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Demonstrators gather during an antiwar rally to mark the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2023. - Demonstrators are calling to cut any type of funding for the war in Ukraine. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

On February 19th, the National Mall in Washington, DC saw its largest antiwar rally in 20 years. The speakers list included four former US presidential candidates and a broad and diverse collection of antiwar activists from beyond the left and right.

The aptly-named Rage Against War Machine rally drew thousands of attendees, however many pro-war advocates eagerly pointed out that it did not match in size some of the larger rallies against the Iraq war 20 years ago.

To that I say, who cares? The US mainstream media engages in war propaganda non-stop, with the only exception being Fox News Tucker Carlson. So I think its a miracle anyone had the courage to travel to the heart of the war machine in Washington, DC to make their voices heard! We dont need a majority to fight back an educated and dedicated minority will do quite nicely. And we certainly had that at the rally!

As I sat in the green room waiting to speak, I had the opportunity to visit with former Democrat presidential candidates Tulsi Gabbard and Dennis Kucinich and former Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Political commentators Jimmy Dore and Chris Hedges were there, along with many leading and wellspoken libertarians. Everyone backstage carried the same message: we must put aside our differences to build a new, broad coalition against this war!

I believe the antiwar movement is starting to catch fire both at home and overseas. The DC rally was followed by much larger antiwar rallies in Paris, Berlin, London, and elsewhere.

Several recent polls, including by Pew and AP, show that American support for Ukraine is evaporating. Even in the EU, new polls show a public turning sharply against their governments support for the war. According to a recent Ipsos poll, less than half of Germans support continuing to send weapons to Ukraine. Change is in the air.

The US mainstream media is clearly getting nervous that its control over the narrative is also evaporating. How do we know theyre nervous? They have turned up their lies and slanders of antiwar rallies and voices.

Rachel Maddow, who fed America a steady stream of Russiagate lies for the past six or so years, let loose with a slanderous blue streak about the Rage Against the War Machine rally. Literally everything Maddow said in her post-rally rant was objectively false and her mischaracterization of rally participants as weird was devious. She falsely claimed that the rally was full of white supremacists, Proud Boys, and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists.

No one who was at the rally would have had any idea what she was talking about. But her job was not to describe the rally, it was to defame it. What does Maddows hysterics about the rally show? They are nervous. It shows that the mainstream media, despite having near-total power, is afraid. They are afraid they are losing the narrative. Good. Its about time. Lets hope that more Americans begin to rage! Rage against the war machine!

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The following article by Ron Paul is sponsored content by Birch Gold.

I have a message for you that could be described as blunt.

If you are nearing your retirement age, all of the hard-earned money you have put away for your future could now be in danger.

Why? Because the worst financial disaster in history is unfolding before our eyes. Call it the everything bubble, call it the death of the dollar, call it whatever you want. Most Americans are struggling to make ends meet because of whats happening.

And the elites know things are only going to get worse. For example, the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres recently said, We are looking into the eye of a Category 5 hurricane. Our world is plagued by a perfect storm on a number of fronts.

Meanwhile, the government thinks the solution is more taxes and more money printing. And dont forget, the far-left Democrat in the White House has targeted retirees multiple times with INCREASED TAXES.

Clearly this situation cannot continue. But heres the crucial question: Do you really believe Biden wont be able to indirectly get your retirement savings? By continuing to print dollars and eventually driving America into hyperinflation?

If this happens, it would be disastrous for everyone with a stock and dollar-based retirement account. But the good news is, you are not powerless! There is one strategy that can protect your retirement savings from stock crashes, inflation, and Biden.

Its a powerful gold-based retirement strategy that tens of thousands of Americans have used this year. Best of all, there are NO penalties or TAXES when you transfer money into the account.

And its all explained in this FREE Info Kit on Gold.

This no-cost guide, which comes from my friends at Birch Gold Group, reveals why Gold IRAs are exploding in popularity right now. And this information is FREE, with no strings or obligations attached.

So click here to request your FREE Info Kit on Gold before Biden decides your savings are better spent funding his left-wing agenda.

