photo: Gerald R. Ford School of Public PolicyFormer director of the CIA and NSA, General Michael Hayden, oversaw the early construction of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping database of the telephone conversations of American citizens. He demonstrated his ignorance by...
Month: July 2013
Why is US Ambassador McFaul Sticking His Nose Into the Navalny Trial?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 20, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: U.S. Consulate VladivostokAs Bradley Manning finds his escape routes from a life sentence for his whistle-blowing quickly shut down by judges who are closely tied to the prosecutors, and as whistle-blower Edward Snowden faces life on the run from the largest...
The Road to Nowhere: Kerry's Mideast Journey
by Eric Margolis | Jul 20, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: World Economic ForumHere we go again, another round of Mideast peace talk kabuki. A process in which Washington, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization hold intense talks over holding talks, a ritual as stylized as the traditional Japanese dance. In...
Defense Appropriations Delayed — Rebellion in the Works?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 19, 2013 | Congress Alert
Faced with an unexpected groundswell of opposition to its highly unusual move to limit debate on the Defense Appropriations bill, as well as fears over a Floor fight on such contentious issues as the coup in Egypt, arming the Syrian rebels, and NSA spying, House...
Lindsey Graham: Boycott the Soviets Again!
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 18, 2013 | Neocon Watch
photo: U.S Embassy Kabul AfghanistanQ: Why couldn't Lindsey Graham find Russia on the map? A: He'd be too confused looking for the Soviet UnionNeocon prince Lindsey Graham has decided to really hit the Soviets, er, Russians where it hurts. Although he no doubt dreams...
Goodbye, Janet
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 18, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: U.S. Embassy Tel AvivAs Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano departs her post for the fairer climes of the University of California, she leaves behind a government monstrosity that not only is not in better shape than when she arrived, but is teetering...
The Homeland Security Monstrosity
by Ron Paul | Jul 18, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) November 19, 2002Congress spent just a few short hours last week voting to create the biggest new federal bureaucracy since World War II, not that the media or even most members of Congress paid much attention to the process. Yet our most basic...
Adam Kokesh and the Drugs and Guns Prosecution Trap
by Adam Dick | Jul 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: DaveybotPodcast host Adam Kokesh appears to have joined the long list of victims of the US government's drugs and guns prosecution trap. After a US Park Police raid on his Virginia residence last week, media reported Monday that Kokesh was charged with...
William Hague: The Foolish Puppet
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo:Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeBritish Foreign Secretary William Hague announced yesterday that his government would be spending nearly one million dollars providing the Syrian rebels with special hoods and other equipment to protect them from chemical weapons....
The Disease is War, Not Snowden
by Lawrence Wilkerson | Jul 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: Truthout.orgWhy so many whistleblowers? Why the Tom Drakes? Why the Edward Snowdens and others? And why the persecution, unprecedented persecution by the administration? The answer to those questions is a huge answer. And the answer is the national security...
House Leadership’s Iron Fist on Defense Appropriations Bill
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 15, 2013 | Congress Alert
When the "People's Branch" of government takes up the Defense Appropriations bill later this week they will abandon a long-held tradition of debating the bill under an "open rule," which would allow any amendment to be brought to the floor that does not seek to change...
Obama’s Second Term Foreign Policy: A Full Tank or Running on Empty?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 15, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
At the Ron Paul Institute, our job is to look critically at US foreign policy and point out the disasters of successive interventionist and empire-building administrations. But asked to more clearly define what this Administration is really up to thus far in its...
What Drives Jennifer Rubin Crazy? Iran Not Yet A Parking Lot
by Chris Rossini | Jul 15, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Neocon political commissar Jennifer Rubin is throwing a fit that the U.S. just won’t attack Iran already! In her mind, the Israelis are on the right page and the U.S. is hopeless. She writes: The Israelis, not without justification, fear the Obama administration is so...
The Government’s ‘Passion’ to Protect Us
by Ron Paul | Jul 15, 2013 | The Liberty Report
In a Washington Post profile today, we read that NSA Director Keith Alexander’s “passion” to protect us from terrorist threats led him to “collect it all,” meaning to intercept and store our every electronic interaction. According to the Post, Alexander used the...
RT on Ron Paul Institute and Ron Paul Channel
by harley | Jul 13, 2013 | The Liberty Report
RT segment on Ron Paul Institute and the Ron Paul Channel, featuring Peter Schiff, Tom Woods, and RPI Director Daniel McAdams:
A ‘Salafi Shindig’: Obama’s Middle East Disaster
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Jul 12, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The jihadis in Syria have now declared that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are as much the enemy as the Syrian government. They have backed that up by killing one of the senior leaders of the FSA and declaring in telephone calls that they intend to kill all the leaders of...
House Passes Farm Bill With Partial Hemp Legalization
by Adam Dick | Jul 12, 2013 | Congress Alert
The US House of Representatives passed a new farm bill (H.R.2642) Thursday afternoon that would remove the US government prohibition on colleges and universities growing industrial hemp for research purposes in compliance with state laws. The partial removal of the US...
Meet the Resnicks
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 12, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Ever wonder about those tens of millions of dollars that go to fund the network of shrill neo-con think-tanks pushing for ever more sanctions on Iran? Just good Americans concerned about US national security and the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran? Patriotic citizens...
A Possible Change in Turkey's Syria Policies?
by Andrey Areshev | Jul 12, 2013 | Featured Articles
Although the main spot in the world news is still occupied by Egypt, which has come to the brink of civil war, the tensions in Turkey are constantly making themselves felt. While Egypt, according to the popular blog Haberturk, is already “going the way of Libya,” the...
Why the EU is Also Desperate for Snowden's Capture
by John Laughland | Jul 11, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: -lucky cat-It’s very revealing and symbolic that President Morales’ plane should have been forced to land in a European Union country after the withdrawal of overflight rights by other EU countries, because this, of course, shows how the European poodle jumps...
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