In interviews Monday and Tuesday, Judge Andrew Napolitano explains the Monday United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruling that certain US National Security Agency mass spying activities are “almost certainly unconstitutional”—a ruling that...
Month: December 2013
Washington Has Discredited America
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
Years ago when I described the George W. Bush regime as a police state, right-wing eyebrows were raised. When I described the Obama regime as an even worse police state, liberals rolled their eyes. Alas! Now I am no longer controversial. Everybody says it. According...
A Christmas To-Do List for a Better World
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
The Christmas hope for peace and good will toward all men can no longer be dismissed as a kind of pious dream of some utopian. If we don’t have good will toward men in this world, we will destroy ourselves by the misuse of our own instruments and our own power. Wisdom...
Syria Conflict: You Can’t Make Sound Policy by Disregarding Reality
by harley | Dec 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
The U.S. posture toward the conflict in Syria exemplifies some of the worst aspects of America’s Middle East policy. In recent years, the limits on America’s ability to shape important outcomes in the region unilaterally have been dramatically underscored by...
Jay Taylor and RPI’s Daniel McAdams: What in the World?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 18, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams once again joins Jay Taylor on his excellent "Turning Hard Times Into Good Times" radio program. The two discuss the recent NSA ruling, Ukraine, new spy satellite, and more.
Ron Paul Rewind: You Can't Manage A Bad War
by Chris Rossini | Dec 18, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Six years ago today, on Dec. 18th 2007, Dr. Paul was a guest on Morning Joe. Watch him tackle every major war going back to Woodrow Wilson’s terrible decision to drag the U.S. into World War I: Joe Scarborough: You had an interesting comment about the Iraq War....
RPI’s Daniel McAdams With Scott Horton
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 17, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams was a guest on the Scott Horton Show yesterday, discussing latest events in Syria, interventionism, and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
Sen. McCain, Interventionism's ‘Energizer Bunny’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
If there are US-backed groups anywhere seeking the overthrow of their government, you will find John McCain in their midst. He is the Energizer Bunny of interventionism. Fresh off his trip to Libya, where he was granted an award by the military on the same day the...
McCain in Ukraine: What Is He Really Up To?
by harley | Dec 17, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Dec. 17 - RPI Director Daniel McAdams is on RT Television discussing the Ukraine visit of Sen. John McCain and the strong US and EU intervention in Ukraine affairs.
Breaking: Federal Court Declares NSA Program Unconstitutional
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon has handed down a blockbuster decision this afternoon finding that the massive National Security Agency surveillance program is unconstitutional – a view shared by many constitutional scholars including myself. The decision is...
Is NATO's Trojan Horse Riding Toward the 'Ukraine Spring'?
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Dec 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
Ukrainian citizens have rallied in the bitter cold at Independence Square in Kiev to demand a better economic future and to protest President Viktor Yanukovych's failure to sign an economic agreement with the EU. But while the draft of the EU "Association Agreement"...
Ron Paul Rewind: They Don't Attack Us Because We're Free & Prosperous
by Chris Rossini | Dec 15, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Two years ago today, the FoxNews Iowa Presidential Debate took place, and the subject of Iran was discussed. Dr. Paul had to defuse the nuclear warhawk Michele Bachmann. Watch the clip below, or you can read the transcript after the video: Bachmann: “Iran will take a...
Washington Drives the World Toward War
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 15, 2013 | Featured Articles
Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings. These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of both...
Rep. Jim McGovern: ‘It is Time to Get Out of Afghanistan’
by Adam Dick | Dec 14, 2013 | Congress Alert
Speaking on the United States House of Representatives floor Thursday, Rep. Jim McGovern delivered a comprehensive speech urging Congress to stop wasting $80 billion a year and Americans’ lives in US military action in Afghanistan. “It is time to get out of...
RPI’s McAdams and Tom Woods: Iran, Japan, Ukraine, and More…
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 14, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is on the Tom Woods Show on 13 December to discuss the latest foreign policy hot spots. Ukraine -- is the mob in the street a democratic movement? Why must the US military get in the middle of the China/Japan dispute? Will the neocons keep...
Ron Paul Discusses US Antiwar Sentiment And More With Alex Jones
by Adam Dick | Dec 14, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On the Alex Jones Show Thursday, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul and Jones engage in a wide-ranging discussion regarding matters including how the American people overcame the push for an attack on Syria and can win more victories in the future. Watch the...
Is The US Waking Up To The Insanity of its Syria Policy?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 14, 2013 | Featured Articles
Former CIA Director, Gen. Michael Hayden, told a Jamestown Foundation conference this week that among the three outcomes he sees possible for the ongoing Syrian war he now believes that a victory by the Syrian government might be the "best option." Option one,...
Sinister Fruits of The West's Alliance with Jihad Warriors in Syria
by Dmitry Minin | Dec 13, 2013 | Featured Articles
After suffering one military defeat after another, the Syrian radical opposition, backed by the support of the West and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, are increasingly retaliating cruelly against the civilian population. The jihadists seize towns and cultural and...
Congress Scares The People
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 13, 2013 | Featured Articles
Terrorism has become as all-American as apple pie. It is ingrained in our civic DNA, it fills our newspapers and is the backstory for every foreign policy discussion on talk radio and television. One might reasonably expect that American mothers might now cajole their...
Kiev Protests: Another CIA-Coordinated Color Revolution In Progress
by Michael Thomas | Dec 13, 2013 | Featured Articles
Who could argue that the moves and maneuvers taking place on the Ukraine geo-political chessboard are as surreal as they get? The events occurring in Kiev are so transparent as to motive and purpose that one wonders if the CIA has all but abandoned their cloak and...
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