With the recent US election ensuring continued Congressional support for an interventionist foreign policy, President Obama has embarked on a foreign spending spree. First the president announced that US troop levels in Iraq would double to more than 3,000 – and that...
Month: November 2014
Asset Forfeiture: A Cop Shopping Spree
by William Norman Grigg | Nov 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Undercover police monitoring a bar in Las Cruces, New Mexico were giddy with covetousness when they saw a man drive up in a brand-new Mercedes. As city attorney Harry S. Connelly later explained, the cops were delighted to find that the man had been drinking,...
For Armistice Day, Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve’s Role in Financing US Militarism
by Adam Dick | Nov 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On this Armistice Day, taking place in the week after midterm elections that promise to buttress US foreign intervention and President Barack Obama’s announcement that he is sending 1,500 troops and desires $5.6 billion more in spending to escalate the war in Iraq and...
Success? US Plans to Evacuate Embassy in Yemen
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On September 10, President Obama addressed the nation on his plans to "downgrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS. What had begun just weeks earlier as a humanitarian rescue mission to save a religious minority in Iraq purportedly threatened by ISIS had crept into a...
US: Kicking Vietnam Syndrome Once and for All
by Vladislav Gulevich | Nov 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US is set to roll out a 50th anniversary commemoration of the Vietnam War. A $30 million program is on the way to rewrite its history. The new commemoration website was launched with archives and various reference materials. The US young people need to be...
The Devil’s Bargain: The Illusion of a Trouble-Free Existence in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Arnold Abbott, 90, arrested for feeding the homeless Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of...
Iraq War 3.0: What Could Possibly Go Right?
by Peter van Buren | Nov 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Karl von Clausewitz, the famed Prussian military thinker, is best known for his aphorism “War is the continuation of state policy by other means.” But what happens to a war in the absence of coherent state policy? Actually, we now know. Washington’s Iraq War 3.0,...

What The Mid-Term Elections Really Mean For Peace and Liberty
by Ron Paul | Nov 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Did the election last week really mean that much? I took to my Twitter account on Tuesday to point out that the change in control of the Senate from Democrat to Republican actually means very little, despite efforts by politicians and the mainstream media to convince...
Fifty Years Later, Obama to Re-Play Vietnam?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Fifty years after then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara swore that the US troops sent to Vietnam would have no combat role, President Obama announced he would double the number of US troops being sent back to Iraq. Over the weekend, the US president said he is "never...
NYPD Union Leader: Reducing Marijuana Arrests is “Beginning of the Breakdown of a Civilized Society”
by Adam Dick | Nov 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Reported efforts to begin following through on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 2013 election promise to reduce marijuana arrests in the city has distressed Sergeants Benevolent Association police union President Ed Mullins. Mullins is quoted Wednesday in the New...
What Do The Elections Really Mean? Listen To Ron Paul and Charles Goyette
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
How will the midterm election affect the American people’s peace, privacy, and prosperity? RPI Chairman Ron Paul joins Charles Goyette to ponder whether a recklessly spending government that is relentlessly pursuing a global empire while impoverishing its citizens can...
Dennis Kucinich: ‘The US Must Work to Reestablish Friendly Relations With Russia’
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Nov 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Rossiya Segodnya sat down recently with Dennis Kucinich, Former US Representative from Ohio and two-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. He spoke about the recent elections, the situation in Ukraine, and the need for America to shift its foreign...
Is NYT Growing Weary of Kiev?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The New York Times has long performed the role of regime stenographer when it comes to US foreign policy. There is not a US intervention it does not whole-heartedly champion regardless of which party is in the White House. War is good for the New York Times and the...
Obama Demands Another 1,500 Troops and $5.6 Billion for War Expansion
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Just three days after RPI Chairman Ron Paul Tweeted that the US elections would result in more war in the Middle East, President Obama today announced that he would be sending 1,500 more troops into Iraq. This will bring the total to over 3,000 US troops in an...
Ron Paul and Jay Taylor on How Peace Brings Prosperity
by Ron Paul | Nov 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This week RPI Chairman Ron Paul joined Jay Taylor's radio broadcast to discuss how the money-printing of the Federal Reserve feeds the warfare state, how the foreign wars set the stage for attacks on our civil liberties at home, and how the cause of liberty is a...
Why US Anti-ISIS Videos Don’t Work
by Peter van Buren | Nov 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
The U.S., via the State Department, is spending considerable effort and money producing anti-ISIS videos and other media (actual example, above), the goal of which is to convince American and other would-be jihadis not to join ISIS. The efforts won’t work, almost...
Ron Paul’s Take on the 2014 Midterm Elections
by Adam Dick | Nov 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Former United States House of Representatives member and presidential candidate Ron Paul is not mincing words in presenting his take on the Tuesday midterm elections. Speaking with hosts Ben Swann and Erin Ade on RT, Paul argues that the US effectively has “a monopoly...
Alaska, DC, and Oregon Voters Legalize Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Nov 5, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
State and local governments continued going their own way on marijuana laws in elections Tuesday, with voters in the sates of Alaska and Oregon, along with United States capital city Washington, DC, approving ballot measures legalizing marijuana for recreational use....
Washington-backed ‘Rebels’ Surrender US Arms to Al Qaeda in Syria
by Bill Van Auken | Nov 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Washington’s strategy in its three-month-old war in Iraq and Syria appeared to suffer another humiliating blow over the weekend as one of the last remaining strongholds of US-backed “moderate rebels” in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib fell to the Nusra...
Neocon Pundit Max Boot’s Post-Election Demand: ‘Start a War Now!’
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 5, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Now that the US midterm elections are over, with Republicans making gains in the House and especially the Senate, neocon desktop bombardier Max Boot takes to Commentary Magazine to explain to President Obama what the results really mean. The foreign-born Boot, who was...
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