New polling conducted this month by the Pew Research Center indicates that only 30 percent of Americans believe that the invasion of Ukraine by Russia is a “major threat to U.S. interests.” That perception was at its highest of 50 percent of Americans shortly after...
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House of Representatives Approves Legislation Threatening Nonprofits’ Free Speech
by Adam Dick | Nov 22, 2024 | Congress Alert
On Thursday, the United States House of Representatives approved legislation that would threaten nonprofit organizations’ exercise of free speech rights. The legislation would accomplish this goal by empowering the US government to selectively clamp down on nonprofits...
Ron Paul at DOGE
by Adam Dick | Nov 20, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have indicated they desire longtime prominent liberty and limited government advocate Ron Paul to be involved with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that President-elect Donald Trump last week charged Musk and Ramaswamy with...
US Congressional Leadership Remains United in Devotion to Israel after Selection of New Senate Republican Leader
by Adam Dick | Nov 18, 2024 | Congress Alert
Some things changed in politics in Washington, DC when on Wednesday Republican United States senators via a secret ballot vote selected Sen John Thune (R-SD) to become Senate Republican leader, replacing Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the position. One of the things...
Hope that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Will Make Americans Both Healthier and Freer
by Adam Dick | Nov 15, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Donald Trump choosing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been met with much pushback from many prominent communicators in politics, media, and business. This is largely because Kennedy appears to be the real...
Some Accountability for Torture at Abu Ghraib
by Adam Dick | Nov 13, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The released photos documenting torture of prisoners at the United States government’s Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during the Iraq War disgusted many people who could look beyond the war propaganda to feel sympathy for their fellow human beings. Even if it was assumed...
Defunding NPR
by Adam Dick | Nov 9, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Elon Musk has talked about eliminating at least two trillion dollars of United States government yearly spending. While it would contribute a small portion toward this grand goal, a spending cut that jumps out as among the most obvious for Musk and the incoming Donald...
Don’t Urge Hotels to Censor, Even in the Name of Opposing Genocide
by Adam Dick | Nov 7, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Medea Benjamin has done much good in educating people about violent aspects of United States foreign policy and why such should be opposed. But, via a brief video Benjamin posted Thursday at Twitter, in which she calls on people to urge Hilton to cancel an upcoming...
Medical Workers Say No to Coronavirus Shots
by Adam Dick | Nov 5, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Though much pushed by government, companies, and media, the successive coronavirus “vaccine” shots have become increasingly unpopular. This includes among medical workers. On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) relayed in its Morbidity and...
Government Agents Try to Stir Up Fear of Russian Election Interference a Third Presidential Election in a Row
by Adam Dick | Nov 1, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For a third United States presidential election in a row, US agents are out warning of Russian election interference. In the previous two elections the warnings were spurious. Still, the government agents succeeded in raising worry in people’s minds regarding...
The Libertarian Party Releases a Trump Campaign Ad
by Adam Dick | Oct 31, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This week, the United States Libertarian Party released what it described in a Twitter post as “the long-awaited recap video from what can only be described as the most exciting, and talked about, Libertarian National Convention in our party’s history.” The convention...
The US Secretary of Defense is Ready to Fight a Nuclear War over Korea
by Adam Dick | Oct 31, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Few Americans today would try to justify the United States government taking part in the Korean War in the 1950s. Even most of those who would make such an attempt would ground their argument in asserting there was a special need back then, as part of the Cold War, to...
Nonsense about Libertarians at The Bulwark
by Adam Dick | Oct 24, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Shikha Dalmia’s Thursday The Bulwark editorial “Faced With Trump, Libertarianism Shrugged” may read, for people unfamiliar with libertarianism, like a well thought out and researched takedown of libertarianism. For those who are informed, it is nonsense. Dalmia ends...
The Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Fails to Provide a Noninterventionist Alternative
by Adam Dick | Oct 24, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With the United States presidential election day less than two weeks away, some people will be looking at third party presidential candidates to see if there is one that supports a noninterventionist foreign policy. They will be doing so in large part because they see...
Kamala Harris Sounds Like Forrest Gump’s Friend Bubba in Effort to Run Out the Clock in Difficult Interview
by Adam Dick | Oct 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Kamala Harris, notorious for avoiding anything but the friendliest interviews during her truncated presidential campaign, found herself in a pickle in her Wednesday interview with Bret Baier at Fox News. Baier was asking questions Harris did not want to answer and...
Good News: Americans Distrust Mass Media
by Adam Dick | Oct 15, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The American people are grasping the bias of mass media. When Gallup first asked Americans in 1972 “how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media,” 68 percent of polled individuals answered either a “great deal” or a “fair amount.” Over the ensuing...
The US House of Representatives, where Only the Ending of the Afghanistan War is Condemned
by Adam Dick | Oct 11, 2024 | Congress Alert
A majority of United States House of Representatives members voted on September 25 to approve a resolution (H.Res. 1469) condemning 15 members of the executive branch “for their role in the Biden-Harris administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and noncombatant...
Old Lies Behind Israel’s War Live On in Senate Resolution
by Adam Dick | Oct 7, 2024 | Congress Alert
We are now a year into the Israel government’s military action devastating the people and infrastructure of Gaza and since expanded into escalating violence against countries including Lebanon and Iran. Yet, even today, United States Senate members are repeating...
Julian Assange Describes a Dangerous Tendency in Government
by Adam Dick | Oct 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
On Thursday, I wrote about the testimony of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks at a Tuesday meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Assange’s testimony provided an informative overview of his...
Julian Assange Speaks
by Adam Dick | Oct 3, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It was wonderful news to many people last week when word came that Julian Assange would speak publicly this week. For a long time it seemed that such a day would never come as Assange suffered in harsh conditions in a British prison under the threat of extradition to...
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