Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has changed the world in many ways. It is forcing the US and its allies to rethink and reassess global security. This is as it should be. After all, the post-Cold War era is over. What will replace it is still a question mark. CrossTalking with Ted Seay, Daniel McAdams, and Maxim Suchkov... read on...
There is no shortage of growing tensions in eastern Europe. There is the growing EU-Belarus standoff over illegal migration. There are western reports that Russia is amassing troops within its own borders. And of course, there is the self-inflicted crisis of European energy supplies. It is no coincidence some are calling this a hybrid war. But whose hybrid war against whom? CrossTalking with Earl Rasmussen, Daniel McAdams, and Peter Kuznick... read on...
Former US presidential candidate and libertarian icon Ron Paul was censored by YouTube on Tuesday and threatened with even more sanctions on his account in the case of further violations. read on...
The underlying narrative - some call it a "myth" – of American foreign policy is the country’s exceptional position on the world stage. This is the bipartisan consensus. However, the reality is very different. The global pandemic has demonstrated the U.S. should focus on its own exceptional problems at home. CrossTalking with Daniel McAdams and George Szamuely... read on...
President Trump recently unveiled his new Middle East peace plan, calling it “the deal of the century.” The peace plan would create a small and disjointed Palestinian state in the West Bank while allowing Israel to annex nearly all the Jewish settlements in the territory. Soon after the announcement, clashes erupted between Palestinians and the Israeli army. Now Prime Minister Netanyahu is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to go over the plan. Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute, Daniel McAdams weighs in... read on...
How is it that President Trump's national security advisor John Bolton seems to actually be running things and even over-riding his boss's foreign policy? As RPI Director Daniel McAdams tells Rick Sanchez of RT America, it's because he's frozen everyone else from the intelligence and national security community out and insists on controlling all information that gets to the president. It is similar to the role played by Bolton's ideological comrades in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war: Keep control of the president and make sure he sees nothing that contradicts what is your desired policy... read on...
The US is fueling “the most open coup in history” in Venezuela, an American pundit told RT in response to a WSJ op-ed that beat the drum of interventionism by discussing how to get Russia out of Caracas and Maduro out of power.
A short but emotive editorial piece by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said President Donald Trump should not let himself be “humiliated in our own hemisphere” by Vladimir Putin. The neocon paper was at their finest when they claimed Putin has built “a career of intervening abroad and seeing if the world lets him get away with it,” including in Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria. read on...
Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute joins News.Views.Hughes to discuss Trump’s apparent 180 degree turn on NATO. While once he was outspoken in his criticism, President Trump now wants to expand the alliance by bringing Brazil into the fold. He argues that Trump has “neocons whispering in his ear” and that NATO is “an expensive meeting club” that has outlived its purpose... read on...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to make Russia’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty official. Russia continues to insist that they have not been in breach of the treaty, despite repeated accusations from US leaders. Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute joins Scottie Nell Hughes to discuss the development and other US foreign policy blunders around the world, which McAdams traces to the influence of National Security Advisor John Bolton. read on...
