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...
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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...
Ron Paul: Republican Majority in US Senate Would Not Make Much Difference
by Adam Dick | Oct 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While Washington, DC politicians and pundits are prattling about whether the Democrats or Republicans will control the United States Senate after the November election, Ron Paul is throwing cold water on the whole brouhaha. Paul, speaking Wednesday on the Alan Colmes...
Ron Paul: Technology for Liberty, Not War
by Adam Dick | Oct 1, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul, in a wide-ranging Alex Jones Show interview on Tuesday, commented on the potential of technology to counter “the abusive state.” Noting that government will always use technology for war and against the people, Paul says that in...
Speaker John Boehner Says House Should Vote on ISIS War but Refuses to Allow Vote
by Adam Dick | Sep 30, 2014 | Congress Alert
While the United States Constitution says authority over declaring and funding war resides in the Congress, US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner refuses to allow a House vote regarding congressional authorization of the war on ISIS. Boehner says he...
Donald Rumsfeld: Barack Obama Lacks ‘Clarity of Vision’
by Adam Dick | Sep 29, 2014 | Neocon Watch
It is rich hearing Donald Rumsfeld, who made some outlandish statements to advance the 2003 Iraq War he helped instigate and manage as secretary of defense, fault US President Barack Obama for not providing “clarity of vision.” Rumsfeld, in a Friday interview with...
Dennis Kucinich Drops In On Hemp Activists at US Capitol
by Adam Dick | Sep 25, 2014 | Congress Alert
Industrial hemp activists from around the country visited United States Representatives’ and Senators’ offices in Washington, DC this week to make the case for repealing decades-old US government restrictions related to the plant. When the activists were meeting...
Whistleblowers Expose NSA-Partner Israel’s Corrupt Use of Surveillance Information
by Adam Dick | Sep 24, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Israel government, with whom the US government has been sharing for years Americans’ and others’ unredacted private information and communications obtained through the US mass spying program, is being accused by tens of whistle-blowers of abusively using this sort...
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