United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told Rachel Martin of National Public Radio, in a new interview released Sunday, that Russia behaved “completely wrongheaded” when it “came in and joined the [Syrian] civil war on the side of [Syrian President Bashar...
Month: February 2016
Reality Check: No Matter Who Wins the White House, the New Boss Will Be the Same as the Old Boss
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel...
First They Came For the iPhones…
by Ron Paul | Feb 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
The FBI tells us that its demand for a back door into the iPhone is all about fighting terrorism, and that it is essential to break in just this one time to find out more about the San Bernardino attack last December. But the truth is they had long sought a way to...
Migrant Crisis: The End Of The EU?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 29, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Greece is wracked by financial meltdown but is hosting tens of thousands of migrants who are blocked from their intended journey northward. Calais in France is home to makeshift refugee camps where thousands hope to travel to the UK. The EU social welfare system...
US Plotting Color Revolt in Russia?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The annual meeting of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which is the successor organization to the Soviet-era KGB is an important occasion to take the temperature in the ‘East-West’ relations. (The Cold War cliche is becoming useful once again.) President...
Guess Who’s Violating the Syria Ceasefire?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
...the Turks, of course. According to Qadri Jamil, one of the leaders of the opposition Syrian Popular Front for Change and Liberation, the temporary ceasefire in Syria is for the most part holding. But the main violator of the agreement thus far, he says, is the...
NATO Weakens As Old Alliances Break Down
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week, I suggested that since Turkey seems intent on starting a war with the Russians, NATO might be wise to dump Turkey, or face war with Russia over a part of the world that is not European. This suggestion came out of no special animosity for the Turkish state,...
Putting the Ron Paul Institute in Trump’s Kitchen Cabinet?
by Adam Dick | Feb 26, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Earlier this week came news that Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign had sought advice from Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity (RPI) Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson. Today, Robert Wenzel is recommending at Target Liberty that Donald Trump include...
The New Bipolar World Has Arrived
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The United States, the lone superpower, has presented two draft resolutions to the UN Security Council on the North Korea problem and Syrian conflict respectively (here and here) – based on the understanding it reached through two water-tight bilateral consultative...
The US Banking System as an Arm of US Foreign Policy
by Paul-Martin Foss | Feb 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Russian government is readying a new issuance of foreign bonds and has invited non-Russian banks to participate in the bond auction. US banks would like to participate in the auction but have been warned by the State Department that this would violate the spirit,...
The Media are Misleading the Public on Syria
by Stephen Kinzer | Feb 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Coverage of the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press. Reporting about carnage in the ancient city of Aleppo is the latest reason why. For three years, violent militants have run Aleppo. Their rule...
Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Campaign Reaches Out to RPI Advisor on Foreign Policy
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson, a member of the Ron Paul Institute’s Academic Board since the institute’s 2013 founding, has provided some advice to the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, according to an article by Michael Crowley in...
What’s Wrong With Regime Change? RPI’s Daniel McAdams on LibertyTalkRadio
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joined Joe Cristiano of LibertyTalkRadio for a wide-ranging (and free-wheeling) discussion about the perils of empire, the insanity of US foreign policy, what's up with Syria, why they hate us, and the anatomy of regime change. Don't miss...
HOT: FBI Director Backtracks, Admits Apple iPhone Litigation Will be Precedent!
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey seems to have quickly reversed course to admit the obvious — that the February 16 magistrate judge’s order for Apple to help the US government breach an iPhone’s security, including encryption, is as much...
The Incredible Shrinking Syrian ‘Ceasefire’
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 24, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Syria "cessation of hostilities" agreement seems all the stranger as huge unanswered questions regarding signatories, partners, monitoring, reporting, adjudication, and enforcement are raised. It seems more and more like something cobbled together without much...
Guantanamo Travesty: A Consequence Of Unconstitutional War
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 24, 2016 | The Liberty Report
President Obama has made his final effort to fulfill a campaign promise to close down the US detention facility at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, sending Congress a plan that would see a new facility constructed in the US to house those of the 91 remaining...
Killing by Sanctions
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
While Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who is currently advising presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, famously said that the estimated 500,000 children who died as a result of US sanctions on Iraq was “worth it.” It was, perhaps, a rare moment of candor from...
Did the FBI Intentionally Bumble the San Bernardino iPhone Investigation?
by Adam Dick | Feb 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over at We Meant Well, always-interesting writer Peter Van Buren provides a funny rundown of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s blunders he suggests prevented it from accessing information on an iPhone connected to the December 2 San Bernardino, California...
Will Syria Ceasefire Deal End War, or Lead to Nuclear Exchange?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
As co-chairs of the International Syria Support Group, the US and Russia announced yesterday an agreement on the "cessation of hostilities" in Syria that is scheduled to go into effect at midnight on February 27th. According to the agreement, the militaries of the...
Syria Ceasefire: More War Or Chance For Peace?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 23, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Washington's hawks are already trashing the Syria ceasefire deal that the US and Russia presented yesterday. The Russians will never honor their agreement, they argue. Nevertheless the agreement offers some slight hope that the five year war might be coming to a close...
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