If the neoconservatives have their way again, US ground troops will reoccupy Iraq, the US military will take out Syria’s secular government (likely helping Al Qaeda and the Islamic State take over), and the US Congress will not only kill the Iran nuclear deal but...
Month: July 2015
US War on Your Passport Continues
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 23, 2015 | Congress Alert
Just the other day we wrote about a US House "suspension" bill that would give the Secretary of State the authority to cancel your passport if he decided that you had "aided" an organization that he rules is terrorist. There is no definition of what "aided" means, no...
Obama Should Release MH-17 Intel
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Jul 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Releasing an Intelligence Report on Shoot-Down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 It has been a year since the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine,...
The American Nightmare: The Tyranny of the Criminal Justice System
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
How can the life of such a man Be in the palm of some fool’s hand? To see him obviously framed Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land Where justice is a game.—Bob Dylan, “Hurricane” Justice in America is not all it’s cracked up to be. Just ask...
The Deadly Fallacy of Good Intentions
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 21, 2015 | The Liberty Report
From "humanitarian" interventions to regulating what we put in our bodies, the "good intentions" of governments often produce the most horrific results. Today's Liberty Report looks at the worst of tyrannies -- those constructed for your own good:
Today Congress Votes to Take Your Passport
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 21, 2015 | Congress Alert
Revolutions most often become horrific parodies as they inevitably turn inward on their own people. The former subjects of Louis XVI soon understood liberté, égalité, fraternité to in fact mean the guillotine. In the name of fighting one's enemies, the regime takes to...
US Military Seeks Reasons To Prolong Afghanistan Occupation
by Moon of Alabama | Jul 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
When the US attacked Afghanistan the purpose was to remove the Taliban government which had given guest status to the al-Qaeda leadership. Only a few weeks later, that job was done. The alleged purpose of the occupation of Afghanistan then changed into hunting down...
On Social Security? Obama Wants Your Gun!
by Adam Dick | Jul 20, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a move that Alan Zarembo of the Los Angeles Times reports could result in the US government barring millions of Americans from owning guns, President Barack Obama’s administration has been quietly planning to have the Social Security Administration report the...
NSA Spies on Enemies…And Friends!
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 20, 2015 | The Liberty Report
What are the long-term consequences of recent revelations that the NSA has for decades spied on the top leaders of the closest US allies? While neither German Chancellor Merkel nor French President Hollande have been particularly outwardly annoyed at the revelations,...
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Iran Agreement Boosts Peace, Defeats Neocons
by Ron Paul | Jul 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week’s successfully concluded Iran agreement is one of the two most important achievements of an otherwise pretty dismal Obama presidency. Along with the ongoing process of normalizing relations with Cuba, this move shows that diplomacy can produce peaceful,...
‘This Flag Never Goes Down’: Amazon Reportedly Takes Down Historical Book On Confederate Flag Due To Confederate Flag On Cover
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 20, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The extensive move to remove the Confederate Flag from public and some commercial settings has raised serious concerns over both free speech and academic freedom. While the flag has been used as a racist symbol, it is also a historical symbol. According to one author,...
Praise for Swords into Plowshares from Charles Goyette
by Adam Dick | Jul 20, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Bestselling author Charles Goyette, who hosted with Ron Paul a series of fascinating podcasts regarding current events, is praising Paul’s new book Swords into Plowshares: A life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity. Writes Goyette: I received a review copy...
Ron Paul at His Best
by Daniel R. Coats | Jul 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
This is the best book by Ron Paul that I have had the joy to read. It is an intimate look into the private thought life of Ron Paul as he grew up and lived in an age under the constant threat of war. He talks about his experiences growing up during World War II, how...
AIPAC Employees Told to Ax Summer Vacation Plans and Gear Up to Fight Iran Deal
by Robert Wenzel | Jul 19, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Cancel your summer vacations. That was the order AIPAC’s executive director, Howard Kohr, gave his employees in a staff meeting convened this week at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee after the United States announced the Iran nuclear deal, reports the...
Bill Kristol on Iran Deal: ‘Its Munich!’
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 18, 2015 | Neocon Watch
Bill Kristol is the epitome of the neocon mindset: cultivating a staid and urbane image while writing the most unhinged and mendacious claptrap. In his utterly predictable denunciation of the successful Iran nuclear talks, Kristol frames the issue in the crudest...
Praise To Barack Obama For Stiffing The War Party — Peace Is Finally Being Given A Chance
by David Stockman | Jul 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
I have rarely found anything President Obama has done to be praiseworthy, and believe his domestic policies of Keynesian borrow and spend and incessant statist intervention in capitalist enterprise to be especially deplorable. But finally he has stood up to the War...
Central Banking and War: Ron Paul’s ‘Swords Into Plowshares’ reviewed
by Paul-Martin Foss | Jul 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
It’s July 17th, which means that Ron Paul’s new book “Swords Into Plowshares” is finally available. And what a book it is. Only the hardest of hearts and most closed of minds could read Dr. Paul’s new book and fail to be convinced of the futility of war. But what...
Swords into Plowshares: Ron Paul Talks New Book to Alan Colmes
by RPI Staff | Jul 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Alan Colmes makes the great point that Ron Paul's timing is spectacular for his new book Swords into Plowshares, as the forces of peace seem to have triumphed in the deal with Iran. It is "beautifully written" says Colmes, who brings up Paul's point that sometimes...
Obama to Bibi: Want Some (More) Money?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul has always said that US foreign policy is incredibly simple: do what we say and we will send you money; disobey and we will bomb you. While there is (fortunately) little threat of the US dropping bombs on Israel over that country's hysterical opposition to...
In His Own Words: Ron Paul On His New Book, Swords into Plowshares
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 17, 2015 | The Liberty Report
On today's Liberty Report, Ron Paul sits down with co-host (and RPI Director) Daniel McAdams to explain his new book, Swords into Plowshares. Why did he write such personal book about war? What were his early memories of World War II? His grandmother's great words of...
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