Congressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations, and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September took center stage in Washington and elsewhere last week. However, the whole discussion is again more of a...
Month: May 2013
RPI CEO Dr. Paul on the Drug War
by Daniel McAdams | May 10, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Listen here to RPI Chairman Ron Paul's latest podcase with Charles Goyette on one of the most fundamental foreign policy and civil liberties issues of our time: the war on drugs. Billions of dollars spent, people put in prison, US interventionism abroad -- the war on...
UN Commission Investigator: It Was The Syrian Rebels Who Used Sarin
by Daniel McAdams | May 6, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, UN Human Rights commission member Carla Del Ponte says that testimony from victims and medical staff indicate that it was rebel forces and not the Syrian government that had used sarin gas. Said Del...
RPI Advisor WIlkerson: Syria Evidence ‘Pretty Flaky’
by Daniel McAdams | May 6, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Advisor Col. Lawrence Wilkerson appeared on the Young Turks program late last week to reveal that the "varying degrees of confidence" with which Defense Secretary Hagel proclaimed that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons was in fact...
More Israeli Bombs Over Syria
by Daniel McAdams | May 5, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For the second day in a row, the Israeli government is reported to have bombed Syria -- this time near Damascus -- according to reporting by the Washington Post. As the Washington Post -- itself deeply in the ideological pockets of the left-neocons -- concludes, this...
Neo-Cons Jump On Red Line
by Chris Rossini | May 3, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Shortly after the US Secretary of Defense weakly claimed that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, the neocons went directly onto warpath mode. Never mind that no evidence was presented at all to substantiate the claims and the US intelligence community appears...
The Neo-Jacobin Ideology of American Empire
by Claes G. Ryn | May 3, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Central to the thinking of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution was the need to tame power. The drive for power had to be contained most fundamentally in the souls of individuals but also through external restraints, including constitutional checks. The Constitution...
The Iranian Nuclear Issue: What’s at Stake for the BRICS
by harley | May 3, 2013 | The Liberty Report
The controversy over Iran’s nuclear activities has at least as much to do with the future of international order as it does with nonproliferation. For this reason, all of the BRICS have much at stake in how the Iranian nuclear issue is handled. Conflict over Iran’s...
Syria’s Drone Future
by Daniel McAdams | May 2, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over at the American Conservative, Phil Giraldi alerts us to the US administration's plans for the "day after" in Syria, if US assistance to the Syrian insurgents finds them victorious over the Syrian government. According to Giraldi's analysis, a strategy of sorts is...
RPI Chairman Interviewed on Institute
by Daniel McAdams | May 1, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Extraordinary antiwar talk show host Scott Horton interviews Dr. Ron Paul on his career promoting peace and on the Institute for Peace and Prosperity. Listen to Scott here.
Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Sequester – Trust?
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | May 1, 2013 | Congress Alert
Syria: So now we have the emergence of supposed proof of Assad's government being in violation of the self assigned "red line" of poison gas use against the rebels. Let's see the proof. Let's see and hear something beyond Andrea Mitchell beating her drum for war. This...
Another Nail in the Neocon Coffin
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | May 1, 2013 | Congress Alert
The recent opening of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity was a watershed moment in American history. There has never been anything quite like it. Ideologically diverse, the Ron Paul Institute reaches out to all Americans, and indeed to people all over the...
Neocon High Priest McCain On Why We Must Bomb Syria
by Daniel McAdams | May 1, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Senator John McCain warns us that if we do not start bombing Syria, pronto, on behaf of the Islamist extremists who run the insurgency, the average Syrian who is terrorized by these foreign funded fighters will seek us out and...well, do something bad to us. It is the...
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