Legendary Pentagon analyst and whistleblower Chuck Spinney joins today's Liberty Report to explain the budget nightmares a President Trump will face at the Pentagon. Why do these weapons systems cost so much and perform so badly? Chuck knows...and tells.
Daniel McAdams
Why Did ‘Faithless Elector’ Bill Greene Vote For Ron Paul?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 27, 2016 | The Liberty Report
It was a delightful anomaly in a very strange electoral year: while the world waited to see what would happen when the Electoral College met earlier this month to cast their votes for the next president, suddenly we heard that one Texas elector voted for Ron Paul for...
Meltdown in Turkey?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
After the July coup attempt, Turkey has faced increased instability. Over the past ten days more than 60 people have been killed in Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) bombings. And just days ago, the Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated by an apparent radical....
Global War On Terrorism: Are We Winning?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 20, 2016 | The Liberty Report
The US State Department comes out yearly with its list of "state sponsors of terrorism," but to many people overseas it is the US government itself that is a main sponsor of terrorism overseas. The US president claims the right to attack suspected terrorists in any...
Electoral College – Should We Abolish It?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 19, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Does your vote count in the Electoral College system as crafted by our Founding Fathers? Some are saying that Hillary Clinton deserves to be president because she received the majority of popular votes in last month's presidential election. Is it unfair that getting...
Neocon Triumph? Trump Calls For ‘Safe Zones’ in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 17, 2016 | Neocon Watch
Donald Trump won the presidency largely because the American public was tired of the last 16 years of continuous wars and disastrous foreign interventions. When he said "I think getting along with Russia is a good thing," Americans compared that with Hillary's promise...
Guess Who’s Behind Facebook’s New ‘Fake News’ Detector?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Are you terrified of "fake news"? Don't worry, the elites are doing something to combat it!As anyone active on the Internet is aware, there have been increasing calls for social media companies (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to address the mostly manufactured crisis of...
Getting Real News From Aleppo – With Vanessa Beeley
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2016 | The Liberty Report
As the liberation of Aleppo has destroyed the mainstream media's narrative, with on-the-ground interviews from east Aleppo residents showing that they were in fact being held captive for four years by an al-Qaeda linked terrorist organization. The mainstream fake news...
Foreign Policy Hawks Not Ready to Give up Turf
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If President Trump is serious about a foreign policy that does not seek to destabilize and overthrow governments overseas, he is going to have to deal with the neocons who have polluted Washington with their bad ideas for decades. If he thinks they will just fade...
Truth About Aleppo: RPI’s Daniel McAdams Debates
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins independent journalist Vanessa Beeley and columnist for The Hill Brent Budowsky to discuss real versus fake news on Aleppo. Is it a liberation or an extermination? Sparks fly in this half-hour heated exchange so you won't want to miss...
Will Congress Roll Over On Trump’s Economic Stimulus?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 13, 2016 | The Liberty Report
How hard is it going to be to cut military spending? After president-elect Donald Trump Tweeted that the F-35 was too costly, its manufacturer, Lockheed-Martin, lost $4 billion in value. The military-industrial complex is going to do whatever it takes to prevent such...
Election ‘Hack’ – Do We Believe Snowden And Assange…Or McCain And Graham?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 12, 2016 | The Liberty Report
On one hand we have the Washington Post reporting that the CIA has determined that the Russians have hacked the US election to put Donald Trump in the White House. The evidence is secret, but the CIA and the Post wouldn't lie, would they? Then we have global...
Will Gen. Kelly Re-Militarize The Drug War?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 8, 2016 | The Liberty Report
As head of the US Southern Command, Gen. John Kelly was in charge of the US military involvement in the drug war in Central and South America. He blames the liberalization of marijuana in some US states for the ongoing failure of the drug war, even though the drug war...
State Department to Hungary: ‘Let NGOs Decide Terrorism Cases’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 8, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On September 16th, Syrian-born Ahmed Hamed crossed illegally into Hungary as he sought a new residence in the European Union. Hungary had by then already experienced several waves of migrants, many fleeing the chaos produced by US regime change policy in Syria, and...
After Libya, NATO Looks To Montenegro
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 7, 2016 | The Liberty Report
NATO's desperate search for a purpose after the fall of the Soviet Union has left a swath of destruction through places like Libya, which it "liberated" nearly six years ago. Now NATO wants to take in tiny Montenegro, a corrupt, poor, Balkan statelet with a total of...
Gen. Mattis: Can Trump Leash His Pentagon ‘Mad Dog’?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 6, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis will make his way from the board of directors of major defense contractor General Dynamics back to the Pentagon as Defense Secretary under incoming president Donald Trump. Like his predecessor, current Defense Secretary Ashton Carter,...
Rebels Lose Aleppo – An End in Sight for Syria War?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 6, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Syrian government forces today made dramatic gains in retaking the last major population center still in rebel hands, eastern Aleppo. First the Syrian army retook several neighborhoods on the eastern side of the divided city, and then late in the day they re-took the...
Trump’s Taiwan Call – What’s The Motive?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 5, 2016 | The Liberty Report
The telephone call between president-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen created quite a buzz over the weekend. It appears that it was not a spontaneous mutual congratulations call, as first reported, but rather a project long in the works among...
Will Obama be Named Russian Agent for Saying US Elections Reflect Will of American Voters?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
The US House passed the Intelligence Authorization Bill for 2017 earlier this week, with a provision requiring the White House to establish a special task force to counter what it deemed to be Russian "active measures" to undermine the US political system. Though...
Senate Extends Idiotic Iran Sanctions by 99-0 Vote!
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 1, 2016 | Congress Alert
Forget that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA) agreed between Iran and the so-called P5+1 consisting of the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain, and the European Union has by all accounts been one of the few real foreign policy successes in the...
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