Dennis Kucinich, a long-time advocate for the United States government pursing a peaceful foreign policy who served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat from Ohio and twice sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination, issued a statement...
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Butler Shaffer, R.I.P.
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Dec 31, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
N.B. Butler Shaffer was a valued Member of the Ron Paul Institute's Board of Advisors. He will be greatly missed. We mourn the passing of our good friend Butler Shaffer, who died Sunday afternoon at the age of 84. Butler was a libertarian at a time when there were...
Keeping Green Party Candidates Off Ballots
by Adam Dick | Dec 23, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States Green Party issued a press release Thursday announcing it is seeking “to get ballot lines for all 50 states and DC and the U.S. territories in 2020.” This would be an improvement over the 2016 US general election. The press release states that the...
Swalwell: Failing To Turn Over Documents Is Proof Of Guilt
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 18, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., has made sensational statements into a signature style over the last couple years. However, this week Swalwell appears to be contesting the touchstone of due process: the presumption of innocence. On Tuesday, Swalwell declared that,...
Secession Is Far More Ordinary Than Many People Suggest
by Adam Dick | Dec 17, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Advocacy for secession, both in America and abroad, is often scoffed at as unrealistic. Yet, far from an impossible goal, secession has happened much in history.In a new editorial, political commentator Patrick J. Buchanan discusses some of the many secessions of the...
WikiLeaks Exposes OPCW Chemical Attack Report Truth
by RPI Staff | Dec 17, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Wikileaks has blown the lid off of the bait & switch scandal at the Organization for the Prevention of Nuclear Weapons (OPCW), the UN agency tasked with investigating and reporting on the alleged chemical attack at Douma in Syria last year. With its latest...
Removing Marijuana Restrictions for Baseball Players
by Adam Dick | Dec 12, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Some American professional sports organizations, such as the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB), have served as auxiliary enforcers of the United States government’s marijuana prohibition, testing players for marijuana use and imposing...
Edward Snowden Speaks Out for Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
by Adam Dick | Dec 12, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Julian Assange of WikiLeaks has been silenced. Assange was prevented from communicating with the outside world in his final 13 months at the Ecuador embassy in London, where he had obtained sanctuary from extradition to the United States. The silencing has continued...
Leaving Half The Country Behind: Poll Shows Majority Now Opposes Impeachment
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 12, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
During the testimony last week, I expressed various concerns with the artificially short period allowed for the impeachment investigation due to the Democratic pledge to impeach President Donald Trump by Christmas. Not only will that abbreviated period leave a thin...
Mehdi Hasan Has Some Advice for Mark Zuckerberg: Suppress Speech More at Facebook
by Adam Dick | Dec 10, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
You may be concerned about Facebook and other companies restricting what may be communicated and who may communicate on the companies’ social media platforms, as well as those companies limiting the ability of people to easily see the posts of people and organizations...
How About Cutting Darius Khalil Gordon Some Slack?
by Adam Dick | Dec 7, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A Thursday Free Beacon article by Joe Schoffstall purports to expose Darius Khalil Gordon, a newly hired Bernie Sanders presidential campaign employee, as having “a history of racial slurs and denigrating remarks directed at gays, Jews, and women.” Some Twitter posts...
Trump Administration Proposes Face Scans for US Citizens
by Robert Wenzel | Dec 4, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Trump administration intends to propose a regulation next year that would require all travelers - including U.S. citizens - to be photographed when entering or leaving the United States, according to the administration's regulatory agenda, reports Reuters.I wonder...
Fuddy-Duddies Strike Again, Maryland College Cancels The Foreigner Performance
by Adam Dick | Dec 4, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a March episode of Five Minutes Five Issues, I talked about some fuddy-duddies’ complaints about actors wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes in a South Dakota high school performance of The Foreigner. The complaints led to an apology from the school’s school district for...
Oregon Supreme Court Limits Police Actions at Traffic Stops
by Adam Dick | Nov 30, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When police stop vehicles for purported driving rules infractions, police will often take advantage of the situation to inquire about other matters in a “fishing expedition” to establish suspicion of unrelated lawbreaking. They also may ask drivers for permission to...
State DMVs Making Millions Off Selling Personal Information Drivers are Required to Provide
by Adam Dick | Nov 27, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
State Departments of Motor Vehicles are notorious for slow or bad service. They are also becoming more well known for aiding in the invasion of individuals’ privacy.At the same time the United States and state governments have been dumping driver license photos into...
Michael Scheuer: US Intervention in Venezuela is for the Benefit of Powerful Special Interests
by Adam Dick | May 3, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Since he left the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) where he had been in charge the “bin Laden unit,” Michael Scheuer has made it his mission to educate people about the dangers of United States intervention abroad. Interviewed this week by host Rick Sanchez at RT...
Iran Appeals Directly To Trump: Your Advisers Dragging You Into War
by Robert Wenzel | Apr 29, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Iran appears to be attempting to go over the head of Trump's crazed war hawk advisors by talking to Fox News. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that he believes President Trump's own advisers, as well as Middle East...
Washington ‘Thrives & Survives on War & Conflict’ – Daniel McAdams
by RPI Staff | Apr 25, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As the historic Kim/Putin meetings winds down in Vladivostok, what are the main takeaways? Is this a clever Putin end-run around Washington after the failed Trump/Kim summit in Hanoi? Does Kim really want a deal? What might a deal look like? RPI's Daniel McAdams joins...
Why Bernie Sanders Can Defeat Donald Trump in 2020
by Adam Dick | Apr 19, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With his veto this week of legislation intended to end United States military support for the war on Yemen, President Donald Trump may have ensured his defeat to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the 2020 presidential election. That is an argument political commentator...
‘Fort Trump’: Poland Ready for US Military Base
by RPI Staff | Apr 18, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Poles seem desperate to have a permanent US military base on their territory. They even promised to kick in two billion dollars and name it "Fort Trump" if the US agrees. The two countries are reportedly on the verge of making a deal. Does Warsaw really believe...
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