photo: kalavinkaExpect business as usual at the FBI after Monday’s Senate confirmation of James B. Comey, Jr. to be the Bureau's new director. Comey had previously served as George W. Bush’s Deputy Attorney General. Every indication is that Comey will lead the FBI in...
Month: July 2013
Jennifer Rubin’s Panic Attack
by Chris Rossini | Jul 31, 2013 | Neocon Watch
The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald has a piece out this week that covers the big shift taking place in major public opinion against NSA surveillance. For the first time since 9/11, Americans are starting to get concerned about what has been going on under the radar. This...
Congress to Tighten Screws on Iran Tomorrow
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 30, 2013 | Congress Alert
photo: MudflapDCAs we wrote several days ago, the House will vote on a new Iran sanctions bill this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. With nearly 400 co-sponsors of the bill, known as HR 850 -- the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act, the debate is likely to be rather...
RPI Director Interviewed in RIA Novosti (Russia)
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 30, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Russian media interview with RPI Director Daniel McAdams on US foreign policy. RPI has several hundred readers in Russia according to Google Analytics. In the interview, McAdams discusses US interventionism in the "color revolutions" and "Arab spring" phenomena....
House to Hit Iran With New Sanctions Bill This Week
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 29, 2013 | Congress Alert
photo: World Can't WaitThe House Leadership has announced that it will bring a new Iran sanctions bill to the Floor for a vote this week. The bill, HR 850 - Nuclear Iran Prevention Act, will be brought up on the "suspension" calendar this coming week. Traditionally,...
Greenwald Previews New Blockbuster NSA Story
by Glenn Greenwald | Jul 29, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Guardian newspaper journalist Glenn Greenwald appeared on ABC News "This Week" program yesterday to preview a story he will be publishing this week on just how widespread is the NSA spying on Americans. His revelations may shock you.Among Greenwald's claims is this...
The American Surveillance State Is Here. Can It Be Evaded?
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 29, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: TheeErin “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere,...
A House Divided Over NSA Spying on Americans
by Ron Paul | Jul 28, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Last week’s House debate on the Defense Appropriations bill for 2014 produced a bit more drama than usual. After hearing that House leadership would do away with the traditional “open rule” allowing for debate on any funding limitation amendment, it was surprising to...
Japan Must Face Up To China
by Eric Margolis | Jul 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: guccio@文房具社World War II has never really ended for Japan. Sixty-eight years after the battleship US “Missouri” sailed into Tokyo Bay to receive the surrender of the Japanese Empire, Japan still behaves like a meek, defeated nation rather than one of the world’s...
Neocon Zalmay Khalilzad Knows His Side is Losing on Afghanistan
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Jul 26, 2013 | Neocon Watch
photo: Gage SkidmoreZalmay Khalilzad is a neocon operative. I remember the time just after the first Gulf War when he was my guest for lunch at the Army and Navy Club in Washington. He was then some sort of minor sub-cabinet political appointee in the Office of the...
The Rise of SWAT
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a KERA Radio interview this week, investigative reporter Radley Balko provides an informative overview of the the history of police SWAT teams in the United States. Balko addresses factors that have contributed to the rise of SWAT including the war on drugs, civil...
Sen. Graham Pounds His Shoe at Russia
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 25, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is furious that Moscow will not deliver NSA leaker Edward Snowden to the US to face treason and espionage charges. Graham no doubt misses the irony that what Snowden revealed was that the US government has been operating like the old...
DC Politics Commentators Express High Expectations for Ron Paul Channel
by Adam Dick | Jul 24, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Founder and CEO, Ron Paul, with RPI Board Member, Judge Andrew NapolitanoDC politics commentators are expressing high expectations for Ron Paul Institute Chairman and Founder Ron Paul's next project, the Ron Paul Channel. In The Hill, Brent Budowsky predicts the...
Kafka’s America: Secret Courts, Secret Laws, and Total Surveillance
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 24, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: Tom Hilton “Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one...
Sen. Ron Wyden's Warning on the Surveillance State
by harley | Jul 24, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Watch Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) at the Center for American Progress on 23 July discussing secret laws -- "a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act issued by a secret court." The text of his speech is available here.
Chilling Development: NSA Takes on Amash Amendment
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 23, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: Gage SkidmoreThe Huffington Post reports today that NSA director General Keith Alexander called an emergency Top Secret/SCI-level meeting on Capitol Hill to urge Members to vote against Rep. Justin Amash's (R-MI) amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill...
Anthony Cordesman: ‘Let’s Be Heroes in Error on Syria!’
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 23, 2013 | Neocon Watch
phhoto: Rami AlhamesIt is probably not completely fair to label establishmentarian "serious thinker" Anthony Cordesman a neocon, though his entire career has been more or less spent in their service, including as John McCain's national security aide. But here at...
Defense Bill Up Today: Mini-Rebellion Crushed
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 23, 2013 | Congress Alert
House Leadership has put forth a limited closed rule governing the debate over the Defense Appropriations bill (HR 2367), approving just over 100 amendments to the bill. The bill will be on the House Floor today shortly after noon.By approving for debate several...
NRA vs Medical Associations: Guess Who Wants You in the Government Database?
by Adam Dick | Jul 23, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: Orange County ArchivesA conflict may be emerging between the National Rifle Association (NRA) and several large national medical and mental health associations regarding the expansion of US and state government mental health databases. Medical Daily reported...
Navalny Reporting Shows Western Media Clueless on Russia
by John Laughland | Jul 22, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member John Laughland appeared on France 24 recently to discuss the Alexei Navalny trial in Russia. Dr. Laughland was outnumbered on the panel, but his main point was that the Western mainstream media continues to completely...
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