Ron Paul was right from the start about our disastrous preemptive imperial wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, right from the start about the destructive ‘blowback’ fomenting more hatred directed towards America, right from the start about the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies creating the housing bubble which led to the 2008 financial meltdown, right from the start about the War on Drugs, the USA Patriot Act, the invasive NSA surveillance, and the TSA imposing a police state upon the American people.

Spewing forth the scurrilous epithet “isolationist” as if it were some form of demonic voodoo won’t cut it anymore. The neoliberal “humanitarian interventionists” and their mirror image neocon horde should know that the American people are fed up with their seemingly endless lies and vilification concerning persons counseling nonintervention in the internal affairs of other nations. They have seen first-hand what such globalloney lies have brought on our nation with disastrous preemptive wars of aggression.

Ron Paul was never afraid to speak truth to power which is why he remains greatly admired by stalwart GOP conservatives, grass-roots populist activists, independents, and disillusioned Biden Democrats. Accordingly, the veteran Air Force flight surgeon Paul received more financial contributions and support from active-duty military personnel than all other presidential candidates combined. They knew he has seen first-hand the ravages and toil of combat and as presidential commander-in-chief would not carelessly place them in harm’s way in no-win wars.

They knew a President Paul would only commit combat troops with the proper constitutional declaration of war and the full support of the American people. Of all the 2012 candidates only he repeatedly spoke out clearly and forcefully against the belligerent war propaganda and calculated lies in the bipartisan lead up to war with Iraq, against the bipartisan campaign for punitive sanctions against Iran, and against further covert operations to destabilize the fragile geopolitical situation in the Mideast.

Never forget that the duplicitous chicken hawk neocon jihadists beat the propaganda war drums of “weapons of mass destruction” in the failed war in Iraq, while the disingenuous Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama plunged us further into belligerent quagmires in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iran, and Syria.

The American people know the bitter tragedy of war. They are tired of being lied to about these futile conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iran and Syria. It is their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, who were seriously maimed, irreparably disabled, and needlessly killed, never to return physically or psychologically intact as they were when they marched off to these egregious follies.

Ron Paul remains the most decisive, authoritative, and substantive consistent voice on the crucial national security issues facing our nation. Americans have always rooted for the heroic underdog, the principled David facing down Goliath. By standing out from the pack of neocon clone candidates in 2012, Paul proved his forthright courage, his dedication to first principles, to the United States Constitution and the rule of law.

Ron Paul remains our defender of the republic, a statesman of unblemished character and principled judgment. The twelve-term congressman has for decades courageously spoken out for an American foreign policy based upon a strong national defense of the essential core principles of liberty and justice as established by the Framers, a defense of the territorial integrity of the United States and its national borders. Peace, prudential diplomacy, free international trade and commerce, and the free exchange of ideas are the key elements to a constitutional foreign policy.

Ron Paul remains first and foremost a realist. America is financially bankrupt due to decades of reckless, irresponsible fiscal and monetary policies pursued by the Fed, the Congress, and the Executive branch of the state. Paul’s measured conservative program of strategic disengagement from the unconstitutional pre-emptive wars of the past two decades, coupled with a serious analytical reassessment of the imperial over-reach of 900 military bases in 130 nations, is the only wise course dictated by this unsustainable debt situation.

He remains the deep state’s principal enemy, and the sterling champion and exemplar of the principles, rights and liberties of the American people.

The post Ron Paul: Still The Voice of Reason appeared first on LewRockwell.

For decades, Ron Paul has called for closing all foreign U.S. bases and bringing all of our troops home. “We just marched in. We should just march out.” But alas, this “American First” policy recommendation was ignored. Perpetual war was too engrained in the government and their special interest benefactors. Now, what should have been done voluntarily, is being done by force. The New York Times is reporting that 13 U.S. bases are uninhabitable in the Middle East as a result of Iran’s response to President Trump’s initiation of war. The recommendation remains unchanged — close all the bases, and bring all American troops home!

The post New York Times: ’13 U.S. Bases Uninhabitable’ — We Could’ve Just Marched Home appeared first on LewRockwell.

Just because we don’t get invoices in the mail, doesn’t mean we don’t pay dearly for the empire’s senseless wars. Most of us Americans have been hammered our entire lives to pay for them. It was hoped that the long-train of disasters was coming to an end with the second Trump Administration. But alas, it has not. And the crushing bills are continuing to come in.

The post War Isn’t Free … How The American People Pay Dearly For It appeared first on LewRockwell.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made many trips to the U.S. last year. And now here we are, in the middle of a gigantic mess in the Middle East (again). The widely anticipated expectation of President Trump putting “America First” and “Making America Great Again” seem like fleeting memories now.

