With the calm of global capital markets shattered in the past two weeks, the ongoing military conflict in the Middle East has taken an understandable back seat to monetary matters. And yet, tensions involving Syria, Iran and Israel continue to escalate, most notably...
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Five Minutes Five Issues: War on Kratom, Biden’s Advice, NRA and Marijuana, Testing for Fentanyl, US Spending
by Adam Dick | Feb 11, 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,...
Andrew Napolitano Calls Out FISA Court Charade
by Adam Dick | Feb 7, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There is plenty of reason to think that regular United States courts too readily allow surveilling people and searching their homes and property. But, in the US court authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), there is not even a pretense of...
Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump’s Iran War Push is a Replay of Bush’s Iraq War Push
by Adam Dick | Feb 6, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Trump administration “is using much the same playbook to create a false choice that war is the only way to address the challenges presented by Iran” as the George W. Bush administration used to gain support for the Iraq War. College of William & Mary Professor...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Sanctions Suffering, Marijuana Record, Facial Recognition, Venezuela, Declassified Memo
by Adam Dick | Feb 5, 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,...
Breaking: US-Backed Free Syrian Army Group Shoots Down Russian Jet, Kills Pilot
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 3, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Jaysh al-Nasr rebel group in Syria, part of the US-backed Free Syrian Army, has posted footage of its fighters celebrating the shoot-down of a Russian Suhkoi-25 jet fighter in the Idlib province of Syria. It is the first time a Russian fighter has been shot down...
RPI’s Daniel McAdams on Congressional memo alleging FBI abused spying powers
by RPI Staff | Feb 3, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Now that the memo is out, what does it mean? RPI's Daniel McAdams is on RT to point out that while the memo shows how the FISA system has been abused by the FBI and the rest of the government, the real issue is that the FISA process is always abused. And the same...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Mexico Marijuana, Sanctuary Cities, Marijuana Harm, Diplomacy Option, NSA Honesty
by Adam Dick | Jan 28, 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,...
Andrew Napolitano Doubles Down on Advice that President Trump Refuse to Talk with Russiagate Investigators
by Adam Dick | Jan 26, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Two weeks ago, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano emphatically argued that President Donald Trump should refuse to talk with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents as part of the so-called Russiagate investigation. Napolitano, a former New Jersey...
Lew Rockwell Discusses the Alternative Media Challenge to Pro-Government Propaganda
by Adam Dick | Jan 25, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As the editor and publisher of the popular libertarian website lewrockwell.com, Lew Rockwell has long been in the forefront of alternative media in America. Interviewed Monday by host Tom Woods at the Tom Woods Show, Rockwell discussed the importance of alternative...
Andrew Napolitano: Wrong to Keep Mass Surveillance Memo Secret
by Adam Dick | Jan 24, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What is the deal with a memorandum by Republican employees at the Intelligence Committee of the United States House of Representatives that allegedly demonstrates very disturbing use of surveillance power through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court not being...
VP Pence Confirms US Will No Longer Certify Iran Deal
by Tyler Durden | Jan 22, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans battle to reopen the federal government, Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Israel this week to meet with dignitaries and visit a handful of historic sites - including the Holocaust Memorial.But during a...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Napolitano Hotline, Imprisonment Rate, Assad Must Go, Charging Clapper, Rising Stocks
by Adam Dick | Jan 21, 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,...
One Year In, President Trump Continues US Expansive Intervention Overseas
by Adam Dick | Jan 19, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Donald Trump took office as president of the United States one year ago this week. It is a good time to evaluate what his leadership has meant for US foreign policy. Has Trump moved US foreign policy toward noninterventionism as some people had hoped he would due to...
Silent Cal on “America First”
by Jeff Deist | Jan 18, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The rise of Trump has dredged up old and bitter debates surrounding the concept of "America First," a position Trump frequently advocates almost unconsciously and using his own peculiar terms. Consider this tweet, from 2013, as an example of Trump expressing a...
Libya Update: What’s Really Behind the Airport Firefight?
by Richard Galustian | Jan 17, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Continuing from my OpEd of the 11th January entitled "Libya Update: Power Struggles Continue - Will the UN Get its Way?", dramatic further evidence of my assessment came in the form of reports of intense fighting that started over the weekend and dramatically...
US Builds Forces inside Syria
by Michael S. Rozeff | Jan 15, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“On Sunday, the US-led coalition said it was working with its Syrian militia allies, the mainly Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), to set up a new 30,000-strong border force. The force would operate along the borders with Turkey and Iraq, as well as within...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Bundy Case, Surveillance Vote, Vermont Marijuana, Assange Citizenship, Nemtsov Street
by Adam Dick | Jan 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,...
Libya Update: Power Struggles Continue – Will the UN Get its Way?
by Richard Galustian | Jan 11, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Wednesday a former distinguished US State Department official who has now switched jobs to work for the UN, Jeffery Feltman, as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, arrived in Tripoli. His visit came as the UN’s efforts to implement the Libyan Political...
Good Advice from Andrew Napolitano: President Trump, Don’t Talk with the FBI
by Adam Dick | Jan 10, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This week, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano presented a keen recommendation for President Donald Trump in regard to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) potentially talking with Trump as part of the so-called Russiagate investigation.Speaking...
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