“Totalitarian paranoia runs deep in American society, and it now inhabits the highest levels of government… Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, America has succumbed to a form of historical amnesia fed by a culture of fear, militarization and precarity. Relegated to...
Month: February 2014
At the Fed, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
by Ron Paul | Feb 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen testified before Congress for the first time since replacing Ben Bernanke at the beginning of the month. Her testimony confirmed what many of us suspected, that interventionist Keynesian policies at the Federal Reserve...
Ron Paul Podcast: Busted! US Officials Caught Meddling in Ukraine
by Ron Paul | Feb 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Listen to RPI Founder and Chaiman, Ron Paul, on his weekly podcast with Charles Goyette on recent leaked phone calls between US officials plotting to influence the next government in Ukraine. Get Ron Paul's take at the link:
On Cuba, The Times Just Might Be A’Changin’
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
The New York Times is reporting that most Americans, including a majority in Florida, favor normalizing relations with Cuba, which would mean a lifting of cruel and brutal economic embargo that the U.S. government has been enforcing against the Cuban people for more...
The US Government Makes a Mockery of the Principal-Agent Relationship
by Robert Higgs | Feb 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
The philosophical and legal foundation of the US government (and some other governments) is that government officials are the agents of the citizens—in the familiar phrase, those who govern have the “consent of the governed.” An agent, of course, is someone I...
Russia’s Right Turn
by William S. Lind | Feb 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
An unfortunate legacy of the Cold War is the negative attitude some American conservatives yet harbor toward Russia. Conditioned for decades to see Russia and the Soviet Union as synonymous, they still view post-communist Russia as a threat. They forget that Tsarist...
Washington Orchestrated Protests Are Destabilizing Ukraine
by Paul Craig Roberts | Feb 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
The protests in the western Ukraine are organized by the CIA, the US State Department, and by Washington — and EU-financed Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that work in conjunction with the CIA and State Department. The purpose of the protests is to overturn the...
Ron Paul Rewind: 'What If…"
by harley | Feb 13, 2014 | The Liberty Report
"What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?" - Rep. Ron Paul, US House, Feb. 13, 2009
Who is Victoria Nuland? RPI’s McAdams Joins Jay Taylor to Explain
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Fighting the propaganda! RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Jay Taylor to discuss the Ukraine unrest and the Victoria Nuland scandal. Who is Victoria Nuland? A member of the premier family of neoconservatism in the US, who seamlessly moves from advising Dick Cheney to...
RPI on Antiwar Radio: Nuland, Ukraine, Syria and More
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Scott Horton's Antiwar Radio to discuss Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s captured comments on the US regime change goals for Ukraine; the provocative plans for NATO expansion to Russia’s border; and why Al Qaeda and the...
US/UN Fears Assad Win in Free Syrian Election?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Every now and then we have a chance to peek through a tiny window to see how "diplomacy" is done behind closed doors. Last week the leaked conversation between US diplomats plotting the overthrow of Ukraine's government was one such dramatic moment. Another came...
America and the Arab Awakening: Déjà Vu?
by Going to Tehran | Feb 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
Three years ago, Washington experienced its own dose of “shock and awe” — the PR phrase used to sanitise its brutal invasion of Iraq — when hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of ordinary Arabs took to the streets to demand the overthrow of leaders more interested...
Victoria Nuland Comes Clean with Dirty Language
by Finian Cunningham | Feb 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
The leaked private phone conversation between senior US State Department official Victoria Nuland and the American ambassador to Ukraine – in which Nuland is heard to disparage the European Union with a vulgar expletive – comes as a welcome relief. It is a moment of...
Congress Votes to Bring Ukraine to Heel
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 11, 2014 | Congress Alert
Not to be outdone by the hyper-interventionist State Department of John Kerry, Victoria Nuland, and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday to jump head first into the Ukraine crisis. By an overwhelming...
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Targeted Killings of Americans are Illegal and Unconstitutional
by Adam Dick | Feb 11, 2014 | The Liberty Report
Judge Andrew Napolitano, speaking on Fox News this morning, explains that it is both illegal and unconstitutional for President Barack Obama to use drones or other means to “targeted kill” United States citizens. Napolitano, an RPI Advisory Board member, elaborates...
Diagnosing Sochi Media Coverage: Virulent Russophobia
by Justin Raimondo | Feb 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Any illusions some naïve soul may have had about the objectivity of the US media has been dispelled by their embarrassing performance at the Sochi Olympics: the chorus of whining complaints might as well have been written for them by the US State Department – which,...
US Aid Arrives in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As Brown Noses points out on Twitter, it appears as if US aid has arrived to Syria, courtesy of USAID. Isn't it nice to see that the money extorted from Americans and sent to "moderates" in Syria is being put to use building shelters for al-Qaeda and their US-supplied...
Obama Promises ‘Prudent Limits’ on Drone Killings, Delivers Death by Unreliable Metadata
by Adam Dick | Feb 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
No wonder President Barack Obama has cloaked in secrecy his administration’s justifications for ordering “targeted killings,” including through the use of drones. Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald report in First Look’s "The Intercept" today that kill orders in the...
Victoria Nuland’s ‘Ukraine-gate’ Deceptions
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
"That's some pretty impressive tradecraft," said Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland of the interception and leak of her now-infamous call to US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoff Pyatt. The call consisted of the two plotting to install a US puppet government in...
Will No One Challenge Obama’s Executive Orders?
by Ron Paul | Feb 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama’s state of the union pledge to “act with or without Congress” marks a milestone in presidential usurpation of Congressional authority. Most modern presidents have used executive orders to change and even create laws without Congressional approval....
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