It may not be surprising that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) snooped on renowned singer-songwriter Pete Seeger for decades and even that the bureau’s file on Seeger runs to nearly 1,800 pages. After all, Seeger was a high-profile opponent of the Vietnam...
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Will Marijuana Be Rescheduled in 2016?
by Adam Dick | Dec 23, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In January, President Barack Obama stated that rescheduling marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act’s Schedule 1 is “a job for Congress.” At the time, prominent advocates of liberalization of United States marijuana laws countered that the executive branch has...
‘Leaders’ McConnell and Ryan Support Unlimited War Power for Obama and Next President
by Adam Dick | Dec 18, 2015 | Congress Alert
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) like to portray themselves as strong leaders who act to protect congressional authority against Obama Administration power grabs. But, in regard to the ISIS War, both congressional...
Obama Wants to Take Away Santa’s Guns
by Adam Dick | Dec 18, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lauren Davis of WVLT-TV reported on Thursday about the predicament of Patrick Hackett, a Knoxville, Tennessee veterinarian who found out in 2004 that he is on the United States government’s No Fly List. Hackett has a long white beard and dresses up as Santa Claus for...
Ron Paul: Save Trillions of Dollars and Millions of Lives by Replacing Militarism with Defense
by Adam Dick | Dec 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new interview with host Deirdre Bolton at Fox Business, Ron Paul explains that most United States Department of Defense spending is on militarism rather than defense. This spending on militarism, Paul continues, is “a negative,” wasting trillions of dollars on...
Ron Paul Rewind: Smacking Down Militarism and Liberty Abuses in 2011 CNN Debate
by Adam Dick | Dec 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Tonight, Republican presidential candidates will participate in a CNN debate moderated by Wolf Blitzer. On November 22, 2011, Ron Paul, in another Blitzer-moderated CNN presidential debate, boldly proposed ending US militarism abroad and liberty abuses at home. Paul...
US Foreign Policy of Interminable War to Support the National Security State
by Adam Dick | Dec 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Continuing his insightful analysis offered in October RT and November Real News Network interviews, Lawrence Wilkerson, a former United States Army colonel and chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powel, expands this month on his exploration of the US national...
How About Perjury Prosecutions for Cops Who Lie About Other Cops’ Killings?
by Adam Dick | Dec 12, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It is disheartening to see police unjustifiably abuse, injure, or kill people and then just return to their jobs after perfunctory investigations. In the instances when a cop is charged with a crime, so often the grand jury does not indict or the trial jury does not...
RPI’s Adam Dick on the San Bernardino Killings, Mass Murders, Gun Control, Killer Cops, and US Militarism
by Adam Dick | Dec 10, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Senior Fellow Adam Dick was a guest this week of hosts Jason Burack and Eric Dubin on the always interesting Welcome to Dystopia podcast. The conversation begins with a discussion of the killings in San Bernardino, California last week and Dick’s...
Don’t Believe the Hype About Gun Shootings in the US
by Adam Dick | Dec 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
Since the San Bernardino killings last week, many statements of politicians and stories in the media are painting a picture of “gun violence” in America that, on a closer look, appears to be far from reality. These are some of the messages we hear in constant...
‘No Gun for You!’: Obama’s ‘Soup Nazi’ Gun Control Proposal
by Adam Dick | Dec 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Soup Nazi character in the Seinfeld television show sells, at his take-out restaurant, soup that some people consider the best in New York City. But, there is a catch. Customers placing their orders at the restaurant’s counter are in fear that one mistake in...
Dennis Kucinich: ‘Stay Tuned’ … ‘I’ll Probably Be Back in Elected Office’
by Adam Dick | Dec 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Last year there was speculation that Dennis Kucinich would run for governor of Ohio, the state from which he served eight terms as a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives and in which he served previously as a state senator, Cleveland mayor, and...
Judge Andrew Napolitano: A ‘Farce’ to Say Mass Surveillance Ended; ‘Nothing Has Changed’
by Adam Dick | Dec 2, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano has followed up on his recent declaration at Fox News that the United States government can continue to conduct mass surveillance despite the expiration this week of PATRIOT Act Section 215 authority. Interview by Kennedy at Fox Business,...
Despite What You May Have Heard, Mass Surveillance Continues
by Adam Dick | Dec 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many news reports are heralding that the expiration this week of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act authority has ended the United States government’s mass surveillance program. Meanwhile, in a Fox News interview, Judge Andrew Napolitano throws cold water on such claims....
President Ventura?
by Adam Dick | Nov 29, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
May former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura announce in March his candidacy for president of the United States? According to a new discussion of Ventura and Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst and former New Jersey Judge Andrew Napolitano on Ora TV, Ventura’s decision...
US Census Bureau Has Your Ticket to Internment Camp
by Adam Dick | Nov 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Beware the United States Census Bureau. While it may seem innocuous, this government agency, which asks Americans questions and publishes demographic statistics, can quickly be turned into an instrument for mass rights abuse. James Bovard warns in his Monday USA Today...
The Corporatocracy Behind US Foreign Policy
by Adam Dick | Nov 26, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a Tuesday interview with Real News Network host Paul Jay, Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member and former United States Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson started off acknowledging that companies’ billions of dollars a year of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia...
Michael Scheuer: US Foreign Policy is Leading ‘Directly to Fascism in America’
by Adam Dick | Nov 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Osama bin Laden Unit Chief Michael Scheuer, interviewed by CNN’s Michael Smerconish regarding the path to take after the recent Paris Killings, advises that the current “half-way approach” that rejects both non-intervention and...
Ron Paul: Foreign Intervention Will Motivate ‘A Lot More’ Blowback Like in Paris
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
Interviewed Thursday on Fox Business, Ron Paul predicted that there will be “a lot more” blowback along the lines of the killings in Paris last week if the US, France, and other nations do not cease their interventionist, militaristic foreign policies. In particular,...
Do You Owe Taxes? Congress Wants to Take Your Passport!
by Adam Dick | Nov 20, 2015 | Congress Alert
In July, Ron Paul Institute Executive Director Daniel McAdams warned that “[b]uried inside the US highways funding bill is a provision to revoke or deny issuance of a US passport to anyone who has a large outstanding tax debt to the US Internal Revenue Service.” This...
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