Illustration from "Hamilton 68" project website.Last week I wrote an article and did an interview explaining that in my reading of the new Russia sanctions bill just signed by President Trump, there is a measure opening the door to a US government crackdown on some of...
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We’re Losing Afghanistan. Can We Win?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 3, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Trump summoned his generals and experts to the "situation room" at the White House late last month. He was furious that there was no plan to win Afghanistan and that after 16 years we were, in his words, "losing" in Afghanistan. What can be done? Some told...
Trump Signs Sanctions Bill – Another Deep State Victory
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 2, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With the new Russia sanctions bill passed and signed into law, President Trump's room to improve relations with Russia is nearly non-existent. He will not be able to remove the sanctions without permission from Congress, and that is unlikely to come. This is exactly...
Trump’s US National Security Strategy – New Wine In Old Bottles?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 1, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a recent interview, Sebastian Gorka, an aide to President Trump, denounced "stale thinking" on national security policy over the past 30 years. He said that the White House was working on a new National Security Strategy for the United States that would reject the...
New Russia Sanctions Come as Hacking Narrative Falls Apart
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 1, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Why more sanctions on Russia now over the 2014 Ukraine coup and aftermath? Why new sanctions now as the claims that Russia "hacked" the US election seem to be based on ever more flimsy assumptions? Because sanctions are falsely seen as a harmless way for Washington to...
Real Bipartisanship: Republicans And Democrats Unite For New Cold War
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 31, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Donald Trump claimed that he wanted a different foreign policy, but then he went and hired neocons for the State Department, Pentagon, White House, and so on. In the meantime, both Republicans and Democrats have found something to agree on: a new Cold War with Russia....
What’s Wrong With Auditing The Fed? Rep. Bill Posey Grills Janet Yellen
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 27, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Congressman Bill Posey (R-FL) recently grilled Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Janet Yellen. Why is the Fed so afraid of transparency, he asked. Rep. Posey joins today's Liberty Report to tell us what he was thinking at the time and also to offer some of his views on...
Breaking: Senate Passes Russia, Iran, North Korea Sanctions Bill, 98-2!
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 27, 2017 | Congress Alert
Minutes ago the US Senate passed HR 3364, the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act by a massive 98 yeas to two nays. Opposing the bill were Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rand Paul (R-KY). The bill passed in the House by 419-3 on Tuesday, with Reps...
Migrant Crisis, Secession, And More…Ask Ron Paul!
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 26, 2017 | The Liberty Report
In today's Liberty Report, Ron Paul takes viewer questions via Twitter and serves up in-depth answers to complicated issues. What to do about migration? What about secession as a way to protect our civil liberties? Ron Paul tells all in today's program:
If Trump Doesn’t Veto Sanctions Bill, ‘He’s Given Up on His Presidency’
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 26, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Trump is either uninterested in pursuing the policies he outlined on the campaign trail when it comes to Russia or he is so cornered on the new Russia sanctions bill that he knows he can't win and is afraid to take the political risk of a veto. Whatever the...
House Passes New Russia Sanctions, Pumps Adrenaline Into Cold War 2.0
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 25, 2017 | Congress Alert
Late this afternoon the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 3364, the "Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act." The vote was 419-3, with the only nays coming from Republicans Justin Amash (R-MI), John Duncan (R-TN), and Thomas Massie...
Israel Anti-Boycott Act – An Attack On Free Speech?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 25, 2017 | The Liberty Report
A widely-supported bill in the House and Senate would make it a felony to support or endorse efforts to boycott the state of Israel over its policies toward the Palestinians. Conviction could result in a maximum $250,000 civil fine plus a $1,000,000 criminal fine and...
Mr. Trump: Veto This Bill! – Sanctions Lead To War
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
The US House is expected to vote tomorrow on yet another round of sanctions on Russia, North Korea, and Iran. Russia and Iran are targeted for their role in fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq, which Congress calls "destabilizing." Russia is also targeted for...
Syria Gas Attack and Russian Election Hacking…Debunking Fake News With Scott Ritter
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 21, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Former Marine intelligence officer and UN Chief Weapons Inspector for Iraq, Scott Ritter, joins the Ron Paul Liberty Report today to shed light on the phony "17 intelligence agencies agree on Russian election hacking" story and to explain why in his vast intelligence...
RPI’s Peace and Prosperity 2017 Conference: ‘Where We’re Going and How We’ll Get There!’
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 20, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Announced Speakers: Former Rep. Ron Paul, Mises Institute Founder Lew Rockwell, US Rep. Walter Jones, Jr. (R-NC), fmr CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou, fmr State Department official and whistleblower Peter Van Buren. A special roundtable discussion of...
40,000 Civilian Dead In Mosul?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 20, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Writing in The Independent, veteran journalist Patrick Cockburn reports that as many as 40,000 civilians were killed in the nine month siege of Mosul. That is tens of thousands more than the Pentagon is reporting. The reason for the high figure, Cockburn explains, is...
New Survey: Americans Afraid Of Major War. Whose Fault?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 19, 2017 | The Liberty Report
According to a new NBC News survey, some 76 percent of Americans are afraid of being drawn into a major war. That is a ten percent increase from just February. What's behind this increased fear? The country that Americans feel most threatened by is North Korea, which...
Jeff Sessions Declares War On Liberty
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 18, 2017 | The Liberty Report
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a fiery speech yesterday to the National District Attorneys Association. Unfortunately his fire was all directed at our civil liberties. He wants to crack down on guns, ramp up the drug war (including more harassment of...
Four Major Famines – Unintended Consequences Of US Foreign Policy
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 17, 2017 | The Liberty Report
The UN has identified four countries where the threat of major famine -- with potentially millions dead -- is becoming reality. Though there are many factors contributing to famine, including bad economic policies, weather disturbances, and so one, in fact these four...
Can Tillerson Referee The Qatar/Saudi Crisis?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 13, 2017 | The Liberty Report
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson walked away from the Middle East empty-handed this week, as his efforts to mediate the Qatar/Saudi crisis failed to bear fruit. The dispute is the most serious between the two sides in some time, but how much of it was brought on by...
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