Two summers ago Judge Andrew Napolitano joined the faculty of Mises University, the Mises Institute’s summer program for students. He was interested in teaching a nine-session special seminar to a select group of attendees. Students didn’t know what the format would...
Month: December 2014
The Long Arm of US Law
by Paul-Martin Foss | Dec 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
In a perfect illustration of just how ridiculous the US government’s tax policies are, Mayor of London Boris Johnson is being pursued by the IRS for capital gains taxes he owes for selling his residence in London. Apparently Mr. Johnson was born in New York and,...
House Russia Bill, New SecDef, Hungary Regime Change: Foreign Policy Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams joins Jay Taylor again to look back over the top foreign policy stories of the past week. Why is Ukraine naming a former State Department employee to head its finance ministry? Is Ukraine the 51st state? What about Congress flexing its muscles at...
House Chooses New Cold War With Russia
by Ron Paul | Dec 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week the US House voted overwhelmingly in favor of an anti-Russia resolution so full of war propaganda that it rivals the rhetoric from the chilliest era of the Cold War. Ironically, much of the bill condemns Russia for doing exactly what the US government has...
Ukraine’s Made-in-USA Finance Minister
by Robert Parry | Dec 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ukraine’s new Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, a former US State Department officer who was granted Ukrainian citizenship only this week, headed a US government-funded investment project for Ukraine that involved substantial insider dealings, including $1...
Ron Paul: Anti-Russia Bill Passed by Congress ‘Part of the War Propaganda Machine’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
Republicans and Democrats have the same foreign policy. One may be a little more aggressive than the other, but they all support intervention. So said RPI chairman Ron Paul when asked today how so many from both parties could support the recent bill passed in the US...
The Anatomy of Regime Change
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What do all regime change operations have in common? RPI Board Member John Laughland explains to the "World Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations" conference last month that all such interventions essentially include the criminal prosecution of the vanquished...
State Spokesperson: ‘Our Line is Ridiculous…’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 5, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Every time State Department spokespersons proclaim the Department position on critical trouble spots like Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Russia, we have the feeling they are shoveling a line of bovine excrement and well know it. And know we know it. And don't care.Jen Psaki...
Reckless Congress ‘Declares War’ on Russia
by Ron Paul | Dec 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Today the US House passed what I consider to be one of the worst pieces of legislation ever. H. Res. 758 was billed as a resolution “strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression...
US Army Sends 100 Tanks To Eastern Europe To ‘Deter Russian Aggression’
by Tyler Durden | Dec 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
The ink on Barack Obama's Chuck Hagel termination letter hasn't dried yet but already the US president's new, and seemingly far more hawkish advisors, are having their warmongering presence felt. Case in point: the Eastern European theater of (Cold) war, where...
Just Like the Stasi…
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
Don’t you just love those Americans who celebrate how free they are under America’s national-security state system? I wonder if such Americans also celebrated how free people were who lived under East Germany’s national-security state system. I just read an...
What Would SecDef Ashton Carter Mean for the Military?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We know from RPI Chairman Ron Paul that President Obama's choice to be the next Defense Secretary, Ashton Carter, will mean no big changes in current US foreign and military policy. International correspondent Pepe Escobar informs us that Carter is: ...the typical...
ISIS: Another Chapter in the Forever War
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US politicians and officials keep upping the number of years the US will be at war in Iraq, with Sen. John McCain claiming we must remain for 100 years! In the latest podcast with Ron Paul and Charles Goyette, Dr. Paul shares his concerns that a new and "wildly...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Want to Help Injured Veterans? Stop Interminable War
by Adam Dick | Dec 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, interviewed Tuesday by Jessica Desvarieux on the Real News Network, explains that stopping the United States’ “interminable war” is one important way to help “millions of Americans, who were sent off to do their nation's business and who are...
Ron Paul on the Next US Defense Secretary
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
As the US media reported that President Obama was expected to nominate Ashton Carter to be the next Secretary of Defense, RPI Chairman Ron Paul was not optimistic. There is no reason to believe that Carter, a long-time Pentagon employee and former deputy secretary,...
Fear is a Political Instrument, but Knowledge is Power
by Connor Boyack | Dec 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
Your doorbell rings in the dark of night, so you quietly approach the peephole to size up your visitor. The porch light doesn’t illuminate the person well enough to see him clearly, but he’s definitely wearing a mask. You move your eyes lower to get a better look at...
No to War, Hot or Cold, With Russia
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Dec 2, 2014 | Featured Articles
US-Russia relations have deteriorated severely in the past decade and they are about to get worse, if the House passes H. Res. 758. NATO encirclement, the US-backed coup in Ukraine, an attempt to use an agreement with the European Union to bring NATO into Ukraine at...
MH17: Barring Malaysia From Investigation Reeks of Cover-up
by Ulson Gunnar | Dec 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
It was a Malaysian jet, carrying Malaysian passengers, flown by Malaysian pilots, yet after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in July 2014, Malaysia has been systematically blocked from participating in the investigation, leaving an...
Why Not Pardon Drug War Victims in Addition to Turkeys?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
Prior to Thanksgiving, President Obama continued the presidential tradition of pardoning two turkeys. Too bad he didn’t use the occasion to also pardon every single victim of the US government’s decades-long failed and destructive war on drugs. I’m referring, of...
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