"Where is Ukraine?"A century ago, crowds in Paris were cheering, “on to Berlin!” Crowds in Berlin cried, “on to Paris.” World War I, the supreme example of nationalist/militaristic stupidity, was about to begin.One hundred years later we hear cries across America to...
Month: April 2014
The American Spring
by Nebojsa Malic | Apr 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
Many years after the end of the Cold War, when the United States government brings to power a neo-Nazi leader in Ukraine in order to hurt both Moscow and Europe, the world finds itself on the brink of nuclear war once again. This may sound like an oversimplified...
Ron Paul: The Senate CIA Report And Torture
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul again joins Charles Goyette in a weekly podcast providing insight on the most critical issues of the day. Dr. Paul and Mr. Goyette discuss the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the abuses of the CIA. But how many of the sordid details of this report...
The Cliven Bundy Standoff: Wounded Knee Revisited?
by William Norman Grigg | Apr 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
We took away their country and their means of support, broke up their mode of living, their habits of life, introduced disease and decay among them, and it was for this and against this they made war. Could anyone expect less? – General Philip Sheridan, who presided...
Stephen Colbert’s Ron Paul Interviews
by Adam Dick | Apr 12, 2014 | The Liberty Report
With the Thursday announcement that Stephen Colbert will succeed David Letterman as the host of the Late Show on CBS next year, it is a good time to look back at Colbert’s in-studio interviews of RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul. While humor-filled, the interviews...
Lew Rockwell’s Pessimistic Optimism
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today the US media is entirely the spokesmen for the government, said RPI Board Member Lew Rockwell on the Ben Swann radio show yesterday. Every country not totally controlled by the US must be destroyed, and the media is out front to provide propaganda for the...
Ron Paul: US Threatens Challengers to Dollar Hegemony
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a commentary available to view from his Ron Paul Channel, RPI Chairman Ron Paul explains how the US has targeted any country that threaten to use currencies other than dollars with which to conduct international commerce. In Libya, Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere, says...
RPI Editorial Policy: A Note of Clarification
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Throughout his career, Ron Paul has been known for his willingness and eagerness to build broad coalitions of people who may disagree on many issues, but who come together on the central issue of peace and prosperity. On September 10, 2008, Dr. Paul held a press...
Is the US or the World Coming to an End?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Apr 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
2014 is shaping up as a year of reckoning for the United States. Two pressures are building on the US dollar. One pressure comes from the Federal Reserve’s declining ability to rig the price of gold as Western gold supplies shrivel and market knowledge of the Fed’s...
Hayden: Feinstein Too ‘Emotional’ To Discuss The Torture Program
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Former CIA and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden has long been the face and voice of the growing security state within the United States. While many of his representations have been challenged, he continues (like Dick Cheney) to create his own reality...
How the State Department Spends Your Money
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 9, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US State Department under Secretary John Kerry has become a laughingstock. While Spokesperson Jen Psaki occupies herself by Tweeting mindless "selfies," her boss's "social media" team are busy putting together incomprehensible platitudes like the below. Can anyone...
‘Foot-in-Mouth’ Kerry’s Nixonian Blunder
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 9, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US and EU appear incapable of distinguishing between action and reaction. The coup they backed in Kiev against the elected government has thrown off the delicate balance in Ukraine and left the pro-Russia eastern portion of the country feeling threatened. In this...
Forbes Magazine’s Doomsday Preacher
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 9, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Like a fanatical preacher, who keeps moving ahead his prediction of the end of the world as each new date comes and passes, Forbes magazine's Paul Roderick Gregory has worked himself into a lather screaming that the Russian military invasion of Ukraine is imminent!...
Ron Paul: ‘Hands Off Raw Milk!’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
To Ron Paul, the raw milk issue is a matter of personal freedom, and he is very pleased that Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced two bills -- one quite sweeping and the other more incremental -- that would make it easier for individuals to make their own decisions about...
Ron Paul Blasts US Ukraine Policy
by Adam Dick | Apr 8, 2014 | The Liberty Report
Speaking with RT's Sophie Shevardnadze, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul presents a masterful, in-depth critique of the US government’s actions related to Ukraine. Among many matters discussed, Paul addresses the US government’s foolhardy imposition of sanctions as...
Ft. Hood: An Avoidable Tragedy
by Ron Paul | Apr 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week we saw yet another tragedy at Ft. Hood, Texas, as a distraught Iraq war veteran killed three of his fellow soldiers before killing himself. It is nearly five years after the last Ft. Hood shooting, where 13 people were killed. These tragedies are...
Eric Margolis: US Afghanistan Elections Not Up To Standard of Soviet Afghanistan Elections
by Adam Dick | Apr 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While reviewing media reports of democracy in action in the Afghanistan election to select a replacement for President Hamid Karzai, consider the comments of RPI Academic Board member Eric Margolis on the Scott Horton Show on Friday. Margolis starts off the interview...
Why Are Americans Paying to Be Searched, Spied On, Shot At and Robbed Blind by the Government?
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
“To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.”—Benjamin Tucker, 19th century advocate of American individualist anarchism The State Department wants $400,000 to purchase a fiberglass sculpture of a camel looking...
Rep. John Duncan’s Plea for US Non-Intervention in Ukraine
by Adam Dick | Apr 7, 2014 | Congress Alert
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) on March 13 presented on the floor of the United States House of Representatives a brief and insightful plea against the US government “sending billions” of dollars to Ukraine and escalating US intervention to cause “some type of...
Can the West Get Out of Its (Self-Made) Cul-de-Sac in Syria?
by Going to Tehran | Apr 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
In recent years, the limits on America’s ability to shape important outcomes in the Middle East unilaterally—or even with a few European partners—have been dramatically underscored by strategically failed interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Last year,...
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