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...
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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...
House Procedure in Action: Pro-Drug War Amendment OK, Pro-Gun Rights Amendment Prohibited
by Adam Dick | Jul 17, 2014 | Congress Alert
US House of Representatives rules were strictly enforced Tuesday to prevent a full House vote on a pro-gun rights amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) despite the earlier incorporation into the bill of a pro-drug war amendment that would also appear to be...
Dennis Kucinich: Americans ‘Have to Break the War Culture’
by Adam Dick | Jul 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an engaging, wide-ranging interview with Peter Z. Scheer at Truthdig, RPI Advisory Board Member Dennis Kucinich expanded on his statement earlier this month on Democracy Now that “interventionism is not the wave of the future,” by explaining in the new interview...
Resolution Requiring US Military Withdrawal from Iraq on the Fast Track to US House Vote
by Adam Dick | Jul 14, 2014 | Congress Alert
A resolution requiring the removal from Iraq of all US military troops who are not protecting diplomatic facilities and personnel that was introduced Friday in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) is on the fast track to a debate and vote in the...
Ron Paul Rewind: Israel Encouraged Growth of Hamas
by Adam Dick | Jul 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
As the death toll from the Israel government’s air strikes increases and its military prepares for a ground invasion of Gaza that the Israeli government justifies as a response to Hamas hostilities, consider former Rep. Ron Paul’s January 9, 2009 speech on the US...
Media Blaming Libertarians for Republican Candidates’ Losses Four Months Before Election
by Adam Dick | Jul 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
The media is not waiting until after the November general election to blame Libertarian Party candidates for Republican Party candidates’ upcoming losses. Indeed, Libertarian candidates are already being blamed for the Republicans’ potential failure to gain a majority...
House to Vote on ‘Expedited and Dignified’ TSA Screenings for Some People, Sometimes
by Adam Dick | Jul 7, 2014 | Congress Alert
The US House of Representatives is scheduled to consider on Tuesday the Honor Flight Act (HR 4812) that would require the Transportation Security Administration to work with a non-profit organization to establish a process for providing “expedited and dignified...
Ron Paul: US Threatening Greater Middle East War, Stock Market Crash, and Oil and Gold Rise
by Adam Dick | Jul 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over at the Ron Paul Channel, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul is warning of consequences from the US government escalating its military involvement in Iraq. Paul concludes: Expect one day for this insanity of our foreign policy to translate into a much greater war...
Rep. Thomas Massie: ‘Declassify 9/11 Report to Prevent the Next 9/11’
by Adam Dick | Jul 1, 2014 | Congress Alert
In a new discussion at the YouTube channel of Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), Jones, an RPI Advisory Board member, discusses with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) the effort to declassify 28 pages of a joint House of Representatives and Senate Intelligence Committees report. The...
Ron Paul: No More US Aid to Syria Insurgents; Better for House to Impeach than Sue Obama
by Adam Dick | Jun 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul, speaking with Neil Cavuto on Fox News, explains that President Barack Obama’s proposal to spend a half-billion dollars on training and arming Syria insurgents will hurt Americans while helping the military industrial complex. Paul, RPI’s chairman and...
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