RPI Chairman and Founder, interviewed on RT, explains that the United States should not bail out Ukraine, either directly or indirectly through the European Union or International Monetary Fund. “The whole thing makes no sense whatsoever from an economic viewpoint, from a political viewpoint,” says Paul, “It’s always vying for controls, and I think that is what’s going on.”

RPI academic advisor, Prof. Mark Almond, explains how the US and its NATO allies are suddenly realizing that they have unleashed a force in western Ukraine that is highly destabliizing, with the repeal of the language law and the repeal of the law banning Nazi symbols being the early legislation passed by the US-backed group in control in Kiev. Panic is setting in the West.

Said Almond:

Suddenly the whole mood music from Washington, from London, from Brussels, even from Warsaw, is to say reach out to the Russian population, reach out to the Jewish population that is fearful of this radical neo-Nazi type rhetoric and stormtrooper squads roaming the streets in some of the cities of Ukraine. They have realized that the coup that overthrew Yanukovich has not been the end of the drama, but only the first act.

It is the sign of a rather childish, almost unbelievably incompetent attitude on the part of the NATO countries that they facilitated this crisis without thinking through what would happen. That you are unleashing forces of nationalism, of fear, that can become uncontrollable.

Watch the whole interview here:

Speaking this morning on Fox News, Judge Andrew Napolitano, an RPI Advisory Board member, explains the Unites States Supreme Court’s Fernandez v. California decision this week that gives police greater leeway to search homes without a warrant. Napolitano describes the decision as a “U-turn” away from privacy protection that bodes badly for future cases before the court, including cases concerning the National Security Agency and the US government’s mass spying program:

A month before violence ripped Ukraine apart, RPI contributor Christine Stone provided an in-depth analysis of Ukraine’s precarious position, accurately forecasting the disaster that was to come.

Appropriately titled “Ukraine: Europe’s Partner or Puppet?” Stone wrote in October, 2013:

As the second most populous former Soviet republic, Ukraine has seemed uncomfortable with its independence since 1991 and less than committed to making it work. The fundamental issue has always been, does the country remain entwined with its larger neighbour Russia, or does it succumb to the blandishments of the West and distance itself completely from a country with which it was co-joined for over 1000 years?
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With its shaky economy and political turmoil in several EU and euro member states, is this what the European Union really needs? With Russia now showing a more robust approach to what it sees as its ‘national interest’ who knows whether what seems on the surface to be an economic spat could lead to something deadlier.

Here is Christine Stone today discussing the aftermath of the “people’s revolution” in Ukraine:

“What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?”
– Rep. Ron Paul, US House, Feb. 13, 2009

Judge Andrew Napolitano, speaking on Fox News this morning, explains that it is both illegal and unconstitutional for President Barack Obama to use drones or other means to “targeted kill” United States citizens. Napolitano, an RPI Advisory Board member, elaborates that “only the Congress can enact a law” — not a president on his own — and that the US Constitution guarantees a jury trial to Americans, including Americans accused of treason, before the government can deprive them of life, liberty, and property.

A new Cold War? RPI Academic Advisor Mark Almond joins Peter Lavelle and guests to debate whether a new Cold War is brewing, pitting the West against Russia. The US media is hysterical in its attacks on Russia, says Peter Lavelle, even more strident than he remembers during the original Cold War. Prof. Almond points out that although the West’s ideological argument against Russia has disappeared — in some ways Russia is more capitalist than some of the European countries that join with the US to criticize it — the russophobia has become even stronger. All guests agree that there is a remote, but terrifying, possibility that the new Cold War may turn hot if the West continues to push the “Berlin Wall” toward Moscow. Watch this very important episode of Crosstalk:

As Ukraine spins out of control, US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks out of both sides of his mouth — telling the opposition that it has full US support, while warning that “outside powers” should not get involved in the political crisis. RPI Director Daniel McAdams is on RT today to discuss this US disconnect on Ukraine:

Ron Paul keynote speech at Mises Circle Houston last week. He speaks on war and peace and the police state. The original tea party was very soon co-opted by warmongers. Our role is to educate ourselves and to help educate others. Listen to this inspiring speech!

RPI Chairman Daniel McAdams is on RT Television today discussing the worsening situation in Ukraine. McAdams strongly criticizes the foreign intervention into the unrest and says foreign diplomats encouraging violent protest deserve some of the blame for the bloodshed:

RPI Academic advisor John Laughland gives us the real story behind those “democracy” protests in Ukraine:

As of last year, the mischief of the surveillance state finally made it onto the public radar. President Obama’s recent speech describing the new NSA “reforms” displayed very clearly that he and the government are not backing down. Government sees this merely as a PR issue. Their task is to propagandize as is necessary to restore “confidence.”

Public resistance may have taken in root in 2013, but the battle to bring this crucial issue into the foreground began a very long time ago.

Watch Dr. Paul take on the surveillance state way back in 1984: