RPI Advisory Board Member Andrew Napolitano, speaking with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Fox News regarding race and ethnicity questions people are required to answer to purchase a gun from a US government-licensed firearms dealer, explained that mandating answering...
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Prof. Flynt Leverett Dissects Obama’s ‘Insane’ Commitment to Never-Ending Middle East War
by Adam Dick | Sep 19, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Penn State University Professor and RPI Academic Board Member Flynt Leverett, as a panel discussion guest this week on CrossTalk on RT, dissected United States President Barack Obama’s “insane” commitment to “never-ending war in the Middle East.” Leverett also...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Derides US Support of “Moderate” Syria Insurgents
by Adam Dick | Sep 17, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking Monday with Ed Schultz on MSNBC, derided United States government support for “moderate” Syria insurgents, noting that you cannot sort out who you are bombing and who you are arming. Wilkerson, a College of...
Ron Paul: War on ISIS is Foolish Continuation of 24 Years of US War in Middle East
by Adam Dick | Sep 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul, speaking Monday with Erin Ade on RT, explained that it is “foolish” for the United States to wage war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria, noting that the new war is a continuation of 24 years of foolish US war in the Middle East. Instead of extending the war another...
Australia Senator, Greens Party Leader Christine Milne Opposes ISIS War, Warns of Blowback
by Adam Dick | Sep 14, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the United States, congressional leaders — both Democrat and Republican — have long supported the US war on ISIS. In Australia, though, there is some vocal opposition, including from Australia Senator and Australian Greens Party Leader Christine Milne. Milne,...
Obama Distorts Founders and Constitution to Promote War and Worldwide Domination
by Adam Dick | Sep 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama, in his speech Wednesday to make the case for a United States war on ISIS, suggested merely talking with some Congress members is enough to legitimate the war and invoked the Founders as supporters of worldwide US domination. In contrast to...
Prof. Peter Kraska’s Police Militarization Testimony for the US Senate Homeland Security Committee
by Adam Dick | Sep 10, 2014 | Congress Alert
The following is the informative and thought-provoking written testimony of Eastern Kentucky University Professor Peter B. Kraska for the United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Tuesday hearing “Oversight of Federal Programs for...
Dennis Kucinich: US Lying and Manipulating Fear to Justify War on ISIS
by Adam Dick | Sep 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Advisory Board Member Dennis Kucinich, interviewed this week on the Alan Colmes Show, emphatically argues against the United States military attacking ISIS. In particular, Kucinich explains that the US government is lying and manipulating fear to justify war on...
Desperate Drug War Beneficiaries Spread Marijuana Legalization Disinformation
by Adam Dick | Sep 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
While local and state governments continue moving forward with reducing and eliminating restrictions and penalties regarding marijuana, drug war beneficiaries are desperately responding by spreading disinformation. One such effort is the Rocky Mountain High-Intensity...
Remembering Eugene V. Debs’ Imprisonment for Speaking Against War
by Adam Dick | Sep 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
Eugene V. Debs nearly 100 years ago was a political prisoner in the United States for the “crime” of opposing the United States government’s participation in World War I and conscription of people to fight in that war. In March of 1919, the US Supreme Court, pointing...
Mr. Cantor Goes to Wall Street
by Adam Dick | Sep 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Hightailing it out of the United States House of Representatives after losing his reelection effort in the Republican Party primary is paying off well for uber war advocate and former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA). With four months remaining in the House...
Is a Nationwide Local Government Backlash Against Police Militarization Beginning?
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
KCRA TV is reporting that the Davis, California City Council voted Tuesday evening, after hearing from concerned people at the city council’s meeting, to get rid of the police department’s Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected military vehicle. The police department had...
Liberty Across the Board: Ron Paul vs Boston Globe on The Right to Use Heroin
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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