This week Americans will enjoy Independence Day with family cookouts and fireworks. Flags will be displayed in abundance. Sadly, however, what should be a celebration of the courage of those who risked so much to oppose tyranny will instead be turned into a...
Month: June 2014
Hell No! Taxpayers Shouldn’t Go To Syria
by David Stockman | Jun 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
Barack Obama has rekindled 1968. Back then the folly of Vietnam had become so self-evident and omnipresent that the most power-obsessed President in US history was driven from office and his bloody escalation of the war on Vietnam was stopped in its tracks by the...
Cold War Renewed With A Vengeance While Washington Again Lies
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
The Cold War made a lot of money for the military/security complex for four decades dating from Churchill’s March 5, 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri declaring a Soviet “Iron Curtain” until Reagan and Gorbachev ended the Cold War in the late 1980s. During the Cold War...
Ron Paul: No More US Aid to Syria Insurgents; Better for House to Impeach than Sue Obama
by Adam Dick | Jun 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul, speaking with Neil Cavuto on Fox News, explains that President Barack Obama’s proposal to spend a half-billion dollars on training and arming Syria insurgents will hurt Americans while helping the military industrial complex. Paul, RPI’s chairman and...
Iraq: The Things Warmongers Said
by Neil Clark | Jun 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Iraq is in turmoil — with ISIS controlling large areas of the country — but the truth is that it's been in turmoil since the illegal 2003 invasion. 2013 was Iraq's bloodiest year since 2008, but as I wrote here members of the elite political class and warmongers in...
Obama’s Self-Made Foreign Policy Problem
by Moon of Alabama | Jun 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
The Obama Administration is talking too much.Kerry went to Egypt, delivered money and weapons, and was shown the finger over his human rights laments. Kerry went to Iraq, delivered some military support, and demanded a "unity government." Maliki's government already...
Ron Paul, the CIA, and Dr. Zhivago
by Adam Dick | Jun 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
It is no secret that Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel Dr. Zhivago influenced RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul. Indeed, Dr. Zhivago and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged are the only two works of fiction included in the list of 48 books at the end of Paul’s The Revolution: A...
RPI’s Adam Dick Discusses the Drug War, Elections, and Smokey and the Bandit on the Lions of Liberty Podcast
by Adam Dick | Jun 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Adam Dick joined the Lions of Liberty Podcast on Thursday for a discussion of the drug war and advancing liberty through electoral politics. Dick discusses with host Marc Clair how states and local governments going their own way on marijuana laws are overcoming...
Despite $72 Billion Intel Collection Budget, US Has No Clue About Iraq
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Thanks to the always astute MoA blog for pointing out that for the estimated $72 billion per year the US government spends on intelligence gathering (the actual figure is classified and probably much higher), the US government is flying blind on what is happening in...
Federal Court Rules Government’s No-Fly List Is Unconstitutional
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
There is a major decision out of Oregon where U.S. District Judge Anna Brown has ruled that the government’s no-fly list is unconstitutional since there is no meaningful way to contest inclusion of the list barring you from commercial flights. Brown issued a 65 page...
The US Supreme Court Is Marching in Lockstep with the Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
“[I]f the individual is no longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib, if they can ‘seize’ and ‘search’ him in their discretion, we enter a new regime. The decision to enter it should be made only after a full...
Michael Ledeen Wants ‘Us’ to ‘Destroy Radical Islamism’
by Michael S. Rozeff | Jun 23, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Michael Ledeen wants a new American war on “radical Islamism”. This is the man who in his efforts to get the U.S. to attack Iraq wrote in 2002: He [Brent Scowcroft] fears that if we attack Iraq ‘I think we could have an explosion in the Middle East. It could turn the...
Rep. Walter Jones on Foreign Policy: ‘We in America are in the Eleventh Hour’
by Adam Dick | Jun 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), an RPI Advisory Board member, discusses in-depth in a Friday C-SPAN Washington Journal interview his opposition to continued borrowing and spending for the United States to “police the world.” Jones says in the 33 minutes interview that the...
Opt-Out of Common Core, Opt-In to The Ron Paul Curriculum
by Ron Paul | Jun 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
Oklahoma recently took action to protect the state’s children from the federal education bureaucracy by withdrawing from Common Core. Common Core is the latest attempt to bribe states, with money taken from the American people, into adopting a curriculum developed by...
‘Your Tax Money to Arm The Jihad’: Ron Paul Speaks With Charles Goyette
by Ron Paul | Jun 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Don't miss Ron Paul's discussion with Charles Goyette this week. Dr. Paul points out the foolishness of arming jihadists in one country and feigning surprise when they attack a different country. It started with US funding the mujahideen in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda...
US House Rejects by 355 to 62 Vote Amendment to Limit Transfer of Military Weapons and Equipment to Local Police
by Adam Dick | Jun 20, 2014 | Congress Alert
By a vote of 355 “no” votes to 62 “yes” votes the United States House of Representatives voted down Thursday night an amendment offered by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act (HR 4870) that would have curtailed the transfer of US...
Ron Paul Appears in Movies Based on Novels Atlas Shrugged and Alongside Night
by Adam Dick | Jun 20, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is former Member of the United States House of Representatives and current RPI Chairman Ron Paul “going Hollywood?” Not quite, he is still living in Texas and focused on protecting freedom. But, according to media reports, Paul has small roles in new movies based on...
The Orwellian Daily Mail
by Centre for the Study of Interventionism | Jun 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Many people have an instinctive feeling that the mainstream media do not tell them the whole story.But few people realise quite to what extent the media are manipulated to send out a particular political message. This problem is especially acute with foreign stories...
Judge Andrew Napolitano: No New US War in Iraq
by Adam Dick | Jun 19, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Thursday on Fox News, RPI Advisory Board Member Andrew Napolitano explains that the United States government engaging in another war in Iraq would be contrary to US national interests as was the US invading and making war on Iraq in 2003. That prior Iraq war,...
Ethnic Cleansing Coming in East Ukraine — McAdams Speaks WIth Scott Horton
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is on the Scott Horton Show this week, discussing what is going on in Ukraine while everyone is paying attention to the disintegration of Iraq. The shelling of Slavyansk continues while the danger of US-sanctioned ethnic cleansing of...
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