An appropriations bill passed Friday in the United States House of Representatives and on its way to the US Senate contains provisions calling for the United States government to stop treading on states’ efforts to legalize medical marijuana and industrial hemp.The...
Month: May 2014
Trivial Pursuit: Obama Versus the Interventionists
by Sheldon Richman | May 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
American politics is largely a series of debates over unimportant details. These debates are conducted far above the fundamental level because the supposed contenders share the same premises. Where they disagree is at the level of application, and so the disagreements...
A Middle East Tragedy: Obama’s Syria Policy Disaster
by Going to Tehran | May 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
For over three years, the United States has sought to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by supporting an Al Qaeda-infused opposition that Washington either knew or should have known would fail. Yet, in his commencement address at West Point on Wednesday,...
Sorry Obama, America is With Ron Paul
by Daniel McAdams | May 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Obama on Wednesday delivered one of the most bellicose foreign policy speeches of his presidency. Promising more, not less, US interventionism overseas, the president told the graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point: [T]he question each of you...
Ukraine Asks for Lend-Lease from US
by Michael S. Rozeff | May 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
The new president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, wants a Lend-Lease agreement with the U.S. government, to focus on military assistance and training. If the US agrees, that inserts the US directly into the war currently being waged between Ukraine and fighters for the...
Boko Haram a Blessing for Imperialism in Africa: U.S. Training Death Squads
by Glen Ford | May 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
Militarily, Africa is fast becoming an American continent. Barack Obama, who has been president for all but the first year of AFRICOM’s existence, has succeeded in integrating U.S. fighting units, bases, training regimens, equipment and financing into the military...
Sen. Ron Wyden: House-Passed USA FREEDOM Act is ‘Reform in Name Only’
by Adam Dick | May 29, 2014 | Congress Alert
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), speaking Wednesday in his home state of Oregon, declared that the “Status Quo Caucus” including “intelligence leadership, their friends in the House of Representatives, [and] their allies in academia” had successfully transformed the USA FREEDOM...
Lew Rockwell: Central Banks Make World Wars Possible
by Adam Dick | May 28, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As people worry a new world war may rise out of Ukraine, RPI Advisory Board Member Lew Rockwell proposes Wednesday on the Tom Woods Show that the creation of central banks makes world wars possible. Rockwell's comments regarding central banking are made in a...
Frederick Kagan Accidentally Admits Failure of America’s Wars
by Chris Rossini | May 28, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Neocon Frederick Kagan, who is against U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan, accidentally admits the failure of U.S. government meddling overseas.Kagan writes: Al Qaeda affiliates have grown dramatically in reach, strength, combat power, and territory controlled. Most...
Patriotic Blasphemy
by Laurence M. Vance | May 27, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A relative of mine attended the church of another relative of mine on the Sunday before Memorial Day. Here is the patriotic blasphemy he reports that he observed: Battle Hymn of the Republic sung to open the service, some kind of WWII memorial at the front of the...
Ukraine and EU Integration… of Popular Revolt against Oligarchs
by Finian Cunningham | May 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
It’s a sweet irony that declared winner of Ukraine’s presidential election, the billionaire "chocolate tycoon" Petro Poroshenko, proclaimed that his electoral victory "showed that people have chosen the path of European Union integration.” Meanwhile, this week the...
Can Kinky Friedman Bring Legal Marijuana and Hemp to Texas?
by Adam Dick | May 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Kinky Friedman, who is competing in a runoff election Tuesday for the Democratic Party nomination for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, describes his race as “kind of a referendum on lifting this prohibition on hemp and on pot.” Can Friedman, who has gained notoriety...
Memorial Day and the Meaning of Freedom
by Jeff Deist | May 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Memorial Day provides the political class countless opportunities to ruin an otherwise thoroughly enjoyable holiday weekend. Like clockwork, local congressmen, mayors, city council members, et al. materialize at parades, picnics, and churches to give speeches about...
Western Media Coverage of the Ukraine Crisis Is as Distorted as Soviet Propaganda
by Vladimir Golstein | May 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
Growing up in the Soviet Union, I used to approach words like “Voice of America” (Golos Ameriki), BBC, Deutche Welle (Nemetskaia volna) with a certain reverence: they meant hidden, clandestine and therefore precious truth. Truth and news were not found in Pravda or...
Why War Is Inevitable
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
Memorial Day is when we commemorate our war dead. Like the Fourth of July, Memorial Day is being turned into a celebration of war.Those who lose family members and dear friends to war don’t want the deaths to have been in vain. Consequently, wars become glorious deeds...
Walter Block’s Libertarian Journey: Booing Ayn Rand and Playing Risk with Murray Rothbard
by Adam Dick | May 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new interview with Kyle Platt at Liberty.me, RPI Academic Board Member Walter Block — jovial as usual — tells the lively tale of his discovery of libertarian ideas as a young man. It all started in the early 1960s when Block, then — in Block’s words — a “pinko...
The VA Scandal is Just the Tip of the Military Abuse Iceberg
by Ron Paul | May 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama held a press conference last week to express his outrage over reports that the Veterans Administration was routinely delaying treatment to veterans, with some veterans even dying while on alleged secret waiting lists. The president said that, “if these...
No Water For You: Obama Administration Moves To Cut Off Water To Pot Growers In Washington and Oregon
by Jonathan Turley | May 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
For months, the Obama Administration has been dealing with the growing revolt among the states over federal marijuana laws. Twenty states and the District of Columbia legalized medical marijuana use over the opposition of the federal government and medical use. Two...
The Great Western Gas Fiasco
by Eric Margolis | May 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin usually wears a perfect poker face. But last week in Shangahi, the icy-cold Russian president came awfully close to bursting into a big grin.And why not? Putin had just stolen a march on his western rivals. The US-British attempt to...
Judge Napolitano: US Troops to Nigeria is Illegal
by harley | May 24, 2014 | The Liberty Report
This week President Obama committed some 80 armed American troops to Chad to assist in the efforts to find a group of Nigerian girls reportedly kidnapped by the Boko Haram group. According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, an RPI Board Member, the president's action was an...
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