Images from Libya today speak more clearly about the folly of US interventionism, US "regime change" operations, US-led bombing campaigns to "promote democracy" than anything else.Arguing passionately in favor of a US attack on Libya, over the objections of...
Month: August 2014
Obama Has No Middle East Strategy? Good!
by Ron Paul | Aug 31, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week President Obama admitted that his administration has not worked out a strategy on how to deal with the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a dominant force in the Middle East. However, as ISIS continues its march through Syria and...
Russian ‘Soldiers Mothers Committees’ — a US Covert Op?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A major component in the latest western government and media claims of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is protests of the various Russian "Soldiers' Mothers Committes" over the supposed disappearance of their soldier sons in Ukraine. Absent compelling visual evidence of...
The Mother of All Blowback
by Eric Margolis | Aug 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama is being lambasted by US Republicans for admitting that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for dealing with the rise of the militant group, ISIS, or Islamic State, as it’s now known. Given that the US had made an unbelievable mess of its Mideast...
Is This The Libertarian Moment?
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Aug 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
Earlier this month the New York Times wondered aloud if the “libertarian moment” had arrived. A good question, to be sure. To answer it, though, Times reporter Robert Draper sought out not quite the top libertarian thinkers in the world, but instead those people most...
Freedom and Moose on Patriot’s Lament in Alaska
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I joined Alaska freedom fighters Jim O'Connor and Joshua Bennett at the Patriot's Lament radio program this week and I really would love for you to hear this show! After a wonderful conversation with these great guys, I had the double pleasure of being sent plenty of...
About That Russian Invasion…
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Day after day we hear new frantic claims of a Russian incursion into -- or now, invasion of -- Ukraine. Thousands of Russian troops are fighting in Ukraine, we are told. The "evidence" is an ambiguous satellite photo procured from a private satellite firm and offered...
Ron Paul and Charles Goyette: Syria and Iraq the Fruits of Interventionism
by Ron Paul | Aug 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It was only weeks ago that President Obama requested an extra $500 million dollars for Syrian rebels. Now we are told that the US must start bombing some of those rebels in Syria. The elective Bush war in Iraq for WMDs that never were is a good case history in the...
Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery. How do we know that this is a lie? Is it because we have heard nothing but lies about Russia from NATO, from US ambassador to the...
Is a Nationwide Local Government Backlash Against Police Militarization Beginning?
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
KCRA TV is reporting that the Davis, California City Council voted Tuesday evening, after hearing from concerned people at the city council’s meeting, to get rid of the police department’s Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected military vehicle. The police department had...
Liberty Across the Board: Ron Paul vs Boston Globe on The Right to Use Heroin
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Boston Globe published this week a guest editorial arguing, as RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul memorably did during a 2011 Republican presidential primary debate in South Carolina, that heroin should be legalized. While the Globe editorial presents strong...
Red Alert: NATO Mission Creep Advancing to Russian Border
by Robert Bridge | Aug 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Buried beneath news of the Ice Bucket Challenge, and the latest video release by the Islamic State was an interview by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen that should be of immediate concern to everyone. These days, the actual importance of a news story is...
Bombs Away Over Syria! Washington Has Gone Stark Raving Mad
by David Stockman | Aug 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
America’s spanker-in-chief is at it again—threatening to bomb Syria owing to the uncivilized actions of its inhabitants. And when it comes to Syria, Washington avers that there are punishable malefactors virtually everywhere within its borders. Exactly one year ago...
The Murder of James Foley
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
In response to the Islamic State’s execution of American journalist James Foley, President Obama referred to Foley’s killers as a “cancer.” That, of course, implies that anti-American terrorism is like a disease, one that strikes at nations willy nilly, without rhyme...
Here Comes Increased Deficit Spending to Fight IS
by Adam Dick | Aug 27, 2014 | Congress Alert
You might think that, with the US government debt increasing year after year and bloated US military spending nearly equal to the combined military spending of the rest of the world, the US government would try to find a way to fight the Islamic State without...
Peace President Plots War on Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
The Obama administration is reportedly preparing to begin air strikes on Syrian territory without the consent of the Syrian government. The pretext is the rapidly expanding US war on ISIS, but in fact this is the long-desired US attack on Syria that was temporarily...
Ron Paul Challenging Government Secrecy and the “Truther” Label
by Adam Dick | Aug 25, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, speaking Friday with Charles Goyette in their weekly podcast discussion, decries the trend of the US government keeping more and more information secret. Paul also laments that people trying to discover the truth — whether about the September 11, 2001...
The Syrian Arab Government and ISIS Have Always Been Enemies
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Aug 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
There is all kinds of nonsense circulating in the mainstream media and in the wilder reaches of the internet galaxy concerning ISIS (IS) and the Syrian government (SAG). There are also an amazing number of stories on the web that claim that "The Caliph Ibrahim"...
Missed Ron Paul’s Birthday? It’s Not Too Late To Claim Your Gift!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
Thanks to so many of you who responded to Ron Paul's birthday fundraising appeal. Your contribution helps us continue to promote Dr. Paul's views worldwide. Guess what: we have only just begun! With your help we will take the message of liberty and non-interventionism...
Ferguson: The War Comes Home
by Ron Paul | Aug 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
America’s attention recently turned away from the violence in Iraq and Gaza toward the violence in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of Michael Brown. While all the facts surrounding the shooing have yet to come to light, the shock of seeing police using tear...
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