US military vehicles in military exercises near Russia's border this week.Just weeks after a European-brokered ceasefire greatly reduced the violence in Ukraine, the US House of Representatives today takes a big step toward re-igniting -- and expanding -- the bloody...
Month: March 2015
A Family Business of Perpetual War
by Robert Parry | Mar 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
Neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, run a remarkable family business: she has sparked a hot war in Ukraine and helped launch Cold War II with Russia – and he steps in to demand that Congress jack up military...

After a Twelve Year Mistake in Iraq, We Must Just March Home
by Ron Paul | Mar 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
Twelve years ago last week, the US launched its invasion of Iraq, an act the late General William Odom predicted would turn out to be “the greatest strategic disaster in US history.” Before the attack I was accused of exaggerating the potential costs of the war when I...
Cold War II: This Time, The Commies Are In Washington
by William Norman Grigg | Mar 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Regime in Washington is the only government asserting the supposed right to carry out summary executions anywhere on the face of the globe, so we shouldn’t be surprised to learn that it also claims the right to impose “sanctions” on foreign citizens who publicly...
Twelve Years After Start of Iraq War, Neocons Still on Top
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 20, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Obama blames the rise of ISIS and al-Qaeda in Iraq on US military action against Iraq in 2003. So what is his solution? More military action against Iraq! And what if ISIS continues to capture hundreds of millions of dollars of US military equipment to use against the...
‘Ukraine New Spy Law Designed as Provocation, Opens Whole Can of Worms’
by RT | Mar 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
Below is an interview with RPI Director Daniel McAdams conducted by RT.If Ukrainian draft law on intelligence comes into force, we might start seeing assassinations, bomb blasts, and psychological attacks in the Donbass region, says Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul...
RPI’s McAdams on Ukraine’s New Special Operations Law
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 19, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What are the implications of a new law passed by Ukraine's parliament making it legal for Kiev to undertake special operations in the breakaway east? Will this open the door for assassinations and other covert operations against the secession-minded Lugansk and...
Why Do American Weapons End Up in Our Enemies’ Hands?
by Ron Paul | Mar 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
It happens so often you wonder whether it is due to total ineptness or a deliberate policy to undermine our efforts overseas. It’s most likely a result of corruption and unintended consequences, combined with a foreign policy that makes it impossible to determine who...
‘Shock and Awe’ Twelve Years On: Flashback to My Iraq War Opposition
by Ron Paul | Mar 19, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Twelve years ago today, the US government unleashed "shock and awe" on Iraq. We were assured the invasion would be a cakewalk, wouldn't cost much if anything at all, and that democracy would break out all over the Middle East after Iraq's "liberation." We all know how...
Rep. Walter Jones: No More Dollars for Afghanistan
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
US Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), an RPI Board Member, took to the House Floor yesterday to criticize the new Republican budget for its increased spending in Afghanistan. Spending on that "graveyard of empires," said Walter Jones, is an "absolute waste of taxpayers'...
White House Email Archiving Office Exempts Self from FOIA Disclosures
by Peter van Buren | Mar 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
Hot on the high heels of the Clinton email atrocity, where one individual determined for her own campaign and indeed for all of history which parts of her work as a taxpayer-paid government official would be forever sent down the Memory Hole, the White House announced...
Republican ‘Balanced’ Budget Boosts Military Spending
by Ron Paul | Mar 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Republican House Budget Committee just released its plan for how to balance the budget. One little catch is that the proposal talks only of the possibility of this happening in 10 years. The Democrats, they complain, don’t even try to balance the budget. Well, at...
The Wolf Is Guarding the Hen House: The Government’s War on Cyberterrorism
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The game is rigged, the network is bugged, the government talks double-speak, the courts are complicit and there’s nothing you can do about it.”—David Kravets, reporting for Wired Nothing you write, say, text, tweet or share via phone or computer is private anymore....
Sen. Cotton’s Fabric of War
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 17, 2015 | Neocon Watch
Sen. Tom Cotton and Bill KristolFreshman Senator Tom Cotton arrived in the Senate with a real bang. First he authored an unprecedented letter to the leaders of Iran trying to convince them (but really the American public) that the US government is an unreliable...
So…Assad Can Stay?
by Ron Paul | Mar 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In Washington DC, consistency is considered a vice, never a virtue. It is for this reason that many in Washington, especially the neoconservatives, consider their foreign policy one of virtue. You would think that our political leaders, both in the Republican and...
US Intel Stands Pat on MH-17 Shoot-down
by Robert Parry | Mar 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Despite the high stakes involved in the confrontation between nuclear-armed Russia and the United States over Ukraine, the US intelligence community has not updated its assessment on a critical turning point of the crisis – the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines...
NATO on Russia’s Borders, Sen. Cotton Letter, Ron Paul’s Coming Book, and More – McAdams and Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Why is NATO conducting military operations on Russia's border in Latvia? Should US ally itself with ISIS? Senator Cotton is an ill-informed warmonger. Is Venezuela the greatest threat to the United States? RPI's Daniel McAdams and Jay Taylor tackle the foreign policy...
CNN is Beating the Drums of War
by Paul Craig Roberts | Mar 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
President George W. Bush’s national security advisor, Condi Rice, warned Americans that Saddam Hussein’s (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction could result in a mushroom cloud going up over an American city. No such threat existed. But today a very real threat...

Iran Fighting ISIS – Is it Really a Problem?
by Ron Paul | Mar 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
As Iran continues to take an active role in helping Iraq fight ISIS, many US neocons are upset that the US military is not over there on the ground doing the fighting. They want Americans to believe that only another US invasion of Iraq – and of Syria as well – can...
Ron Paul on the ‘Green Light for American Empire’
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 14, 2015 | The Liberty Report
RPI Chairman discusses his new essay on United States' 25 year war in the Middle East, starting with the green light US Ambassador April Glaspie gave Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait, then the first US attack on Iraq in 1990, and up to today with the war in ISIS in...
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