What does the US administration want with regards to Syria?The elements were clear just a few days ago. The US would split off the east and set up a Kurdish enclave which it would then occupy with the help of proxy forces. It would use the leverage to push for...
Month: April 2017
Iran the Destabilizer
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
The real Donald Trump has been exposed. The man who promised a sensible and non-interventionist Middle Eastern policy and a reset with Moscow has now reneged on both pledges. His nitwit United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has directly linked Russia and Syria for...
Andrew Napolitano: Police Had ‘No Right’ to Drag Passenger off United Plane
by Adam Dick | Apr 11, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Police had no right to yank a passenger from his seat and drag him off a United Airlines airplane says Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano in a new Fox News interview. Commenting on the much-talked-about incident Sunday at Chicago O’Hare International...
Ron Paul: US Attack on Syria is to Prop Up the Military-Industrial Complex
by Adam Dick | Apr 11, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Interviewed Monday by Kennedy at Fox Business, Ron Paul challenged the contention that the United States government was acting in accord with good intentions in attacking Syria last week. Instead, Paul suggests a big motivation was generating profit for the...
White House Sends Confusing Message on Syria Barrel Bombs
by Jason Ditz | Apr 11, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s tendency to improvise when asked questions about US policy has sparked a new round of speculation about exactly where the Trump Administration stands of launching further attacks against Syria, after he declared barrel bombs...
War and Peace in the Age of Trump
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 10, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Did you miss the Ron Paul Institute/Mises Institute joint conference in Lake Jackson, TX over the weekend? Held to discuss the possibility that President Trump might pursue a more peaceful foreign policy than his recent predecessors, the US attack on Syria just two...
After Trump’s Syria Attack, What Comes Next?
by Ron Paul | Apr 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Thursday’s US missile attack on Syria must represent the quickest foreign policy U-turn in history. Less than a week after the White House gave Assad permission to stay on as president of his own country, President Trump decided that the US had to attack Syria and...
Dennis Kucinich Asks, ‘Why Are We Helping ISIS?’
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former presidential candidate and United States House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is not buying the Trump administration line on the US missile attack last week in Syria. Interviewed at Fox News, Kucinich both rejects the reason offered for the...
If you have time, Mr. President, Senator Paul can help you learn the Constitution means what it says
by Michael Scheuer | Apr 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
“While we all condemn the atrocities in Syria, the United States was not attacked. The President needs congressional authorization for military action as required by the Constitution, and I call on him to come to Congress for a proper debate. Our prior interventions...
Bomb the Usual Arabs
by Eric Margolis | Apr 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
It seems that every new US president has to prove his machismo…or make his bones, as wiseguys say…by bombing the usual Arabs. By now, it’s almost a rite of passage. The American public loves it.So we just saw the US launch 59 or 60 $1.5million apiece cruise missiles...
Rand Paul Calls For Congress To Demand War Powers Authorization . . . John McCain Says Paul Is ‘Wrong’ and Alone In The Senate
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 9, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I have been discussing how the Congress is again willfully ignoring its constitutional duty on the declaration of war as our intervention in Syria expands. Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have fallen over each other to praise the attacks even...
Five Minutes Five Issues: TSA Marijuana, Susan Rice, Syria Oil, Fantasy Sports, Asset Seizures
by Adam Dick | Apr 7, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is up. 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,...
US Bombs Syria – National Security Or Aggression? With Guest, US Rep. Thomas Massie
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 7, 2017 | The Liberty Report
President Trump sent 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria yesterday in retaliation for what he claimed was a chemical attack on citizens by President Assad. He sought no Congressional authorization and presented no evidence to either Congress or the American people...
Syria: New US Air Support On Request Scheme For Al-Qaeda
by Moon of Alabama | Apr 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
On this day one hundred years ago the US joined World War I. Last night the US attacked a Syrian government airport in an openly hostile and intentional manner. The strike established a mechanism by which al-Qaeda can "request" US airstrikes on Syrian government...
WWI Anniversary: 100 Years Of ‘Making World Safe For Democracy’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 6, 2017 | The Liberty Report
One hundred years ago today, President Woodrow Wilson went to Congress seeking a declaration of war on Germany. Thus started US involvement in World War One. More than 100,000 Americans were killed, but Wilson assured Americans that it was "worth it." We were making...
Woodrow Wilson Made Democracy Unsafe for the World
by James Bovard | Apr 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
This week is the 100th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson’s speech to Congress seeking a declaration of war against Germany. Many people celebrate this centenary of America’s emergence as a world power. But, when the Trump administration is bombing or rattling...
Syria Crisis Update: US Attack Imminent? And What You Can Do.
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 6, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria on Tuesday is propelling the United States toward a large-scale military attack on the Assad government. The mainstream media, neoconservatives, and “humanitarian” interventionists are creating a perfect storm pressuring...
Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
by Robert Parry | Apr 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
With the latest hasty judgment about Tuesday’s poison-gas deaths in a rebel-held area of northern Syria, the mainstream U.S. news media once more reveals itself to be a threat to responsible journalism and to the future of humanity. Again, we see the troubling pattern...
Ron Paul Sees Susan Rice Revelations as a Big Deal
by Adam Dick | Apr 5, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Are revelations that Susan Rice, as President Barack Obama’s national security advisor, was unmasking names of people related to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and transition in surveilled conversations a big deal? Yes, concludes former United States House of...
Syria Gas Attack: Assad’s Doing…Or False Flag?
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 5, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Would Syrian President Assad launch a chemical attack on civilians just as peace talks are about to be held and where government gains against ISIS and al-Qaeda rebels give him the upper hand? He would be literally committing suicide. Who benefits from the attack? Not...
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