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RPI at the Liberty Political Action Conference
by harley | Sep 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
Stop in and see us this weekend at LPAC! The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity will have a booth at the conference and host a reception on Saturday at 5:30 PM. Executive Director Daniel McAdams will participate in the panel discussion "Working for Dr. Ron...
A Short History of the War on Syria, 2006-2014
by Moon of Alabama | Sep 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
In 2006 the U.S. was at war in Iraq. Some of the enemy forces it very much struggled to fight against were coming in through Syria. The same year Israel lost a war against Hizbullah. Its armored forces were ambushed whenever they tried to push deeper into Lebanon...
Has The Tide Turned Against the Warmongers?
by Ron Paul | Sep 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
Will the history books record these past couple of weeks as the point when the tide finally turned against our interventionist foreign policy?We began September with the Obama Administration on the verge of launching Tomahawk missiles at Syria. The missiles were...
Marching Into Uncertain Future Requires Leadership
by Douglas Macgregor | Sep 15, 2013 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama’s plea to bomb Syria fell on deaf ears. In 1975, it was “No more Vietnams.” Today, it’s “No more Iraqs.”The American public attitude is reinforced by the absence of an existential military threat to the United States and the demand for jobs and...
The People Against the 800 Pound Gorilla
by Diana Johnstone | Sep 15, 2013 | Featured Articles
The past ten days have seen what could be the start of an historic turning point away from endless war in the Middle East. Public opinion in the United States, in harmony with the majority of people in the world, has clearly rejected U.S. military intervention in...
Holding Assad Accountable
by Louis Fisher | Sep 13, 2013 | Featured Articles
President Obama has encountered a series of roadblocks after deciding to use military force against Bashar Assad’s Syria for its use of chemical weapons against civilians. Many of those obstacles resulted from statements made by the President and prominent...
Putin Steps Into World Leadership Role
by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 13, 2013 | Featured Articles
Putin’s article in the September 11 New York Times has the stuck pigs squealing. The squealing stuck pigs are just who you thought they would be--all those whose agendas and profits would be furthered by an attack on Syria by the Obama Stasi regime.Included among the...
What's the Evidence Behind the Case for War?
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 10, 2013 | Featured Articles
If the arguments being presented by President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry for attacking Syria seem increasingly shrill and disjointed that might well be because a legitimate case cannot be made for going to war. The central argument—i.e., that punishing...
Obama, Syria, and Interventionism: Ten Questions Worth Pondering
by Michael Scheuer | Sep 10, 2013 | Featured Articles
1) Question: Is it justifiable for America to go to war in Syria to get President Obama out of the box he created for himself by talking about a “red line” in the Syrian civil war, a conflict in which no genuine U.S. national interests are at risk? Answer: No. Obama’s...
The Golan Heights as a Key to Understanding the Problems of Syria
by Dmitry Minin | Sep 9, 2013 | Featured Articles
The newspaper Israel Hayom conducted a public opinion survey according to which Israel was the only country in which a possible U.S. military strike against Syria is supported by the majority of the population. While in America and Europe 90% of the population is...
The Wishful Thinking Left: Unwitting Agents of the Imperial Order
by Jean Bricmont | Sep 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
Once upon a time, in the early 1970′s, many people, including myself, thought that all the “struggles” of that period were linked: the Cultural Revolution in China, the guerillas in Latin America, the Prague Spring and the East European “dissidents”, May 68, the civil...
Syria and Lessons Unlearned from The Bombing of Kosovo
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Sep 6, 2013 | Featured Articles
One theme we repeatedly hear about the Obama administration’s plan to bomb Syria is that the U.S./NATO bombing of Kosovo serves as a model. An examination of the reason for this is instructive.It is well understood that the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) will not...
US/Russia Summit Urgently Needed
by Martin Sieff | Sep 6, 2013 | Featured Articles
Now that Russia and China have warned the United States against militarily intervening on behalf of the Syrian rebels, the need for a separate superpower summit between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin is more urgent than ever. The dangers of a super-collision over a...
Syria: The Iron in Obama's Soul
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 5, 2013 | Featured Articles
For the first time through the two-year old Syrian conflict, the United States has mentioned the sacred cow – "boots on the ground". The Secretary of State John Kerry has pleaded that the US Congress should approve the use of American ground troops although the Obama...
Libya Has Moved On…Into Lawlessness and Ruin
by Patrick Cockburn | Sep 4, 2013 | Featured Articles
A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin “packing their suitcases” and to fly to Libya to share in the reconstruction of the country and exploit an anticipated boom in natural resources. Yet now Libya has...
Iraq: A Seething Boiler About to Explode
by Anton Veselov | Sep 4, 2013 | Featured Articles
The pressure in the boiler which Western officials affectedly call "the new democratic Iraq" is building steadily and, figuratively speaking, the needle has entered the red zone. The deepening crisis is systemic in nature, encompasses the most important areas of life...
No War for Bernard Henri Lévy
by Diana Johnstone | Sep 3, 2013 | Featured Articles
The American people do not want US armed forces to get involved in the civil war in Syria. The United Nations will not back US bombing of Syria. The British Parliament does not want to get involved in bombing Syria. World public opinion is opposed to US bombing Syria....
Call It War, Not a Shot Across the Bow
by Louis Fisher | Sep 3, 2013 | Featured Articles
Advocates of military action against Syria describe the use of force wholly unrealistically, relying on such terms as narrow, proportional, and surgical. President Obama says he is considering a “limited, tailored” operation to send “a shot across the bow.” His...
Obama Nearing Point of No Return
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 3, 2013 | Featured Articles
President Vladimir Putin’s remarks on the Syrian crisis, while on a visit to Vladivostok over the weekend, were his first ones since the crisis began snowballing over the United States’ moves to launch a militarily attack against the Middle Eastern country.What is...
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