Anti-Russian hysteria in America reached its apogee this week as Democrats tried to divert attention from embarrassing revelations about how the Democratic Party apparatus had rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders by claiming Vlad Putin and his KGB had hacked...
Month: July 2016
Five Minutes Five Issues: Paul Conventions, Barney Frank, Sanders Supporters, Giuliani Plan, My Book
by Adam Dick | Jul 30, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Friday. 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 new episode here: Read a transcript of the new...
Gaddafi’s Ghosts: Return of the Libyan Jamahiriya
by Dan Glazebrook | Jul 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
When NATO murdered Gaddafi and blitzed his country in 2011, they hoped the socialist "Jamahiriya" movement he led would be dead and buried. Now his son has been released from prison to a hero’s welcome with his movement increasingly in the ascendancy. There were...
Hillary to Deliver Syria to Jihadists?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
According to Hillary Clinton's foreign policy advisor, Jeremy Bash, if Clinton is elected she will order a "re-set" of US policy toward Syria to emphasize the "murderous" nature of the Assad regime. As the Telegraph reports, Hillary Clinton will breathe new life into...
Who Hacked the DNC?
by Justin Raimondo | Jul 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
We haven’t seen this kind of hysteria since the darkest days of the cold war: a spy scare that is being utilized by one political party against another in a national election, with charges of disloyalty and even “treason” being hurled by one side against the other....
Strategic Shift? Putin to Receive Erdogan in Hometown
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
The developments in Turkey are taking a dramatic turn. All Indications are that the Turkish government is in possession of definite information that the attempted military coup was orchestrated by the United States. (Anadolu) The Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag made an...
The Secret Rules That Allow the FBI to Spy on Journalists
by Peter van Buren | Jul 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The bones of our democracy — the core elements that separate that way of life from others — lie in the First Amendment to the Constitution, specifically the rights to free speech and a free press. Without the ability to speak freely, and to have things about our...
The Disposable Veterans
by Karen De Coster | Jul 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The obituary says he “lost his battle with PTSD.” He lost his battle for freedom and a quality life once he signed up to be used as cannon fodder for the US Government. Quote: Ketchum had been struggling with PTSD and substance abuse after returning home from his...
Just Who Is The War Party?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 28, 2016 | The Liberty Report
As many neocons shift over to support Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, there are appearing a few bumps in the road. Last night at the convention, for example, former CIA director and defense secretary Leon Panetta found himself drowned out by...
Robert Wenzel’s Early Praise for A Tipping Point for Liberty
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 27, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Robert Wenzel is publisher of the enormously popular websites Target Liberty and Economic Policy Journal. Today he posted a terrific early review of RPI's new book release, A Tipping Point For Liberty, written by RPI's Adam Dick. We are grateful for Robert's reaction...
Trump: Siberian Candidate?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Has Vladimir Putin taken over the US electoral process? That has been the media mantra over the past 24 hours or so, since a Wikileaks data dump revealed a deeply flawed presidential selection in the Democratic Party. Rather than address how Democratic National...
Stop Drinking the Kool-Aid, America: Political Fiction in an Age of Televised Lies
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
“We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.”— A Face in the Crowd...
A Tipping Point for Liberty
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 26, 2016 | The Liberty Report
How many of us does it take to move the US in a direction toward a more peaceful foreign policy and the restoration of civil liberties at home? Not as many as people might think. But what is critical is that we educate ourselves and then do our best to help educate...
Dennis Kucinich: Bernie Sanders Should Consider Withdrawing His Hillary Clinton Endorsement
by Adam Dick | Jul 26, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who in 2004 and 2008 sought the Democratic presidential nomination, says that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) should consider withdrawing Sanders’ endorsement of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton given new...
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Potential Partners – Not Allies or Even Friends
by George Szamuely | Jul 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
Reporters and pundits covering the presidential campaign of Donald Trump have been torn between two conflicting narratives: The first is that Trump is a reckless amateur and, as president with his finger on the nuclear button, he would bring the world to the brink of...
Can Bombs Win War on ISIS?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 25, 2016 | The Liberty Report
The US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq has dropped its 50,000th bomb recently, yet the end of the two-year effort is nowhere in sight. Meanwhile civilians are being killed by the hundreds by US bombs on Syria. Is that not also a form of terrorism and is...
Clinton, Wasserman Schultz and the Wheezing Corpse of the Democratic Process Revealed
by Peter van Buren | Jul 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Wikileaks over the last few days dumped tens of thousands of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) server. The disclosures of dirty tricks directed against Bernie Sanders contained in those emails are startling, and only add to the whirlpool of...
Defeating Islamic Terrorism. Here’s How…
by Peter van Buren | Jul 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
As terrorism struck again in Nice and Germany and… Donald Trump outlined his policy against Islamic State: as president, he will seek a full declaration of war from Congress, the first such formal invocation since Pearl Harbor. Trump was short on specifics but very...
Boos and Jeers from Home State Delegation Greet Debbie Wasserman Schultz
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It was a rowdy scene at the Democratic National Convention this morning when Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) addressed her home state of Florida’s delegation to the convention. Wasserman Schultz over the weekend announced her resignation as chair of the...
New From RPI: A Tipping Point for Liberty
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul Institute Senior Fellow Adam Dick’s new book A Tipping Point for Liberty: Exposing and Defeating Leviathan Government was published this week. Dick’s new book frankly explores the battle between overbearing government, both at home and abroad, and...
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