Senator Lindsey Graham, tweets: “A failed state in #Egypt will likely create ripple effects which impact American pocketbooks here at home.” Graham is concerned about “American pocketbooks” now? After all the financial damage that neocons’ aggressive foreign policy...
Watch RPI's Daniel McAdams discuss US aid to Egypt and the real losers in the two-year unrest since the "Arab Spring." The segment was taped two days before the military's bloody crackdown on Wednesday.
Listen as RPI's Daniel McAdams speaks with VoiceAmerica Radio's Jay Taylor on the Ron Paul Channel, Christian warmongers, Iran, and much more. Aired on 13 August.
Listen here to an enlightening—and frightening—discussion between Rutherford Institute President John W. Whitehead and RPI Advisory Board Member Lew Rockwell. In the 15 minutes discussion, Whitehead backs with evidence his claim that Americans are living in an...
The Antiochian Orthodox church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus in the archdiocese of Aleppo was built between 1985 and 1994 on land offered by the al-Thawrah's city council. It served not only its own parishioners, but also allowed other Christian denominations to use its...
The Concord Monitor reports that hundreds of people came to the Concord, New Hampshire city council meeting Monday night to protest Concord Police Chief John Duval's ongoing effort to obtain a Lenco BearCat G3 armored vehicle for the town's police department. BearCat...
Government commissions are always set up to cover up or hide government incompetence or maliciousness once exposed. They are put together when the government fails spectacularly -- as on 9/11 -- and they are staffed with government insiders who can be trusted to not...
Sana'a is a dangerous place, as is all of Yemen. It was dangerous 30 years ago when I was the military attache there and it still is. The government's area of control never extends far outside the cities and the tribal warfare endemic to the country often comes to...
Americans upset over a new Russian law banning "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations around minors" should think twice before calling on the United States government to help their cause. That is the message of Stephen F. Cohen, a professor emeritus of Russian...
What was President Obama thinking? Last week's trip to Egypt by the neoconservative dynamic duo, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, seemed like an improbably bad idea from the start. In the highly delicate situation inside Egypt, where the military is expected...
Most Americans are probably unaware that over the past two weeks the US has launched at least eight drone attacks in Yemen, in which dozens have been killed. It is the largest US escalation of attacks on Yemen in more than a decade. The US claims that everyone killed...
My wife and I were in the middle of a three-month cross-country road trip in the Fall of 2011. We had just driven for over three hours to a small community center in northwestern Iowa where I found myself shaking hands with a man who had transformed my thinking. I was...
Neocons swindle their constituents into believing that they want to spread American values throughout the world. They talk about things like “bringing stability,” yet only chaos has followed neocon-prescribed international interventions. The cold hard truth is that...
Mother Jones reports that Concord, NH Police Chief John Duval has backed off his outlandish suggestion that his police department needs a Lenco Bearcat G3 to fend off the terrorism threat posed by the Free State Project and Occupy New Hampshire. Duval had made the...
Don't miss Tom Woods' interview with Pat Buchanan on the Peter Schiff show. Woods and Buchanan dissect US foreign policy in such a coherent and elegant manner.
It was five years ago that the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvilli, who was installed in power by the Washington supported “Rose Revolution,” launched a military invasion of South Ossetia, a break-away province under its own government. The Georgian attack...
When the Obama administration announced on July 25 that it was free to violate U.S. law by continuing to finance the Egyptian military to the tune of $1.5 billion annually, even though it was responsible for overthrowing the democratically elected president of Egypt,...
Everyone is talking about Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos's recent purchase of the Washington Post. Less noticed is the conflict of interest between his ownership of the Post and Amazon’s potentially significant profits from computing and data storage contracts with...
In yet another timely and important article at this critical time in US/Iran relations, Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Members Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett shed some much-needed light and perspective on the seemingly irrational US reaction to the ascendence of...
US intervention in the Middle East, whether overt or covert, was supposed to bring peace and stability -- even democracy and human rights -- to the region. Ten years after the US "liberation" of Iraq and some two years after US intervention on behalf of rebels seeking...
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