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On February 19th, the National Mall in Washington, DC saw its largest antiwar rally in 20 years. The speakers list included four former US presidential candidates and a broad and diverse collection of antiwar activists from beyond the left and right.

The aptly-named Rage Against War Machine rally drew thousands of attendees, however many pro-war advocates eagerly pointed out that it did not match in size some of the larger rallies against the Iraq war 20 years ago.

To that I say, who cares? The US mainstream media engages in war propaganda non-stop, with the only exception being Fox News Tucker Carlson. So I think its a miracle anyone had the courage to travel to the heart of the war machine in Washington, DC to make their voices heard! We dont need a majority to fight back an educated and dedicated minority will do quite nicely. And we certainly had that at the rally!

As I sat in the green room waiting to speak, I had the opportunity to visit with former Democrat presidential candidates Tulsi Gabbard and Dennis Kucinich and former Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Political commentators Jimmy Dore and Chris Hedges were there, along with many leading and wellspoken libertarians. Everyone backstage carried the same message: we must put aside our differences to build a new, broad coalition against this war!

I believe the antiwar movement is starting to catch fire both at home and overseas. The DC rally was followed by much larger antiwar rallies in Paris, Berlin, London, and elsewhere.

Several recent polls, including by Pew and AP, show that American support for Ukraine is evaporating. Even in the EU, new polls show a public turning sharply against their governments support for the war. According to a recent Ipsos poll, less than half of Germans support continuing to send weapons to Ukraine. Change is in the air.

The DC rally took place in the backdrop of Seymour Hershs explosive investigative report demonstrating how the US government blew up the Nord Stream pipelines and the mainstream medias desperate attempt to cover it up. The truth is coming out, and its even uglier than we imagined.

The US mainstream media is clearly getting nervous that its control over the narrative is also evaporating. How do we know theyre nervous? They have turned up their lies and slanders of antiwar rallies and voices.

Rachel Maddow, who fed America a steady stream of Russiagate lies for the past six or so years, let loose with a slanderous blue streak about the Rage Against the War Machine rally. Literally everything Maddow said in her post-rally rant was objectively false and her mischaracterization of rally participants as weird was devious. She falsely claimed that the rally was full of white supremacists, Proud Boys, and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists.

No one who was at the rally would have had any idea what she was talking about. But her job was not to describe the rally, it was to defame it. What does Maddows hysterics about the rally show? They are nervous. It shows that the mainstream media, despite having near-total power, is afraid. They are afraid they are losing the narrative. Good. Its about time. Lets hope that more Americans begin to rage! Rage against the war machine!

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(CNSNews.com) On Sunday, Feb. 19, former House Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) will speak at the Rage Against the War Machine rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and call for a long-list of anti-war objectives, including stopping the arming of Ukraine, and negotiating a peace deal.

The rally, which is being organized by both the Libertarian Party and the Peoples Party, will start at 12:30 p.m. at the Lincoln Memorial and will end at the White House.

The rallys website lists the following 10 demands:

Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas). (Screenshot)

The rallys speakers come from across the political spectrum. Notable names include Ron Paul, Tulsi Gabbard, Jill Stein, Jimmy Dore, Garland Nixon, Max Blumenthal, and Kim Iverson.

Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters will be making a guest appearance via video.

Seventeen sister rallies will be held at the following locations on the following dates:

Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii). (Getty Images)

Commenting on the upcoming rally, Paul said in his column, Many of us have watched with alarm as the Biden Administration -- with the enthusiastic backing of many congressional Republicans -- has continuously escalated involvement in the Russia/Ukraine conflict and now sits dangerously close to a direct, hot war with the largest nuclear superpower on earth.

How did we get here? Where are the sane voices and cooler heads? Just when it seemed they were nowhere to be found, here we are! I hope as many people as possible will join us [at the rally] and continue to come together for this important cause. We must join together while we still can. No war with Russia!

