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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US Special Envoy on North Korea Retires After Trump Rejects Talks
by Jason Ditz | Feb 28, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US special envoy on North Korea Joseph Yun, an advocate of direct diplomacy with the reclusive nation since 2016 has informed the State Department of his intention to retire on Friday.Though he didn’t offer a specific statement on this sudden decision, it came...
Ron Paul Wins a Stosscar!
by Adam Dick | Feb 27, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences missed its opportunity to award libertarian communicator Ron Paul an Oscar after his small roles in the 2014 movies Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? and Alongside Night. But, on Tuesday — a week before the awarding of...
Five Minutes Five Issues: School Shootings, Korean War II, Sessions Nonsense, Syria Missions, Liberland
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Saturday. 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...
Ron Paul Rewind: No to Endorsing Mitt Romney, Yes to Endorsing Peace, Prosperity, Liberty, and the Constitution
by Adam Dick | Feb 21, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Ron Paul told Fox News interviewer Neil Cavuto that Paul had no plans to endorse Mitt Romney or anybody else in the presidential election. Instead, Paul, who competed against Romney in the Republican presidential primary,...
Adam Dick on Alaska Radio: ‘Russiagate’ Indictments, School Shootings, and More
by Adam Dick | Feb 20, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Saturday, I was interviewed by hosts Joshua Bennett and Michael Anderson at KFAR radio in Fairbanks, Alaska regarding a number or issues in the news. The interview started with a discussion of the indictment of 13 Russian citizens and three companies that United...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Marijuana President, Attacking Assange, War Costs, School Shootings, Empire of Lies
by Adam Dick | Feb 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,...
In Trump’s 2019 Budget, Lockheed Looms Almost as Large as State Dept
by Jason Ditz | Feb 17, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In great measure, the Pentagon runs on Lockheed Martin. The US armsmaker racked up $35.2 billion in sales to the US government last year, a preposterously large figure that positions them both as heavily reliant on the government for its profits, and gives them a...
Strike Two: US Again Launches ‘Defense’ Attack on Russian and Syrian Forces in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 14, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For the second time in a week, US military forces occupying northeast Syria have attacked Syrian government forces, blowing up a Russian-made T-72 battle tank on Saturday. According to a statement made today by Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, commander of US Air Forces...
David Stockman Challenges Economy-Harming, Unnecessary US Military Spending
by Adam Dick | Feb 13, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Watch out for a recession and more trouble for American stocks ahead, warned investing, economy, and politics writer David Stockman in a Monday interview at Fox Business. Hearing Stockman’s informative analysis about that alone should be reason enough for people...
Russian Fighters Killed In Clash With US-Led Coalition Forces In Syria
by Tyler Durden | Feb 13, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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