(Transcript) JESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore. And welcome to this edition of The Wilkerson Report. Now joining us is Larry Wilkerson. He was the former chief of staff to Colin Powell and is an...
Featured Articles
Ron Paul Institute at LPAC Conference
by harley | Sep 21, 2013 | Featured Articles
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is participating in the Liberty Political Action Conference this weekend. Founder and CEO Ron Paul visits our booth. So many wonderful people interested in our work!More photos here.
Serving America’s War Machine
by David Cronin | Sep 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
For many years, I regarded “think tanks” as a godsend. As a news reporter chasing deadlines, I’d regularly call their “experts” for quotes. Usually, they could give me a few succinct lines that appeared to lend a story some intellectual heft. Then I started asking:...
Five Lies Invented to Spin UN Report on Syria
by Tony Cartalucci | Sep 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
As predicted days before the UN’s Syrian chemical weapons report was made public, the West has begun spinning the findings to bolster their faltering narrative regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks on August 21, 2013 in eastern Damascus, Syria. The goal of course,...
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...
Licensed to Kill: The Growing Phenomenon of Police Shooting Unarmed Citizens
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
Here’s a recipe for disaster: Take a young man (or woman), raise him on a diet of violence, hype him up on the power of the gun in his holster and the superiority of his uniform, render him woefully ignorant of how to handle a situation without resorting to violence,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Recent Posts
- Pediatricians Organization Says Eliminate Almost All Vaccine Exemptions for Childrenby Adam Dick
- Why is US Intelligence Providing Bogus Numbers of Dead Russian Soldiers?by Larry C. Johnson
- Is the Trump ‘Mystique’ Broken? Does MAGA Sense Betrayal?by Alastair Crooke
- It Shouldn’t Have Taken This Much For Mainstream Voices To Start Speaking Up About Gazaby Caitlin Johnstone
- When the Bully Bluff Blowsby William Schryver
- One photo just confronted every American with a question they cannot escapeby Timothy Shoemaker
- Militarized Law Enforcement Reaches a New Level under Trumpby Ted Galen Carpenter
- Here’s What Gabbard’s Russiagate Report Missedby William Dunkerley
- Nobody for Fed Chairmanby Ron Paul
- To Enforce the Laws Faithfullyby Andrew P. Napolitano
Categories
Sign Up For Institute Updates for Free!
Keep up to date with all Ron Paul Institute news and events by signing up for our updates. We will keep you informed and make sure you are the first to know any RPI news. We will occasionally send you our take on breaking events. But we won't clog your in-box and we absolutely will respect your privacy. Let's work for peace and prosperity together! Come on board!
Donate to The Ron Paul Institute Today!
Support our upcoming set rebuild. We plan to improve our reach by amplifying the message.