A Ukrainian T-72 main battle tank runs along a street in Siversk on February 17, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP, Getty Images)

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Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul speaks with voters after a town hall meeting in Keene, N.H., on Nov. 21. Cheryl Senter/AP hide caption

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul speaks with voters after a town hall meeting in Keene, N.H., on Nov. 21.

Everybody knows that Ron Paul is a doctor from Texas. Born in Pittsburgh in 1935, he graduated from Gettysburg College and Duke University's medical school. He was a flight surgeon in the Air Force. His wife's name is Carol. He has served as a Republican congressman for years and years.

Everybody knows that Paul has made bids for the presidency three times as a Libertarian in 1988 and as a Republican in 2008 and this time around. And everybody knows he lost the first two.

Everybody knows that Paul has moved into second place behind Newt Gingrich in the Des Moines Register's most recent Iowa poll following Herman Cain's decision to suspend his campaign.

And everybody knows that Paul favors low taxes, free markets and commodity-backed currency. Ron Paul has been Ron Paul for a long time.

But not everyone knows that Ron Paul is now selling a family cookbook on his campaign website or that he was a track star in college he ran a mean 220-yard dash. And here are five other things that might surprise you about Paul.

1. He is a pretty good baseball player. In 1979, according to The Washington Post, Paul swatted a two-run homer over the left-field wall for the Republicans in the 18th annual congressional baseball game. But his team lost to the Democrats 7-3.

2. He was a frat boy. Karen Kwiatkowski, a co-author of the 2008 biography Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas, says that while Paul was a student at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha one of a few national fraternities to take an early stand against cruel and dangerous hazing practices. One of Paul's fraternity brothers was fellow biology student J. Michael Bishop, who went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1989 for research into cancer-causing viruses.

3. He can deliver. As a doctor in Texas, Kwiatkowski says, Paul delivered more than 4,000 babies over the years. Most people may not know that Paul "has also been an outspoken proponent of midwifery, market-driven health care and, in his medical practice, he refused to accept federal funds." Even under great pressure from the Texas branch of the American Medical Association and the Texas Medical Board, Kwiatkowski adds, "Dr. Paul refused to accept Medicare and Medicaid funding even as he served many of the poorest residents of Brazoria County."

4. He might have run against offbeat musician Frank Zappa. This is from a 1987 Los Angeles Times item: Just before Paul was nominated by the Libertarian Party to run for president at their gathering in Seattle Robert Murphy, a Libertarian delegate from Oklahoma, approached Zappa and asked him to throw his hat in the ring. After meeting with Murphy for hours and studying the party's platform, Zappa declined. It would have been a Mother of Convention.

5. He was the victim of a political scam. In 1996 The New York Times crediting The Austin American-Statesman reported that the Republican National Committee pulled a dirty trick on Paul. According to the Times, Paul was running for Congress against fellow Republican Greg Laughlin, whom he eventually defeated in a runoff. During the campaign, an Austin marketing company called people and asked respondents who favored Paul if they would still support him knowing that he was in favor of legalizing drugs, pornography and prostitution. The real truth, the Times noted, was this: "Dr. Paul said he only favored repeal of Federal laws on drugs, pornography and prostitution, leaving states to prohibit them."

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Thanks to the latest release of the Twitter Files, we now know without a doubt that the entire Russia disinformation racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine US elections and perhaps even push regime change inside the United States after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.

Here is some background. In November, 2016, just after the election, the Washington Post published an article titled, Russian propaganda effort helped spread fake news during election, experts say. The purpose of the article was to delegitimize the Trump presidency as a product of a Russian disinformation campaign.

There is no way to know whether the Russian campaign proved decisive in electing Trump, but researchers portray it as part of a broadly effective strategy of sowing distrust in US democracy and its leaders, wrote Craig Timberg. The implication was clear: a Russian operation elected Donald Trump, not the American people.

Among the experts it cited were an anonymous organization called Prop Or Not, which in its own words claimed to identify more than 200 websites as peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans.

The organizations report was so preposterous that the Washington Post was later forced to issue a clarification, even though the Post provided a link to the report which falsely accused independent news outlets like Zero Hedge, Antiwar.com, and even my Ron Paul Institute as Russian disinformation.

