The Washington Post yesterday carried the extraordinary story of two Marine generals fired after a 2012 Afghan insurgent attack on Camp Leatherneck/Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand province. The attack by a handful of Afghan fighters resulted in two dead Marines,...
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Mother Agnes Mariam Attacked…By Human Rights Watch!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 2, 2013 | Featured Articles
Since when does a human rights organization take to arguing the case for a military attack that will kill scores of innocent civilians? If you are Human Rights Watch, it's all in a day's work. The US regime's favorite "human rights " organization, which once praised...
Daniel McAdams on the Tom Woods Show
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 30, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What a treat it was for me to spend part of my day on the radio with the great Tom Woods! On his Show today, we discussed Syria, John McCain and the neocons, Iran, the Ron Paul Institute, and working for Ron Paul in the House. Tom is a gracious host and I hope you...
Is a Good News Story Emerging in the Middle East?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 30, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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NSA Wolves in Reformers’ Clothing
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 27, 2013 | Congress Alert
There is nothing so dangerous as when Washington starts "reforming" something. Usually it means that despite best obfuscation efforts the administration or Congress has been caught doing something -- or not doing something -- sufficiently outrageous to create a public...
McCain’s Moderates Join Al-Qaeda
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 27, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Senator John McCain was just sure he could pick moderates in Syria worth supporting. To prove his point he made a trip to Syria this spring to demonstrate how much the insurgents were just like us, struggling for democracy and equal rights for all. But his trip was...
UN Agreement Reached on Syria; Obama Warhawks Defeated on Every Count
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 27, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Samantha Power In a stunning blow to the "humanitarian interventionists" of the Obama administration and another boost for Russian diplomatic efforts, the five permanent Members of the UN Security Council appear to have agreed to a resolution governing the destruction...
LPAC, Kenya, Obama at the UN — McAdams Talks Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 25, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Once again, RPI's Daniel McAdams is with VoiceAmerica Radio's Jay Taylor. They discuss the recent LPAC conference and Ron Paul's speech, events in Kenya, Syria, and Obama's UN speech.
Kenya Mall Attack: The Bitter Fruits of Interventionism
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 25, 2013 | Featured Articles
In his speech yesterday at the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama devoted little time to the recent slaughter of some 62 shoppers at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.Said Obama, in toto: But even a glance at today’s headlines indicates that dangers...
Ron Paul Institute’s McAdams Talks Syria, Vladimir Putin and John McCain’s Assessment of the Rebels
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 23, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
From Global Dispatch/Dispatch Radio: With the situation in Syria ever-changing and fluid, and a number of unexpected events coming out of it plastered in the media nearly daily, it’s increasingly more difficult to wrap your head around all this.To help clear things up...
McAdams Talks New Ron Paul Book, Syria With Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 18, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Listen to RPI's Daniel McAdams talk Ron Paul's new homeschooling book and the ongoing Syria crisis on Jay Taylor's Turning Hard Times into Good Times radio program:
Arab Spring’s Final Post Mortem
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 17, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Remember the "Arab Spring" that was embraced by so many opponents of the US empire as a spontaneous movement in opposition to the hegemonic regional aspirations of the US, Israel, and the dictatorial Gulf Arab states? The Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions were to set...
De-Manufacturing Consent Interviews RPI’s Daniel McAdams on Putin, Obama, and the Great Game
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 16, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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