RPI Director Daniel McAdams is interviewed on RT. Transcript below; video here.Victoria Nuland’s anti-Russian rhetoric comes from the neocon camp of US politics, seeking to stir the Ukraine crisis, thrilled by the prospect of defense industry expansion and more arms...
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America Must Reject Netanyahu’s War Cry on Iran
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington this week to prepare the American people for war against Iran. Backed by American neoconservatives, the Israel lobby, and assorted other war hawks, Netanyahu insists that Iran intends to build a nuclear...
Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries.” —Ray Lewis, Retired Philadelphia Police Captain It’s one thing to know and exercise your rights when a police officer pulls you over, but what rights do you have when a private cop—entrusted with all of...

Department of Homeland Security: What is it Good For?
by Ron Paul | Mar 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
Late Friday night, Congress passed legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security for one week. This vote followed weeks of debate over efforts to attach a prohibition on funding President Obama’s executive order granting amnesty to certain illegal immigrants...
Liberty in Search of Protector – Interview With Vaclav Klaus
by Global Gold | Feb 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
Please see below excerpts from a Global Gold interview with former Czech President and Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus. To read the entire interview, please click here. -ed.Liberty is a fundamental human right; it is the cornerstone of our existence. But liberty is under...
State Department Gives 87 Percent of Afghan Funds to Only Five Recipients
by Peter van Buren | Feb 27, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a scathing report showing the Department of State gave a staggering 87 percent of all Afghan reconstruction funds to only five recipients. In fact, 69 percent of all taxpayer money spent went to...
‘US Spends Millions on Overseas Propaganda, But No One is Buying it’
by RT | Feb 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
(RT interviews RPI's Daniel McAdams - watch it here.)Despite the US’ bottomless PR budget to influence overseas, people are not attracted by what’s on offer as they are tired of US interventionism, exceptionalism, and the bombing of their countries, Daniel McAdams of...
Domestic Fear is the Price of Empire
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
If you find no other argument against American intervention abroad persuasive, how about this one? When the US government invades and occupies other countries, or when it underwrites other governments’ invasions or oppression, the people in the victimized societies...
Ukraine: A Cuban Missile Crisis in Reverse
by William R. Polk | Feb 24, 2015 | Featured Articles
In a rather ghastly 19th century experiment, a biologist by the name of Heinzmann found that if he placed a frog in boiling water, the frog immediately leapt out but that if he placed the frog in tepid water and then gradually heated it, the frog stayed put until he...
The Washington Post’s Gross Mischaracterization of Ron Paul’s Message
by Adam Dick | Feb 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
Irrespective of the commonly held view that the Washington Post is the newspaper of record of America or at least of United States politics, David A. Fahrenthold’s January 25 Washington Post article purporting to report on Ron Paul’s participation the previous day at...
Another Nail in The Coffin of The Case for Libyan ‘Intervention’
by Ian Sinclair | Feb 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
Though the British press have chosen to ignore it, a recent report in the Washington Times newspaper is the latest nail in the coffin that is the mainstream narrative of the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya. An intervention, perhaps not coincidentally, which received...

Interventionism Kills: Post-Coup Ukraine One Year Later
by Ron Paul | Feb 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was one year ago last weekend that a violent coup overthrew the legally elected government of Ukraine. That coup was not only supported by US and EU governments -- much of it was actually planned by them. Looking back at the events that led to the overthrow it is...
How US Diplomatic Strategy Gave Netanyahu Leverage
by Gareth Porter | Feb 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
The latest public spat between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government centers on Israeli leaks of details of the US negotiating position in the Iran nuclear talks and the US consequently reducing its consultation with Israel on the talks. Washington...
Operation Iraqi ‘Freedom’
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
The most important thing about Operation Iraqi Freedom is how it demonstrates how US national-security state officials view the concept of freedom. In their minds, the 11 years of brutal occupation on the part of the US military brought freedom to the Iraqi people. In...
Happy Kosovo Independence Day?
by Justin Raimondo | Feb 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
Kosovars are celebrating the seventh anniversary of Kosovo’s independence – by leaving in record numbers. By some estimates as many as 100,000 have fled the country in the past few months. Germany is dispatching policemen to the Hungary-Serbia border to stem the...
Libya: A Perfect Storm of Interventionist Failure
by Peter van Buren | Feb 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Libya is the perfect storm example of the failure of US interventionist policy in the Middle East. The Obama-Clinton Model In 2011, Libya was to be the centerpiece of Middle East Intervention 2.0, the Obama-Clinton version. Unlike the Bush model, that of Texas-sized...
Putin Heads Off a US-Russia War
by Eric Margolis | Feb 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Has Russia’s Vladimir Putin pulled Barack Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire for a second time? Will the shaky cease-fire in Ukraine that began this weekend hold up and end a conflict that was threatening a nuclear war between the United States and Russia? The answer...

How Many More Wars?
by Ron Paul | Feb 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week President Obama sent Congress legislation to authorize him to use force against ISIS “and associated persons and forces” anywhere in the world for the next three years. This is a blank check for the president to start as many new wars as he wishes, and it...
Ron Paul: ‘I Am Not Pro-Putin, I Am Not Pro-Russia, I Am Pro-Facts’
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul was a keynote speaker at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C. this weekend, where he enjoyed his usual enthusiastic reception among America's youth, but found himself grilled by several east European visitors about his...
The Real Problem of ‘Getting to Yes’ With Iran
by Gareth Porter | Feb 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Talking to reporters Monday, President Obama asked rhetorically, “[D]oes Iran have the political will and desire to get a deal done?” Iran “should be able to get to yes,” Obama said. “But we don’t know if that is going to happen. They have their hard-liners, they have...
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