The 2016 Washington Post article also featured expert Clint Watts, a former FBI counterintelligence officer who went on to found another outfit claiming to be hunting Russian disinformation in the US, the Hamilton 68 project. That project was launched by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a very well-funded organization containing a whos who of top neocons like William Kristol, John Podesta, Michael McFaul, and many more.

Thanks to the latest release of the Twitter Files, Matt Taibbi reveals that the Hamilton 68 project, which claimed to monitor 600 Russian disinformation Twitter accounts, was a total hoax. While they refused to reveal which accounts they monitored and would not reveal their methodology, Twitter was able to use reverse-engineering to determine the 600-odd Russian-connected accounts. Twitter found that despite Hamiltons claims, the vast majority of these Russian accounts were English-speaking. Of the Russian registered accounts numbering just 36 out of 644 most were employees of the Russian news outlet RT.

It was all a lie and the latest Twitter Files release confirms that even the woke pre-Musk Twitter employees could smell a rat. But the hoax served an important purpose. Hiding behind anonymity, this neocon organization was able to generate hundreds of media stories slandering and libeling perfectly legitimate organizations and individuals as Russian agents. It provided a very convenient way to demonize anyone who did not go along with the approved neocon narrative.

Twitters new owner, who has given us a look behind the curtain, put it best in a Tweet over the weekend: An American group made false claims about Russian election interference to interfere with American elections.

The whole Russia disinformation hoax was a shocking return to the McCarthyism of the 1950s and in some ways even worse. Making lists of American individuals and non-profits to be targeted and cancelled as being in the pay of foreigners is despicable. Such fraudulent actions have caused real-life damages that need to be addressed.

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Thanks to the latest release of the Twitter Files, we now know without a doubt that the entire Russia disinformation racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine US elections and perhaps even push regime change inside the United States after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.

Here is some background. In November, 2016, just after the election, the Washington Post published an article titled, Russian propaganda effort helped spread fake news during election, experts say. The purpose of the article was to delegitimize the Trump presidency as a product of a Russian disinformation campaign.

There is no way to know whether the Russian campaign proved decisive in electing Trump, but researchers portray it as part of a broadly effective strategy of sowing distrust in US democracy and its leaders, wrote Craig Timberg. The implication was clear: a Russian operation elected Donald Trump, not the American people.

Among the experts it cited were an anonymous organization called Prop Or Not, which in its own words claimed to identify more than 200 websites as peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans.

The organizations report was so preposterous that the Washington Post was later forced to issue a clarification, even though the Post provided a link to the report which falsely accused independent news outlets like Zero Hedge, Antiwar.com, and even my Ron Paul Institute as Russian disinformation.

The 2016 Washington Post article also featured expert Clint Watts, a former FBI counterintelligence officer who went on to found another outfit claiming to be hunting Russian disinformation in the US, the Hamilton 68 project. That project was launched by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a very well-funded organization containing a whos who of top neocons like William Kristol, John Podesta, Michael McFaul, and many more.

Thanks to the latest release of the Twitter Files, Matt Taibbi reveals that the Hamilton 68 project, which claimed to monitor 600 Russian disinformation Twitter accounts, was a total hoax. While they refused to reveal which accounts they monitored and would not reveal their methodology, Twitter was able to use reverse-engineering to determine the 600-odd Russian-connected accounts. Twitter found that despite Hamiltons claims, the vast majority of these Russian accounts were English-speaking. Of the Russian registered accounts numbering just 36 out of 644 most were employees of the Russian news outlet RT.

It was all a lie and the latest Twitter Files release confirms that even the woke pre-Musk Twitter employees could smell a rat. But the hoax served an important purpose. Hiding behind anonymity, this neocon organization was able to generate hundreds of media stories slandering and libeling perfectly legitimate organizations and individuals as Russian agents. It provided a very convenient way to demonize anyone who did not go along with the approved neocon narrative.

Twitters new owner, who has given us a look behind the curtain, put it best in a Tweet over the weekend: An American group made false claims about Russian election interference to interfere with American elections.

