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...
Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
Debate: Omar & AOC Join Rand Paul & Republicans to Urge Syria Withdrawal
by RPI Staff | Apr 5, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What's the main message in a bi-partisan, bicameral letter sent by ten Members and Senators to President Trump urging a full US withdrawal from Syria? In this RT America debate, RPI's Daniel McAdams suggests it's a way for Congress to encourage the president that he...
McAdams: ‘Trump White House is a “Cult” under Bolton’
by RT | Apr 4, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
How is it that President Trump's national security advisor John Bolton seems to actually be running things and even over-riding his boss's foreign policy? As RPI Director Daniel McAdams tells Rick Sanchez of RT America, it's because he's frozen everyone else from the...
Forty Martyrs Cathedral Reconsecrated in Aleppo
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Apr 3, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Forty Martyrs Armenian Cathedral in Aleppo was re-consecrated on Saturday, four years after the jihadist rebels ransacked the building. His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, visited the historic church after its reconstruction meant it...
Jacob Hornberger for President?
by Adam Dick | Apr 2, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Jacob Hornberger appears to be laying the groundwork for a 2020 presidential run as a Libertarian. That is the subject of a Monday article at Independent Political Report that notes Hornberger, who is the president of the libertarian Future of Freedom Foundation...
Venezuela is ‘most open US coup’, pundit tells RT as WSJ talks ‘getting Russia out of Caracas’
by RT | Apr 1, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US is fueling “the most open coup in history” in Venezuela, an American pundit told RT in response to a WSJ op-ed that beat the drum of interventionism by discussing how to get Russia out of Caracas and Maduro out of power. A short but emotive editorial piece by...
McAdams: Guaido Losing Popularity at Home, Despite US Support
by RPI Staff | Mar 29, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Trump foolishly listened to his neocon advisors who told him that regime change in Venezuela would be a "cake-walk." Just recognize the other guy as president and the whole thing will fall like a house of cards, they no doubt told him. And he believed. Now...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Nicaragua, Mass Killing, Electoral College, New Mexico Marijuana, Drug War Conference
by Adam Dick | Mar 25, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud. Listen to the new episode here: Read a transcript of the new episode,...
Hoax of All Hoaxes: RPI’s Daniel McAdams on the Death of Russiagate
by RPI Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There was collusion in the 2016 election, RPI's Daniel McAdams tells RT International. It was collusion between Hillary Clinton, US intelligence agencies, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and even "former" foreign intelligence agents like Christopher Steele....
UPDATE: Twitter Lets Julian Assange’s Mom Tweet Again
by Adam Dick | Mar 21, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Yesterday, I wrote about Twitter restricting public access to the past Twitter posts of Christine Assange, the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as well as preventing her from making new posts at her Twitter account. Today, it appears Twitter has removed...
Neocons Want Brazil in NATO to Undermine Venezuela – Daniel McAdams
by RT | Mar 21, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute joins News.Views.Hughes to discuss Trump’s apparent 180 degree turn on NATO. While once he was outspoken in his criticism, President Trump now wants to expand the alliance by bringing Brazil into the fold. He argues that Trump...
Twitter Prevents Julian Assange’s Mom from Posting, Restricts Viewing of Her Past Posts
by Adam Dick | Mar 20, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Christine Assange, the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has used her Twitter page to criticize the United States government effort to prosecute and imprison her son for making available leaked information exposing abusive government actions, as well as her...
Ron Paul Airs Concerns about the Trump Presidency
by Adam Dick | Mar 19, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, the libertarian communicator who ran three times for president, has been neither a “never-Trumper” nor a loyalist of President Donald Trump. Instead, Paul, through the 2016 presidential campaign and Trump’s presidency, has judged Trump’s various comments and...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Watching Assange, Ocasio-Cortez, Expungement, Bernie Sanders, Alaska Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Mar 16, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted is out. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud. Listen to the new episode here: Read a transcript of the new...
Lawrence Wilkerson: ‘National Security’ Spending Should Be Cut, Not Increased
by Adam Dick | Mar 14, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump released this week his budget proposal that includes increasing by five percent United States military spending. However, Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member and retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson argues in a Tuesday The Real News...
The Real Big Time Bribes Going on at Colleges and Universities
by Robert Wenzel | Mar 13, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
So the news is filled with reports over the last 24 hours of misguided efforts of semi-wealthy parents, who were busted in an FBI sting, getting their not so bright children into elite colleges and universities via bribes.But the real bribes go on. That is the...
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