US Ambassador to Hungary, Coleen BellIf anyone wants a short course on what's wrong with US diplomacy look no further than US Ambassador to Hungary Coleen Bell's speech Friday to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament. In typical diplo-speak there...
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Are Young People Really Going Socialist?
by Daniel McAdams | May 5, 2016 | The Liberty Report
This election season is presenting unprecedented challenges to the peace and prosperity coalition that was born in opposition to the traditional Left/Right matrix. Young people have been strongly attracted to Ron Paul's message of keeping the government out of their...
Breaking: 100 US Troops Land in Yemen?
by Daniel McAdams | May 5, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US military in Lahij, YemenCiting the Arab language Al Masirah TV news site, 20th Century Wire is reporting that some 100 US Army Special Forces have landed recently at the Anad air base in Lahij, Yemen. This deployment is said to augment other Arab forces currently...
‘Secretary of State Ron Paul’ Gives Jennifer Rubin Panic Attacks
by Daniel McAdams | May 5, 2016 | Neocon Watch
What is it that keeps the Washington Post's hyperventilating neocon scribbler Jennifer Rubin up at night? The fact that Ron Paul's lifelong efforts to promote a peaceful foreign policy continue to light fires in the imaginations of his fellow Americans. Any chance her...
Mandatory Draft Registration: A Victory For Women?
by Daniel McAdams | May 4, 2016 | The Liberty Report
In 1980 President Carter issued an order requiring males between 18 and 25 to register with Selective Service should a military draft become necessary. It was a response to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. At the time women were not eligible for the draft...
Torture: Stopping Terrorism…Or IS It Terrorism?
by Daniel McAdams | May 3, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Just ten years after America was shocked at the treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and just a year and a half after the Senate torture report, a recent poll suggests that three-fourths of the population would support torture of terrorism suspects....
‘Green Zone’ Breached: Iraq Falling Apart?
by Daniel McAdams | May 2, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Over the weekend a militia supporting Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr breached the "Green Zone" protecting the Iraqi government and foreign embassies in Baghdad. They are protesting ongoing corruption among Iraq's US-backed leaders. Lawmakers fled and a state of emergency...
NATO Prepares Four Battalions for Russian Border
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 30, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that NATO is preparing to deploy four battalions -- approximately 4,000 troops -- to Russia's western border. US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work was in Brussels today to announce the Western military escalation on...
State Department Follies
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
After President Obama swore no fewer than eight times that he would not put boots on the ground in Syria and then did so, his State Department spokesman swore that he never said that he would not put boots on the ground. Why have US government press briefings turned...
iPhone Ruse: FedGov Now Demands Backdoor To All Devices
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 28, 2016 | The Liberty Report
It should hardly be surprising to anyone paying attention that the federal government lied about every aspect of its "need" to break into the iPhone of the San Bernardino mass-shooter. There was another way to access it than compelling Apple to write code to defeat...
In Syria, US Rejects Russia Call to Name al-Qaeda Allies ‘Terrorist’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The total muddle that is US policy toward Syria continues to astonish. This week we saw the spectacle of a State Department Spokesman telling us that President Obama's promise to not put US boots on the ground in Syria, was never a promise not to put boots on the...
Wartime Washington Lives In Luxury…Guess Who Pays The Bills?
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 26, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Washington war contracts have enriched northern Virginia at a level equal to the total budgets of countries like Belgium and Sweden. That post-9/11 security- and military-industrial complex financial bonanza is why north Virginia counties are the wealthiest in the...
Escalation Without Representation: Syria, Iraq, and Black Sea
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 25, 2016 | The Liberty Report
According to the Washington Post, President Obama had promised the US public no fewer than eight times that he would not put US troops on the ground in Syria and would not mount ground operations in Syria. Then the pretext of a rescue operation of the Yazidi minority...
State Department Jokesman: ‘Obama Never Said No Boots on Ground in Syria!’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Watching State Department Spokesman John Kirby spar with one of Washington's last real journalists, AP diplomatic correspondent Matt Lee, is one of the best tickets in town. From his claims that "the entire international community" is demanding that Syria's Assad step...
Breaking: Obama to Announce Major US Escalation in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 24, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that tomorrow (Monday) President Obama will announce that he is quintupling the number of US troops inside Syria. From the current 50 troops the US admits are operating in Syria, the US will raise the total to 300 under the guise...
‘How the War Party Works’: RPI’s Daniel McAdams on Mises Weekends
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Washington, D.C. is a foreign policy bubble, where big money rules and coloring outside the interventionist lines is forbidden. Does the rest of the country buy into the idea that we must run the world? RPI Director Daniel McAdams speaks with his former colleague in...
Neocons Panting for President ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2016 | Neocon Watch
The neocons have been in a panic this election season. One by one, their preferred choice for the Republican presidential nomination has been soundly rejected by the uncooperative American voting public. Sen. Lindsey Graham made a run for the nomination saying, "If...
Ron Paul Rewind: ‘You’re Painting an Overly Optimistic Picture of Afghanistan Success’ (2004)
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
It was yet another in a periodic series of House International Relations Committee hearings where the "experts" were trotted out to tell us how incredibly well the US intervention in Afghanistan was going and that if only Congress would keep the money train at full...
Saudis To Kerry: We Created ISIS…And CIA Knew
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
It was US intervention in the Middle East, say the Saudis, that led us to create first al-Qaeda and then ISIS. The US attack on Iraq tipped the balance in the region in favor of Iran and counter-measures needed to be taken. This is nothing new. The CIA helped create...
Collateral Damage – Obama OKs More Civilian Drone Deaths
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
Civilians will continue to pay a heavy price in the ongoing US war on at least seven other countries. According to a recent article, the Pentagon has issued new rules permitting a strike on a target even if up to ten innocent civilians may also get killed....
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