Are alliance sands shifting in the Middle East? Is post-coup attempt Turkey turning increasingly to Russia and away from the US on the Syria issue? It all may be true but we went down the wrong path back in 2011 when Obama announced that "Assad must go" and dedicated...
Daniel McAdams
The USS Gerald Ford – A $13 Billion Boondoggle?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 29, 2016 | The Liberty Report
What is $3 billion over budget, two years overdue, and not combat ready? The new USS Gerald Ford "super" aircraft carrier! As the Pentagon together with the military-industrial complex try to justify a trillion dollars in military spending, however, conflicts must be...
Kerry In Kenya – Spreading ‘American Exceptionalism’
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 25, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Secretary of State John Kerry was in Africa earlier this week. He visited Nigeria and promised more US military aid to the country as it struggles with an increase of activity by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Of course it was the 2011 US attack on Libya that...
Turkey/US Invade Syria – Hillary Gets ‘No-Fly’ Zone
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 24, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Just three years after promising the American people that he would not put American boots on the ground in Syria, President Obama has directed the US military to participate in an invasion of northern Syria alongside NATO-ally Turkey. This in addition to establishing...
What’s Iran Up To; Fed Plans New $4 Trillion QE
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 23, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Is the US mainstream media spreading disinformation about Russia's use of an airbase in Iran? Yesterday the New York Times reported that Iran had revoked permission for Russia to use the base due to Russia's "ungentlemanly behavior" in discussing use of the base in...
Breaking: Did Washington Just Declare a ‘No Fly’ Zone in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Reading between the lines in today's Pentagon press briefing, a bombshell US policy shift is becoming more apparent: Syrian forces and their Russian partners are being told that conducting military operations in some parts of Syrian airspace opens them up to being...
US Policy Shift In Syria; Pentagon’s Lost Trillions
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 22, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Why is the US warning Syria not to shoot back at Kurdish militia members who are firing on Syrian military positions? Because US Special Forces troops are fighting alongside the Kurds. But it also may be a shift in US policy away from its stated focus on ISIS and...
US Warns Syrian Military…Against Operating Inside Syria!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 21, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just when you thought US foreign policy could not get more absurd. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, who is listed as "commander of US forces in Iraq and Syria," has issued a warning to the Syrian military that if its counter-insurgency operations on Syrian soil leave US...
Breaking: US Issues Threat as Syria Bombs Rebels Near US Special Forces
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US government scrambled jets over northern Syria today as a Syrian government attack on Kurdish rebels came close to US Special Forces fighting on the ground in Syria, media is reporting. The Pentagon also moved some of its Special Forces troops out of the...
Bin Laden Speaks…Should We Listen?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 18, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Osama bin Laden's youngest son, Hamza, purportedly released an audio recording earlier this week in which he called for young Saudis to get involved with al-Qaeda in Yemen and in which he called for retaliation against ongoing US military operations in several...
Jennifer Rubin: Hillary Must Stop Peace With Iran at All Costs!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 18, 2016 | Neocon Watch
After anxiously and incessantly angling for a hardcore neoconservative to take the Republican presidential nomination, the Washington Post's online blogger Jennifer Rubin has made the long journey home. Rebuffed by Republican voters who selected Donald Trump as their...
US Weapons Fuel Saudi Slaughter In Yemen
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Saudis have purchased more than $100 billion in weapons from the US during the Obama presidency. Much of it has been used to attack next-door Yemen in attempt to restore a deposed president. Over the past several days the Saudis have bombed a school, a hospital,...
Trump Foreign Policy Speech – Cheers Or Jeers?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 16, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered a major foreign policy speech in Ohio yesterday which was once again a very mixed bag. On the one hand he promised an end to regime-change and nation-building, which if he had just stopped there and stuck to it...
See You in September! ‘Peace and Prosperity 2016’ Conference Program
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 16, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The elephant in the living room? Foreign policy. No one wants to really talk about it. Washington is hoping the rest of us won't blurt out that the emperor has no clothes, that US interventionism is making us poorer, less free, and less safe. Even when candidates like...
It’s August 15th – Where Is Your Gold?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 15, 2016 | The Liberty Report
When President Nixon closed the gold window on August 15, 1971, he sold it to Americans as a way to recover from the "war economy" of Vietnam and a way to combat inflation. As we know 45 years later, the proliferation of paper dollars has, if anything, made war all...
War Clouds Gathering Over Crimea
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 11, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Russia claims that Ukraine sent a sabotage team into Crimea over the weekend, armed with bombs and military equipment. Russian president Putin has pulled out of the "Normandy" talks in response. Ukrainian president Poroshenko denied any involvement in an attack on...
War With China Unthinkable? Think Again!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 10, 2016 | The Liberty Report
According to a recent study by the Pentagon-linked RAND Corporation, a US military conflict with China is unlikely by calculated move but less unlikely by miscalculation or accident. Does this not mean US interventionism in the South China Sea conflict could lead to...
Former Acting CIA Director Morell: ‘We Need to Kill Russians and Iranians’
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 9, 2016 | Neocon Watch
It's been a busy week for former acting CIA director Michael Morell. First, over the weekend he published an op-ed in the New York Times humbly titled, "I Ran the CIA. Now I’m Endorsing Hillary Clinton." In the piece he explained that Hillary Clinton was his choice...
CIA’s Morell Cozies Up To Clinton – Looking For Work?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 9, 2016 | The Liberty Report
In an attention-getting piece in the New York Times, former CIA acting director Michael Morell endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton for president and warned that Republican candidate Donald Trump is likely a Russian agent. In today's Liberty Report we visit with former...
Iran Executes Scientist/Spy – What’s Hillary’s Role?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 8, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Hillary's private server is in the news again. This time the question is whether extremely sensitive discussions about a US Iranian asset may exposed his cover and led to his recent execution by the Iranian government. Also, about that $400 US payment to the...
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