The use of the US military overseas seems to have become so commonplace that the Obama Administration can bomb a country with no Congressional input and very little media interest at all. Such was the case on Friday, when the US military killed some 49 people in a...
Month: February 2016
CIA Sends Torture Report Down Memory Hole
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 22, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Why is the Justice Department trying to keep the Senate report on CIA torture under wraps? The same reason the CIA officer in charge of the torture program gave when he ordered the torture tapes destroyed: "the heat from destroying [the torture videos] is nothing...
The Age of Authoritarianism: Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It was in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. We were a democracy... But I knew it wasn't a dream; there was a...
The Apple Court Order and the Obama Administration’s Anti-Privacy Push
by Adam Dick | Feb 21, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the fall of 2015, American privacy supporters were relieved that draconian legislation requiring companies to create backdoors for the US government to overcome encryption of individuals’ private information did not make its way through Congress. In fact, the Obama...
Bush Haunts The GOP
by Eric Margolis | Feb 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The evil that men do lives after them,” wrote Shakespeare. A prime example, former US President George W. Bush who appeared last week campaigning in South Carolina for his amiable younger brother, Jeb. George W. continues to haunt the Republican Party and damage its...
Reading Ron Paul in Beijing
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
What a thrill it was for Dr. Paul to receive an email the other day from a young scholar and translator in Shanghai, China, to inform him that the Chinese language version of his very important book, Pillars of Prosperity, was now available on Amazon China! Imagine...
Showdown: Justice Department Escalates Against Apple
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US Justice Department escalated its standoff with Apple today, filing a motion to compel Apple to create software that would facilitate the Federal Government's breaking the encryption of an iPhone in the possession of one of the San Bernardino shooters. Apple has...
Aleppo Notebook: The City’s Terrorist Besiegers Will Now Be Besieged
by Peter Oborne | Feb 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
I had been trying to get to Aleppo for ages, but was unable to do so because rebel activity had cut off the city from the outside world. Syrian government military successes at the start of January meant there was at last a safe road. I hired a driver, was allocated a...
FBI vs. Apple: Is Liberty At Stake?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 18, 2016 | The Liberty Report
The FBI wants Apple to create software that will allow the Feds to break into the latest iPhones. Ironically, Apple upgraded its iPhone encryption as a result of the Snowden revelations about government spying on innocent Americans. The pretext for the government's...
Terror in Turkey: Is Erdogan Playing Washington?
by Finian Cunningham | Feb 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
A massive apparent terror attack in Turkey’s capital comes at a crucial time just when the Erdogan government is trying to woo Washington’s support for its military intervention in Syria. The Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday was hit with a deadly car bomb outside...
Obama’s ‘Moderate’ Syrian Deception
by Gareth Porter | Feb 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
Secretary of State John Kerry insisted at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that the agreement with Russia on a temporary halt in the war in Syria can only be carried out if Russia stops its airstrikes against what Kerry is now calling “legitimate opposition...
Ron Paul Explains Libertarianism
by Adam Dick | Feb 18, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Prominent libertarian communicator and former United States presidential candidate Ron Paul presented on Wednesday a short explanation of libertarianism in response to a question from host Anand Naidoo on the CCTV show The Heat. Asked by Naidoo “What is a...
NATO — America’s Misguided Instrument of Leadership
by Graham E. Fuller | Feb 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
On the world scene, America is a declining power. This decline is in part domestic and self-inflicted, reflecting a certain weariness and neglect of our social order. No amount of huffing and puffing from politicians will significantly change this decline. But the...
Judge Napolitano Applauds Apple’s Tim Cook for Defending the Constitution
by Adam Dick | Feb 17, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, in a new Fox Business interview with host Stuart Varney, said he applauds Apple CEO Tim Cook for “defending the Constitution” by resisting a United States magistrate judge’s order that Apple aid the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in...
Supreme Court – The Soft Tyranny Of Judicial Review
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 17, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Preservation of our civil liberties are very much tied up in the Constitutional separation of powers. We see daily in both the Legislative and Executive Branches the distortion and dysfunction of this important concept, where presidents legislate by Executive Order...
Federal Magistrate Orders Apple To Help FBI Hack Its Own Phones . . . Apple Refuses
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
Apple has decided to fight an unprecedented and highly controversial order by US Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym that the company has to assist the government in breaking into one of its encrypted phones. Apple says that it does not have the technology and does not want to...
Larry Summers: ‘It’s Time to Kill the $100 Bill’
by Robert Wenzel | Feb 16, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot university professor at Harvard, former US Treasury Secretary and former director of the National Economic Council, in a column at The Washington Post tiled, It’s time to kill the $100 bill, is calling for the banishment from...
Turkey Bombing Syria – The Start Of Something Big?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 16, 2016 | The Liberty Report
After four days of bombing US allies in Syria -- the Kurdish YPG militia -- the Turkish government is now requesting that the US begin a ground invasion of Syria. Saudi fighter jets have reportedly arrived in Turkey to take part in the invasion if the US agrees....
Cold War Redux: Dishing it to the Russkies
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the most astonishing news stories I have read of late appeared in Business Insider at the beginning of February entitled “'The Russians are going to have a cow’: the US’s message to Putin ‘is a really big deal.’” The article described how the Barack Obama...
Ron Paul Rewind: All US Supreme Court Justices are Good and Bad
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
With the death last week of United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, there is much discussion of whether Scalia was good or bad on the court and whether President Barack Obama and the next president will nominate good or bad people for the court. If you...
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