RPI Director Daniel McAdams speaks with Jay Taylor of "Turning Hard Times Into Good Times" this week on the origins of NATO expansion in central Europe, the ongoing Ukraine crisis, the still-unresolved implications of the break-up of the USSR, and more:
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Daddy Warbucks Seeks President
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 2, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Much is made of money in politics and how the process is shaped by big donors. While RPI does not concern itself with politics or elections, there is a disturbing related phenomenon that does indeed concern our mission: big money purchasing war. Take casino magnate...
Infantile Diplomacy and Double Standards
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 1, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Frank Furedi at Spiked Online has published one of the best pieces we have seen on the remarkable inability of American and Western diplomats, NGO employees, and others to see US foreign policy as those on the receiving end might see it. In the toxic religion of...
Is Helsinki Burning?
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 1, 2014 | Neocon Watch
It is not always necessary to click on the latest press release from the neocon dynamic duo, McCain and Graham, to get a sample of the most outré pronouncements. Sometimes the most outlandish and warmongering "analyses" can be found in the strangest places.Take the...
Obama’s War On History
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Obama's speech in Brussels this week was a shocking mélange of ignorance and arrogance masquerading as foreign policy. Attempting to justify placing the US on war footing with Russia over the recent referendum in Crimea, the president stated: Kosovo only...
Col. Wilkerson: ‘What American Wants to Die for Kiev?’
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 27, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI academic advisor Col. Lawrence Wilkerson appears in a thought-provoking interview on MSNBC, where he expresses his hopes that President Obama can find a way to walk back from the increasing US/Russia war footing. Asked by the host about the neocons who are...
Obama Descends to Comedy
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
First they fear you, then they hate you, then they laugh at you? Sadly this is the tragectory of President Obama. Anyone with any sense of irony left can but laugh out loud at his absurd thirty minute speech in Brussels today.Low poll numbers
Democracy Promotion or Total Destruction?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams joined Jay Taylor's Turning Hard Times Into Good Times radio program this week to discuss the neocons, the left humanitarian interventionists, and the US gambit in Ukraine. Who are the real isolationists? The neocons and the sanctions addicts.
Did Students for Liberty Leader Really Attack Ron Paul?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 26, 2014 | Neocon Watch
How unfortunate that Alexander McCobin, president of Students for Liberty (SFL), decided to write an attack piece on Ron Paul's non-interventionism while echoing neocon warmongering over the recent referendum held in Crimea. It seems quite a strange move for an...
‘Non-Neocon’ Cal Thomas Attacks Ron Paul’s ‘Isolationism’
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 24, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Cal Thomas is a survivor. "America's most widely syndicated op-ed columnist" understands that to go against the rising tide of opinion in the US is to say goodbye to an enormously lucrative paycheck for relatively little work. The question Thomas struggles with is how...
Ron Paul: A New Cold War?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This week on the Ron Paul Weekly Podcast, Dr. Paul and host Charles Goyette discuss the US government's bizarre re-igniting of the Cold War through interventionism and hypocrisy in Ukraine.The interventionists try to stoke up another cold -- or even hot -- war with...
McCain’s Eleven Point Plan For War
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 19, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Sen. McCain to the rescue. He looks on in horror as the dramatic threats of the Obama administration against Russia on Ukraine are not only undeterring but in fact mocked by the Russians. He has developed an eleven point plan to hoist the administration back up onto a...
Foiled in Crimea, Is Obama Eyeing Syria Strike?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There is danger in making dramatic but idle threats. President Obama and his administration have been given to extremely muscular rhetoric to warn adversaries away from certain actions only to back down when their warnings are not heeded.The neocons pounce on such...
Ron Paul: Crimea Secedes. So What?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman Ron Paul has an op-ed in Tuesday's USA Today wondering why the US is so eager to saddle up for war over a relatively insignificant piece of land thousands of miles away. Dr. Paul is thankful that the bonds of international trade are tempering the passions...
Against Ukraine War? Obama May Seize Your Assets
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
Do you, like 56 percent of the US population, believe that the US should "not get too involved" in the Ukraine situation? Do you think that the US administration putting us on a war footing with Russia is a bad idea? Are you concerned that the new, US-backed leaders...
McCain: Why Aren’t We At War Already?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 14, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Sen. John McCain is furious with President Obama. Even though the president's bellicosity over a relatively insignificant piece of land more than 5,000 miles away threatens not only our terminally ill economy but actually threatens World War III, McCain still views...
Russia Gets it Wrong
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Russian Foreign Ministry is barking up the wrong tree. Concerned over reports that the US government plans to begin shipping billions of dollars to prop up the government in Ukraine it helped install by coup d'etat, the Russians believe they found the best...
Geoffrey Pyatt: The Outlaw as Sheriff
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Geoffrey Pyatt is an outlaw. The US Ambassador to Ukraine was caught on tape conspiring with Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland to overthrow the government in Kiev and install leaders of US choosing. Shortly afterward, after plenty of blood flowed through...
McCain: ‘It’s Tragic’ There’s No U.S. Military Option In Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 9, 2014 | Neocon Watch
If the US/EU backed overthrow of the Ukrainian government last month had a face, that face would be Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). McCain is the "Energizer Bunny" of US interventionism: wherever there is a government to subvert, a regime to change, chaos to foment, there...
The Empire’s Meddling In Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 9, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Robert Wenzel of the Economic Policy Journal to discuss the background and latest developments in the US/EU/Ukraine/Russia stand-off. Who started it? Who are the main players? Where might it lead? Are we really that close to all-out...
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