The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus loves to protect his sources in the Intelligence Community. In an awkward attempt to cast aspersions on the NSA leakers and the journalists who cover them, he posed “Questions for Snowden” earlier this year that were so off-base his...
Month: December 2013
Ron Paul Rewind: End US Marijuana Prohibition and War on Drugs
by Adam Dick | Dec 31, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Despite Colorado implementing on January 1 the legal sale and purchase of marijuana for recreational use, marijuana growers, vendors, and purchasers in Colorado will continue looking over their shoulders concerned that US government police may bust them for violating...
11 Good Things for Liberty in 2013
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Dec 31, 2013 | The Liberty Report
As 2013 draws to a close, let’s pause to recall some important developments for the cause of liberty – some of which you already know well, and others you’ll be hearing about for the first time. Edward Snowden. After sitting on the Bush-era warrantless wiretapping...
Life in the Emerging American Police State: What’s in Store for Our Freedoms in 2014?
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 31, 2013 | Featured Articles
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 1 In Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, TV weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to live the same day over and over again...
Saudis to Buy French Weapons For Lebanon Army
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 30, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced yesterday that it would extend $3 billion to the Lebanese army to purchase weapons from France. This is no garden variety foreign aid. This is in part Saudi Arabia's response to Washington's recent reconsideration of its Syria...
'NSA Has Become a Four-Letter Word in US'
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 29, 2013 | Featured Articles
The NSA “has become a four-letter word in the US” and Americans are irritated, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Daniel McAdams, told RT while commenting on a ruling which states that the agency's spying is legal. RT: The hackers'...
Let’s Not Forget The Neocons Who Cheered The Egyptian Military Into Power
by Chris Rossini | Dec 28, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Earlier this year, the Egyptian military overthrew the democratically elected Mohammed Morsi. Much has happened since the initial violent crackdown on Morsi’s supporters. The Muslim Brotherhood, which has been around some 80 years, has been labeled a “terrorist...
Vitali Klitschko's American Coaches
by Alexander Savchenko | Dec 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
It has become the custom in independent Ukraine that there is not a single government ministry or agency and not a single political party in parliament besides the communists, where “quiet Americans”, or British, or Germans, do not stand by side to tell the Ukrainian...
McAdams’ Year-End Chat With Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 27, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams looks back over the year in foreign policy and civil liberties with VoiceAmerica Radio's Jay Taylor. What does the rest of the world think of US spying, the ugly underside of an otherwise legitimate US intelligence community, ruling against NSA...
Ron Paul Rewind: Who Warned Us About Sudan?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 27, 2013 | Featured Articles
The new state of South Sudan, another product of US interventionism, is falling apart. President Obama is sending in the US Marines. As the US frenzy to "protect" southern Sudan pervaded the early 2000s, with the eventual US-sponsored creation of a South Sudan client...
Saudi Anger Has Many Faces
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 27, 2013 | Featured Articles
During the past fortnight, Saudi Arabia raised the bar by several notches in its rhetoric to express fury over US regional policies in the Middle East, especially over Syria and Iran. The rhetoric reached a high pitch last week with two key figures in the Saudi regime...
Turkey’s Role in Syria’s Unfolding Crisis
by Dr. Can Erimtan | Dec 27, 2013 | Featured Articles
Under Prime Minister Erdogan, Turkey became directly involved in the Syrian crisis as his support for the Muslim Brotherhood brought an ideological context to Turkey’s hostile stance against Assad’s government. At the beginning of 2011, continuing protests against...
We're The Good Guys
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
My Christmas holiday frequently includes a series of reunions with other former CIA people, often grouped by the overseas stations that we served in. This year the Istanbul gathering preceded Spain and the Rome Station ca. 1980 soon followed. Some of the retirees are...
Ron Paul Rewind: North Korea?
by Chris Rossini | Dec 23, 2013 | Featured Articles
When North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, ordered the arrest and execution of his uncle, the status quo in the country was strongly shaken. As can be expected, the American chattering class is attempting to come up with an angle for more U.S. troublemaking. Here is Dr....
NSA Task Force Member Says Program Should Be Expanded Not Limited
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 23, 2013 | Featured Articles
Last week, I wrote about the dangers of tasks forces bearing gifts for civil libertarians and noted how Obama stacked the task force on NSA surveillance with hawks to guarantee the preservation of the program. One of those was former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell...
Progress Toward Peace in 2013, But Dark Clouds Remain
by Ron Paul | Dec 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
It is the time of year we feel a sense of joy and optimism. We are preparing for the holidays and looking to spend time with our families and friends. This year as we look back we see several developments that leave us feeling optimistic. A US attack on Syria was...
Sen. Bernie Sanders Exposes Bloated Military and Intelligence Spending
by Adam Dick | Dec 21, 2013 | Congress Alert
Sen. Bernie Sanders, in a US Senate floor speech Thursday explaining his “no” vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (HR 3304), exposes “wasteful, inefficient, and often fraudulent” Department of Defense spending. Sanders also addresses the bloated nature of...
Washington Acts Like Government-in-Exile For Ukraine
by Finian Cunningham | Dec 21, 2013 | Featured Articles
Americans may be deluded with “God-given exceptionalism”, self-congratulating propaganda known euphemistically as independent journalism and news, and a massive brainwashing diet of syrupy entertainment that reinforces the vacuous vanity of supposed American values –...
Judge Napolitano Applauds, Explains NSA Ruling
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 20, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As usual, Judge Andrew Napolitano, an RPI Advisory Board Member, explains clearly and eloquently the real importance of US District Court Judge Richard Leon's ruling that the NSA's massive data collection program aimed at Americans may be unconstitutional.Napolitano...
Jennifer Rubin’s Gunboat Diplomacy
by Chris Rossini | Dec 20, 2013 | Neocon Watch
We can all be thankful that Obama doesn’t use neocon commissar Jennifer Rubin as one of his negotiators. Rubin, who almost daily mentions that Israel should “act” (i.e., drop bombs on Iran) is fed up with US negotiations. This is how she sees it: What Obama is doing...
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