Today RPI's Daniel McAdams joins the Tom Woods Show to take apart a few of the topics in the headlines that we need to keep an eye on. What is really at stake in the FBI vs. Apple showdown? What is causing Europe's migrant crisis, who are the players, who are the good...
Daniel McAdams
Washington’s Neocon Occupation Upholds Illusion Of Choice In The Two-Party Duopoly
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
A good part of the country heads to the primaries today, Super Tuesday, to cast a vote for which Democrat or Republican will run for president in November. The media and the pundits make their living playing up the illusion that there is a great difference between...
Migrant Crisis: The End Of The EU?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 29, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Greece is wracked by financial meltdown but is hosting tens of thousands of migrants who are blocked from their intended journey northward. Calais in France is home to makeshift refugee camps where thousands hope to travel to the UK. The EU social welfare system...
Guess Who’s Violating the Syria Ceasefire?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
...the Turks, of course. According to Qadri Jamil, one of the leaders of the opposition Syrian Popular Front for Change and Liberation, the temporary ceasefire in Syria is for the most part holding. But the main violator of the agreement thus far, he says, is the...
What’s Wrong With Regime Change? RPI’s Daniel McAdams on LibertyTalkRadio
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joined Joe Cristiano of LibertyTalkRadio for a wide-ranging (and free-wheeling) discussion about the perils of empire, the insanity of US foreign policy, what's up with Syria, why they hate us, and the anatomy of regime change. Don't miss...
The Incredible Shrinking Syrian ‘Ceasefire’
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 24, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Syria "cessation of hostilities" agreement seems all the stranger as huge unanswered questions regarding signatories, partners, monitoring, reporting, adjudication, and enforcement are raised. It seems more and more like something cobbled together without much...
Guantanamo Travesty: A Consequence Of Unconstitutional War
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 24, 2016 | The Liberty Report
President Obama has made his final effort to fulfill a campaign promise to close down the US detention facility at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, sending Congress a plan that would see a new facility constructed in the US to house those of the 91 remaining...
Syria Ceasefire: More War Or Chance For Peace?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 23, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Washington's hawks are already trashing the Syria ceasefire deal that the US and Russia presented yesterday. The Russians will never honor their agreement, they argue. Nevertheless the agreement offers some slight hope that the five year war might be coming to a close...
Will Syria Ceasefire Deal End War, or Lead to Nuclear Exchange?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
As co-chairs of the International Syria Support Group, the US and Russia announced yesterday an agreement on the "cessation of hostilities" in Syria that is scheduled to go into effect at midnight on February 27th. According to the agreement, the militaries of the...
CIA Sends Torture Report Down Memory Hole
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 22, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Why is the Justice Department trying to keep the Senate report on CIA torture under wraps? The same reason the CIA officer in charge of the torture program gave when he ordered the torture tapes destroyed: "the heat from destroying [the torture videos] is nothing...
Reading Ron Paul in Beijing
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
What a thrill it was for Dr. Paul to receive an email the other day from a young scholar and translator in Shanghai, China, to inform him that the Chinese language version of his very important book, Pillars of Prosperity, was now available on Amazon China! Imagine...
Showdown: Justice Department Escalates Against Apple
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US Justice Department escalated its standoff with Apple today, filing a motion to compel Apple to create software that would facilitate the Federal Government's breaking the encryption of an iPhone in the possession of one of the San Bernardino shooters. Apple has...
FBI vs. Apple: Is Liberty At Stake?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 18, 2016 | The Liberty Report
The FBI wants Apple to create software that will allow the Feds to break into the latest iPhones. Ironically, Apple upgraded its iPhone encryption as a result of the Snowden revelations about government spying on innocent Americans. The pretext for the government's...
Supreme Court – The Soft Tyranny Of Judicial Review
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 17, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Preservation of our civil liberties are very much tied up in the Constitutional separation of powers. We see daily in both the Legislative and Executive Branches the distortion and dysfunction of this important concept, where presidents legislate by Executive Order...
Turkey Bombing Syria – The Start Of Something Big?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 16, 2016 | The Liberty Report
After four days of bombing US allies in Syria -- the Kurdish YPG militia -- the Turkish government is now requesting that the US begin a ground invasion of Syria. Saudi fighter jets have reportedly arrived in Turkey to take part in the invasion if the US agrees....
Presidents Day 2016: Who Was Best? Who Was Worst?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 15, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Today is the day we are supposed to celebrate the unitary executive -- well not exactly, but unfortunately the celebration of Presidents Day has come to mean the iconization of the strong leader who takes the country into wars and takes charge of the economy. But...
While Kerry Talks Ceasefire, US Allies Secretly Ship Grad Missiles to Syria Rebels
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photoThe big news yesterday was that after some five hours of intense negotiation on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, an agreement was reached between the major powers on a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria within the next week. According to the...
Why Are Neocons so Desperate to Rescue al-Qaeda in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 11, 2016 | Neocon Watch
Reading Dennis Ross and David Ignatius is a good reminder that the neocons live in a different world than the rest of us. They do not conform their analysis to reality, but rather they conform reality to their view of the world. Where most people would be encouraged...
Anatomy Of The Deep State: An Open Conspiracy
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
What is the "deep state"? Is it a secret national security apparatus that spies on us and operates "black sites" overseas? Some judicial star chamber ruling in secret? Well, partly. But as Mike Lofgren, author of "The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the...
Drafting Women – Equality Or Equal Slavery?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 10, 2016 | The Liberty Report
With the opening of all military combat roles to women, establishment voices like the New York Times are proclaiming that the next fight for equality is to force women to join men in registering for the draft. In what way is it a triumph of rights to have the threat...
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