We see in the United States government’s “targeted killings” program carried out by drones and other means a perversion of the law so extreme that it brings to mind the introductory paragraph of Frederic Bastiat’s classic book The Law: The law perverted! The law —...
Month: March 2014
Russia Annexing Crimea is the Cost of US/EU intervention in Ukraine
by Michael Scheuer | Mar 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
One wonders how deep a hole the United States and the EU are going to dig for themselves in Ukraine. It was, of course, U.S. and EU leaders — and their media acolytes — who caused the problem we face today by intervening on behalf of self-styled “democrats” in Kiev...
Ron Paul on CIA Targeting Congress
by Adam Dick | Mar 13, 2014 | The Liberty Report
RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul, speaking on the Fox Business show The Independents Wednesday night, addresses the Central Intelligence Agency’s spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee -- seemingly to cover up torture revelations against the agency. Paul notes...
Russia Gets it Wrong
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Russian Foreign Ministry is barking up the wrong tree. Concerned over reports that the US government plans to begin shipping billions of dollars to prop up the government in Ukraine it helped install by coup d'etat, the Russians believe they found the best...
Geoffrey Pyatt: The Outlaw as Sheriff
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Geoffrey Pyatt is an outlaw. The US Ambassador to Ukraine was caught on tape conspiring with Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland to overthrow the government in Kiev and install leaders of US choosing. Shortly afterward, after plenty of blood flowed through...
Lights, Camera, Arrested: Americans Are Being Thrown in Jail for Filming Police
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
“I thought I had freedom of speech here,” the man said to the police officer. “You don’t. You just lost it,” the officer replied. Once again, the U.S. government is attempting to police the world when it should be policing its own law enforcement agencies. We’ve got a...
Pledging American Lives in the Defense of NATO
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Notwithstanding its recent decision to lift its debt ceiling once again to enable it to add to its ever-growing mountain of debt, the US government has now issued a new pledge, this one being as a guarantor of a $1 billion loan to the new government of Ukraine....
How NGOs Helped Plan Ukraine War
by harley | Mar 10, 2014 | The Liberty Report
In this episode of The Truthseeker, RPI Director Daniel McAdams is interviewed about the role of NGOs and state-sponsored "human rights" groups in pushing US foreign policy and training locals in the techniques of coup d'etat and regime change. The episode is a...
The Empire’s Meddling In Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 9, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Robert Wenzel of the Economic Policy Journal to discuss the background and latest developments in the US/EU/Ukraine/Russia stand-off. Who started it? Who are the main players? Where might it lead? Are we really that close to all-out...
‘Vlad the Bad’ Moves His Chess Pieces
by Eric Margolis | Mar 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Soviet leader Josef Stalin used to shrug off critics by his favorite Central Asian saying: “The dogs bark; the caravan moves on.” Russia’s hard-eyed president, Vladimir Putin, is following the same strategy over Ukraine and Crimea. Putin swiftly moved his knight into...
Gen. Dempsey Pushes Back Against War Fever
by Harper | Mar 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
General Martin Dempsey, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a lengthy interview to Judy Woodruff on Friday night's PBS News Hour and delivered a carefully balanced picture of how the U.S. military is managing the unfolding Ukraine crisis, both reassuring...
McCain: ‘It’s Tragic’ There’s No U.S. Military Option In Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 9, 2014 | Neocon Watch
If the US/EU backed overthrow of the Ukrainian government last month had a face, that face would be Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). McCain is the "Energizer Bunny" of US interventionism: wherever there is a government to subvert, a regime to change, chaos to foment, there...
Can We Afford Ukraine?
by Ron Paul | Mar 9, 2014 | The Liberty Report
Officially, US debt stands at more than $17 trillion. In reality, it is many times more. The cost of the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq may be more than six trillion dollars. President Obama’s illegal invasion of Libya cost at least a billion dollars and left...
Forgetting His Own History: William Hague Once Understood a Black Sea Crisis
by Mark Almond | Mar 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
All the assumptions on which… this policy [was] based turned out to be wrong…. British domestic opinion would prove hard to persuade that seeking the return… of a fortress on the Black Sea merited the risk of a war with Russia. -UK Foreign Secretary William Hague on...
Did Russia Invade Crimea?
by Michael S. Rozeff | Mar 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Unlike the impetuous and immature US leaders with itchy trigger fingers and an agenda of expansion that I do not have, I’ve been waiting to find out whether or not Russia invaded Crimea. We cannot know this with more certainty without learning more about the deal...
Dennis Kucinich and Lawrence Wilkerson Expose US Role in Creating Ukraine Crisis
by Adam Dick | Mar 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Breaking through the mainstream media’s suppression of contrary voices regarding the Ukraine crisis, RPI advisors Dennis Kucinich and Lawrence Wilkerson this week expose, on Fox News and MSNBC respectively, the United States government’s role in creating the crisis....
Regime Change Blueprint: The NED At Work
by Richard Sale | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a Washington D.C-based quasi-governmental organization funded by the U.S. which boasts that it is "supporting freedom around the world."[1] Alan Weinstein, one of the founders of the NED, explained in 1991: A lot of what...
Ukraine and The US National Security State
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
At the end of the Cold War, the American people had a grand opportunity, one that entailed the dismantling of the national-security state apparatus that had been grafted onto our governmental system after the end of World War II. It would have made sense, given that...
Ron Paul Reports Ukraine Story the Mainstream Media is Suppressing
by Adam Dick | Mar 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul, over at the Ron Paul Channel, reports this week in a 14 minutes video the story behind the conflict in Ukraine. Paul also criticizes biases in how mainstream television programs cover the conflict, saying “they're part of the banking...
Ron Paul: No US Bailout for Ukraine
by Adam Dick | Mar 6, 2014 | The Liberty Report
RPI Chairman and Founder, interviewed on RT, explains that the United States should not bail out Ukraine, either directly or indirectly through the European Union or International Monetary Fund. “The whole thing makes no sense whatsoever from an economic viewpoint,...
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