Post Arab Spring Egypt is a barrel of laughs. Just over two years ago the president glowingly praised the US-assisted Arab Spring, claiming a triumph of US-style values. He reaffirmed American exceptionalism and his "firm belief that America’s interests are not...
Month: June 2013
House Intel Committee’s Sham Hearing on Mass Spying
by RPI Staff | Jun 18, 2013 | Congress Alert
Today the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the United States House of Representatives is holding a hearing designed to cheer the US government's secret mass spying programs. The committee leadership's one-sided agenda is highlighted by the title of this...
Who is Ben Rhodes?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 17, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: U.S. Embassy Jakarta, IndonesiaEveryone is wondering who is Ben Rhodes, a 30-something who ascended from literally nowhere to be what seems a main driving force behind Obama's foreign policy. He is credited with convincing the president to embrace the Arab...
It’s Obama’s Safari – But We’re the Ones Taken for a Ride!
by Ron Paul | Jun 17, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Remember the Sequester? Remember the Administration threatening the end of the world if the phony “cuts” (which were actually just decreases in future spending increases) came into effect? Remember the cuts to Air Traffic Controllers while we were told “good luck” on...
Rouhani Won the Iranian Election. Get Over it
by harley | Jun 16, 2013 | The Liberty Report
The United States’ perennially mistaken Iran “experts” are already spinning Hassan Rouhani’s victory in Iran’s presidential election as a clear proof of the Islamic Republic’s ongoing implosion. In fact, Rouhani’s success sends a very different message: it is well...
US Mass Spying Loses Obama's 'Shoddy Coat of Legitimacy'
by Adam Dick | Jun 16, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Declan McCullagh at cnet.com reports on Rep. Jerrold Nadler's revelation that the United States executive branch has admitted in a secret briefing to Members of the US House of Representatives that a US government analyst can listen to phone calls at his own...
Obama’s Syria Policy Looks a Lot Like Bush’s Iraq Policy
by Ron Paul | Jun 16, 2013 | The Liberty Report
President Obama announced late last week that the US intelligence community had just determined that the Syrian government had used poison gas on a small scale, killing some 100 people in a civil conflict that has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives. Because of this...
Bill Kristol’s Cato Crush
by Adam Dick | Jun 14, 2013 | Neocon Watch
William Kristol is promoting at the Weekly Standard an article by "two of America’s leading libertarian legal thinkers, "no friends to intrusive government," to support Kristol's assertion that the National Security Agency mass secret spying program is a "legitimate...
Obama Signals Start of US War in Syria
by Ron Paul | Jun 14, 2013 | The Liberty Report
The Obama Administration’s sudden announcement last night that it has discovered the Syrian government used chemical weapons and thus crossed the “red line” is pretty unconvincing. The Administration provided no evidence, no new information, and no explanation of why...
Ron Paul Talks About Obama's Syria Claims
by Ron Paul | Jun 14, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Ron Paul’s Policies: A Threat to America?
by Chris Rossini | Jun 13, 2013 | Neocon Watch
So says Senator Lindsey Graham. This week, asked about NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s apparent support for Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, the Senator magnanimously told Slate reporter David Weigel that he did not necessarily believe donating to Ron Paul’s campaign...
Chemical Weapons ‘Discovery’ in Syria Opens Door for US Bombs
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 13, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Barely a week after President Obama announced the ascendance of the left-neocon, humanitarian interventionist cultists Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the top of his foreign policy team, and in a time of choking scandal, alas a light at the end of the tunnel has...
Potential US House Amendment Would Help Edward Snowden
by Adam Dick | Jun 12, 2013 | Congress Alert
Roll Call reports that Reps. Justin Amash and Thomas Massie are considering introducing an amendment in the United States House of Representatives as early as this week that would protect National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden from prosecution. Snowden...
The Uprising Against Brother Erdogan
by Thierry Meyssan | Jun 12, 2013 | The Liberty Report
The Turkish uprising is rooted in the inconsistencies of the Erdogan government. The latter—after having billed itself as "Muslim Democrat" (based on the "Christian Democratic" model)— suddenly revealed its true nature with the advent of the Arab Spring "color...
Turkish Protests: A Backlash Against Interventionism?
by Ron Paul | Jun 12, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Foreign Policy magazine’s website featured an interesting article yesterday on the ongoing protests in Turkey. The protests have been covered quite a bit in the media over the past couple of weeks, as they spread throughout the country, were met with violence by the...
Iran's Presidential Election Will Surprise America's So-called Iran 'Experts'
by harley | Jun 12, 2013 | The Liberty Report
This year's Iranian presidential election is likely to produce a strong political figure who will have a significant impact on the Islamic Republic's foreign and domestic policies, helping to ensure Iran's continued internal development and bolstering its regional...
Are Internal Passports Next?
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
J.D. Tuccille relates at reason.com the sad history of dramatic deterioration in the United States government's respect for the freedom to travel. Tucille begins: Last week, my vacationing family was stopped at not one, but two, internal checkpoints along Interstate 8...
Bipartisan Agreement: Anti-TSA Amendment Disqualifies Rep. Broun from Winning Senate Race
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2013 | Congress Alert
United States Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia, who is running for US Senate, struck a nerve when he offered an amendment to eliminate funding for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) during consideration of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act...
RPI Director on Traces of Reality Radio
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 10, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Executive Director was interviewed yesterday on the Traces of Reality radio program by host Guillermo Jimenez. As the website explains: "During the second hour of the program, Daniel McAdams, The Executive Director of The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and...
Turkey: Another Egypt?
by Andrey Areshev | Jun 10, 2013 | The Liberty Report
On many occasions the “Turkish-style” political system has been viewed as an example for Egypt to follow after the “Jasmine Revolution”. Visiting Cairo in 2011, Prime Minister Recap Tayyip Erdoğan, who is also the chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party...
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