From the Boiling Frogs Post homepage: On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent Guillermo is joined by the Executive Director of The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Mr. Daniel McAdams. Guillermo and Daniel discuss a week of geopolitical chess between...
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US and Russia Reach Agreement on Syria Weapons — Can The US Stop Arming the Jihadists Now?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 15, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US and Russia yesterday reached what looks to be a solid agreement on how to proceed with the dismantling of the chemical weapons stores of the Syrian government as well as destruction of Syria's production capabilities. Syria agreed to the Russian-proposed deal...
American Exceptionalism: Putin, the Neocons, and Ron Paul
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 13, 2013 | The Liberty Report
When Russian President Vladimir Putin took his American counterpart to task in a recent New York Times Editorial over Obama's invocation of the standard neoconservative boilerplate "American exceptionalism" to justify an aggressive US foreign policy, US neocons...

The Real Elizabeth O’Bagy Scandal
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 12, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
So now we know that Elizabeth O'Bagy, the "expert" cited by Secretary Kerry, Senator McCain, and others as an important impartial source claiming that moderates, not radicals, dominate among Syrian insurgents is a liar. Her padded resume was a convenient excuse for...

Is This Why Obama is So Desperate for a Nice Little War?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 11, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The president and his coterie of humanitarian interventionist laptop bombers have been so desperate to push the US into another war in the Middle East they have resorted to cooking the US Intelligence Community books and cherry picking second-hand intercepts and other...

Obama’s Defeat on Syrian Strike: The Downside
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 10, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With the increasing possibility of no vote being held on a Syria attack in the House and Senate, President Obama's uphill battle to win over lawmakers and the US public -- and his probable defeat in Congress -- may have come to an end. Those opposed to the...

Mother Agnes Mariam: ‘Footage of Syria Chemical Attack is a Fraud’
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 10, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib, mother superior of St. James Monastery in Qara, Syria, told RT today that she has evidence that the video footage currently being shopped around by Sen. Feinstein and the Obama administration as proof that the Syrian president used gas on...
Hillary Mann Leverett: 'Obama Made Two Unforced Errors, in Libya and Syria'
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 10, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Listen to Ron Paul Institute Academic Advisor Hillary Mann Leverett on the always-terrific Robert Wenzel Show discuss the intricacies of the Middle East. Ms. Mann Leverett is a rare breed of international affairs expert: she knows the region like nobody else, her...
Should Administration’s Syria Lies be Revealed to Us?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 8, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Two very commendable Members of the House of Representatives over the past week have each made some reference to White House manipulation of intelligence in the classified briefings they are feverishly providing to Members of Congress in an effort to peel off enough...
No Evidence? No Problem. Release Youtubes!
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 8, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As US government whistleblower Thomas Drake Tweeted today, the "US has no evidence in public of scientific samples or intel info proving use of sarin gas or by Syrian gov't."Reuters reported today that "Direct link between Assad and gas attack elusive for U.S."In the...

Should We Really Listen to Petraeus on Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 8, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Remember General David Petraeus? The guy who claimed that as soon as his brilliant comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy (COIN) was implemented in Afghanistan the US would emerge victorious? The "maverick savior of Iraq" as he was christened by neocon historian...

War Propagandists: The Curious Case of Elizabeth O’Bagy
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 8, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Yesterday we wrote about the Institute for the Study of War's Elizabeth O'Bagy, the Syria "expert" who recently wrote that the CIA assessment that the Syrian opposition was by and large a franchise of al-Qaeda was completely wrong, and in fact they are mostly...

Syria’s Nayirah Moment: The Lies That Build the Case for War
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 7, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Followers of the lies that lead us to war will well remember one of the late Congressman Tom Lantos's more sinister (and for Lantos that is saying much) manipulations of US public opinion in favor of war, when he knowingly allowed the daughter of the Kuwaiti...

Don’t Miss Buchanan — ‘Just Who’s War is This?’
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 5, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Patrick Buchanan is at his firey and controversial best today with a must-read column on the coming US attack on Syria and those foolishly pushing a war that will surely backfire on its sponsors and on the US. Here is an excerpt of classic Buchanan, but don't miss the...

Obama’s Syrian Allies Bombard Christian Village
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 5, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Church and Monastery of St. Takla, Maaloula, Syria Obama's allies in Syria -- those who will directly benefit from the coming US airstrikes -- stepped up their genocide against Syrian Christians today, attacking Maaloula, a Christian village, indiscriminately using...

Putin: Kerry Lies Beautifully
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 5, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Russian president Vladimir Putin puts into words what most of the rest of the world is thinking about Obama's mad dash to bomb Syria. Putin, like the rest of us, sees the absurdity in the US regime blatantly breaking international law and overtly violating the...

John Kerry Steals Wolfowitz’s Iraq Lines for Syria War
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 5, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Secretary of State John Kerry at the House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Syria war authorization Today: “With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs...the answer is profoundly yes. They have. That offer is on the table.” Deputy Defense Secretary Paul...
Ex-CIA Giraldi: Intel Colleagues Don’t Buy Chemical Attack Story
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 4, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Phil Giraldi, a former career CIA operations officer, is interviewed on Scott Horton's excellent radio program today. Giraldi, a unique and valuable source of information and insights on how the US intelligence community works, told Horton that he and his current and...

Why No One Backs Washington’s Push for Syria War
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 4, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
McClatchy is among the last objective mainstream media sources. The news service actually bothers to question conventional wisdom and do actual reporting. Yesterday it published a devastating deconstruction of the Obama administration's "evidence" animating its push...

Rep. Cantor Steals Condi Rice’s Iraq Lines for Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 3, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) directly channeled then-President Bush's National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, spouting the same lying propaganda to get us into Syria that Rice spouted to get us into Iraq.Leader Cantor today: "No one wants to be...
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