Are the Russians coming to Syria to save the day? After more than a year of US bombing, ISIS seems to not have suffered much. Meanwhile the US maintains that it officially still demands regime change in Syria, even as US Secretary of State John Kerry hinted last week...
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US Exploited Assad’s Fight Against Al-Qaeda
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US government has been relying on its standard narrative that the Syria crisis emerged spontaneously after an "Arab Spring" inspired protest was violently suppressed by the Syrian government. The entire US intervention was justified on these grounds. Thus the...
Good News: Gallup Finds Half of US Fears Government
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 24, 2015 | The Liberty Report
What is the greatest threat to the American people? In a new poll taken by the Gallup organization we learn that half the country sees its own government as most threatening to life and liberty. Another poll taken last year showed strong libertarian leanings among the...
In Syria, More Lies Brings More Chaos
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 15, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Why is the US government bringing back old, discredited claims like "Assad gassed his own people"? And why are its representatives like US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power trying to propagandize the American people with cooked up tales of Russian military action in...
Samantha Power Slams Russia’s ‘Support’ For Assad, Downplays ISIS Threat
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 14, 2015 | Neocon Watch
More evidence that the current "Russia invaded Syria" media frenzy is a Washington-engineered psy-op to provide cover for a final US push against Bashar al-Assad, is provided in today's outburst from US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, the fuel injector in the...
Daniel McAdams and Tom Woods on The Syrian Refugee Crisis: What’s the Cause?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What is the latest with Europe's massive refugee/migrant crisis? RPI Executive Director Daniel McAdams was a guest today on the Tom Woods Show to look at the various explanations for this historic movement of humans from the Middle East to Europe. Was it spontaneous?...
Should Tweeting Be A Capital Offense?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 9, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The US government has assassinated at least one British citizen over his pro-ISIS Tweets, and we know they killed Al-Awlaki over his pro-al Qaeda propaganda. Currently the US Administration is discussing whether to accelerate its use of drones against those who Tweet...
UK Assassinates British Citizens In Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 8, 2015 | The Liberty Report
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his government had used drone strikes to kill two British citizens suspected of membership in ISIS in Syria. This is a major escalation for a country whose parliament voted against British bombing of Syria in 2013....
‘Refugees’ Arrive in Munich, Hungary Demonized: What’s The Endgame?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Watching live footage of the "refugees" arriving in Munich, it is difficult not to be struck by how non refugee-like they look. Many are well shod in expensive-looking western sneakers, wearing Adidas and other western name-brand clothing, fingering their smart...
Prisoner Of Conscience? The Case Of The Kentucky Clerk
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 4, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Civil liberties, civil disobedience, judicial supremacism, state's rights, rule of law, natural rights, etc. The case of Kentucky's county clerk Kim Davis is much more complicated and nuanced than proponents or opponents of her actions would have us believe. As she...
White House: Russian Military Action Against ISIS in Syria Would be ‘Destabilizing’
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today's lesson in how propaganda works: The rumor mill turns a trickle of a story early this week about "thousands" of Russian soldiers deploying to Syria any day -- a wholly unsourced story originating on an Israeli website -- into a torrent of hyperventilating about...
Abusing Dead Syrian Children
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Images are a powerful tool in the hands of propagandists. A picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes. If a powerful image can be manipulated to tell a tale even if false, it can persuade more viscerally than can a thousand reasoned arguments.So it is with...
War Drums Beating – Real Or Imagined?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 3, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Chinese ships are near Alaska, US Predator drones are near Russia in Latvia. Are the Russians going into Syria or is that just disinformation? Everywhere it seems little brushfires threaten to become conflagrations. Are we in great danger of a major war, or might...
Refugee Crisis – Demise Of The EU?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 2, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Thousands of refugees and migrants are streaming into Europe -- mostly Hungary -- on a daily basis. Transportation has ground to a halt in Hungary as they are swarming the trains in attempt to get to Austria and Germany. Where are they escaping from? Countries like...
The War on Cash
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 1, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Governments across the globe seek ways to more effectively consolidate their power over those they govern. One of the most effective and insidious ways of gaining control of citizens and their habits is to forbid the use of cash in commercial transactions. Forcing all...
ISIS Gold Standard: Will it Work?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 31, 2015 | The Liberty Report
A bizarre new video purportedly released by ISIS features archival clips from several prominent Austrian and free-market economics thinkers, including Ron Paul, discussing the Federal Reserve and the end of the dollar. Is this some sort of anti-gold propaganda, meant...
The Neocon Foreign Policy Walmart
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 30, 2015 | Neocon Watch
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...
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...
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