One of my favorite literary expressions is the term "Parthian shaft." It refers to the favored tactic of the Parthians, a Persian people, of turning while on horseback and firing arrows while retreating.The Roman consul Crassus, who defeated Spartacus, may have died...
Month: December 2016
Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking US Electric Grid
by Glenn Greenwald | Dec 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post on Friday reported a genuinely alarming event: Russian hackers have penetrated the US power system through an electrical grid in Vermont. The Post headline conveyed the seriousness of the threat: Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Punishing Russia, Israel Brouhaha, Marijuana Delay, Troops Suicides, Torture Report
by Adam Dick | Dec 31, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. 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 episode,...
New Russia Sanctions ‘Underscore Vindictiveness & Pettiness’ of Obama Administration
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 30, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
How should the Russian president respond to President Obama's announcement yesterday of new US sanctions, the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, and the closing of two Russian government owned facilities in the US? He should ignore it, RPI Director Daniel McAdams...
Symbolic Failure Point: Female Afghan Pilot Wants Asylum In The US
by Peter van Buren | Dec 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
History loves little markers, tidy packages of symbolism that wrap up a big, complex thing.You know, the helicopter on the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon standing in for years of failed war, the Berlin Wall being knocked down to visually note the end the Cold...
2017 – Ron Paul’s New Year Predictions
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 30, 2016 | The Liberty Report
What should we expect for the New Year, 2017? In today's year-end Liberty Report, Ron Paul looks into his crystal ball and serves up a few predictions:
Obama Under ‘Intense Pressure’ To Release Evidence Proving Russians Hacked The Election
by Tyler Durden | Dec 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
As noted previously, at some point today the White House is set to unveil new sanction, and other retaliatory "measures" against Russia and specifically the Kremlin, in retaliation for what according to a constantly repetitive narrative has been Russian hacking of the...
Ask Ron Paul – Tariffs, Populism, Disinfo, And More…
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What does Ron Paul think about the recently-signed "Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act" recently signed into law by President Obama as part of the National Defense Authorization Act? In this episode of "Ask Ron Paul" we learn his reaction to this chilling...
Does the Cause of Peace Have a Future?
by Ron Paul | Dec 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul delivers keynote at his 'Peace and Prosperity 2016' conference this yearThe full wrath of the Beltway neocons is about to hit my Institute for Peace and Prosperity. Congress snuck language into this year's Defense Authorization Bill that enables President...
Trump’s Pentagon Budget Time Bomb
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 28, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Legendary Pentagon analyst and whistleblower Chuck Spinney joins today's Liberty Report to explain the budget nightmares a President Trump will face at the Pentagon. Why do these weapons systems cost so much and perform so badly? Chuck knows...and tells.
2016: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
“What’s past is prologue.” ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest What a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year this has been. Endless wars. Toxic politics. Violence. Hunger. Police shootings. Mass shootings. Economic downturns. Political circuses. Senseless...
Syria – Peace Talk Rumors And Parameters
by Moon of Alabama | Dec 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
Since February 2016 Russia had negotiated with the US about a peace deal on Syria. The main agreed upon point was to fight together against the Takfiris, mainly ISIS and al-Qaeda. The US in turn promised to separate the "moderate rebels" it supported from their close...
Why Did ‘Faithless Elector’ Bill Greene Vote For Ron Paul?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 27, 2016 | The Liberty Report
It was a delightful anomaly in a very strange electoral year: while the world waited to see what would happen when the Electoral College met earlier this month to cast their votes for the next president, suddenly we heard that one Texas elector voted for Ron Paul for...
Why Lew Rockwell is Optimistic the Drug War Will End
by Adam Dick | Dec 27, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Look to the war on drugs to understand why the United States has become “a prison state,” says Lew Rockwell in a new video interview with Future of Freedom Foundation President Jacob Hornberger. And, says Rockwell, look to educational efforts and state governments’...
Behind the Real US Strategic Blunder in Syria
by Gareth Porter | Dec 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama has long been under fire from the US national security elite and the media for failing to intervene aggressively against the Assad regime. But the real strategic blunder was not that Barack Obama didn’t launch yet another war in Syria, but that...
Obama Quietly Signs The ‘Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act’ Into Law
by Tyler Durden | Dec 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017....
New Year’s Resolutions for Donald Trump and Congress
by Ron Paul | Dec 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the spirit of New Year’s, here are four resolutions for President-elect Trump and Congress that will enable them to really make America great again: 1) Audit the Fed….and then end it: The Federal Reserve Bank's easy money policies have eroded the American people’s...
Trump’s Need to Trust Americans
by Robert Parry | Dec 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
Barack Obama’s chance for a transformative presidency ended when he bowed to Official Washington’s foreign-policy establishment of neocons and liberal interventionists and bought into the elitist notion that the American people should be guided by propaganda, not...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Faithless Electors, ‘Russian Hack,’ Avenue Strategies, Pelosi Vote, Electoral College
by Adam Dick | Dec 23, 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...
Ron Paul: Purported Russian Hack in US Election is Insignificant Compared to What US Does Overseas
by Adam Dick | Dec 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“I think it’s politics more than anything else,” says former House of Representatives Member Ron Raul (R-TX) regarding calls for an investigation of purported hacking by the Russian government influencing the United States presidential election. Interviewed Wednesday...
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