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Pentagon Seeks Arms for 65,000 US-Backed Troops in Syria
by Jason Ditz | May 5, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While US “relief funds” are frozen in Syria, the Pentagon continues to seek massive amounts of funding for its military operations in the country. This includes a request for $300 million in weapons to give to “partner forces” in Syria.This amounts to enough arms for...
US Watchdog: Afghan Military Shrinking Sharply
by Jason Ditz | May 3, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a Pentagon watchdog, is warning that the Afghan military is in sharp decline over the last 12 months, as rising casualties and desertion rates far outstrip its ability to recruit.Over 12 months,...
US Sanctions Hit International Chess Organization FIDE
by Adam Dick | May 2, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The bank account of FIDE, a premier chess organization that governs some major international chess competitions, maintains rules adhered to at many other tournaments, calculates players’ ratings, and awards titles such as Grandmaster, was shut down this week. Peter...
The Clever Moon Jae-in: Trump Should Win the Nobel Prize
by Robert Wenzel | May 1, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Wow, South Korean President Moon Jae-in really wants peace and harmony on the Korean peninsula. This is one great man.From the day he was elected, the goal of Moon has been to ratchet down tensions between his country and North Korea--and he has done just that. But...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Trump Missiles, US Marijuana, Border Agent Assaults, Canada Drug Decrim, Kyle Kashuv
by Adam Dick | Apr 30, 2018 | 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...
David Stockman Enters Hostile Territory to Support Nonintervention and Oppose Increased Military Spending
by Adam Dick | Apr 25, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Investing and current affairs writer David Stockman found himself in hostile territory this week in an interview at the Fox Business show Mornings with Maria. In the often-tense interview, Stockman seems to shock and rile some of the show’s hosts with his assessments...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Friends and Adversaries, Partisan War, Texas Marijuana, Syria Attack, US Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Apr 23, 2018 | 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,...
Lawrence Wilkerson: Cowardly Congress, Apathetic Americans Allow US Military Intervention
by Adam Dick | Apr 17, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Retired United States Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell in the George W. Bush administration, explains in a new interview the reason he believes the US president “can do anything he pleases with regard to the...
US: Russia Hacked The Evidence Of Chemical Attack In Syria
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 17, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We are now being told (and I assure you I am not making this up) that if the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons doesn’t find evidence that the Syrian government conducted a chemical weapons attack in Douma last week, it’s because Russia hid the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Hemp Bill, Militarized America, Marijuana Disinfo, Utah Marijuana, Pain Killers
by Adam Dick | Apr 14, 2018 | 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,...
Trump Ordering Syria Attack Would Be an Unconstitutional, But Not Uncommon, Presidential Action
by Adam Dick | Apr 13, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Louis Fisher, a Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Academic Board member and United States Constitution scholar, is quoted, in a Thursday Washington Examiner article by Steven Nelson, declaring that a unilateral decision by President Donald Trump to use...
US War Making: What’s in It for You?
by Robert Higgs | Apr 13, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If you are an American, have you asked yourself these questions?1. What purpose of mine is served by the US government’s making war in Iraq?2. What purpose of mine is served by the US government’s making war in Afghanistan?3. What purpose of mine is served by the US...
Bolton And Mattis Feud Over Syria Strike As Assad Evacuates Weapons
by Tyler Durden | Apr 13, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
- The Syrian government and Hezbollah have reportedly evacuated weapons from key locations - Assad has moved planes to a Russian-operated base - The UK Cabinet has agreed to back military action against the Syrian government - US National Security Advisor John Bolton...
Against War in Syria
by Mises Institute | Apr 12, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump has announced that he plans new missile strikes against the Syrian regime in response to an alleged chemical attack on Syrian civilians in a rebel-held suburb of Damascus.The US has offered no evidence of the attack, since, as the Financial...
Ron Paul Makes the Case for Libertarian Optimism
by Adam Dick | Apr 11, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
American libertarians have plenty of reason to feel discouraged in this time of the United States government increasingly disrespecting liberty in America and pursuing intervention, including wars, overseas. While prominent libertarian communicator Ron Paul shares...
Ron Paul: ‘Total Nonsense’ to Claim Syria President Bashar al-Assad is Gassing His Own People
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“This whole idea that all of a sudden Assad’s gassing his own people, I think, is total nonsense,” declared Ron Paul in a new RT interview with host Ed Schultz. President Donald Trump has blamed Syria President Bashar al-Assad, along with Russia and Iran, for the...
An Appeal to James Mattis
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Apr 9, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I beseech you, sir, to consider the possibility that the supposed chlorine gas attack at Douma, Syria may have been a carefully constructed propaganda fraud on the part of the rebels encircled in Douma. Such a fraud would have as its purpose the elicitation of exactly...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Libertarian Moment, Trump Target, Census, the Free Society, Google
by Adam Dick | Apr 9, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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Five Minutes Five Issues: Sen. Manning, Drug War, Bill Weld, Pain Killers, New Conference Speaker
by Adam Dick | Apr 2, 2018 | 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,...
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