The US State Department every year releases its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, arrogating to itself the right to judge how the rest of the world measures up to US standards of respect for human rights. One of the key measurements the US uses to determine...
Something to cheer about the US governnent's ongoing budget battle! US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul wrote today on Twitter: Due to the lapse in appropriations I will not be updating Twitter and Facebook regularly. Please visit @StateDept for updates. — Michael...
Daniel McAdams and Jay Taylor discuss the government shutdown, Ron Paul's green Chevette, claims that the Syrian gas attack videos were a hoax, and more...
Greece's far right Golden Dawn party looks like a rather nasty piece of work. Supporters have been photographed in what appears to be Nazi-esque salutes; its party logo looks suspiciously like a swastika. The party has nonetheless skyrocketed to prominence in Greece...
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,...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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:
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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