Last week World Bank economists predicted that China would soon displace the United States as the world’s largest economy. The fact that this one-time economic basket case is now positioned to surpass the US is one more sign of the damage done to American prosperity...
Month: May 2014
Why Deal When Israel Holds All The Cards
by Eric Margolis | May 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
Did anyone really think that John Kerry’s nine-month effort to produce a Palestinian mini-state would ever work? If so, they were either ignorant of the Mideast, naïve, or deeply cynical. The best one could say about Kerry’s fiasco was that it was a charade designed...
Don’t Invite More Presidential Wars
by Louis Fisher | May 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
The Senate is considering legislation to shift the war power largely to the president and a 20-person legislative committee. The result would undermine the constitutional role of 515 other members of Congress and the duty they have to represent the interests of their...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Ukraine Rhetoric and Sanctions Threatening World War
by Adam Dick | May 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking with Lindsay France on RT this week, explains that, in order to prevent “a shooting war that grows evermore larger,” the United States, Russia, and the nations of the EU and NATO should focus on ensuring Ukraine neutrality. Wilkerson,...
Ron Paul on Ukraine: ‘Why Are We Are Making Things Worse?’
by Ron Paul | May 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
It looks like the civil war in Ukraine is getting much worse. Western Ukraine right now is being urged on by its Western supporters, meaning its NATO supporters, the European Union, the United States, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Western Ukraine has...
‘Free Press’? USAID Increases Funding to Pro-Kiev Media
by Daniel McAdams | May 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the name of a "free and independent media," the US government through its Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that it will dedicate an additional $1.25 million to subsidize the Ukrainian media in advance of the May 25th presidential election....
US Media Covers Up Mass Murder in Odessa
by Daniel McAdams | May 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Yesterday in Odessa, Ukraine, more than 30 anti-Kiev protesters were burned alive, as a US-backed pro-Kiev mob set fire to the trade union building into which they ran to escape the pro-Kiev crowd. It was the largest loss of life in Ukraine since the US-backed coup in...
Rep. Walter Jones’ Refreshing Voting Philosophy
by Adam Dick | May 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an Associated Press article focused on outside groups spending over $1 million to defeat US House Member Walter Jones (R-NC) in his May 6 primary, Jones, an RPI Advisory Board member, explains his voting philosophy: "I heard years ago — it might have been from my...
The ‘Eastern Partnership’ is Fading Away Before Our Very Eyes
by Pyotr Iskenderov | May 2, 2014 | Featured Articles
The EU’s Eastern Partnership summit that took place in Prague on 24-25 April was called to solve the Hamlet question of whether the programme itself is to be or not to be. It was unable to do so, however. The collapse of the Ukrainian government and the cooling of...
Antiwar Progressives Mugged By Neocon Smear Brigade
by Chris Rossini | May 2, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Libertarian non-interventionists are attacked by neocons as a matter of course. It’s expected and we’re used to the malicious distortions that are routinely cast our way. Well, leftist progressives, should they step out-of-line from what the war machine considers...
Ron Paul: ‘State Department’s Free Press Hypocrisy’
by Daniel McAdams | May 1, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul points out the incredible hypocrisy of the US State Department's big roll out of its "Free the Press" campaign on the very day the US government filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to reject New York Times journalist James Risen's plea that he not be...
Ron Paul Speaks: 'Liberty Defined and The Future of Freedom'
by Daniel McAdams | May 1, 2014 | The Liberty Report
Be among the first to watch this very special evening with Ron Paul in the San Francisco Bay area, speaking extensively on the principles of liberty and freedom. Federal Reserve, taxation, the ill-gotten wealth of those in the military-industrial complex, senseless...
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