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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,...
Lawrence Wilkerson: John Bolton Is One of the Most Dangerous Americans I Have Ever Met
by Adam Dick | Mar 27, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lawrence Wilkerson, a former United States Army colonel and chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, made clear, at the beginning of a new The Real News interview, his concern about President Donald Trump appointing John Bolton as the president’s national...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Deep State, Saudi Arabia, Russiagate, Facebook, Nonintervention Conference
by Adam Dick | Mar 25, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues 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,...
The Skripal Case: It Looks Like Mrs May Has Some Explaining to Do!
by Rob Slane | Mar 24, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Monday 12th March, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Theresa May, stood up in Parliament and made the following claim as part of her 36-hour ultimatum to the Russian Federation: “Mr Speaker, this morning I chaired a meeting of the National...
Attend a Great Nonintervention Conference and See Beautiful, Historically Rich Charleston Too!
by Adam Dick | Mar 21, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Have you secured your ticket to the April 29 “Non-Intervention: America’s Original Foreign Policy” conference in Charleston, South Carolina? You can watch a new video conversation of two of the people who will speak at the event — Jacob G. Hornberger, who is president...
Defense Secretary Mattis Makes Mad Dog Arguments Against Congress Barring Yemen War Support
by Adam Dick | Mar 20, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Interviewed Monday at The Real News, College of William & Mary Professor and retired United States Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson strongly criticized arguments Secretary of Defense James Mattis presented, in a letter to congressional leaders last week, in...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Trump Nominations, School Walkouts, Drug War Executions, Police Drones, UN Drug War
by Adam Dick | Mar 18, 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,...
McMaster: US Troops Will Stay Until Syria Is Stabilized
by Jason Ditz | Mar 15, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Despite conceding that the US and others had effectively liberated “100%” of ISIS-held territory in Syria, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster dismissed the idea that US forces might withdraw from the country any time soon.“We have more work to do,” McMaster...
Russia Will Respond If US Attacks Syrian Government Forces
by Jason Ditz | Mar 14, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Recently,various US officials have been suggesting substantial attacks on the Syrian military are imminent. This talk of attacking Syria has provoked a warning from the Russian Foreign Ministry, and a second warning from top Russian generals. Russia’s military chief...
Lawrence Wilkerson Is Not So Optimistic about a Meeting of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un
by Adam Dick | Mar 14, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“We’ve been here before,” College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson declared in a Monday The Real News interview in which he relates his less-than-optimistic take on an anticipated meeting between North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and United States...
What is Driving New Drive for AUMF?
by Harper | Mar 12, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After years of sitting back and letting Congressional authority to declare war transfer to the Executive Branch, it appears that some leading Members of the House and Senate are finally waking up to the consequences of their failure. On February 27, the House...
Five Minutes Five Issues: MSNBC Warmongering, Bipartisan Peace, Pardon, Pulse Killings, Wrongful Convictions
by Adam Dick | Mar 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,...
State Department’s War on Political Dissent
by RPI Staff | Mar 9, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US State Department is spending millions of dollars spreading its own disinformation and propping up NGOs to destroy any individual or organization that does not toe the official US government line on the US global military empire. Through its "Global Engagement...
Ron Paul: It Looks Like the US will be in Iraq until the US is Bankrupt
by Adam Dick | Mar 8, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Questioned, in a Wednesday RT interview, about North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s recent comment that there is no intention to stay in Iraq “longer than necessary,” libertarian communicator Ron Paul quipped that “their...
Hypersonic War
by RPI Staff | Mar 7, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Was Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent speech, in which he highlighted several new "unstoppable" weapons systems, just electioneering? Was it an explicit threat to the US? Are we in a new Cold War...or something worse? RPI's Daniel McAdams joins Peter Lavelle,...
The Federal Reserve Wins in the Texas Democratic Primary
by Adam Dick | Mar 7, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When Texas Democratic Party primary voters filled out their ballots on Tuesday, they encountered two propositions, on which they were invited to vote “for” or “against,” that mentioned the Federal Reserve. One proposition said the party should promote a “national jobs...
‘Operational pause’: Turkish offensive in Syria’s Afrin forces US to halt anti-ISIS battle
by RT | Mar 6, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Some US-aligned militias have switched their priorities to battle the Turkish-led offensive in Afrin instead of fighting ISIS terrorists, the Pentagon said, announcing a “pause” in ground operations in eastern Syria.On January 20, Turkey, with the help of the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: ‘Take the Guns First.’ AUMFs, Ukraine Weapons, No Guns List, Coffee Joint
by Adam Dick | Mar 4, 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,...
Afghanistan’s President Offers Taliban Talks ‘Without Preconditions’
by Jason Ditz | Mar 1, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Following the Taliban having made two very public offers of peace talks in the past two weeks, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has issued his own statement offering to enter into talks with the Taliban insurgency “without preconditions.”Ghani offered to recognition of...
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