A handful of bipartisan members of the US House of Representatives, in a short Tuesday afternoon session preceding the State of the Union speech, passed by voice vote a resolution (H.Res. 37) using the killings in Paris on January 7-9 to justify war. In particular,...
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Fed Asset Seizures Rollback Less Than Advertised
by Adam Dick | Jan 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
While headlines in Yahoo News and Raw Story blare, respectively, “U.S. attorney general bans asset seizure by local police” and “No more asset seizure: Eric Holder bans controversial ‘war on drugs’ tactic,” the truth is that United States Attorney General Eric Holder...
Ron Paul: What is Really Behind Violent Police Confrontations in US Cities?
by Adam Dick | Jan 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul is a well-known opponent of the militarization and nationalization of local police in America. Yet, he cautions against looking at this development in isolation. On the Alex Jones Show on Tuesday, Paul discussed the economic policies of the US government and...
House Majority Leader: Charlie Hebdo Killings Justify US Intervention Worldwide
by Adam Dick | Jan 13, 2015 | Congress Alert
If the statement issued Wednesday by US House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is an indication of how the US House and Senate — both now under Republican leadership — will respond legislatively to the killings in Paris last week, expect expanded authorization...
Michael Scheuer: The Paris Killings Are Blowback
by Adam Dick | Jan 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Micheal Scheuer, whose twenty-plus years working at the Central Intelligence Agency included several years in charge of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit, describes the killings at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris this week as blowback. Scheuer, a Ron Paul Institute...
Speaker Vote Highlights US House’s Unchecked Procedural Corruption
by Adam Dick | Jan 6, 2015 | Congress Alert
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...
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...
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