Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission has endorsed the Iran nuclear agreement, concluding that it would prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. The Commission joins dozens of former high-ranking security and intelligence personnel in Israel who agree that the deal is a net positive for Israel. Back in the US the neocons have dominated the debate, joining their ally Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in predicting doom and gloom if the world backs off its war footing against Iran. Of course Netanyahu has been predicting an Iranian atomic weapon is imminent since at least 1992, so like the neocons his credibility is low. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is beating down Iran’s door for trade opportunities now that the sanctions regime is effectively over. Everywhere but the US, that is. More on the other side of the Iran debate in today’s Liberty Report:
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Benghazi Questions No One Dares Ask
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 22, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Today’s Benghazi Committee hearings will not focus on the central issue: US interventionist foreign policy which set the stage for the inevitable attack that followed. Hillary Clinton made the point in her opening statement that US embassies have been attacked many times in the past and she is right. But no one wants to question why they attack. Here’s a hint: it’s not because we are rich and free. Democrats and Republicans are out to score political points from the hearings. Both agree on the policies. Both agree on interventionism. Without major changes, neither will do a thing to change the root cause of such events: US interventionism. Today’s Liberty Report explores questions you will not hear in today’s hearing:
Our Syria War Is Over – Time To Come Home
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 21, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Four years into a pointless intervention in Syria — with several more years of US “regime change” planning beforehand — the utter disaster that the neocons and interventionists have produced is laid bare before the world. Assad is in power, al-Qaeda and ISIS are strengthened, Syria is devastated, the US is billions of dollars poorer. The Russian entry into the fight against ISIS and al-Qaeda should be a clear signal to the Obama Administration that this is not our war. The message of today’s Liberty Report is clear: Run, don’t walk from this neocon misadventure.
Irwin Schiff – A ‘Most Dangerous Man’
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 20, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Tax protester Irwin Schiff was sentenced to 13 years in prison for talking about his book, which the government had banned. He died of cancer on Saturday at age 87, chained to a prison hospital bed. Appeals for him to spend his last days with his family were denied by the government. Today’s Liberty Report pays tribute to Schiff and to all the other truth-tellers and whistleblowers who find themselves in the government’s crosshairs and end up denied life, liberty, and happiness:
Assassinations: Is This ‘American Exceptionalism’?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 16, 2015 | The Liberty Report
A new US government whistleblower has come forward to share highly disturbing information about the US worldwide assassination program, deceptively called “targeted killing.” Most of those killed with bombs fired from drones were not the intended targets, we learn, but they were classified as “enemies killed in action” anyway. Today’s Liberty Report takes a look at this major new exposé of the US assassination policy — is America losing its moral compass?
Obama’s New War In Africa: Do We Need It?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 15, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The Obama Administration’s disastrous invasion of Libya scattered well-armed jihadists throughout Africa and the Middle East, including to Syria and Cameroon. After emptying out Gaddafi’s arsenals, these groups proceeded to spread their mayhem. Yesterday, President Obama announced that he was sending US troops into Cameroon to help defeat one of the groups who benefitted from the US-led intervention in Libya, the ISIS-affiliated Boko Haram. Today’s Liberty Report look at whether another US intervention can solve the problems created by intervention in the first place:
MH-17 Final Report: Who Shot Down The Plane?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 14, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The long-awaited final report of the Dutch Safety Board on the 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 over Ukraine came out yesterday, but it offered very little in terms of what actually happened. With the most powerful intelligence apparatus on earth, how is it that the US cannot bring forth evidence to back its claims about Russian responsibility? As Liberty Report guest, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern says today, it’s not that the US does not have the information but rather that the evidence it has does not match the US propaganda line:
Syria Quagmire? Copyright Tyranny. Weird Politics. Around the World With Lew Rockwell
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 13, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Why is the US trying to destroy Syria, the bulwark against jihadists and protector of the Middle East’s Christians? Because, says Lew Rockwell in today’s Liberty Report, like all empires the US pursues a divide and conquer strategy. More on Lew’s take on Syria events as well as a look at the GOP presidential race thus far in today’s Liberty Report:
Global Freedom Index: We’re Number 20!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 12, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The Cato Institute and partners have released a new survey of global economic and civic freedom. The results are not too good for those who adhere to the philosophy of American Exceptionalism: the US is not even in the top 10 when it comes to economic and personal freedom. Despite the many problems with indexes of this kind — we cannot agree with many of the criteria and others are skewed in one or another direction — it is healthy to pause and look at our own deficiencies. Today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report does just that:
Neocons Demand Escalation in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 8, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The neocons — and their left-interventionist allies — have been planning regime change in Syria since at least 2006. Last week’s launch of Russian military strikes on ISIS and al-Qaeda at the request of the Syrian government has very quickly changed their plans. Now they are pushing President Obama to escalate, including directly against the Russians! Today’s Liberty Report looks at the increasingly dangerous situation and takes apart some of the media lies:
Gun Violence – More Control Needed?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 5, 2015 | The Liberty Report
What do the recent school shooting in Oregon and the US bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan have in common? President Obama is taking advantage of one tragedy to push for more government control of our guns. The other tragedy shows us that what we really need is more control over government guns. More today in the Liberty Report:
On The Ropes: 60 % Don’t Trust Media
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 3, 2015 | The Liberty Report
According to a recent Gallup Poll survey, the majority of Americans do not trust the mainstream media. Among younger Americans the numbers for the MSM are even worse. According to the Washington Post, this is a “terrible thing” because it means publications like the Washington Post are less able to serve as “referees” guiding us through what we should think about events and what we dare not think. Today in a special edition of the Liberty Report, we look at the declining mainstream media and the alternatives:
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