The Charlie Hebdo terrorist assassinations struck France at a moment when it has an unpopular government and a weak President, when factories are closing and jobs are being lost, when French economic policy is determined by Germany via the European Union and its...
Month: January 2015
House Passes Resolution Using Paris Killings to Justify Global War on Terror
by Adam Dick | Jan 21, 2015 | Congress Alert
A handful of bipartisan members of the US House of Representatives, in a short Tuesday afternoon session preceding the State of the Union speech, passed by voice vote a resolution (H.Res. 37) using the killings in Paris on January 7-9 to justify war. In particular,...
Is The FBI Busting Terror Plots or Creating Terror Plots?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 20, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Last week's arrest of 20 year old Ohio resident Christopher Lee Cornell for allegedly plotting to shoot up the US Capitol was yet another in dozens of spectacular FBI takedowns of dangerous homegrown terrorists out to do us harm. Or was it? As has been the case at...
The Danger of an MH-17 ‘Cold Case’
by Robert Parry | Jan 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
Now more than six months after the shoot-down of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine, the refusal of the Obama administration to make public what intelligence evidence it has about who was responsible has created fertile ground for conspiracy theories to take root...
Ron Paul: The Real State of Liberty 2015
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 20, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Watch Ron Paul deliver his new speech on the state of liberty in the US. You can find the complete text of his speech here.
Why Should Charlie Hebdo Deaths Mean More Than Those in E.Ukraine?
by Nebojsa Malic | Jan 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Western public justly condemns the murders at Charlie Hebdo, but continues to behave as if Kiev's terror victims in Donetsk are “subhuman.” On January 7, masked terrorists massacred the staff of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in downtown Paris, killing ten. Two...
If the Fed Has Nothing to Hide, It Has Nothing to Fear
by Ron Paul | Jan 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
Since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, the dollar has lost over 97 percent of its purchasing power, the US economy has been subjected to a series of painful Federal Reserve-created recessions and depressions, and government has grown to dangerous levels...
Fed Asset Seizures Rollback Less Than Advertised
by Adam Dick | Jan 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
While headlines in Yahoo News and Raw Story blare, respectively, “U.S. attorney general bans asset seizure by local police” and “No more asset seizure: Eric Holder bans controversial ‘war on drugs’ tactic,” the truth is that United States Attorney General Eric Holder...
Free Speech, Paris, False Flag, US Training to Syrian Rebels – McAdams and Taylor’s Foreign Policy Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Jay Taylor to look back on the week in foreign affairs. The hypocrisy of the Paris "unity" march, the free speech crackdown in France, free speech in the US, the US decision to begin training Syrian rebels with US troops, Ukraine...
Will New US Training Program Produce More ISIS Fighters in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
US involvement in Iraq War 3.0 was initially sold as a limited, humanitarian rescue operation to save members of a religious minority the administration claimed were threatened by ISIS's long march through northern Iraq. Who could object to rescuing a poor religious...
The Open Society and its Worst Enemies
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week’s bloody events in Paris demonstrate yet again that a noninterventionist foreign policy, far from being a luxury, is an urgent necessity — literally a matter of life and death. A government that repeatedly wages wars of aggression — the most extreme form of...
‘Do You Believe it Was a False Flag?’ Ron Paul on Paul Craig Roberts’ Controversial Article
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
RPI Chairman Ron Paul was on NewsMax's "Midpoint" program today to discuss how blowback should be considered a big factor in the recent attacks in Paris. French and US foreign policy has been very aggressive in the Middle East and the idea that there are no...
America Is Open for Business in Iraq (Psst… Wanna Buy an M1 Tank?)
by Peter van Buren | Jan 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
The current American war in Iraq is a struggle in search of a goal. It began in August as a humanitarian intervention, morphed into a campaign to protect Americans in-country, became a plan to defend the Kurds, followed by a full-on crusade to defeat the new Islamic...
CIA on Trial in Virginia for Planting Nuke Evidence in Iran
by David Swanson | Jan 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Since Tuesday and continuing for the coming three weeks, an amazing trial is happening in U.S. District Court at 401 Courthouse Square in Alexandria, Va. The trial is open to the public, and among the upcoming witnesses is Condoleezza Rice, but -- unlike the Chelsea...
‘US Incapable of Backing Down on Russia Over Ukraine’
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
RPI Director Daniel McAdams was interviewed yesterday on the deteriorating situation in Ukraine. Following is the interview in its entirety: Making quick judgments over the situation in Ukraine, including the latest bus tragedy, suits Washington’s political goals as,...
From Neighborhood Cops to Robocops: The Changing Face of American Police
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means If 2014 was the year of militarized police, armored tanks, and stop-and-frisk searches, 2015 may well be the year of technologized police,...
Charlie Hebdo Shootings: False Flag?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Charlie Hebdo affair has many of the characteristics of a false flag operation. The attack on the cartoonists’ office was a disciplined professional attack of the kind associated with highly trained special forces; yet the suspects who were later corralled and...
Ron Paul: What is Really Behind Violent Police Confrontations in US Cities?
by Adam Dick | Jan 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul is a well-known opponent of the militarization and nationalization of local police in America. Yet, he cautions against looking at this development in isolation. On the Alex Jones Show on Tuesday, Paul discussed the economic policies of the US government and...
Civilian Bus Attacked in Ukraine, Washington Blames Rebels
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Tuesday a civilian bus was attacked in the breakaway region of eastern Ukraine. Some 12 people were killed in what was initially reported to be a grad missile attack but that looks much more like the work of some sort of small arms fire or anti-personnel mine....
After Free Speech Rally, France Cracks Down on Free Speech
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Well that didn't take long. Just three days after the French government hosted dozens of foreign leaders in a "unity rally" to defend free speech in the wake of last week's shooting at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, France has begun arresting its citizens for actually...
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