The Boston Globe published this week a guest editorial arguing, as RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul memorably did during a 2011 Republican presidential primary debate in South Carolina, that heroin should be legalized. While the Globe editorial presents strong...
Adam Dick
Here Comes Increased Deficit Spending to Fight IS
by Adam Dick | Aug 27, 2014 | Congress Alert
You might think that, with the US government debt increasing year after year and bloated US military spending nearly equal to the combined military spending of the rest of the world, the US government would try to find a way to fight the Islamic State without...
Ron Paul Challenging Government Secrecy and the “Truther” Label
by Adam Dick | Aug 25, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, speaking Friday with Charles Goyette in their weekly podcast discussion, decries the trend of the US government keeping more and more information secret. Paul also laments that people trying to discover the truth — whether about the September 11, 2001...
Ron Paul: The Battle is Between Liberty and Interventionism, Not Republicans and Democrats
by Adam Dick | Aug 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a Ron Paul Channel commentary on Wednesday, Ron Paul took issue with aspects of the August 7 New York Times article “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” In particular, Paul argues that the article describes the growing influence of libertarianism wrongly...
Send Sunil Dutta Back to the Police Academy… or Not
by Adam Dick | Aug 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Sunil Dutta, who has worked 17 years in the Los Angeles Police Department, has some advice for anyone encountering him on the job: do whatever I say and don’t complain, or I will hurt or kill you. Here is Dutta’s advice, in his own words, from his Tuesday Washington...
Eric Margolis: US Manipulating Afghanistan Election to Extend US Military Presence
by Adam Dick | Aug 20, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Much American public attention is focused on the US military escalation in Iraq and, to some extent, the rivalry for leadership in that nation where Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has worn out his US government welcome. Among other offenses, Maliki failed to ensure...
Rep. Walter Jones and Ron Paul on the Saudi Arabia-Bush Administration 9/11 Cover-Up
by Adam Dick | Aug 18, 2014 | Congress Alert
“The American People have the right to know the truth and to know the relationship with the Saudis at the time of the Bush administration,” declared Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) in a Monday discussion with Ron Paul on the Ron Paul Channel. Jones made the comment in...
Dennis Kucinich: US Fueled Christian Persecution in Iraq; More Intervention Is Not the Answer
by Adam Dick | Aug 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former US House of Representatives member and Democratic Party presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, speaking Wednesday with Bill Hemmer on Fox News, explained that “Christians, in effect, are receiving the blowback from the US war against Iraq,” and that further US...
House and Senate Leaders Line Up Behind Obama on Bombing Iraq
by Adam Dick | Aug 12, 2014 | Congress Alert
President Barack Obama is encountering no opposition from the top four Democrat and Republican leaders in the House and Senate as he escalates US military action in Iraq with new bombings. US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has chosen not to comment...
NY Times Truncated Ron Paul History Puts Libertarians in Republican Box
by Adam Dick | Aug 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As libertarians participate in a trans-ideological and trans-partisan effort that may overturn the warfare-police-surveillance state, the old media leaders seem to be taking on a mission to tame libertarianism’s adherents by defining them as mainly a subgroup in the...
Andrew Napolitano: Obama Appears ‘Out to Lunch’ Regarding CIA Spying on Congress
by Adam Dick | Aug 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Tuesday on Fox News, Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that Central Intelligence Agency Director John O. Brennan’s admission that the CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee indicates President Barack Obama either has committed an impeachable offense...
Ron Paul: Don’t Palestinians Have a Right to Defend Themselves Too?
by Adam Dick | Aug 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
Speaking on Voices of Liberty, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul explains that, while he agrees with the often repeated in the media declaration that “Israel has a right to defend herself,” he wonders why more people in the media don’t voice support for Palestinians’...
No Dissent Heard as House and Senate Quickly Approve $225 million for Israel War
by Adam Dick | Aug 4, 2014 | Congress Alert
On Friday, the last day before the annual congressional August recess, new legislation (H.J.Res. 76) was introduced on the US Senate floor and rushed to passage in both the Senate and US House. The legislation gives the Israel government another $225 million dollars...
Eric Cantor Leaving US House for Wall Street Millions?
by Adam Dick | Aug 3, 2014 | Congress Alert
Did former US House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) announce his resignation from the House so he can speed up private negotiations to make the big bucks in the financial industry? That is the suggestion of a new Politico article. The Politico...
Former Commission Heads Endorse Rep. Walter Jones’ 9/11 Declassification Bill
by Adam Dick | Jul 31, 2014 | Congress Alert
Answering an audience member’s question at a July 22 Washington, DC event, Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton — who were, respectively, the chair and vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission that published its report ten years ago this month—spoke in favor of making public...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Exposes the CIA’s Ongoing Cover-Up of Torture War Crimes
by Adam Dick | Jul 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson discussed in detail, as a guest Sunday on Background Briefing with Ian Masters, a “major cover-up” in progress, with the US Central Intelligence Agency altering a still unreleased Senate Intelligence Committee report on...
Robert Higgs: The Many Costs of War
by Adam Dick | Jul 27, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The deaths, injuries, and property destruction of battles are obvious costs of war as is all the money spent on weapons, soldiers, and other expenses directly related to battles. Less well understood by many people are the many other war costs, including costs imposed...
‘Hard-Core Libertarian’ Austin Petersen’s Advice for ‘Soviet’ Ron Paul
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
Austin Petersen, who describes himself in the introduction to his Freedom Report Podcast as a “hard-core libertarian” who cares about “pure freedom,” is upset that Ron Paul wrote an editorial expressing skepticism regarding the US government’s and media’s line on the...
Eric Margolis: ‘Blame for this Bloodbath Sits as Much With the US as it Does With Israel’
by Adam Dick | Jul 24, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
International affairs writer and RPI Academic Board Member Eric Margolis, interviewed Monday on the Scott Horton Show, concludes regarding Israel’s military attack on and invasion of Gaza that “the blame for this bloodbath sits as much with the US as it does with...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Reject ‘Raving Maniac’ John McCain; Cooler Heads Can Create Ukraine Peace
by Adam Dick | Jul 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is using the downed Malaysia Airlines passenger airplane to justify his call for escalating US military support for the Ukraine government, RPI Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson counters that the key to creating a neutral, at...
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