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...
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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...
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...
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