The Justice Department is ecstatic that it finally secured the extradition from Mexico of notorious drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as El Chapo. Arraigned in New York City, El Chapo is being charged with running a multibillion dollar drug enterprise, which...
Month: January 2017
Trump’s 31 Airstrikes – A Taste Of Things To Come?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 24, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Over the weekend, President Trump indicated that he would continue in his predecessor's foreign policy. The US conducted some 31 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq and two drone strikes in Yemen. Will we achieve different results doing the same thing over and over? More in...
The Neocon Lament: Nobody Wants Them in Trump’s Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
There is no limit to the hubris driven hypocrisy of America’s stalwart neoconservatives. A recent Washington Post front page article entitled “‘Never Trump’ national-security Republicans fear they have been blacklisted” shares with the reader the heartbreak of those...
Has the American Dream Become the American Nightmare?
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
For too long now, the American people have allowed themselves to be persuaded that the government’s job is to take care of us: to feed us, clothe us, house us, educate us, raise our children, heal our infirmities, manage our finances, protect us from our enemies,...
Trump’s Foreign Policy: An Unwise Inconsistency?
by Ron Paul | Jan 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions have been anything but consistent. One day we heard that NATO was obsolete and the US needs to pursue better relations with Russia. But the next time he spoke, these sensible positions were...
Is Medical Marijuana A Crime?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 23, 2017 | The Liberty Report
When authorities found out that Shona Banda treated her severe Crohn's Disease with cannabis after all other treatments (and multiple surgeries) had failed, they took away her child and are trying to send her to prison for 30 years. But she is fighting back! We speak...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Clemency, Surveillance Sharing, Loan Guarantees, Marijuana Delays, Faulty Convictions
by Adam Dick | Jan 21, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Saturday. 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...
US intervention in Syria? Not under Trump
by Gareth Porter | Jan 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
A new coalition of US-based organizations is pushing for a more aggressive US intervention against the Assad regime. But both the war in Syria and politics in the United States have shifted dramatically against this objective. When it was formed last July, the...
We’re Still Here, 1/20/17, Consumed Most of All by Our Fears
by Peter van Buren | Jan 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
One of my favorite quotes includes the lines “I awoke this morning to find that it was not judgment day – only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.” I think that sums up a part of my thinking, but certainly not all.A nuclear reckoning, war with China, or anything...
What Trump Could Do
by Jeff Deist | Jan 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Today Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. American voters rejected the devil they know so well — Hillary Clinton — for the devil they don’t. Why they did so, and how Trump prevailed, is the biggest political story of our age. But the...
Obama’s Wasted, Deadly, and Destructive Presidency
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Eight years ago, President Obama’s administration started with hope and change. Eight years later, we end up with a legacy of nothing but waste, death, and destruction.Libertarians never had any hope, of course, that Barack Obama would dismantle any aspect of the...
McCain’s $5 Trillion Military Budget: Will It Make America Great Again?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 19, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) wants to spend five trillion dollars over the next five years in a massive build-up of the US military. Dozens of ships will be be built, as well as more than a hundred new fighter jets -- including the problem-plagued F-35. The Army and...
Hope That Trump Will Be the Peace President That Obama Was Not
by Adam Dick | Jan 19, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With Donald Trump set to become president tomorrow, many proponents of the US government refraining from intervening in other countries have their fingers crossed, hoping that a Trump administration will bring an improved US foreign policy. In particular, there is...
A Demand for Russian ‘Hacking’ Proof
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
MEMORANDUM FOR: President Barack ObamaFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: A Key Issue That Still Needs to be ResolvedAs President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office Friday, a pall hangs over his upcoming presidency...
Chelsea Manning Clemency: Did Obama Do The Right Thing?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Obama's surprise move to grant clemency to whistleblower Chelsea Manning yesterday was cheered by those who support transparency for government and jeered by those who support the national security state. What did Manning reveal? Thousands of instances of...
‘John McCain Passed Dossier to Make Trump Look Bad; Now He’s Trying to Save His Hide’
by RT | Jan 18, 2017 | Neocon Watch
McCain had a private meeting with FBI Director James Comey to hand him a dossier on Trump in a ploy to make him look bad, claims Daniel McAdams, executive director of Ron Paul Institute. Now McCain is attempting to disassociate himself from it, he added.US Senator...
Obama’s Achievement: Whitewashing Permanent Warfare With Eloquence
by Nile Bowie | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Judging from how the mainstream media has characterized the legacy of Barack Obama so far, the outgoing president will be most remembered for his many rousing aspirational speeches and well-timed shows of emotion.His talent as a persuasive public communicator and the...
Andrew Napolitano Meets Donald Trump for Second Time On Supreme Court Nomination
by Adam Dick | Jan 17, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President-elect Donald Trump met Tuesday, for the second time since the November presidential election, with Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst and Ron Paul Institute Advisory Board Member Andrew Napolitano. As with their previous hour-long meeting in December,...
Breaking: Chelsea Manning to Be Freed in May
by Adam Dick | Jan 17, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Charlie Savage reports at the New York Times that whistleblower Chelsea Manning is among the 209 people to whom President Barack Obama on Tuesday granted commutations that shorten their prison sentences. Obama also on Tuesday granted pardons to 64 people. Savage...
Executive Power In The Age Of Trump
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 17, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Although the Founders expected the legislative branch of government to be first among equals, especially in the past 20 years the executive branch has consolidated power at the expense of Congress and the Courts. But the two losing branches have been more than...
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