Days after being smashed with a vicious establishment smear campaign to paint her as an antisemite for accurately criticizing AIPAC, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is already back on the horse aggressively disrupting the establishment narrative matrix that our...
Month: February 2019
Medium Is The Message: Ilhan Omar, Social Media, And Making News
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 14, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Democratic US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) set off a firestorm on Sunday with a one-line Tweet on a third rail topic. The aftermath continues four days later. Canadian philosopher and public intellectual Marshal McLuhan famously observed that "the medium is the message."...
House Yemen Vote Today: What’s Pelosi’s Goal?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 13, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Where former Speaker Paul Ryan even broke House rules (and possibly the law) refusing to allow a War Powers challenge to Trump's alliance with Saudi Arabia to destroy Yemen, current Speaker Nancy Pelosi is allowing the measure to the Floor for a vote today. It is...
Netanyahu Asks Arabs to ‘Advance The Common Interest Of War With Iran’
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
The U.S. had called for a high level anti-Iran meeting in Poland. The purpose of the meeting was to bring with its allies and poodles into line with the U.S. agenda on Iran, to press them at least into issuing harsher sanctions. But the Europeans rejected that. The...
Understanding Why Iranians Bash the US Government
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Two days ago, the New York Times carried an article by Times’ journalist Thomas Erdbrink entitled, “For Iran, a Grand Occasion to Bash the US,” which was about Iran’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of its revolution in 1979. The article included the following...
Venezuela: Politics of Regime Change ‘Dangerous & Inhumane’ – Daniel McAdams
by RPI Staff | Feb 13, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams joins RT America to discuss Marco Rubio's crocodile tears over suffering in Venezuela. After supporting the sanctions that contributed to Venezuela's economic decline, he's pointing to that decline as an excuse for regime change. Also - at what...
McAdams: Senate Finds ‘No Collusion’ Between Trump and Russia – Now What?
by RPI Staff | Feb 13, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joined RT America's "Watching the Hawks" program today to discuss yesterday's bombshell report that the Senate Intelligence Committee has nearly completed its two year investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and...
Lew Rockwell Calls ‘Baloney’ on Claim Iran is a National Security Threat to the United States
by Adam Dick | Feb 13, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Asked in a recent panel discussion at the RT show CrossTalk if Iran is a national security threat to the United States, Ludwig von Mises Institute Founder and Chairman Lew Rockwell answered that that claim is ‘baloney’ used for “justifying imperialism.”Elaborating,...
From Berlin To Baghdad, Trump Foreign Policy In Tatters
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2019 | The Liberty Report
The Trump Administration is twisting arms in Europe and in the Middle East in its ongoing determination to crush Iran. It seems a singular obsession. But the push-back is coming from and EU that remains (for now) dedicated to the Iran nuclear deal and from places like...
How the Media Manufactures Consent for Regime Change in Venezuela
by Alan MacLeod | Feb 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
The latest extraordinary chapter in the bizarre world of Venezuelan politics is playing out before our eyes. After winning the 2018 presidential elections, Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated in January, only for the head of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó -- a man...
Understanding State Propaganda From The USSR to The USA
by Adam Garrie | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
While the de jure role of state sponsored propaganda is to convince a population to adopt a certain line of thinking on the issues of the day, the de facto function of state sponsored propaganda is rather different. In a society in which even a sizeable minority of...
Where Greens and Libertarians Can Agree
by Adam Dick | Feb 11, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Saturday, officers of the Maine state Green Independent and Libertarian parties held a press conference announcing the parties’ ten areas of agreement. The two parties note in a joint statement that the ten areas of agreement are related to the parties’ effort to...
President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation!
by Ron Paul | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week’s bipartisan Senate vote to rebuke President Trump for his decision to remove troops from Syria and Afghanistan unfortunately tells us a lot about what is wrong with Washington, DC. While the two parties loudly bicker about minor issues, when it comes to...
Afghan Civilians Fear CIA-Backed Death Squads that Can Call In Airstrikes
by Alexander Rubinstein | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Elite CIA-backed special forces in Afghanistan are leaving a trail of carnage in the country. As such units do not operate under the umbrella of the Department of Defense, they have been given near-impunity despite standing accused of war crimes. Last month, the New...
Walter Jones – Hero Of Peace
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 11, 2019 | The Liberty Report
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), who died yesterday, was a towering giant when it came to honesty and integrity. He broke the cardinal rule of Washington: he listened to his conscience, admitted he was wrong about the Iraq war, and dedicated his life to making amends for his...
Trump’s Syria ‘Pullout’ Aimed at Aggressing Iran
by Finian Cunningham | Feb 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
US President Donald Trump again this week portrayed his plan to pull troops out of Syria as a “victory homecoming” and “an end to endless wars”. Then, in stepped Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to clarify what’s really going on: it’s a “tactical change” to put Iran in...
The Tienditas Bridge ‘Blockade’
by Justin Emery | Feb 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
Over the last couple of days, you may have seen an image the one above in the news. This is Tienditas International Bridge (Spanish: Puente Binacional Tienditas) on the border between Colombia and Venezuela. I have a feeling that we will be seeing much more of this...
The Cynicism of Empire: Sen. Rubio Tells Venezuelans to Overthrow Their Government…or Starve!
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
(This is from RPI's weekly newsletter offered free to subscribers. Are you signed up yet?)There is a sad disregard for human life among the neocon regime-changers. The devastation of Iraq, with its million dead, was a mere stepping stone to a "re-making" of the Middle...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Staying in Syria, Tulsi Gabbard, Acres of Hemp, Marianne Williamson, Mushroom Decrim
by Adam Dick | Feb 9, 2019 | 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...
Why I Hope Maduro Wins And North Korea Keeps Its Nukes
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
A second summit meeting for the US and North Korea is reportedly scheduled to take place in Vietnam at the end of the month. Expert opinions on where these negotiations are headed range from the insightful to the incredibly naive, with mainstream media consumers...
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