It has been called the most important news you may have missed. After a long consideration Ukraine has turned against a European Union offer of associated membership, refusing to sign an agreement that would have brought the former Soviet Republic into the EU...
Month: November 2013
Iran Gets Short End Of The Nuclear Deal
by Eric Margolis | Nov 30, 2013 | Featured Articles
After all the gnashing of teeth, beating of breasts and tearing of hair coming from Israel and its American supporters, you’d think last week’s nuclear deal in Geneva has opened the way for Iran to become a mighty nuclear weapons power. Nonsense. Coolly examined,...
On Being Thankful…For State Violence?
by Butler Shaffer | Nov 28, 2013 | The Liberty Report
When people ask me which of the books I have written was my favorite, I respond with my first one: Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival. In it, I analyze how institutions – i.e., organizations that have become ends in themselves – have a...
Ukraine Refused to Sign EU's ‘Suicide Note’
by John Laughland | Nov 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
This is an excerpt from RPI Academic Advisor John Laughland's recent RT interview. -ed.Joining an old European geopolitical and ideological project would have been catastrophic for the Ukrainian economy, political expert John Laughland told RT, noting that it was...
The National-Security State’s Dangerous China Taunt
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
It didn’t take long for the U.S. national-security state’s “pivot” toward Asia, after its disastrous 12-year foray into the Middle East, to produce a new crisis for Americans. In response to China’s decision to implement a new air zone involving a long territorial...
Is The Iran Agreement a Good Deal?
by harley | Nov 27, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Watch Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams and other guests debate the P5+1/Iran agreement on RT's Crosstalk with host Peter Lavelle:
The Globalization of NATO: Military Doctrine of Global Warfare
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Nov 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
The world is enveloped in a blanket of perpetual conflict. Invasions, occupation, illicit sanctions, and regime change have become currencies and orders of the day. One organization – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – is repeatedly, and very...
US Dead-Enders Still Dream of Color Revolutions
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post's Deputy Editorial Editor Jackson Diehl, is the last of those who still worship at the altar of Georgia's washed up Rose Revolution and its US-funded architect, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Diehl carries water for the Washington...
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Congress Can Cut the NSA Budget
by harley | Nov 26, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Judge Andrew Napolitano, an RPI Advisory Board member, explains on Fox News last week that the US Congress can restrain the National Security Agency's mass spying by cutting the NSA's budget. "The recourse is to persuade Congress to clip the NSA's wings by taking some...
What We Should Not Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy...
Eric Cantor Lies About the Iran Deal
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 25, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Infuriated by the surprise agreement between the P5+1 countries and Iran on the first round of confidence-building measures, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has taken to out and out falsification to trash-talk the deal. And he lets loose with a couple of...
America's Little Spy Helpers Down Under Create an Uproar
by Eric Margolis | Nov 25, 2013 | Featured Articles
JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Indonesians are usually an easy-going, amiable people. But this week, they are boiling with anger and a sense of betrayal after revelations that Australia’s Signals Directorate had been tapping the phones of senior Indonesian government officials,...
Peace Breaks Out…Neocons Weep
by Chris Rossini | Nov 24, 2013 | Neocon Watch
A peaceful agreement has been reached between the P5+1 nations and Iran. As expected, the bomb-dropping idea peddlers are crying like babies: Daniel Pipes calls peace a disaster: “Barack Obama has made many foreign policy errors in the past five years, but this is the...
Can Karzai Save Us?
by Ron Paul | Nov 24, 2013 | Featured Articles
After a year of talks over the post-2014 US military presence in Afghanistan, the US administration announced last week that a new agreement had finally been reached. Under the deal worked out with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the US would keep thousands of troops...
William Kristol: Israel-Hater
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 23, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Not feeling at all chastened over his role in pushing the US into war in Iraq based on his lies and those of his neoconservative allies, William Kristol has now taken to the pages of his Weekly Standard to peddle more lies to push Israel into a war of its own....
Ukraine Rejects The Brussels Club, Opts For Trade Over Empty Promises
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 22, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Thursday the Ukrainian parliament reject a final set of laws designed to pave the way for Ukraine to join the EU's "Eastern Partnership" program as an associate EU member. The surprise move cast a shadow on the Eastern Partnership signing ceremony scheduled to take...
P5+1 Talks With Iran Headed For Failure?
by harley | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, while taping a discussion of the latest round of P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran on Russia Today’s CrossTalk that was broadcast today (see here or, on You Tube, here), Flynt said: I hope I’m wrong, but I’m not particularly optimistic about a deal being...
Terrorism and the Bill of Rights
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
In the aftermath of the Boston bombings last spring, GOP Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham and others called on Barack Obama to treat the surviving suspect in the bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as an “enemy combatant” rather than as a criminal defendant. The episode...
Free Speech Repressing Bureaucrat Threatens Alex Jones and Hundreds at Dallas Gathering
by Adam Dick | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
Wednesday night in front of the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas I witnessed bureaucratic tyranny in action. There a mild-mannered and soft-spoken representative of the Dallas police threatened talk show host Alex Jones and over 200 people with $500...
Rep. Walter Jones: Congress Should Decide if US Military Stays in Afghanistan
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2013 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones, speaking on the US House of Representatives floor yesterday morning, called on Congress to exercise its constitutional power over US military policy in Afghanistan. In particular, Jones insisted that Congress debate and vote on the matter instead of...
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