The United States government, through arms including the US Department of State and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has long been promoting violence and destruction in previously relatively peaceful and prosperous places around the world. It has...
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Revisiting Ron Paul’s 1988 Case for Drug Legalization
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul Institute (RPI) Senior Fellow Adam Dick’s prepared comments for RPI’s May 18, 2019 Houston, Texas conference “Winning the War on the War on Drugs”: Ron Paul helped many people discover libertarian ideas in his presidential campaigns. For me, during Dr. Paul’s...
Rep. Thomas Massie Says Follow the Constitution — No Troops to Venezuela Without a Congressional Vote
by Adam Dick | May 11, 2019 | Congress Alert
Interviewed Thursday at Fox Business by host Kennedy, United States House of Representatives Member Thomas Massie (R-KY) strongly objected to the prospect of President Donald Trump sending the US military to Venezuela to help overthrow that country’s government...
Michael Scheuer: US Intervention in Venezuela is for the Benefit of Powerful Special Interests
by Adam Dick | May 3, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Since he left the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) where he had been in charge the “bin Laden unit,” Michael Scheuer has made it his mission to educate people about the dangers of United States intervention abroad. Interviewed this week by host Rick Sanchez at RT...
Why Bernie Sanders Can Defeat Donald Trump in 2020
by Adam Dick | Apr 19, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With his veto this week of legislation intended to end United States military support for the war on Yemen, President Donald Trump may have ensured his defeat to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the 2020 presidential election. That is an argument political commentator...
Jacob Hornberger for President?
by Adam Dick | Apr 2, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Jacob Hornberger appears to be laying the groundwork for a 2020 presidential run as a Libertarian. That is the subject of a Monday article at Independent Political Report that notes Hornberger, who is the president of the libertarian Future of Freedom Foundation...
Rules Committee Chairman: US House to Soon Approve Legislation Ending Interference with States’ Marijuana Legalization
by Adam Dick | Mar 27, 2019 | Congress Alert
In a new interview at Boston Herald Radio, United States House of Representatives Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-MA) said he expects the House, in the next few weeks, will approve by “an overwhelming vote” legislation requiring the US government to respect...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Nicaragua, Mass Killing, Electoral College, New Mexico Marijuana, Drug War Conference
by Adam Dick | Mar 25, 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,...
UPDATE: Twitter Lets Julian Assange’s Mom Tweet Again
by Adam Dick | Mar 21, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Yesterday, I wrote about Twitter restricting public access to the past Twitter posts of Christine Assange, the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as well as preventing her from making new posts at her Twitter account. Today, it appears Twitter has removed...
Twitter Prevents Julian Assange’s Mom from Posting, Restricts Viewing of Her Past Posts
by Adam Dick | Mar 20, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Christine Assange, the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has used her Twitter page to criticize the United States government effort to prosecute and imprison her son for making available leaked information exposing abusive government actions, as well as her...
Ron Paul Airs Concerns about the Trump Presidency
by Adam Dick | Mar 19, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, the libertarian communicator who ran three times for president, has been neither a “never-Trumper” nor a loyalist of President Donald Trump. Instead, Paul, through the 2016 presidential campaign and Trump’s presidency, has judged Trump’s various comments and...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Watching Assange, Ocasio-Cortez, Expungement, Bernie Sanders, Alaska Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Mar 16, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted 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...
Lawrence Wilkerson: ‘National Security’ Spending Should Be Cut, Not Increased
by Adam Dick | Mar 14, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump released this week his budget proposal that includes increasing by five percent United States military spending. However, Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member and retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson argues in a Tuesday The Real News...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Jailing Manning, ‘Antisemitism,’ Whole Foods Marijuana, The Foreigner, RPI Conference
by Adam Dick | Mar 10, 2019 | 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,...
Walter Block: US Government Should Ignore, Not Overthrow, ‘Evil Dictators’
by Adam Dick | Mar 7, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Walter Block has some clear advice regarding what the United States government should do about “evil dictators” around the world: Ignore them. After all, Block, an economics professor at Loyola University and prominent...
Recollections of Walter Jones and His Principled Votes in the US House of Representatives
by Adam Dick | Mar 7, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A Wednesday Public Radio East report by Valerie Crowder presents some fond recollections of the principled political efforts of Ron Paul Institute Advisory Board Member Walter Jones who died last month while serving in his 13th term in the Unites States House of...
US Government’s Top Pharmaceutical Official Promoting Eliminating Vaccination Exemptions
by Adam Dick | Mar 5, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With the expansion of state governments’ crackdown on vaccination exemptions facing significant obstacles after, in 2015, California eliminated nearly all vaccination exemptions for children in government schools, private schools, and day care, Alex Newman writes at...
Making Marijuana Legalization More Freedom-Friendly
by Adam Dick | Mar 1, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It took 45 years after the 1933 termination of the United States government’s alcohol prohibition for the US government to legalize beer home brewing and, then, another 35 years until in 2013 the last two American states legalized home brewing. In comparison, of the...
Lawrence Wilkerson: US Intervention in Venezuela is About Profits for the Rich, not Democracy and Freedom
by Adam Dick | Feb 27, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson describes the current effort of the Donald Trump administration to overthrow the Venezuela government and oust Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro as a continuation of the United States effort begun in 2002,...
Congratulations Women, Judge Rules the US Military Should Draft You Too
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over the last few years, there has been action in the United States Congress regarding whether or not to expand Selective Service registration requirements and any potential military draft to include women as well as men. Much of the support for this move has been...
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