Nigeria has been a failed state of corruption, outlawry, civil war and unspeakable violence and cruelty for decades. Literally millions have been starved, maimed and butchered owing to ethnic, tribal and religious clashes. And billions more have been stolen from the...
Month: May 2014
Ukraine Deteriorates: Daniel McAdams With Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | May 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In Ukraine over the weekend, eastern Ukrainian oblasts Donetsk and Lugansk held referenda to decide whether they would declare independence from Kiev. RPI's Daniel McAdams explains to Jay Taylor the motivations behind the vote and the US reaction.
Killing Your Own People — a Brief Guide
by Peter Hitchens | May 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
Voters line up in east Ukraine, May 11, 2014 A few months ago we were being told by supporters of the Kiev putsch that President Viktor Yanukovich had “lost the mandate of heaven” by “killing his own people.” This emotive language avoided any discussion of two...
Is Today ‘Lie about Ron Paul in Headlines Day’?
by Adam Dick | May 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Looking at the Washington Post and Rare, one has to wonder if today is Lie about Ron Paul in Headlines Day. First, the Washington Post published an article with the headline “Ron Paul thinks drug use is rampant inside prisons. He’s wrong.” That is a rather provocative...
Ron Paul: Victory For Peace Candidate Walter Jones is Great News
by Daniel McAdams | May 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The war party did everything they could to defeat pro-peace Republican Walter Jones in the North Carolina primary last week, said Ron Paul, but in the end Rep. Jones prevailed. One important lesson from the victory, Dr. Paul pointed out, was that you can represent a...
400 US Mercenaries in Ukraine?
by harley | May 12, 2014 | The Liberty Report
According to German press reports over the weekend, some 400 US employees of the US private security firm Academi (formerly Blackwater) are operating in Ukraine. Who in Ukraine would hire such forces and why? And what to expect after the referenda in eastern Ukraine...
What Does The US Government Want in Ukraine?
by Ron Paul | May 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
From YouTubeIn several eastern Ukrainian towns over the past week, the military opened fire on its own citizens. Dozens may have been killed in the violence. Although the US government generally condemns a country’s use of military force against its own population,...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Oligarchs Run US Foreign Policy
by Adam Dick | May 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
William & Mary Professor and RPI Academic Board Member Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, in an in-depth interview with this week with Paul Jay on the Real News Network, argues that oligarchs run United States foreign policy. Having served in US government positions...
Ukraine Military Attacks Anti-Coup Civilians, US Silent
by Daniel McAdams | May 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Mariupol todayAs most in the former USSR celebrated the 69th Victory Day over Nazi Germany today, the US-backed government in Kiev (which took power after the February coup) decided to launch one of its bloodiest military operations thus far, this time against the...
Ron Paul on the Benghazi Partisan Sideshow
by Adam Dick | May 9, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While noting that the killing of two US diplomats, including the US ambassador to Libya, and CIA contractors in Benghazi, Libya is a “big issue” that merits attention, Ron Paul explains at the Ron Paul Channel that much of the commotion in Congress concerning the...
Who’s Behind Odessa? RPI’s Daniel McAdams on Scott Horton Show
by Daniel McAdams | May 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Who is responsible for the carnage in Odessa, Ukraine, where dozens of anti-Kiev protesters were burned alive in the Trade Union building last weekend? Did the US government have a role? Why was the CIA director in Ukraine weeks before the attack? Listen to RPI...
To Understand Or Not to Understand Putin
by Diana Johnstone | May 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
In Germany these days, very many citizens object to the endless Russia-bashing of the NATO-oriented mainstream media. They may point out that the U.S.-backed regime change in Kiev, putting in power an ultra-right transitional government eager to join NATO, posed an...
Syria: The Hidden Massacre
by Sharmine Narwani | May 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
The attack took place shortly after the first stirrings of trouble in the southern Syrian city of Daraa in March 2011. Several old Russian-made military trucks packed with Syrian security forces rolled onto a hard slope on a valley road between Daraa al-Mahata and...
Western Warmongering Based on Lies and Fabrication
by Finian Cunningham | May 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Nearly a year ago American whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the global scale of US government spying. With an annual budget of over $50 billion, the National Security Agency has the technology and the highest political backing to tap into any phone call, email or...
Bravo, Rep. Walter Jones! Primary Win Sends Neocons Packing
by David Stockman | May 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Rep. Walter Jones, 20-year Republican of North Carolina, is one of America’s most courageous and honest politicians—putting him in a company that is virtually non-existent inside the beltway. He originally was an enthusiastic supporter of the Iraq War, but then he...
Pussy Riot on Capitol Hill
by Daniel McAdams | May 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just when you thought their 15 minutes of fame was up, the women of Pussy Riot have made their way to Capitol Hill and into the hearts of (some) US lawmakers. They also posed for pictures with Hillary Clinton, which promptly ended up on her Twitter page. The Pussy...
Syria Election: Vote The Right Way — Or Else
by Neil Clark | May 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
It's a parody of democracy. It will damage the political process and hinder the prospects for peace. This is how Western leaders — their regional allies and also UN bigwigs — have dismissed the presidential elections in Syria set for June 3. It seems that despite...
Slaughter in Ukraine and US Government Lies
by harley | May 6, 2014 | The Liberty Report
US government hypocrisy in Ukraine RPI Director Daniel McAdams explains to RT:
Another NYT ‘Sort of’ Retraction on Ukraine
by Robert Parry | May 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
(NY Times screen shot)The New York Times, which has asserted for weeks that the Russian government is behind the unrest in Ukraine’s east, finally sent some reporters to the region to dig up the proof, but all they found were eastern Ukrainians upset by the coup...
The Devil’s Beltway Workshop: Why The Warfare State Must Be Dismantled
by David Stockman | May 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Between the east and west of the Ukraine lies a historical highway, paved in unspeakable barbarism and blood. To the west it traverses the blood soaked black earth of the Ukrainian breadbasket where Stalin’s most heinous crime was committed–the savage liquidation of...
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