MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski seemed taken aback when economics and politics writer David Stockman told her in a Monday interview: “NATO is obsolete; we should get rid of it.” Brzezinski followed up, asking, “are you saying that we should pull out of NATO?”...
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Five Minutes Five Issues: Barr on Marijuana, Venezuela, Syria, More Marijuana Legalization, Trump Speech
by Adam Dick | Jan 20, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Welcome to a new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues. 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...
Amazon Shareholders Seek to Restrict Facial Recognition Technology Sales to Government Agencies
by Adam Dick | Jan 18, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
People tend to think of Amazon as a big store on the internet. It is more than that. For example, in August of 2013, soon after Amazon founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post, I wrote about Amazon’s Amazon Web Services having as...
Five Minutes Five Issues: National Emergency, Foreign Bases, Marijuana Noncrackdown, Oligarchs, Roving Patrols
by Adam Dick | Jan 13, 2019 | 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: The Warmongering in DC is Bipartisan
by Adam Dick | Jan 12, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Included in a Thursday foreign policy report by Rick Sanchez at RT, are portions of an interview with peace advocate and former United States House of Representatives Member Ron Paul (R-TX) in which Paul explains that a big barrier to moving toward nonintervention...
Ron Paul to President Trump and Congress: Don’t Fence — or Wall — Us In
by Adam Dick | Jan 8, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In 2011, when then-Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) was seeking the Republican presidential nomination, he spoke passionately from the debate stage against the US government having a fence at the US-Mexico border. “I think this fence business,” said Paul at a debate...
Fed Up WikiLeaks Emails Media List of 140 ‘False and Defamatory’ Claims Not To Report as True
by Adam Dick | Jan 7, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have not just been targeted by the United States government in response to their publishing of US government secrets. They have also been subjected to false reporting in the media. In an email sent to media organizations on Sunday,...
Taxing and Regulating the Hell out of Marijuana in California
by Adam Dick | Jan 6, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A year into legal recreational marijuana sales in California, the volume of sales is far less than many people, and the state government, expected. The reason for low sales numbers is not that people stopped liking marijuana. The missing expected sales are still being...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Paul Advice, Graham Reassured, American Influence, NH Marijuana, White Marchers
by Adam Dick | Jan 5, 2019 | 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,...
Hey Mitt Romney: Autocracy, Corruption, and Brutality Are Hallmarks of US World Leadership
by Adam Dick | Jan 2, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who will be sworn in as a United States Senate member from Utah on Thursday, wrote a Tuesday Washington Post editorial very critical of President Donald Trump. Romney warns in his anti-Trump torrent, “The...
President Trump’s Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Says Do Not Prosecute Julian Assange
by Adam Dick | Jan 1, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump would do well to listen to Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s Russiagate investigation lawyers, concerning the propriety of prosecuting Julian Assange of WikiLeaks who has lived in the Ecuador embassy in London since 2012 to avoid extradition to the...
Rep. John Duncan’s Final Comment on the House Floor: ‘Seek Peace and Pursue It’
by Adam Dick | Dec 30, 2018 | Congress Alert
Come the swearing in of members of the new United States Congress on January 3, Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), who is one of the longest-serving Republican members of the House of Representatives and among the House’s strongest peace advocates, will be beginning his...
Ron Paul: Trump Presidency is a ‘Mixed Bag’
by Adam Dick | Dec 28, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Donald Trump’s presidency is a “mixed bag.” That is the assessment of libertarian communicator and former presidential candidate Ron Paul in a recent interview with Larry King at King’s Ora TV show Politicking. Asked by King what he thinks overall about the Trump...
Trump Selects Former Boeing Executive to Replace Former General Dynamics Board Member as Defense Secretary
by Adam Dick | Dec 23, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The military-industrial complex revolving door keeps revolving. Sunday morning, President Donald Trump announced in a Twitter post that he plans to replace outgoing Secretary of Defense James Mattis, temporarily at least, with current Deputy Secretary of Defense...
Five Minutes Five Issues: New York Marijuana, Trump’s Wall, Vaping Teens, Deportation Numbers, Heinlein Idea
by Adam Dick | Dec 22, 2018 | 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...
Ron Paul: ‘Very Good’ that President Trump is Pulling Troops out of Syria
by Adam Dick | Dec 20, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new interview at RT, Ron Paul, who ran for United States president three times with a pro-peace platform, commended as “very good” President Donald Trump’s decision announced on Wednesday to remove US troops from Syria. Paul further notes that the US government’s...
To Help Legalize Marijuana, US Congressional Leadership Can Get Out of the Way
by Adam Dick | Dec 19, 2018 | Congress Alert
Momentum is strongly behind the United States government ending its war on marijuana. From states legalizing medical and recreational marijuana to the increasing majority support among Americans for full marijuana legalization, countrywide legalization is more and...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Yemen Rule, MI Home Grow, DNA Database, Legal Hemp, Free Speech
by Adam Dick | Dec 16, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is posted. 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 Takes On the US Foreign Policy of Interventionism
by Adam Dick | Dec 15, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Jesse Ventura dedicated the second half of the latest episode of his RT show The World According to Jesse to a foreign policy discussion with prominent libertarian communicator Ron Paul. Ventura and Paul’s discussion is focused on Paul’s criticisms of the United...
Rep. Thomas Massie Talks Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Dec 13, 2018 | Congress Alert
In a fascinating new interview with Kyle Jaeger at Marijuana Moment, United States House of Representatives Member and war on marijuana critic Thomas Massie (R-KY) talks about marijuana.In the interview, Massie contends that Republicans may have maintained their House...
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