RPI Chairman Ron Paul was criticized for daring to mention "blowback" in relation to the recent attack on a provocative French magazine. The usual neocon outlets made their usual superficial accusations that Dr. Paul was somehow justifying the attack. But is it...
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Ron Paul: Paris Attack ‘Obscene,’ But Blowback for French Interventionism
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
RPI Chairman Ron Paul was on NewsMax today to discuss the attack on a Paris-based satirical magazine that left 12 people dead. The attackers are said to be radical Islamists who objected to the magazine's vulgar depictions of their faith and of Muhammad, Islam's...
How Many Current US Wars? Let’s Ask Obama…
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Non-interventionists and antiwar activists are often accused of exaggerating the extent of US military actions overseas to make our point about the costs of empire. We are said to over-estimate US troop deployments and level of military activity overseas. We reject...
North Korea Sanctions? Afghan Victory? McAdams and Jay Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Director cannot understand new Obama sanctions on North Korea as the US case against North Korea involvement in recent hack of Sony falls apart. North Korea hacks Sony to block a film featuring assassination of North Korea leader? What about the...
Oliver Stone: CIA Fingerprints All Over Ukraine Coup
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Famed Hollywood director Oliver Stone created a media storm this week with his statements about the February coup that ousted democratically elected Ukrainian leader Victor Yanukovych. Stone has concluded that the mysterious sniper fire that killed dozens and...
Sen. Lindsey Graham in Israel: ‘We Will Follow Your Lead’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 30, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Imagine the reaction if a sitting United States Senator travelled to France, or Russia, or Saudi Arabia and assured the foreign leader that the US lawmaking body would "follow your lead" when it comes to a decision on whether “more sanctions, and stronger sanctions”...
2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
From just about as early in my life as I can remember, growing up as a child in Holland, there were stories about World War II, and not just about Anne Frank and the huge amounts of people who, like her, had been dragged off to camps in eastern Europe never to come...
Students for Liberty: The ‘Regime Change’ Libertarians
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Libertarian activists in Ukraine?The Students for Liberty are at it again, mainstreaming deviationism with a reckless fervor. While it is a generally accepted tenet of libertarian thought that state involvement in regime change operations overseas is anathema, there...
Should You Condemn the CIA for Torture If You Don’t Condemn the Iraq War?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
For Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, an RPI academic board member, the CIA has botched its mission, post 9/11, and has reached what he called "the pinnacle of incompetence," to where it has become a detriment to the United States. In a recent interview on the Real News...
Why Millions of Christians Will Mourn This Christmas
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
It will be a miserable Christmas for the overseas victims of US interventions this year. Though "regime change" proponents talk of bringing freedom and democracy to the countries they target, the end result is quite the opposite: the rise of extremism, famine, ethnic...
Russia Sanctions and Shifting Cuba Policy – McAdams and Taylor’s Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 20, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Obama has admitted that sanctions do not work, as he announced a major US policy shift toward Cuba. But he turned around and immediately signed a bill authorizing more sanctions on Russia. There is a big disconnect between rhetoric and actions in the US...
US Overlooks Russia Sanctions Backlash on Own Economy
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 19, 2014 | Featured Articles
While the US pursues the "nuclear" option of a first strike on the Russian economy -- seeking to depress the price of oil while denying Russia access to international financial markets -- the economic backlash of such a move could well be as dangerous for the US...
Bombs Away! Obama Signs Lethal Aid to Ukraine Bill
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, Ed Royce (R-CA)President Obama made good today on his promise to sign the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, which had passed Congress last week. Dubbed by former Rep. Dennis Kucinich the bill that "reignited the Cold War while...
New US Bill Arms Ukraine, Adds Sanctions — RPI’s McAdams on RT
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The House and Senate late last week passed legislation authorizing $350 million in US lethal aid to Ukraine and imposing a new round of sanctions on Russia. Co-author of the bill, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), claims the bill is in response to the "Russian invasion of...
Meaning of Torture Report: Simply a Catharsis? – Daniel McAdams and Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 14, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What is the final meaning of the Senate's recent release of its report on CIA torture activities? We know that no one will be prosecuted, as they have already been given immunity by the president. We have no reason to believe the out-of-control CIA will have its wings...
Rep. Walter Jones: Omnibus Bill? Are You Kidding? I Don’t Even Know What’s In It!
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), an RPI Board Member, again demonstrates why he is one of the few exemplary Members of Congress left in the House. Asked by CNSNews whether he would be voting for the monstrous omnibus continuing resolution on the House Floor this past week,...
As Expected, Neocons Defend Torture
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 9, 2014 | Neocon Watch
In the realm of predictability, it was a sure bet: The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture released today was vigorously rejected by the coterie of neocon armchair warriors whose lives are a constant loop of the television program "24." As the rest...
‘A Litany of Federal Crimes’ – Judge Napolitano on the CIA Torture Report
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
"The most compelling, detailed documented report of government intentional infliction of pain on non-combatants ever produced in American history since the time of the Civil War." That is how RPI Advisory Board Member Judge Andrew Napolitano reacted to today's release...
House Russia Bill, New SecDef, Hungary Regime Change: Foreign Policy Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams joins Jay Taylor again to look back over the top foreign policy stories of the past week. Why is Ukraine naming a former State Department employee to head its finance ministry? Is Ukraine the 51st state? What about Congress flexing its muscles at...
Ron Paul: Anti-Russia Bill Passed by Congress ‘Part of the War Propaganda Machine’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
Republicans and Democrats have the same foreign policy. One may be a little more aggressive than the other, but they all support intervention. So said RPI chairman Ron Paul when asked today how so many from both parties could support the recent bill passed in the US...
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