The post Trump & Netanyahu: Who’s the boss? Maybe we’ll find out appeared first on LewRockwell.

NATO should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact was disbanded in 1991. Its continuance has been a drain on the American people ever since. But the Empire, despite its protestations, gains many benefits from keeping NATO around. NATO is one of the primary ways that the Empire maintains great “influence” over Europe. So will President Trump actually get out of NATO because they won’t help him in his great debacle in Iran?

The post Trump vs. NATO — Would He Actually Leave? appeared first on LewRockwell.

It’s not hyperbole to say that America is broken; badly broken. The hope that Donald Trump would put America on the right path has also been broken. Yet another Middle East war is the very last thing that our nation needed. With each passing moment, the costs are mounting. How much can the American people, who are already strained economically, endure?

The post Counting The Costs: Another War Is Not What America Needed appeared first on LewRockwell.

That of course is the idiotic name the neocons have given to their latest invasion of a Middle East country by the U.S./Israeli armies. Javier Milei immediately joined with his fellow Zionist neocons to “celebrate” the invasion. Those of us who knew Murray Rothbard can just hear him shouting that Milei’s “celebration” is “Monstrous!” Milei should change the name of his dog from Rothbard to say, Lindsey (Graham), McCain, or perhaps Sean (Hannity) or Marc (Levin).

Milei is what Ryan McMaken calls a “micro-libertarian.” He sounds like a libertarian when talking about such things as price controls or legalizing prostitution, but acts oblivious to the ancient truth that “war is the health of the state” as he cheerleads for the ongoing Israeli/US. genocide being perpetrated in Gaza and now “operation epic fury.”

The post Should Libertarians Celebrate “Operation Epic Fury”? appeared first on LewRockwell.

Israel’s war and what it means. pic.twitter.com/P9D7UGq40W

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 2, 2026

The post Tucker on Operation Epstein Fury appeared first on LewRockwell.

Today, March 2, would have been Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday. Rothbard’s intellectual heir, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, has published on his Property and Freedom Society Web sit a tribute to his mentor that includes twenty new essays and much more.

Hans is widely regarded all over the world as Rothbard’s most important intellectual heir and his closest disciple. He was a close collaborator and personal friend for many years, and Hans described Murray as “the greatest social theorist of the 20th century.” Hans’s book Democracy: The God That Failed is a major extension of Rothbard’s anarcho-libertarianism. Nothing else comes close. The twenty brand new essays here are a heartfelt tribute to the great Murray Rothbard, his personality, his achievements, and his impact on the world of ideas.

The post Rothbard at 100 appeared first on LewRockwell.

Nasrallah Abu Siyam, a 19-year-old Palestinian-American man, was executed by illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Wednesday.  Abu Siyam was among about 30 residents of Mukhmas who were trying to stop armed illegal settlers from stealing their goats.  Israeli settlers shot at least three of the villagers, including Abu Siyam.

The US State Department said it was aware of the death of a US citizen and was “carefully monitoring the situation”.  Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not do anything about the murder of Abu Siyam because he supports whatever Israel decides to do to the Palestinians.

Israel fails to prosecute illegal settlers for attacking Palestinians because Israel wants make life as difficult as possible for the Palestinians.  Israel also wants to expel the Palestinians from the West Bank to make way for more illegal settlements on stolen land.  Last week, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who called for a pogrom in the West Bank village of Huwara in 2023, called for the “migration” of Palestinians from the West Bank.

Additionally last week, The Times of Israel reported that Israel, “enabled the registration of broad swaths of land in the West Bank as state land available for Israeli development.”  In conclusion, this would facilitate Israel’s ability to develop more illegal settlements on stolen land.

The post US Citizen Executed by Israeli Settlers as Israel Aims to Further Control the West Bank appeared first on LewRockwell.

The post Epstein Files Are Just The Beginning… W/Robert Barnes appeared first on LewRockwell.

Gold has been universal international money for thousands of years for many reasons; primarily because no government can control or counterfeit it. Naturally, some governments hate these natural restrictions. They want to spend money without restraint; and want to counterfeit their way to world domination. Alas, the United States took the latter road after WWII. The dollar became a weapon used against the rest of the world (and United States citizens). Times are changing though … and fast!

The post China Buys Gold & Dumps Dollars appeared first on LewRockwell.

