One of the most depressing things about watching -- even from a distance -- the quadrennial race for the White House is seeing what passes for debate on the one area where the president does have some Constitutional authority: foreign policy.Candidates who have spent...
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Sanders’ Foreign Policy – Not Antiwar
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 28, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Senator Bernie Sanders has a growing following, particularly among progressives. While one may think progressives tend to oppose the US militaristic foreign policy, Sanders' record on war is not as consistent as some would have us believe. In the Middle East his...
‘Unprivileged Belligerents’ – The US War On Journalists
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 27, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The Defense Department's new Law of War manual, which provides guidance to military commanders in time of war, advises that journalists they consider "unprivileged belligerents" can be either removed from military facilities or even detained indefinitely without...
NY Times: Why Isn’t Obama Backing Al-Qaeda in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just fourteen years after al-Qaeda attacked New York, the New York Times is wondering why the Obama Administration is not cooperating more closely with al-Qaeda. Of course they don't put it quite that way. In an article posted yesterday, the "paper of record" first...
Who Tipped Off Al-Qaeda in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 26, 2015 | The Liberty Report
McClatchy News Service reports this week that it was the Turkish government who tipped off al-Qaeda in Syria that a group of US-backed "moderate" fighters were about to enter the country. The "moderates" were immediately captured or killed upon stepping over the...
Markets Crash – Is China to Blame?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 25, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Yesterday's market crash shocked many in the financial world. Today comes the blame game, with several Republican hopefuls calling out China as being behind US economic woes. One candidate suggested that President Obama cancel the upcoming state visit of the Chinese...
Rabbis For Iran Deal – Is Schumer Wrong?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 19, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Recently 340 US rabbis -- from the full spectrum of US Judaism -- signed a letter to Congress urging approval of the Iran deal. As AIPAC spends millions lobbying against the deal, perhaps the US Jewish community is not as unified as the neocons would like us to...
Twisting The Truth On The Iraq War
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 17, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The neocons are looking to make a big comeback. Job one is to rehabilitate the Iraq war fiasco by re-writing history. It was not lies and manipulation that brought the US into the Iraq war, they claim, but it was only "faulty intelligence." And Dick Cheney is coming...
Iran Deal's Surprising Supporters
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 14, 2015 | The Liberty Report
As the neocons continue to bombard Congress demanding that the deal with Iran be killed, a group of former senior US military officers and a group of former Iranian political prisoners living in the US have both signed letters in support of the deal. Who will US...
ISIS Winning? Will Trump's Plan Work?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 10, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Donald Trump wants to hit ISIS hard, to "put a ring around them" and take their oil, presumably with US troops on the ground. But according to former CIA expert Michael Scheuer, attempting to defeat ISIS militarily would only help them grow in power. The best US...
US Intelligence Confirms US Support for ISIS
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 8, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Former Defense Intelligence Agency head Gen. Michael Flynn is not backing down from his claims that elements of the US government were aware of and supported the rise of jihadists in Syria as a means by which to overthrow its president, Bashar Assad. As the US moves...
Hiroshima at 70: Have We Learned Anything?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 6, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Seventy years after the atomic incineration of Hiroshima, have we progressed beyond the idea of viewing civilians as fair game in a war waged by their leaders? Yes and no, finds the Ron Paul Liberty Report. On one hand public opinion has gradually shifted away from...
US Drone War Accelerates – Victims Unknown
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 5, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The US drone war not only continues, but accelerates. More than 5,000 have been killed since 2009 in Obama's drone attacks and still the US has no idea how many of them might be innocent civilians. In fact, the US does not even bother to target only suspected...
Assad’s ‘Barrel Bombs’…and Ours
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
In 2012, just a year after President Obama decided that "Assad must go," then-State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland condemned the Syrian military's use of unguided explosives in its fight against the US-sponsored insurgency. These weapons, deemed "barrel...
Hillary’s Libyan Torturers
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Remember when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was so intent on a US attack on Libya that she disregarded the US Intelligence Community, the Pentagon, and even her colleagues in the Obama Administration to force her "humanitarian intervention"? Clinton was so...
Escalation in Syria: Obama To Airstrike Assad?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2015 | The Liberty Report
When the latest US-trained batch of fighters were sent into Syria, many were immediately captured by al-Qaeda. So much for US training. Some of the others called for US military air support which was granted. Subsequently, President Obama announced that the US would...
Ron Paul Plays Hardball
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2015 | The Liberty Report
When are the neocons and the hawks going to stop getting us into more trouble, MSNBC's Chris Matthews asked Ron Paul during an appearance on Hardball. "Well I wish they'd look at reason and look at what is happening," replied Paul, but "I think it's unfortunately...
Marines Declare F-35 Fighter ‘Operational’
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 3, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is, at a total cost of $1.5 trillion, the biggest military boondoggle in US history. The "next generation fighter" has been plagued with cost over-runs and serious functional problems. The fighter jet will not even have a gun until 2017....
Obama Authorizes War on Assad, Congress AWOL
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When the first group of US-trained fighters were inserted into Syria on Friday, Washington experienced a great shock. Tasked with fighting alongside al-Qaeda's Syrian franchise, the Nusra Front, Washington's newest proxy army in Syria was expected be welcomed by the...
Warhead in Charge of US Institute of Peace
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 2, 2015 | Neocon Watch
Along with the National Endowment for Democracy, the US Institute of Peace is one of President Reagan's worst disasters. Reagan may well have wanted to create organizations to push democracy and peace, but by putting neocons in charge of both he delivered...
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