Since at least as early as the eighteen century, classical liberalism, and its modern variant libertarianism, have opposed warfare except in cases of obvious self-defense. We see this anti-war position clearly among the anti-federalists of eighteenth-century America...
Month: March 2014
Ron Paul Rewind: 'Repeal the Whole War on Drugs'
by Adam Dick | Mar 31, 2014 | The Liberty Report
While United States Attorney General Eric Holder’s support for reducing some drug crime sentences promises to help some drug war victims and their families, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul has advocated for decades the comprehensive solution of ending the war on...
Aid to Ukraine Is a Bad Deal For All
by Ron Paul | Mar 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill approving a billion dollars in aid to Ukraine and more sanctions on Russia. The bill will likely receive the president’s signature within days. If you think this is the last time US citizens will have their money sent to...
We Really Do Not Need Saudi Arabia Any Longer
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Mar 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
The family owned and run corporation called Saudi Arabia has been useful to the United States since the 1950s, but the kingdom's relationship to the US has always been transactional in nature rather than an alliance that committed Saudi Arabia to do anything for the...
Obama’s War On History
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Obama's speech in Brussels this week was a shocking mélange of ignorance and arrogance masquerading as foreign policy. Attempting to justify placing the US on war footing with Russia over the recent referendum in Crimea, the president stated: Kosovo only...
Non-Intervention is Non-Negotiable!
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
In an article at PJMedia.com, writer Keith Farrell suggests that libertarians should support foreign interventionism and specifically takes The Future of Freedom Foundation and LewRockwell.com to task for opposing foreign interventionism. Acknowledging that some U.S....
The Danger of False Narrative
by Robert Parry | Mar 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
The American people got a nasty taste of the danger that can come with false narrative when they were suckered into the Iraq War based on bogus claims that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction that he planned to share with al-Qaeda.Nearly 4,500 U.S....
Col. Wilkerson: ‘What American Wants to Die for Kiev?’
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 27, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI academic advisor Col. Lawrence Wilkerson appears in a thought-provoking interview on MSNBC, where he expresses his hopes that President Obama can find a way to walk back from the increasing US/Russia war footing. Asked by the host about the neocons who are...
The TSA PreCheck Extortion Racket
by Adam Dick | Mar 27, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole touted on Tuesday the expansion of TSA's extortion racket-style program known as the PreCheck. Pistole’s comments were part of his testimony at the US House of Representatives before the Homeland...
Obama Descends to Comedy
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
First they fear you, then they hate you, then they laugh at you? Sadly this is the tragectory of President Obama. Anyone with any sense of irony left can but laugh out loud at his absurd thirty minute speech in Brussels today.Low poll numbers
Did Students for Liberty Leader Really Attack Ron Paul?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 26, 2014 | Neocon Watch
How unfortunate that Alexander McCobin, president of Students for Liberty (SFL), decided to write an attack piece on Ron Paul's non-interventionism while echoing neocon warmongering over the recent referendum held in Crimea. It seems quite a strange move for an...
Ukraine and the Deferential Press
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
One of the distinguishing characteristics between libertarian commentators and the mainstream statist press is, once again, on display in the latest crisis, this one between President Obama and Russian President Putin. You see the standard knee-jerk rally to the...
Democracy Promotion or Total Destruction?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams joined Jay Taylor's Turning Hard Times Into Good Times radio program this week to discuss the neocons, the left humanitarian interventionists, and the US gambit in Ukraine. Who are the real isolationists? The neocons and the sanctions addicts.
Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
by Steve Weissman | Mar 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
If the US State Department's Victoria Nuland had not said "F**k the EU," few outsiders at the time would have heard of Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, the man on the other end of her famously bugged telephone call. But now Washington's man in Kiev is gaining fame as the...
A Military Plot to Take Over America: Fifty Years Later, Was the Mission Accomplished?
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
“I’m suggesting Mr. President, there’s a military plot to take over the Government of these United States, next Sunday...”—Col. Martin ‘Jiggs’ Casey, Seven Days in May (1964) With a screenplay written by Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, director John...
‘Non-Neocon’ Cal Thomas Attacks Ron Paul’s ‘Isolationism’
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 24, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Cal Thomas is a survivor. "America's most widely syndicated op-ed columnist" understands that to go against the rising tide of opinion in the US is to say goodbye to an enormously lucrative paycheck for relatively little work. The question Thomas struggles with is how...
US ‘Democracy Promotion’ Destroys Democracy Overseas
by Ron Paul | Mar 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
It was almost ten years ago when, before the House International Relations Committee, I objected to the US Government funding NGOs to meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine. At the time the “Orange Revolution” had forced a regime change in Ukraine with the help of...
War in Syria Set to Intensify
by Eric Margolis | Mar 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
As Syria lies dying, western media cries, “we must save Syria’s suffering children.” Indeed so, among Syria’s nine million internal and external refugees, some 450,000 are children. All civil wars are bloody and cruel, but Syria’s strife has reached new extremes of...
Ron Paul: A New Cold War?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This week on the Ron Paul Weekly Podcast, Dr. Paul and host Charles Goyette discuss the US government's bizarre re-igniting of the Cold War through interventionism and hypocrisy in Ukraine.The interventionists try to stoke up another cold -- or even hot -- war with...
Kto Kogo?* The NATO Syndrome, the EU’s Eastern Partnership Program, and the EAU
by Anne Williamson | Mar 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
In 2009, Poland and Sweden, ever attentive to the US’s geostrategic goals of isolating Russia and gaining control of China thereafter, initiated the Eastern Partnership program, which its sponsors said was intended to tighten ties with former Soviet Republics, such as...
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