Ron Paul: Haspel is Not the Problem. The CIA is the Problem.
"The US increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who’s in charge."
"The US increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who’s in charge."
"The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to force a public accounting of the current U.S. role in torture prisons across the south of Yemen."
"Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness."
"McCain, who is battling brain cancer, writes that the Iraq War 'can’t be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it.'"
"Why the lie? Why keep saying that U.S. soldiers have died protecting our rights and freedoms? Because the truth is too embarrassing and too shameful."
"Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president."
"Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the 'import' of labor — the in-migration of human beings."
"It appears that the only way not to be killed, according to Netanyahu, is to meekly accept imprisonment inside the prison of Gaza."
"This wasn’t some newborn infant, you know? This was a baby who could probably sit up independently. I was scared, but I acted quickly."
"Doctors, teachers, and social workers can be jailed for failing to report child abuse here at home. But, 6,000 miles away, U.S. troops risk their career for protesting pederasty."