When Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was an undergraduate at Harvard he took time out to become a “Publius Fellow” at the “Straussian” neocon Pentagon propaganda mill known as the Claremont Institute in Claremont, California. After graduating he returned to Claremont...
Month: November 2015
Victoria Nuland’s Capitol Hill Comedy of Errors
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 7, 2015 | Neocon Watch
Wednesday's hearing in the House Foreign Affairs Committee was a comedy of errors, starting with the loaded title: "US Policy After Russia’s Escalation in Syria." The hearing featured two Assistant Secretaries of State as witnesses, Victoria "cookies" Nuland, in...
Reinventing Guns and Butter Politics for the 21st Century
by Franklin C. Spinney | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Center of American Progress (CAP) is a prominent Democratic "think tank" in the Hall of Mirrors that is Versailles on the Potomac. The CAP brands itself by saying it is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." The...
TSA Trained Disney World in Goofy ‘Terrorist Detection’ Methods
by Peter van Buren | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The same ridiculed and useless techniques used by the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) to not find terrorists at America’s airports are now being used at Orlando theme parks, including Disney World, Seaworld and Busch Gardens, to not find terrorists. (click...
US Air Force Blames Lack Of October ISIS Strikes On ‘Poor Weather’
by Tyler Durden | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
On September 30, a Russian general walked into the US embassy in Baghdad and told US diplomats that Moscow would commence air operations in Syria in “one hour.” It would be best, he said, if the US stayed out of the way. The general was affiliated with the newly...
The Sham Syrian Peace Conference
by Gareth Porter | Nov 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
I have always been enthusiastic in my support for peace negotiations, which have been neglected all too often in internal and international conflicts. But it is clear that the international conference on Syria that held its first meeting in Vienna on October 30 is a...
‘Lawless’ Washington Committing Crimes Against Syria – and the US Constitution
by RT | Nov 6, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Damascus is opposed to having US troops on its soil, thus the US is committing aggression and international crimes against the nation of Syria, says Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute. RT: Assistant Secretary of State for Near-Eastern Affairs...
Participating in Class? School Cops Can Arrest You for That Too
by Adam Dick | Nov 6, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Some people came to the defense of school cop Ben Fieldes who last week yanked a student in a Spring Valley High School math class in South Carolina out of her seat and attached desk, hurled her across the classroom floor, and arrested her. They said Fields’ actions...
Who Downed Metrojet Flight 9268?
by Justin Raimondo | Nov 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
First they said the downing of Russian Metrojet Flight 9268 was most likely due to Russia’s “notorious” regional airlines, which supposedly are rickety and unreliable. The Egyptian government denied that terrorism is even a possibility, with Egyptian despot Abdel...
An Age of Innocence, in Retrospect
by Karen Kwiatkowski | Nov 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Ahmed Chalabi, age 71, has died of a heart attack in Baghdad. As a close observer of his unique role in provoking the Iraq War – a foreign policy and strategic military disaster 12 years ago – I can’t help but look back on that time as an age of innocence. That may...
35 House Members Ask Speaker Paul Ryan for ISIS War AUMF Vote
by Adam Dick | Nov 6, 2015 | Congress Alert
A group of 35 US House of Representatives members, led by Reps. Jim McGovern (D-MA), Tom Cole (R-OK), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Walter Jones (R-NC), Peter Welch (D-VT), and John Lewis (D-GA), sent a letter on Friday to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) expressing that it “is...
Gitmo Reflects Disdain For The Constitution
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein has an op-ed in today’s New York Times entitled “Let’s Finally Close Guantanamo,” in which she points out what critics of the Guantanamo facility have been saying for years: It is a very effective tool that overseas terrorist...
CIA, Saudis To Give ‘Select’ Syrian Militants Weapons Capable Of Downing Commercial Airliners
by Tyler Durden | Nov 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Wednesday brought a veritable smorgasbord of “new” information about the Russian passenger jet which fell out of the sky above the Sinai Peninsula last weekend. First there was an audio recording from ISIS’ Egyptian affiliate reiterating that they did indeed “down”...
Washington DC’s ‘Missing’ Memorial
by Abigail Hall | Nov 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Washington, DC is home to a host of memorials. Walk in any direction for long and you’re bound to run into at least one of them. By far, the memorial that generates the strongest reaction from me is the Vietnam memorial. The name of all the US casualties are chiseled...
Without Authority, Obama’s Syria War Illegal
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 5, 2015 | The Liberty Report
As the US State Department goes around the world lecturing other countries about how they must adhere to the rule of law, the White House again proves it is one of the most lawless entities on earth. The Constitution is clear; the War Powers Resolution is clear: the...
Middle East Not Going According To Empire Plan
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
How are things going in the Middle East? Has the Russian entrance into the Syria disaster changed the equation at all? And what really is a libertarian, non-interventionist foreign policy? RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St and...
Is Germany’s Migrant Crisis Leading To War?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 4, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East, Africa, even western Asia are pouring into western Europe through central Europe as Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has laid down a welcome mat. Meanwhile political pressure within Germany builds, as villages...
Ron Paul: New House Speaker Paul Ryan is ‘Almost the Opposite of a Libertarian’
by Adam Dick | Nov 4, 2015 | Congress Alert
Speaking this week with host Kennedy on Fox Business, Ron Paul Institute Chairman Ron Paul ridiculed the suggestion that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who became Speaker of the House of Representatives last week, may advance libertarian goals in the House. Instead, Paul...
Ron Paul Classic: No War in Syria
by Norman Singleton | Nov 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Since our Nobel Peace Prize winning President is sending "a few" special operations forces to Syria, it seems like a great time to revisit one of Ron Paul's columns from 2013. In it, Dr. Paul asked if war with Syria was justified even if President Obama sought and...
The Rise Of America’s Secret Government
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 3, 2015 | The Liberty Report
With creation of the Central Intelligence Agency came a secret government that was unaccountable to the American people. It assassinated foreign leaders, journalists, and others who it determined were enemies. It overthrew governments it felt were not toeing the US...
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