The Wall Street Journal is reporting that tomorrow (Monday) President Obama will announce that he is quintupling the number of US troops inside Syria. From the current 50 troops the US admits are operating in Syria, the US will raise the total to 300 under the guise...
Month: April 2016
Five Minutes Five Issues: War Escalation, Canada Marijuana, FBI Hack, EU Regime, Senate Snoopers
by Adam Dick | Apr 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted today. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud. Listen to the show here: Read a transcript of the show, including...
Defending Democracy to the Last Drop of Oil
by Eric Margolis | Apr 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Poor President Barack Obama flew to Saudi Arabia this past week but its ruler, King Salman, was too busy to greet him at Riyadh’s airport. This snub was seen across the Arab world as a huge insult and violation of traditional desert hospitality. Obama should have...
White House ‘Concerned’ as Russia Moves Equipment to North Syria
by Jason Ditz | Apr 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
White House officials are complaining of being “concerned” by recent media reports of Russia shifting its artillery further north in Syria, with suggestions they were moving to back the Syrian military in renewed offensives against al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front.Even though...
‘How the War Party Works’: RPI’s Daniel McAdams on Mises Weekends
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Washington, D.C. is a foreign policy bubble, where big money rules and coloring outside the interventionist lines is forbidden. Does the rest of the country buy into the idea that we must run the world? RPI Director Daniel McAdams speaks with his former colleague in...
US-Saudi Relations: Yesteryear Days are Gone Forever
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday has boomeranged. His good intentions were never in doubt – mend fences between the two countries. But what emerges is that it will need much more than one visit – maybe, even one full presidency cannot...
Ron Paul Rewind: ‘You’re Painting an Overly Optimistic Picture of Afghanistan Success’ (2004)
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
It was yet another in a periodic series of House International Relations Committee hearings where the "experts" were trotted out to tell us how incredibly well the US intervention in Afghanistan was going and that if only Congress would keep the money train at full...
Neocons Panting for President ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2016 | Neocon Watch
The neocons have been in a panic this election season. One by one, their preferred choice for the Republican presidential nomination has been soundly rejected by the uncooperative American voting public. Sen. Lindsey Graham made a run for the nomination saying, "If...
Congressman Says His Local Politicians Would be in Jail if They Did What US House Members Do
by Adam Dick | Apr 21, 2016 | Congress Alert
Last week Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) demanded on the House floor a roll-call vote on a billion-dollar foreign aid bill. Only due to this action are people able to see how House members voted on the legislation. Otherwise, the bill would have been passed by a voice vote...
US Assaults British Sovereignty
by Paul Craig Roberts | Apr 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Washington elite believe that the British people should serve Washington’s interest and not their own. To this end, President Obama has been sent to London to emphasize that the UK must remain in the EU. Does this make you wonder why it is important to Washington...
US Protects Saudis From Terror Suits, Yet Backs Suits Against Iran
by Jason Ditz | Apr 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Intense debate and international diplomatic blackmail has dominated the discussion of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, a bipartisan bill which would open up civil lawsuits against any foreign nations if they are found to be involved in the funding of a...
Saudis To Kerry: We Created ISIS…And CIA Knew
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
It was US intervention in the Middle East, say the Saudis, that led us to create first al-Qaeda and then ISIS. The US attack on Iraq tipped the balance in the region in favor of Iran and counter-measures needed to be taken. This is nothing new. The CIA helped create...
Nation-Building: Global Hegemony Without Local Knowledge
by Dan Sanchez | Apr 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
In 1974, when Friedrich Hayek won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he used his acceptance speech to deliver a warning to the world. Do not again fall for “the pretense of knowledge,” he counseled. Hayek was singling out economic policymakers who presume to possess the...
Sue Saudis for 9/11…and the US For All its Wars
by David Swanson | Apr 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry say that allowing family members of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its complicity in that crime would set a terrible precedent that would open the United States up to lawsuits from abroad. Wonderful! Let...
Collateral Damage – Obama OKs More Civilian Drone Deaths
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Civilians will continue to pay a heavy price in the ongoing US war on at least seven other countries. According to a recent article, the Pentagon has issued new rules permitting a strike on a target even if up to ten innocent civilians may also get killed....
Washington’s War Against the World
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Secretary of War Ash Carter is concerned about America’s posture. No, it’s not about sitting with your back straight up and your knees placed primly together. It all has to do with how many enemies there are out there threatening the United States and what we have to...
Ron Paul on the Military-Industrial Complex’s Role in US Militarism from Latin America to Europe
by Adam Dick | Apr 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking last week with host Scott Horton on the Scott Horton Show, three-time presidential candidate and former Republican member of the US House of Representatives Ron Paul discussed the military-industrial complex’s role in US militarism across the world, including...
Why Don’t the Candidates Talk About Afghanistan?
by Peter van Buren | Apr 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Heading into its sixteenth year, with no endpoint in sight, America’s longest war is its least talked about. Afghanistan has not come up in any Republican or Democratic debate, except perhaps as one of a list of countries where Islamic State must be destroyed (left...
Guess Why Sen. Lindsey Graham is Blocking The 9/11 Bill
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 19, 2016 | Neocon Watch
The day began with a Zero Hedge piece reporting that President Obama would veto the bill currently in the Senate to hold the Saudi government legally responsible if proven it had a hand in planning and/or supporting the attacks of 9/11. According to the...
Enemies Everywhere – The US War On The World
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
The USS Donald Cook, equipped with the Aegis combat system, recently found the Russian air force unwelcoming as the US conducted military maneuvers just 50 miles from Russian soil. The Russian flyover was greeted in Washington with howls of "aggression!" But why was a...
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