“Globalization” has been a buzzword for many years. But there are two types, and the distinction is extremely important. There’s the globalization of America’s founding, as laid out by Thomas Jefferson: “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.” And then there’s the modern globalization laid out by Paul Wolfowitz after the Cold War, known as the “Wolfowitz Doctrine,” which seeks a permanent American global hegemony to prevent the rise of any rival power that can block America’s unilateral action. Jefferson had it right, and America prospered. The neocons have been wrong, and America has suffered.

The post Voluntary Multipolar Globalization vs. Tyrannical Unipolar Globalization appeared first on LewRockwell.

We all grew up learning about the U.S. government’s supposed uniqueness; its built-in “checks and balances.” After all, the results of concentrated power without restraint are littered throughout all of human history. America was different…for awhile, at least. Congress was, in theory, the branch of government “closest to the people,” representing each state’s interests. Today? Congress comes around when it’s time to vote, and then you don’t see them again. They represent billionaires and crony corporations. They’re off in other countries, propagandizing the overthrow of foreign governments. They often don’t even bother reading the bills they vote on here at home. And worst of all, they allow the Executive Branch to get away with almost everything. No checks. No balances. What has happened to the republic?

The post Does Congress Even Exist Anymore? Whose Fault Is This? appeared first on LewRockwell.

HITLERS GOLD — THE REAL STORY, SWISS BANKS, THE BIS, DULLES AND THE AFTERMATH

Since the Second World War we have been talking of the horrors of war, the battles, tanks, the men and machines. But none of it could have happened if not for the international industrialists, bankers and law-firms and banking cartels.

In this very special episode, we will go over all these details and cover who these people were, where did what Gold come from and where did it go. The Bank of International Settlements, Sullivan and Cromwell, Allen Dulles, Hjalmar Schacht, Martin Bormann — Hitlers personal secretary and his Gold and stolen art deals.

And where did it all go after the war, and what happened to the businesses, industrialists and bankers. Who paid for it all and who did not. We will cover some of the controversies that came from the Nuremberg trials and lead us into the lessons we failed to learn and on to the new global organizations which seems funded and created similarly to the National Socialists.

The True Origin of WWII: What Historians Get Wrong

The story you were taught about World War II is incomplete.
History textbooks tell us WWII began when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. But the real origins of the deadliest conflict in human history trace back to bankers, not generals. To boardrooms, not battlefields.
In this video, we expose the economic forces that mainstream narratives conveniently ignore:
→ How the Treaty of Versailles created a financial time bomb that destabilized Europe for two decades
→ The Dawes Plan: How Wall Street pumped billions into Germany, creating a fragile house of cards that collapsed in 1929
→ The exposed connection between the Great Depression and Hitler’s rise from fringe extremist to Chancellor
→ The uncomfortable truth about Ford, General Motors, IBM, and Standard Oil doing business with Nazi Germany—some even after war broke out
→ Why the Nazi economic model required conquest to survive
This isn’t conspiracy theory. This is documented history buried in archives, exposed at Nuremberg, and examined in Congressional investigations. The records exist. Most people just never look.
Understanding how economic forces create political monsters isn’t just about the past. It’s about recognizing the warning signs before the next catastrophe.
—
Sources and further reading:

John Maynard Keynes, “The Economic Consequences of the Peace” (1919)
Edwin Black, “IBM and the Holocaust” (2001)
US Holocaust Memorial Museum archives
Centre for Economic Policy Research studies on banking crises and extremism.

Hitler’s American Business Partners

A detailed, well-referenced, and chilling look at American multinational corporations who fueled and profited from the Nazi movement before and during the US involvement in WWII.

The Major Disturbing, Inconvenient Element Never Discussed in the Lead Up to the Beginning of the Second World War (World War II).

Tragically, Here Are Little Known Aspects of the Greatest Conflagration of World History Never Taught in an Academic Setting.

Edwin Black: IBM and the Holocaust

I saw noted author Edwin Black appear at Temple Israel synagogue in Tulsa on November 7, 2011, to present a powerful lecture titled “IBM and the Holocaust.” The event focused on his investigative research into how the corporation’s technology facilitated the logistics of the Nazi regime.

Here Black speaks in Endicott, NY, the birthplace and for many years the headquarters of IBM, on September 15, 2009. He is author of Nazi Nexus: America’s Corporate Connections to Hitler’s Holocaust, and IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation.

World War II: The Savage Aftermath

The True History of World War II, by Ron Unz

Ron Unz critically reassesses the established narrative of World War II, exploring overlooked historical evidence, scholarly purges, and contested interpretations that significantly redefine our understanding of the conflict.

The post Discover the Shocking Truth Behind World War II that Still Impacts the World Today appeared first on LewRockwell.

