Neoconservative newspaper columnist Anne Applebaum is angry and upset. In the days when print was king, she could dash off her pro-war opinions and never have to worry about the common people taking apart her arguments. In those days only a very few would be dedicated...
Month: November 2014

Who Wants to be Defense Secretary?
by Ron Paul | Nov 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
It seems nobody wants to be Secretary of Defense in the Obama administration. The president’s first two Defense Secretaries, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, both complained bitterly this month about their time in the administration. The president’s National Security...
Weapons to Ukraine? Assad Overthrow? RPI’s Daniel McAdams Speaks With Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Indications that the US is looking to accelerate the conflict in Ukraine, with Vice President Biden in Kiev followed by NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe. Pressure to provide US weapons to the Kiev regime is mounting. Also, what does departure of US Defense...
Nuclear Chicken in the Mideast
by Eric Margolis | Nov 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
To no surprise, nuclear talks between Iran and major world powers have become stalemated. Iran will not sink “to its knees” to win a nuclear deal with the great powers, said its leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the failure of six months of talks in Vienna....
Darren Wilson and the Reality of ‘Blue Privilege’
by William Norman Grigg | Nov 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
“Any time I’m involved in an officer-involved shooting, be it a fatal one or non-fatal, it is always during my initial investigation listed as an assault on law enforcement,” explained the St. Louis County Police Detective who inaugurated the investigation of the...
Syrian Christians: ‘Help Us to Stay – Stop Arming Terrorists’
by Ruth Sherlock | Nov 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
Outgoing artillery shook St Elias church as the priest reached the end of the Lord's Prayer. The small congregation kept their eyes on the pulpit, kneeling when required and trying to ignore the regular thuds that rattled the stained glass windows above them. Home to...
Gen. Breedlove Announces More Aid to Ukraine Military, Denounces Russian ‘Militarization’
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On the heels of US Vice President Joseph Biden's trip to Ukraine this week, NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, Gen. Philip Breedlove, is in Kiev today pledging increased military assistance to the US-backed government there. As the Kiev regime readies another...
We Are the Enemy: Is This the Lesson of Ferguson?
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
If you dress police officers up as soldiers and you put them in military vehicles and you give them military weapons, they adopt a warrior mentality. We fight wars against enemies, and the enemies are the people who live in our cities — particularly in communities of...
‘Coercive Diplomacy’ and the Failure of the Nuclear Negotiations
by Gareth Porter | Nov 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
After more than a year of negotiations between the United States and Iran, the two sides have failed to reach an agreement by the agreed deadline in July. They have agreed to continue negotiating, but the failure to meet the deadline was clearly not caused by the lack...
Reform the CIA? What Good Would That Do?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
People who are trying to reform the NSA and the CIA are just wasting their time. After all, at the risk of belaboring the obvious, these two agencies operate in secret. Moreover, they know that they can do anything they want, including breaking the law, and that...
What Does Hagel’s Ouster Mean for US Syria Policy?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
Does today's pink slip to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel signal a big victory to the humanitarian interventionists and neocons pushing President Obama to go for broke against Assad in Syria? RPI's Daniel McAdams was on RT this morning to give his take:
Breaking: Hagel Out, Assad Next
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 24, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Washington is abuzz with news that Chuck Hagel is out as President Obama's Secretary of Defense. The Secretary was said to have never meshed with the rest of Obama's foreign policy team, led by National Security Advisor Susan Rice and flanked by US Ambassador to the...

Defeat of USA FREEDOM Act is a Victory for Freedom
by Ron Paul | Nov 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
It will not shock readers to hear that quite often legislation on Capitol Hill is not as advertised. When Congress wants to do something particularly objectionable, they tend give it a fine-sounding name. The PATRIOT Act is perhaps the best-known example. The...
Fmr. Bush National Security Advisor: Start WWIII With Russia!
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Stephen Hadley (center)Stephen Hadley, who served as National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, believes that the United States should begin delivering lethal military equipment to the US-backed government in Ukraine as that government moves ever-closer to...
Obama’s Stealth Surge in Afghanistan
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It is a pattern for President Obama: posing as a peacemaker who ends the wars of the previous administration, while expanding the US use of force in areas the Bush gang could not have even imagined. In Iraq, for example, a miniscule US humanitarian operation to rescue...
Lew Rockwell: Europe Bowing to US Hegemon on Russia Sanctions
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
Mises Institute Chairman and Ron Paul Institute Board Member Lew Rockwell speaks out against US-instigated sanctions on Russia in a recent RT interview. With reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel may be easing toward the notion of dialogue with the Russian...
ISIS: Fighting the Modern Wahabis
by Eric Margolis | Nov 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
Sir John Baggot Glubb, better known as Glubb Pasha, was one of the modern Mideast’s most colorful and romantic figures. He and "Chinese" Gordon of Khartoum were the last of the great British imperial officers. Seconded by Britain to its protectorate, the Hashemite...
Dennis Kucinich: Support for War and National Security State is Reason for Democrat Election Losses
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Dennis Kucinich, the former Democratic United States House of Representatives member from Ohio and two-time presidential candidate, pins blame for Democrats’ 2014 midterm elections “debacle” on Democrat politicians in the last eight years advancing war and the...
Biden in Ukraine, War Surely to Follow
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
US Vice President Joe Biden's plane has touched down in the Ukrainian capitol to meet with US-backed president, Petro Poroshenko, and prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk. If the past is prologue, we should expect a full-fledged assault by Kiev on the breakaway eastern...
Ron Paul: ‘Help!’
by Ron Paul | Nov 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Dear Friends:Looking at the entrance to the little, spartan headquarters of my Institute for Peace and Prosperity here in Clute, Texas, I wonder how long it will be here. Not long, I am afraid, without your help. I marvel at how much has been achieved with so little...
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