In his work opposing United States wars overseas, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), before his death Sunday, put much effort into seeking a repeal of the 2001 authorization for use of military force (AUMF) that has been used by successive presidents as a basis for...
Adam Dick
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,...
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...
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...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Pence Video, YouTube Suppression, Stone Raid, DNA Databases, Diplomatic Relations
by Adam Dick | Feb 3, 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,...
Venezuela President Urges Americans to Seek Peace with His Country
by Adam Dick | Jan 31, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
American politicians and media commentators left and right are playing up a supposed urgent need to overthrow the Venezuela government. Americans would do well to take a four-minute break from this torrent of pro-intervention advocacy to watch a video released...
Six Weeks in Jail for Possessing Laundry Detergent
by Adam Dick | Jan 31, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A disturbing story out of Florida recounts that Matt Crull spent six weeks in jail on a drug trafficking charge after police claimed, based on drug field test results, that a substance in Crull’s van was heroin. Crull was released this month after further testing...
Ron Paul Challenges ‘Ironic’ Advancing Democracy Reason for Imposing New President on Venezuela
by Adam Dick | Jan 28, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul is not impressed by the convoluted reasoning presented by the United States government in support of its effort to impose a new president on the people of Venezuela. In his first answer in a Friday interview at RT focused on this ongoing “regime change”...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Venezuela Nonsense, US ‘Diplomats,’ Propaganda Trigger, Bloomberg, Shutdown Benefit
by Adam Dick | Jan 26, 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,...
David Stockman: ‘NATO is Obsolete; We Should Get Rid of It’
by Adam Dick | Jan 22, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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?”...
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...
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