Basic economic logic and thousands of years of recorded history have verified that price controls take a bad economic circumstance and make it even worse. But alas, President Trump, who seems to be looking for a quick fix to pacify public anger for the results of his policies, is pushing for price controls. Whether it be interest rates, credit card rates, electricity rates … the more the government subsidizes and interferes with what’s left of market prices, the bigger and more numerous the problems become.

The post Price Controls Don’t Work — Not Even For President Trump appeared first on LewRockwell.

From Murray Rothbard’s 1994 essay, “Just War”:

“The Somalian intervention [by the U.S. military] was a perfect case study in the workings of [the] Wilsonian dream. We began the intervention by extolling a ‘new kind of army (a model army if you will, engaged in a new kind of high moral intervention: the U.S. soldier with a CARE package in one hand, and a gun in the other. The new “humanitarian” army, bringing food, peace, and democracy and human rights to the benighted peoples of Somalia, and doing it all the more nobly and altruistically because there was not a scrap of national interest in it for Americans. It was this prospect of a purely altruistic intervention — of universal love imposed by the bayonet — that swung almost the entire “antiwar” Left into the military intervention camp. Well, it did not take long for our actions to have consequences, and the end of the brief Somalian intervention provided a great lesson if we only heed it: the objects of our “humanitarianism” being shot down by American guns, and striking back by highly effective guerilla war against American troops, culminating in savaging the bodies of American soldiers. So much for “humanitarianism,” for a war to impose democracy and human rights; so much for the new model army.”

The post Why Neocons Like Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham are Responsible for the Minnesota Welfare Fraud Scandal appeared first on LewRockwell.

Not only is Robert Barnes a master litigator and top-notch attorney but one of the most in depth, articulate, well read and street-smart experienced political analysts in the nation. Whether it involves the institutionalized criminal machine cartels of the Democrats and Republicans or the deep state, he is a true polymath reminiscent of Murray N. Rothbard in his power elite analysis of Realpolitik and geopolitics. He is widely regarded and respected.

Barnes has just completed an in-depth examination of the pulse of D.C. through a round of confidential conversational dialogues and frank inquiries of a wide-range of top level and varied other actors of executive and legislative influentials regarding the international and domestic realities at play today. What he has to report is very important.

The post The Duran: Regime Change Escalator w/ Robert Barnes appeared first on LewRockwell.

Mike Benz — Riots, Revolution & A World on Fire This Week

Mike Benz — CIA Cocaine Trade in Venezuela Complicates Maduro Charges

Mike Benz chat with Grant Stinchfield tonight (1/8/26) on NewsMax

Trump needs to wake up from the deep sleep slumber engendered by the deep state. For almost 100 years, the US has had a narco-centric foreign policy.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, by Peter Dale Scott
https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Machine-Connection-Afghanistan/dp/0742555941

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838

It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror public facade or rationale. We clearly see this in revelations of Jeffrey Epstein/Bear Sterns on Iran-Contra; AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 bailouts, which have begun to expose the Narcosaurus at the core as never before.

As Larry Chin observed:

AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

It is no surprise that Barack Obama is the top recipient of AIG funds. AIG’s money also lines the pockets of other members of the Obama administration, and prominent members of Congress, including Senator Christopher Dodd, who has been accused of a sweetheart deal aiding AIG.

For more on intelligence asset Barack Obama’s Wall Street connection, see Charles Gasparino’s book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.

The post The “Deep Politics” Reality of our Foreign Policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been Narco-Centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror Public Facade or Rationale appeared first on LewRockwell.

Mike Benz — CIA Cocaine Trade In Venezuela Complicates Maduro Charges

Mike Benz chat with Grant Stinchfield tonight (1/8/26) on NewsMax

Trump needs to wake up from the deep sleep slumber engendered by the deep state. For almost 100 years, the US has had a narco-centric foreign policy.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, by Peter Dale Scott
https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Machine-Connection-Afghanistan/dp/0742555941

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838

It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror public facade or rationale. We clearly see this in revelations of Jeffrey Epstein/Bear Sterns on Iran-Contra; AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 bailouts, which have begun to expose the Narcosaurus at the core as never before.

As Larry Chin observed:

AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

It is no surprise that Barack Obama is the top recipient of AIG funds. AIG’s money also lines the pockets of other members of the Obama administration, and prominent members of Congress, including Senator Christopher Dodd, who has been accused of a sweetheart deal aiding AIG.

For more on intelligence asset Barack Obama’s Wall Street connection, see Charles Gasparino’s book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.

The post The “Deep Politics” Reality of our Foreign Policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been Narco-Centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror Public Facade or Rationale appeared first on LewRockwell.