The Obama administration wants Americans to believe that it is fiercely anti-corruption. “I have been shocked by the degree to which I find corruption pandemic in the world today,” declared Secretary of State John Kerry at an Anti-Corruption Summit in London last May....
Month: December 2016
Meltdown in Turkey?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
After the July coup attempt, Turkey has faced increased instability. Over the past ten days more than 60 people have been killed in Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) bombings. And just days ago, the Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated by an apparent radical....
Ron Paul Rewind: John Birch Society 50th Anniversary Speech
by Adam Dick | Dec 20, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Pema Levy, in a Monday Mother Jones article, wrote that Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), who President-elect Donald Trump has picked to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, spoke in July at a dinner held by a chapter of the John Birch Society in Mulvaney’s...
The War on Terror: Anyway You Look at it, it’s a Failure
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
The twenty-first century, at least up until this point, might well be described as the age of the terrorist. Even though most Americans and Europeans rank terrorism as low among their concerns, the repercussions when a terrorist attack does take place are greatly...
Global War On Terrorism: Are We Winning?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 20, 2016 | The Liberty Report
The US State Department comes out yearly with its list of "state sponsors of terrorism," but to many people overseas it is the US government itself that is a main sponsor of terrorism overseas. The US president claims the right to attack suspected terrorists in any...
Electoral College – Should We Abolish It?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 19, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Does your vote count in the Electoral College system as crafted by our Founding Fathers? Some are saying that Hillary Clinton deserves to be president because she received the majority of popular votes in last month's presidential election. Is it unfair that getting...
The Bad Losers and What They Fear Losing
by Diana Johnstone | Dec 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle. It seems that the political machine backing Hillary Clinton can’t stand losing an election. And why is that? Because they are determined to...
After Aleppo: We Need a New Syria Policy
by Ron Paul | Dec 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Over the past week, eastern Aleppo was completely brought back under control of the Syrian government. The population began to return to its homes, many of which were abandoned when al-Qaeda-linked rebels took over in 2012. As far as I know, the western mainstream...
Philippines President Duterte Using China Leverage to Strike Better Aid Deal with Donald Trump?
by Adam Dick | Dec 18, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States foreign aid dollars, and even police training, have been supporting for several months large-scale systematic street executions of supposed drug dealers and users in the Philippines. Now, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who has promoted the...
Moscow Attacks!
by Eric Margolis | Dec 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
A senior CIA source tells me "with a high level of certainty" that Russia’s Vladimir Putin was responsibly for Pearl Harbor, the Korean War, Vietnam, and Iraq. This miscreant was also behind 9/11 and ring around the collar.Not since Dr Fu Manchu have we seen such a...
If You Have Nothing to Hide . . .
by Mary Theroux | Dec 17, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For years, the national security establishment has been telling us, “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” Ergo, the feds ought to be provided complete access to all of our emails, cell calls, internet browsing records, location, private in-home...
Neocon Triumph? Trump Calls For ‘Safe Zones’ in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 17, 2016 | Neocon Watch
Donald Trump won the presidency largely because the American public was tired of the last 16 years of continuous wars and disastrous foreign interventions. When he said "I think getting along with Russia is a good thing," Americans compared that with Hillary's promise...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Police Militarization, Canada Marijuana, CIA Chorus, Vermont Pardons, Year End
by Adam Dick | Dec 17, 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,...
Ron Paul: What’s Missing From The Russian Hack Argument?
by Ron Paul | Dec 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
Without any proof or evidence being presented that Russia interfered with our election, we're just seeing political grandstanding at this point by both President Obama and Secretary Clinton. Have you noticed that there's never any mention or concern about Secretary...
You Opened the Box…
by Peter van Buren | Dec 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Once you let the genie out of the bottle, you can’t stuff him back in.Attempts to overturn the results of our election, or to delegitimize a president before he even takes office, are attempts to overturn the system of transfer of power that has served America since...
Guess Who’s Behind Facebook’s New ‘Fake News’ Detector?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Are you terrified of "fake news"? Don't worry, the elites are doing something to combat it!As anyone active on the Internet is aware, there have been increasing calls for social media companies (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to address the mostly manufactured crisis of...
Truth About Aleppo: RPI’s Daniel McAdams Debates
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins independent journalist Vanessa Beeley and columnist for The Hill Brent Budowsky to discuss real versus fake news on Aleppo. Is it a liberation or an extermination? Sparks fly in this half-hour heated exchange so you won't want to miss...
Getting Real News From Aleppo – With Vanessa Beeley
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2016 | The Liberty Report
As the liberation of Aleppo has destroyed the mainstream media's narrative, with on-the-ground interviews from east Aleppo residents showing that they were in fact being held captive for four years by an al-Qaeda linked terrorist organization. The mainstream fake news...
Donald Trump Meets with Judge Andrew Napolitano Regarding Supreme Court Nomination
by Adam Dick | Dec 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, who serves on the Ron Paul Institute Advisory Board in addition to being the senior judicial analyst at Fox News, met for an hour Thursday with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York City. Napolitano related in an interview...
Foreign Policy Hawks Not Ready to Give up Turf
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If President Trump is serious about a foreign policy that does not seek to destabilize and overthrow governments overseas, he is going to have to deal with the neocons who have polluted Washington with their bad ideas for decades. If he thinks they will just fade...
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