photo: U.S. Embassy Jakarta, IndonesiaEveryone is wondering who is Ben Rhodes, a 30-something who ascended from literally nowhere to be what seems a main driving force behind Obama's foreign policy. He is credited with convincing the president to embrace the Arab...
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Chemical Weapons ‘Discovery’ in Syria Opens Door for US Bombs
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 13, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Barely a week after President Obama announced the ascendance of the left-neocon, humanitarian interventionist cultists Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the top of his foreign policy team, and in a time of choking scandal, alas a light at the end of the tunnel has...
RPI Director on Traces of Reality Radio
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 10, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Executive Director was interviewed yesterday on the Traces of Reality radio program by host Guillermo Jimenez. As the website explains: "During the second hour of the program, Daniel McAdams, The Executive Director of The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and...
Greenwald vs. Fleischer: Neo-Con Trounced
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 9, 2013 | Neocon Watch
It is a rare treat to see such a contrast of views in one television news segment. It is the contrast that makes our point at RPI as well as it could be made. Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald debating former spokesman of former President George W. Bush Ari Fleischer...
Smoke Begins to Clear in Turkey
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 5, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Turkey is fascinating and confusing. What is happening? A protest over a new shopping mall turns into the spark of a revolution? Is Taksim Square the new Tahrir Square? As ever it is complicated and there are many lines and strains and competing interest groups....
Turkey's Erdogan Gets Taste of His Own Medicine?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 1, 2013 | The Liberty Report
After nearly a week of increasing public protests in Turkey, ostensibly over government plans to turn a last bit of green space in Istanbul into another shopping mall, matters became far more serious on Friday. Riot police descended on the protestors with various...
What Might Have Been…and What Is!
by Daniel McAdams | May 31, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Writing in The Hill newspaper, Bernie Quigley points out what could have been, had RPI Chairman Ron Paul been successful in his 2012 run for the presidency. He also points out that the original Tea Party was a very different animal from what it became after being...
McCain Spends Memorial Day with Al-Qaeda Allies
by Daniel McAdams | May 27, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Senator John McCain snuck into Syria this Memorial Day to spend the day with the terrorist-affiliated Free Syrian Army, in violation of both Syrian Law and likely of international law. While meeting with the Syrian insurgents and FSA Commander, Gen. Salem Idris,...
Orwell Reigns Over Raw Milk Trial
by Daniel McAdams | May 24, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The trial of Vernon Hershberger for the crime of selling healthy, unprocessed milk to informed and willing customers is sadly a damning commentary on the times in which we currently live. This humble yet learned Amish farmer faces the ruin of his farm, his family, and...
Senate Votes Unanimously Toward War Against Iran
by Daniel McAdams | May 23, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today the US Senate voted unanimously in favor of a Lindsey Graham resolution, S.Res.65, which "[s]trongly support(s) the full implementation of United States and international sanctions on Iran and urg[es] the President to continue to strengthen enforcement of...
When Terrorism Comes Home
by Daniel McAdams | May 23, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Several observers have pointed out the similarities between today's savage attack in London, where a British soldier was reportedly beheaded by two men shouting "Allahu Akbar," and the gruesome recent attack by US/UK-supported Free Syrian Army Commander Abu Sakkar,...
Tony Does Tirana
by Daniel McAdams | May 21, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair willfully and gleefully disseminated and embellished the lies of President Bush to propagandize the public and pave way for the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of its secular dictator, Saddam Hussein. In the process Blair...
WaPo’s Fred Hiatt: Obama’s ‘Turn Inward’ Puts Us All At Risk!
by Daniel McAdams | May 20, 2013 | Neocon Watch
In yesterday’s Washington Post, neo-conservative editorial page editor Fred Hiatt has a panic attack over the (imagined by him) possibility that President Obama is in his second term beginning to ponder some of the limitations of US interventionism world-wide. On the...
Bill Kristol’s Empire of Death
by Daniel McAdams | May 17, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Non-interventionists can learn a great deal by observing when the differing factions of the neo-conservative enterprise take to exposing each other. Take the Left-neocon New Republic, a magazine that hemorrhages money at such a rate that it literally had a hard time...
Another Lying Rice in the White House
by Daniel McAdams | May 16, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Obama's UN Ambassador Susan Rice, one of the architects of the Left-neocon favorite regime change tool, the "humanitarian intervention," appears slated for a promotion to become the president's National Security Advisor.Rice's pro-intervention colleagues on the Right...
RPI CEO Dr. Paul on the Drug War
by Daniel McAdams | May 10, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Listen here to RPI Chairman Ron Paul's latest podcase with Charles Goyette on one of the most fundamental foreign policy and civil liberties issues of our time: the war on drugs. Billions of dollars spent, people put in prison, US interventionism abroad -- the war on...
RPI Advisor WIlkerson: Syria Evidence ‘Pretty Flaky’
by Daniel McAdams | May 6, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Advisor Col. Lawrence Wilkerson appeared on the Young Turks program late last week to reveal that the "varying degrees of confidence" with which Defense Secretary Hagel proclaimed that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons was in fact...
UN Commission Investigator: It Was The Syrian Rebels Who Used Sarin
by Daniel McAdams | May 6, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, UN Human Rights commission member Carla Del Ponte says that testimony from victims and medical staff indicate that it was rebel forces and not the Syrian government that had used sarin gas. Said Del...
More Israeli Bombs Over Syria
by Daniel McAdams | May 5, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For the second day in a row, the Israeli government is reported to have bombed Syria -- this time near Damascus -- according to reporting by the Washington Post. As the Washington Post -- itself deeply in the ideological pockets of the left-neocons -- concludes, this...
Syria’s Drone Future
by Daniel McAdams | May 2, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over at the American Conservative, Phil Giraldi alerts us to the US administration's plans for the "day after" in Syria, if US assistance to the Syrian insurgents finds them victorious over the Syrian government. According to Giraldi's analysis, a strategy of sorts is...
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