It seems unlikely that the current members of the United States House of Representatives will effectively rise up against their Democrat and Republican leaders to require that the House be run in a fair and honest manner. Yet, the potential of more Republican members...
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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Want to Help Injured Veterans? Stop Interminable War
by Adam Dick | Dec 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, interviewed Tuesday by Jessica Desvarieux on the Real News Network, explains that stopping the United States’ “interminable war” is one important way to help “millions of Americans, who were sent off to do their nation's business and who are...
Dennis Kucinich: Support for War and National Security State is Reason for Democrat Election Losses
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Dennis Kucinich, the former Democratic United States House of Representatives member from Ohio and two-time presidential candidate, pins blame for Democrats’ 2014 midterm elections “debacle” on Democrat politicians in the last eight years advancing war and the...
Ed Mullins Returns with More Marijuana Nonsense Talk
by Adam Dick | Nov 19, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ed MullinsWith the recent announcement of the particulars of the New York City Police Department policy change intended to reduce marijuana arrests, Sergeants Benevolent Association police union leader Ed Mullins, who previously lamented that reducing marijuana...
US House to Vote on Imposing National ID Cards Worldwide ‘For the Children’
by Adam Dick | Nov 18, 2014 | Congress Alert
The US House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on HR 3398, legislation stating that it is the policy of the United States government to encourage other nations to require all citizens to have national identity cards. HR 3398 also directs the US...
Ron Paul: Congress Approves ISIS War Funding While Ducking Vote on War Itself
by Adam Dick | Nov 16, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul said this weekend that he thinks Congress will continue to duck voting the ISIS War up or down while nevertheless voting for additional funding of the war. Paul’s prediction came during a conversation with Charles Goyette regarding the war and US foreign...
Rep. Walter Jones Challenges Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on ISIS War
by Adam Dick | Nov 14, 2014 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), at a Thursday hearing of the United States House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, challenged Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel regarding the ongoing US war on ISIS. In particular, Jones complains that the US is engaged in the war...
Ron Paul: ‘The Militarism of Big Government is Coming to an End’
by Adam Dick | Nov 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, speaking Saturday at a Ludwig von Mises Institute event in Costa Mesa, California, presented his optimistic prediction for the future of the movement to ensure respect peace and liberty in the United States and around the world. Paul, who is chairman and...
For Armistice Day, Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve’s Role in Financing US Militarism
by Adam Dick | Nov 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On this Armistice Day, taking place in the week after midterm elections that promise to buttress US foreign intervention and President Barack Obama’s announcement that he is sending 1,500 troops and desires $5.6 billion more in spending to escalate the war in Iraq and...
NYPD Union Leader: Reducing Marijuana Arrests is “Beginning of the Breakdown of a Civilized Society”
by Adam Dick | Nov 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Reported efforts to begin following through on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 2013 election promise to reduce marijuana arrests in the city has distressed Sergeants Benevolent Association police union President Ed Mullins. Mullins is quoted Wednesday in the New...
Ron Paul’s Take on the 2014 Midterm Elections
by Adam Dick | Nov 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Former United States House of Representatives member and presidential candidate Ron Paul is not mincing words in presenting his take on the Tuesday midterm elections. Speaking with hosts Ben Swann and Erin Ade on RT, Paul argues that the US effectively has “a monopoly...
Alaska, DC, and Oregon Voters Legalize Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Nov 5, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
State and local governments continued going their own way on marijuana laws in elections Tuesday, with voters in the sates of Alaska and Oregon, along with United States capital city Washington, DC, approving ballot measures legalizing marijuana for recreational use....
Ron Paul on the Selective Service System’s Psychological Manipulation
by Adam Dick | Oct 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul, speaking with Charles Goyette during their most recent weekly podcast, addresses the military draft, which Paul refers to as “slavery,” and the psychological manipulation involved in requiring 18-year-old American men to register in...
John Stossel Demolishes Old Saw about Libertarians as ‘Spoilers’ for Republican Candidates
by Adam Dick | Oct 25, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
John Stossel, in a conversation Thursday with fellow Fox Business host Stuart Varney, demolished with three arguments the old saw that Libertarian Party candidates are “spoilers” for Republican candidates. First, Stossel notes that, in the many races that are not...
Eric Margolis: Formerly ‘Liked Everywhere’ Canada Has Moved ‘Into the Gun Sights’
by Adam Dick | Oct 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
International affairs writer Eric Margolis, interviewed Wednesday on the Scott Horton Show, commented that he would not be surprised if the killers of Canada soldiers in Ontario and Quebec this week were motivated to react to the Canada government’s adoption of “a...
35,000 People and Counting on New York’s New ‘No Guns List’
by Adam Dick | Oct 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US government has demonstrated with its No Fly and Selectee Lists, in operation for over a decade, how to deny respect for tens of thousands of individuals’ travel and privacy rights without even the slightest nod to due process protections. Over the last 19...
Defense Secretary Hagel to Congress: ‘Give the Military More Money’!
by Adam Dick | Oct 16, 2014 | Congress Alert
While you might expect there would be a “peace dividend” with the winding down of the United States military occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is making the rounds over the congressional recess to project the message that the United...
Committing Highway Robbery to Fund Police Militarization
by Adam Dick | Oct 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
The militarization of local police in the United States is not being fueled just by the federal government providing military equipment, including machine guns, grenade launchers, and armored vehicles, to local police departments. The police are also funding the rise...
Celebrating Ron Paul’s Forty Years in the Political Arena
by Adam Dick | Oct 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
Forty years ago this month, Ron Paul was in the final weeks of his first campaign for the United States House of Representatives. Paul, a Texas obstetrician who had never before run for political office, was the Republican nominee challenging Rep. Robert R. Casey, the...
The Abominable No Fly List
by Adam Dick | Oct 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Last week the US government prohibited poet and journalist Amjad Nasser from speaking at an event to inaugurate the Gallatin Global Writers series at New York University. How did the government do this? By having a policeman at the event inform Nasser that he would be...
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