Please see below excerpts from a Global Gold interview with former Czech President and Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus. To read the entire interview, please click here. -ed.Liberty is a fundamental human right; it is the cornerstone of our existence. But liberty is under...
Month: February 2015
Judge Napolitano: NSA Is Doing What American Colonists Fought Britain to End
by Adam Dick | Feb 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano provides a brief and excellent introduction to the US government’s mass spying program in a new video monologue this week at Fox News. In less than a minute and a half, Napolitano explains that the mass spying program of the National Security...
Ron Paul: Is Government Regulation of Internet Helpful?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 28, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Ron Paul explains his opposition to the recent FCC vote to begin regulating the Internet as a public utility. Dr. Paul warns that government control will lead to a decrease in innovation, an increase in prices, and more surveillance of Americans' online activities....
State Department Gives 87 Percent of Afghan Funds to Only Five Recipients
by Peter van Buren | Feb 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a scathing report showing the Department of State gave a staggering 87 percent of all Afghan reconstruction funds to only five recipients. In fact, 69 percent of all taxpayer money spent went to...
Former NSA and CIA Boss Michael Hayden Calls Himself an ‘Unrelenting Libertarian’
by Adam Dick | Feb 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Michael Hayden, who served in turn as director of the National Security Agency (NSA), principal deputy director of National Intelligence, and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1999 through 2009, elicited laughs and a loud jeer of “No you’re not!”...
The Origins of ISIS
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams appears on Ben Swann's excellent documentary on the real origins of ISIS, everybody's favorite enemy. Don't miss the cameos by Barack Obama, John McCain, and Antiwar.Com's Angela Keaton. How many billions of dollars did the US Intelligence...
Stephen Hawking and the Meaning of Non-Aggression
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 27, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Ron Paul's latest Liberty Report takes a look at famed physicist Stephen Hawking's comments that aggression is the greatest human failing and that the solution is empathy, which "brings us together in a peaceful, loving state." Whether intentionally or not, Dr....
Internet, RIP?
by Ron Paul | Feb 26, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a non-elected federal government agency, voted three-to-two to reclassify broadband Internet as a common carrier service under Title II of the Communications Act. This means that – without the vote of Congress, the...
Domestic Fear is the Price of Empire
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
If you find no other argument against American intervention abroad persuasive, how about this one? When the US government invades and occupies other countries, or when it underwrites other governments’ invasions or oppression, the people in the victimized societies...
Sen. Cory Booker: Use War on Drugs Resources to Expand War on Guns
by Adam Dick | Feb 26, 2015 | Congress Alert
Be cautious, advocates for liberty who are cheering the apparent winding down of the United States government’s war on marijuana and that war’s replacement with a patchwork quilt of revised state and local laws more tolerant of marijuana growth, distribution, and use....
‘US Spends Millions on Overseas Propaganda, But No One is Buying it’
by RT | Feb 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
(RT interviews RPI's Daniel McAdams - watch it here.)Despite the US’ bottomless PR budget to influence overseas, people are not attracted by what’s on offer as they are tired of US interventionism, exceptionalism, and the bombing of their countries, Daniel McAdams of...
The Chris Kyle Verdict and The Mistreatment of Our Veterans
by Ron Paul | Feb 25, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If Eddie Ray Routh had never served in the military, I'm of the opinion that he would probably not have killed anybody. He would not be imprisoned for life and Chris Kyle would be alive today. Much of the blame should lie with our foreign policy of interventionism and...
NATO’s Russia Border Games
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 25, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When a Russian bomber flew over international waters some 25 miles off the southwest tip of England last week, UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon called Russia "a real and present danger." The UK government scrambled jet fighters to meet the Russian aircraft as a...
Janet Yellen On Capitol Hill – Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 25, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Fed Chairman Janet Yellen goes to Capitol Hill this week for her bi-annual report to Congress. At her first stop, in the Senate Banking Committee, she rejected any call for an audit of the Federal Reserve and claimed that Fed is doing a fine job of managing the...
US, UK, Kiev in Violation of Minsk Agreement?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Since the Minsk II Agreement went into effect earlier this month, there have been many claims and counter-claims that both the Kiev government and the separatists in east Ukraine have violated the terms of the agreement. Both sides accuse each other, and the Kiev side...
Ukraine: A Cuban Missile Crisis in Reverse
by William R. Polk | Feb 24, 2015 | Featured Articles
In a rather ghastly 19th century experiment, a biologist by the name of Heinzmann found that if he placed a frog in boiling water, the frog immediately leapt out but that if he placed the frog in tepid water and then gradually heated it, the frog stayed put until he...
Ukraine’s Very Suspicious Weapons ‘Purchase’
by Franklin C. Spinney | Feb 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Defense News, a defense industry trade publication, just released a report entitled, Ukraine Signs Defense Deal with UAE. It led with: ABU DHABI — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced a deal for unspecified military and technical cooperation with the UAE on...
Sen. McCain: ‘I’m Ashamed of America’
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 23, 2015 | Neocon Watch
John McCain, from his usual perch atop the Sunday morning political shows, was in a foul mood this week. While the German and French leaders continue to work for a political solution to the ongoing nightmare in Ukraine, McCain cannot believe that the US is not already...

Interventionism Kills: Post-Coup Ukraine One Year Later
by Ron Paul | Feb 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was one year ago last weekend that a violent coup overthrew the legally elected government of Ukraine. That coup was not only supported by US and EU governments -- much of it was actually planned by them. Looking back at the events that led to the overthrow it is...
The Washington Post’s Gross Mischaracterization of Ron Paul’s Message
by Adam Dick | Feb 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
Irrespective of the commonly held view that the Washington Post is the newspaper of record of America or at least of United States politics, David A. Fahrenthold’s January 25 Washington Post article purporting to report on Ron Paul’s participation the previous day at...
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