Congress has unveiled yet another last-minute spending bill to avert a government shutdown that would begin in February. The package weighs in at roughly $1.7 trillion, fully funding the federal government through the end of September. It’s a massive omnibus that...
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ICE Cops are Invading Homes Without Court Warrants
by Adam Dick | Jan 22, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cops — often masked, out of uniform, and intent on quickly escalating the force they initiate while yelling out orders and curses — have been demonstrating over the past few months the danger of police directed...
Greenland or Bust
by RPI Staff | Jan 21, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Greenland or bust. Who would have thought Donald Trump’s drive to acquire Greenland would become a defining issue for the Global North and the trans-Atlantic alliance. Who would have thought the so-called rules-based western order would come to an end over the...
A 10-Point Critique of Trump’s First Year
by David Rehak | Jan 8, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We're only a year in and already 90 percent of the “America First” agenda has been derailed. 1. Did Trump voters vote for the NON-release of the Epstein Files and non-disclosure of sexual predator names which the victims and public at large demand be released? 2. Did...
President Trump’s Cross of Iron
by Adam Dick | Jan 8, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Wednesday, United States President Donald Trump declared in a post at Truth Social that he has determined the military budget for the next fiscal year should be hiked to 1.5 trillion dollars. A Thursday Reuters article by Costas Pitas and Andrea Shalal quantifies...
The US Childhood Vaccine Schedule Shrinks
by Adam Dick | Jan 6, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On December 8, I wrote about how a memorandum from United States President Donald Trump to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Acting Director Jim O’Neill could lead to the...
One Down, Two to Go. The US Has Invaded Venezuela to ‘Fight Drugs.’ Are Colombia and Mexico Next?
by Adam Dick | Jan 4, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Saturday, United States President Donald Trump held a press conference to boast about his sending the US military hours earlier to bring destruction in Venezuela and drag off the leader of the nation’s government to America for incarceration and prosecution. It was...
The Ruble Is Far From Rubble
by Adam Dick | Dec 25, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On March 26, 2022, then United States President Joe Biden boasted in a speech in Poland that “unprecedented sanctions” targeting Russia that had been put in place over the last roughly 30 days had caused the ruble, Russia’s currency, to almost immediately be “reduced...
Venezuela’s Drug-running Hobbyists
by Adam Dick | Dec 22, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The absurdities keep piling up to justify increasing United States aggression against Venezuela in the name of fighting the war on drugs. An organization that the US government’s own intelligence reporting says is not a drug cartel controlled by the Venezuela...
President Trump’s Pick for Antisemitism Envoy Wants to Ensure the ‘Antisemitic Trope that Jews Control the Internet’ is Reality
by Adam Dick | Dec 17, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Tiring from its overuse, we have heard many times the accusation that this or that person has expressed an “antisemitic trope that Jews control” fill in the blank — Hollywood, the government, whatever. “Trope” is a rather uncommon word in use. It is used in the phrase...
Advice from Incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani
by Adam Dick | Dec 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Zohran Mamdani, who won the New York City mayoral election in November, provided some advice in a video monologue this week regarding interacting with agents of the United States government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In the minute and a half video...
President Trump’s Drug War Bad Math
by Adam Dick | Dec 11, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
You may have heard President Donald Trump declare once or more his often repeated claim that the United States government has saved the lives of 25,000 Americans each time its military has blown up a purported drug trafficking boat over the last few months in the...
US May Remove Shots from Childhood Vaccine Schedule after Considering Other Nations’ Policies
by Adam Dick | Dec 8, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump, in a Friday memorandum, directed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Acting Director Jim O’Neill “to review best practices from peer, developed...
Ending Coronavirus Shots for Children in America
by Adam Dick | Dec 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
New developments at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggest that the end of giving coronavirus “vaccine” shots to children may come soon in America. The shots had been, since the coronavirus scare, proclaimed to be “safe and effective” and were...
Total War! Trump Prepares MASSIVE Attack on Venezuela, Tells Maduro ‘Get Out Now’
by RPI Staff | Dec 1, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins the Redacted podcast to discuss President Trump and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth's "kill 'em all" policy toward any survivors of US airstrikes on ships in the Caribbean. Will the extra-judicial killings pose legal problems for Trump...
The Critical Importance of Civil Liberties, with Ron Paul
by RPI Staff | Nov 24, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Future of Freedom Foundation's Jacob Hornberger interviews RPI Founder Ron Paul on the importance of civil liberties in a free society. Their conversation focuses on the freedom of speech, without which none of the other freedoms in the Bill of Rights would make sense:
Poll Finds the Majority of Americans Are Not Buying the Trump Administration’s Excuse for Military Action Against Venezuela
by Adam Dick | Nov 24, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A CBS poll conducted November 19-21 has found that 70 percent of polled Americans oppose the United States government taking military action in Venezuela. This result is in line with polling earlier in November by Reuters/Ipsos that found that only 21 percent of...
Justin Raimondo, an Irreplaceable Communicator
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Long-term visitors to the Ron Paul Institute website will recall the editorials by Justin Raimondo posted on the website during the institute’s early years. Raimondo’s commentary concerning current events, with focus on United States foreign policy, was unique and...
War and Peace w/ Daniel McAdams
by RPI Staff | Nov 21, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins the popular geopolitical podcast The Duran to discuss the latest Russia/Ukraine peace deal, Venezuela, US politics and Congress, and more...
Urging Republican US House Members to Oppose War on Venezuela
by Adam Dick | Nov 20, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former Republican House of Representatives Member John J. Duncan, Jr., in a Thursday editorial published at the Miami Herald, urged current Republican members of the House to oppose impending war against Venezuela just as he and five other Republican members voted in...
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