The Paris "unity rally" to stand up for free speech in the face of last week's magazine shooting in Paris was an exercise in hypocrisy by the western political leaders who rushed in for the photo-op, RPI Director Daniel McAdams told Sputnik News today. France,...
Month: January 2015
Lessons from Paris
by Ron Paul | Jan 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
After the tragic shooting at a provocative magazine in Paris last week, I pointed out that given the foreign policy positions of France we must consider blowback as a factor. Those who do not understand blowback made the ridiculous claim that I was excusing the attack...
House Majority Leader: Charlie Hebdo Killings Justify US Intervention Worldwide
by Adam Dick | Jan 13, 2015 | Congress Alert
If the statement issued Wednesday by US House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is an indication of how the US House and Senate — both now under Republican leadership — will respond legislatively to the killings in Paris last week, expect expanded authorization...
Paris Attack, Blowback, is Ron Paul Right? – McAdams and Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 10, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman Ron Paul was criticized for daring to mention "blowback" in relation to the recent attack on a provocative French magazine. The usual neocon outlets made their usual superficial accusations that Dr. Paul was somehow justifying the attack. But is it...
The Police Threat Is Too High
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
The hypocrisy of American police is beginning to bother even law and order conservatives. The New York Police Department is rivaling the black community in Ferguson in keeping alive the murders of their community members. We are constantly reminded of how dangerous it...
EU-Backed Libyan Government Bombs EU Citizens But No New No Fly Zone in Sight
by Mark Almond | Jan 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
Responsibility for the killing of at least two EU citizens in an air raid on the port of Derna on 5th January has been admitted by the EU-backed Libyan government based in the eastern Libyan port of Tobruk.[1] The bombing is the latest sign that violence in Libya is...
Inner City Turmoil and Other Crises: My Predictions for 2015
by Ron Paul | Jan 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize and resist this development, freedom and prosperity for all Americans will continue to deteriorate. All liberties in...
Paris Slayings: What Do You Say When You Have Nothing to Say?
by Diana Johnstone | Jan 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
That is the dilemma suddenly thrust on political leaders and editorialists in France since three masked gunmen entered the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and massacred a dozen people. The assassins got away. But not for long. The men were well-armed...
Michael Scheuer: The Paris Killings Are Blowback
by Adam Dick | Jan 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Micheal Scheuer, whose twenty-plus years working at the Central Intelligence Agency included several years in charge of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit, describes the killings at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris this week as blowback. Scheuer, a Ron Paul Institute...
Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
“There will come a time when it isn't ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way...
Ron Paul: Paris Attack ‘Obscene,’ But Blowback for French Interventionism
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
RPI Chairman Ron Paul was on NewsMax today to discuss the attack on a Paris-based satirical magazine that left 12 people dead. The attackers are said to be radical Islamists who objected to the magazine's vulgar depictions of their faith and of Muhammad, Islam's...
What Didn’t Happen in 2014: The Paranoia Year in Review
by Peter van Buren | Jan 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
So how’s 2015 so far? Outside playing on your hoverboard while Dad brings in the family helicopter? Mom inside serving up a hearty meal, all in pill form? Planning a trip to the Lunar Grand Hyatt? Enjoying a life free from all disease, war and hunger, courtesy of the...
Speaker Vote Highlights US House’s Unchecked Procedural Corruption
by Adam Dick | Jan 6, 2015 | Congress Alert
It seems unlikely that the current members of the United States House of Representatives will effectively rise up against their Democrat and Republican leaders to require that the House be run in a fair and honest manner. Yet, the potential of more Republican members...
Blowback on the Saudi Border – Senior General Killed
by Mark Almond | Jan 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Anyone reading the New York Times report of a minor skirmish on the Saudi-Iraqi border on 5th January, 2015, would probably have shrugged and moved on. What with ISIS controlling roughly one third of Iraq and Syria and Shiite Houthi rebels overrunning about 70% of...
Total National Security Spending Is Much Greater than the Pentagon’s Base Budget
by Robert Higgs | Jan 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
click to enlargeIn a recent publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, “Defense Spending Extends Beyond the Pentagon’s Budget,” Veronique de Rugy presents a valuable compilation of data for fiscal year 2013, showing how much of the government’s...
How Many Current US Wars? Let’s Ask Obama…
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Non-interventionists and antiwar activists are often accused of exaggerating the extent of US military actions overseas to make our point about the costs of empire. We are said to over-estimate US troop deployments and level of military activity overseas. We reject...
Ten New Year’s Resolutions for Congress
by Ron Paul | Jan 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
Since New Year’s is traditionally a time for resolutions, and since the new Congress convenes this week, I thought I would suggest some New Year’s resolutions for Congress: 1) Bring the troops home — Congress should take the first, and most important, step toward...
The Evil of Sanctions
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Jan 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Free trade is essential to prosperity, peace, and civilization. But free trade does not mean State-managed trade of the Nafta sort. It means businesses and individuals able to deal across international borders as easily as across town borders. Many things hamper free...
North Korea Sanctions? Afghan Victory? McAdams and Jay Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Director cannot understand new Obama sanctions on North Korea as the US case against North Korea involvement in recent hack of Sony falls apart. North Korea hacks Sony to block a film featuring assassination of North Korea leader? What about the...
Oliver Stone: CIA Fingerprints All Over Ukraine Coup
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Famed Hollywood director Oliver Stone created a media storm this week with his statements about the February coup that ousted democratically elected Ukrainian leader Victor Yanukovych. Stone has concluded that the mysterious sniper fire that killed dozens and...
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