The whole Russia disinformation hoax was a shocking return to the McCarthyism of the 1950s and in some ways even worse. Making lists of American individuals and non-profits to be targeted and cancelled as being in the pay of foreigners is despicable. Such fraudulent actions have caused real-life damages that need to be addressed.

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Paul McCartneys Decade-Long Creative Surge Post-Beatles To Be Explored In Man On The Run From Oscar Winner Morgan Neville  Deadline

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Ron Paul, a former Texas congressman, presidential candidate and the father of Sen. Rand Paul, suffered an apparent stroke-like illness in the middle of a livestream Friday afternoon.

Paul, 85, who was livestreaming his weekday Liberty Report broadcast on YouTube, has been hospitalized for precautionary reasons, Fox News reported.

Message from Ron Paul: I am doing fine. Thank you for your concern, he tweeted just before 3 p.m. alongside a photo of him in a hospital bed, smiling and giving a thumbs up.

A clip of the disturbing medical episode was first tweeted out by the outlet Intelwave.

The live episode may have been a blessing in disguise, the outlet added in a subsequent tweet.

Echoing the sentiment of one of my associates, Im glad it happened live where someone noticed immediately and could get him medical help rather than it happening and him only being found hours later, the tweet said.

Paul ran for president three times, first as a Libertarian in 1988. He then threw his hat in the ring as a Republican in the 2008 and 2012 presidential primaries.

Paul was in the middle of talking about free market economists when he begins to slur his words, according to saved clips of the livestream.

We have to get rid of that and its a burd a burd, he struggles to say before his speech becomes unintelligible.

The YouTube stream was quickly taken down afterward.

Reps for Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Paul were not immediately available for comment.

The Pittsburgh-born, former pol and physician is a longtime Libertarian and advocate for a free market and small government.

He retired from his five-decade congressional career in 2013 long enough to become the first member of Congress ever to serve at the same time as their child, when Rand Paul was elected to the Senate from Kentucky in 2010.

But he has remained a political firebrand, whether he was insisting that the 9/11 attacks were motivated by U.S. involvement in the Middle East or arguing against COVID-19 quarantines as a restriction of civil liberties.

As recently as April, in a broadcast of his Liberty Report, he called on President Trump to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, calling the top White House infectious disease expert a fraud for predicting inaccurately, it turned out that initial predictions of as many as 240,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths were too high, and that fatalities might top out at only 60,000.

U.S. deaths hit 200,000 this week.

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The following article by Ron Paul is sponsored content by Birch Gold.

If you are nearing your retirement age, all of the hard-earned money you have put away for your future could now be in danger.

Why? Because the worst financial disaster in history is unfolding before our eyes. Call it the everything bubble. Call it the death of the dollar. Call it whatever you want. Most Americans are struggling to make ends meet because of whats happening.

And the elites know things are only going to get worse. For example, the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres recently said, We are looking into the eye of a Category 5 hurricane. Our world is plagued by a perfect storm on a number of fronts.

Meanwhile, the government thinks the solution is more taxes and more money printing. And dont forget, the far-left Democrat in the White House has targeted retirees multiple times with increased taxes.

Clearly this situation cannot continue! But heres the crucial question: do you really believe Biden wont be able to indirectly get your retirement savings? By continuing to print dollars and eventually driving America into hyperinflation?

If this happens, it would be disastrous for everyone with a stock and dollar-based retirement account.

But the good news is you are not powerless.There is one strategy that can protect your retirement savings from stock crashes, inflation, and Biden.

Its a powerful gold-based retirement strategy that tens of thousands of Americans have used this year. Best of all, there are NO penalties or TAXES when you transfer money into the account. And its all explained in this FREE Info Kit on Gold.

This no-cost guide, which comes from my friends at Birch Gold Group, reveals why Gold IRAs are exploding in popularity right now. And this information is FREE, with no strings or obligations attached. So click here to request your FREE Info Kit on Gold before Biden decides your savings are better spent funding his left-wing agenda.

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