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...
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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...
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....
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,...
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...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Jailing Manning, ‘Antisemitism,’ Whole Foods Marijuana, The Foreigner, RPI Conference
by Adam Dick | Mar 10, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is posted. 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,...
‘Bay of Pigs 2.0’ US Invasion Plan for Venezuela Thwarted – Daniel McAdams
by RPI Staff | Mar 8, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A remarkable recent article in Bloomberg reports on the real plan for last month's showdown over US "aid" for Venezuela blocked at the Colombian border. According to the report, the US plan was for some 200 heavily armed exiled Venezuelan military officers from the...
Recollections of Walter Jones and His Principled Votes in the US House of Representatives
by Adam Dick | Mar 7, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A Wednesday Public Radio East report by Valerie Crowder presents some fond recollections of the principled political efforts of Ron Paul Institute Advisory Board Member Walter Jones who died last month while serving in his 13th term in the Unites States House of...
Walter Block: US Government Should Ignore, Not Overthrow, ‘Evil Dictators’
by Adam Dick | Mar 7, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Walter Block has some clear advice regarding what the United States government should do about “evil dictators” around the world: Ignore them. After all, Block, an economics professor at Loyola University and prominent...
US Government’s Top Pharmaceutical Official Promoting Eliminating Vaccination Exemptions
by Adam Dick | Mar 5, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With the expansion of state governments’ crackdown on vaccination exemptions facing significant obstacles after, in 2015, California eliminated nearly all vaccination exemptions for children in government schools, private schools, and day care, Alex Newman writes at...
US Has Foreign Policy of ‘World Domination’ – Daniel McAdams
by RT | Mar 5, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to make Russia’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty official. Russia continues to insist that they have not been in breach of the treaty, despite repeated accusations from US leaders....
Making Marijuana Legalization More Freedom-Friendly
by Adam Dick | Mar 1, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It took 45 years after the 1933 termination of the United States government’s alcohol prohibition for the US government to legalize beer home brewing and, then, another 35 years until in 2013 the last two American states legalized home brewing. In comparison, of the...
Senators to Reintroduce Bill to End US Involvement in Yemen War Next Week
by Jason Ditz | Mar 1, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Having seen a successful Senate vote late last year and a successful House vote earlier this month both come to naught on ending the Yemen War, the Senate is reportedly planning to try again. Officials say that the fresh Senate bill will be introduced next week.To...
Lawrence Wilkerson: US Intervention in Venezuela is About Profits for the Rich, not Democracy and Freedom
by Adam Dick | Feb 27, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson describes the current effort of the Donald Trump administration to overthrow the Venezuela government and oust Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro as a continuation of the United States effort begun in 2002,...
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