RPI Director Daniel McAdams is interviewed by Jay Taylor, host of "Turning Hard Times Into Good Times." The two discuss the Geneva II talks on Syria, the US demand that Iran not be included, the myth of "Arab Spring," and more...
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The Ugly American (and Friends) in Geneva
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
US Secretary of State John Kerry's delusions continued as he arrived in Montreux, Switzerland to open the "Geneva II" talks on the ongoing conflict in Syria. Having successfully bullied UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon into rescinding the invitation previously...
Iran, Syria and the Tragicomedy of U.S. Foreign Policy
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As the Joint Plan of Action and Geneva II diplomatic initiatives, dealing with Iran and Syria, respectively, RPI academic advisor Hillary Mann Leverett speaks with Scott Horton for Pacifica Radio with words of caution to those who think the new Senate bill imposing...
How Dare They Invite Iran to The Syria Peace Conference!
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon had the temerity Monday to invite Iran to participate in the "Geneva II" conference on the ongoing crisis in Syria. Though one might believe Iran has a legitimate interest in a conflict right in its neighborhood, the US refused to...
Kerry’s Geneva II Delusions
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Secretary of State John Kerry is in a bind. The US claims that the purpose of its two-plus year covert and overt support for rebels in Syria is to establish democracy in that country. But to get there the US has backed an artificially cemented together gaggle of...
Obama’s NSA Speech: What Reform?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
Speaking from a set that could have been designed by Leni Riefenstahl, President Obama yesterday informed us that not only does our freedom depend on the work of spies, but the very birth of our republic was dependent on the same kind of surveillance network that so...
War with Iran? New Sanctions? RPI’s McAdams and Jay Taylor Discuss
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Daniel and Jay discuss Syria and Iran. Why are the neocons so obsessed? Why is the US so paranoid about Iran? What about the trade deal between Russia and Iran?
McCain and Graham Go To Work Against Iran Agreement
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 14, 2014 | Congress Alert
Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) continue to pull out all stops in attempt to scuttle the six-month interim agreement between the P5+1 and Iran. The agreement is meant to provide some space for negotiations to continue between the two sides while...
RPI’s McAdams and Tom Woods: Fallujah, Iran Sanctions, Back-to-Iraqers, and More
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 14, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Listen to RPI's Daniel McAdams on the Tom Woods Show today, taking apart Iraq, Iran, al-Qaeda, and the neocons who are still having their way with US foreign policy.
Gates Too Kind About Biden?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates thinks Vice President Biden is a decent guy but a bit loopy. In his new book, Duty, Gates writes on Biden that: ...he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. The...
It’s An Al-Qaeda World
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is "Al-Qaeda" a franchise today for groups who believe in the ideas of the original "Al-Qaeda"? What is the connection between "Al-Qaeda" and Saudi Arabia today? And what is the level of threat today? RPI Director Daniel McAdams and Tel Aviv University's Yoram...
Has Robert Gates Become One of Us?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates becoming a non-interventionist? Has he taken the hard road to conversion that begins with all faith in US power projection and coercive influence and ends up with frenzied and joyous clicking through the pages of LRC and...
Back to Iraq? You Bet!
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As usual, the interventionists who run the US foreign policy establishment are drawing all the wrong conclusions from the news that the former "al-Qaeda in Iraq" (now "al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria") has set up shop in the notorious Fallujah. Sen. John McCain and his...
Ron Paul and Stephen Kinzer: The History of Interventionism
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today on the Ron Paul Channel, Dr. Paul interviews Stephen Kinzer, author of the fascinating new book on the Dulles brothers and their interventionist rampage through the 1950s. As Kinzer tells Dr. Paul in the interview, the Dulles brothers -- John Foster as Secretary...
American Dictatorship, NSA Court Decision, and More: Daniel McAdams and Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams is with Jay Taylor on the VoiceAmerica network discussing: Snowden, American dictatorship, NSA court decision, are hackers legitimate, the Washington Post's shilling for the national security state, and more...
Eric Cantor Girds His Iran War Loins
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 3, 2014 | Congress Alert
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is leading the counter-attack against the Administration's opening door to a peaceful agreement with Iran. His strategy to scuttle any permanent rapprochement with Iran on behalf of his neocon and Israel/Saudi lobby benefactors...
The Real ‘Blame America’ Crowd
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 31, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus loves to protect his sources in the Intelligence Community. In an awkward attempt to cast aspersions on the NSA leakers and the journalists who cover them, he posed “Questions for Snowden” earlier this year that were so off-base his...
Saudis to Buy French Weapons For Lebanon Army
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 30, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced yesterday that it would extend $3 billion to the Lebanese army to purchase weapons from France. This is no garden variety foreign aid. This is in part Saudi Arabia's response to Washington's recent reconsideration of its Syria...
'NSA Has Become a Four-Letter Word in US'
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 29, 2013 | Featured Articles
The NSA “has become a four-letter word in the US” and Americans are irritated, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Daniel McAdams, told RT while commenting on a ruling which states that the agency's spying is legal. RT: The hackers'...
McAdams’ Year-End Chat With Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 27, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams looks back over the year in foreign policy and civil liberties with VoiceAmerica Radio's Jay Taylor. What does the rest of the world think of US spying, the ugly underside of an otherwise legitimate US intelligence community, ruling against NSA...
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