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Mattis Claims White House Threat to Syria ‘Worked’
by Jason Ditz | Jun 28, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Monday night’s out-of-nowhere statement from the White House, claiming a Syrian chemical weapon attack was imminent and promising to make Syria pay a heavy price must’ve been successful, Secretary of Defense James Mattis reasoned, since no chemical attack happened...
One Nation . . . Indivisible?
by Robert Higgs | Jun 27, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As a child in government schools, I must have recited the pledge of allegiance thousands of times. And not once did it occur to me that the “one nation . . . indivisible” part of it is simply an embrace of the Lincolnian heresy, a preemptive attack on the potential...
Ron Paul Explains How America Should Be a World Leader
by Adam Dick | Jun 26, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF) has made available video of Ron Paul’s speech at FFF’s June 3 conference. Paul, who is chairman of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, jokes early on the in the speech about the Bilderberg meeting being held at the...
Israel’s Fire Support For Its Al-Qaeda Mercenaries Started Three Years Ago
by Moon of Alabama | Jun 24, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Al-Qaeda attacked a Syrian Arab Army position in Madinat al-Baath (map) next to the Israel occupied Golan heights. Al-Qaeda requested Israeli fire-support by launching some mortars towards empty space in the Israel occupied area. The Israeli Defense Force accepted the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Philando Castile, Edward Snowden, CIA Thieves, Yemen Torture, Free California
by Adam Dick | Jun 24, 2017 | 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...
The World Is Going Down With Trump
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 23, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On June 21 the editorial board of the Washington Post, long a propaganda instrument believed to be in cahoots with the CIA and the deep state, called for more sanctions and more pressure on Russia.One second’s thought is sufficient to realize how bad this advice is....
Ron Paul Interviews Snowden On ‘The Rise Of The Deep State’
by Tyler Durden | Jun 21, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a discussion with Edward Snowden on his “Liberty Report," Ron Paul and the former NSA contractor trace the genesis of the so-called Deep State, and discuss how the US intelligence community uses covert programs like those exposed by Snowden in 2013 to trample...
The CDC’s Vaping Spin
by Adam Dick | Jun 20, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Image Vaping360 via FlickrJacob Sullum wrote Monday at Reason regarding the United States government’s spin on survey results regarding smoking and vaping by teenagers. Sullum relates that, while the results of the US government’s yearly National Youth Tobacco Survey...
America’s Real Loss of Prestige and Leadership Abroad
by Peter van Buren | Jun 19, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Because we traded the smooth talking guy for the clumsy boob with no manners, it is popular to bleat that America has given up its role as leader of the free world, to say other nations don’t respect us anymore, or look to us for moral guidance — in the extreme, that...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Trump’s Non-Obstruction, Cuba, Yemen Cholera, Veterans’ Holiday, Afghanistan Surge
by Adam Dick | Jun 18, 2017 | 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...
There Will be Blood: The Alexandria Shooting and Civil War in America
by Kurt Nimmo | Jun 15, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The shooting at a Republican baseball practice in Virginia shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s the result of months of establishment agitprop. From Kathy Griffin posing with Trump’s severed head to a Trump-like Julius Caesar killed in Central Park play, the media has...
RPI’s McAdams: Senate’s Russia Sanctions a ‘Pre-Emptive Strike Against Trump’
by RT | Jun 15, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Daniel McAdams, told RT he believes that sanctions were imposed under “ridiculous pretexts” and are ultimately designed to hinder any attempts of the current US administration to improve...
Rep. Walter Jones: Debate and End the Afghanistan War
by Adam Dick | Jun 14, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) and his legislation (HR 1666) to end the US government’s war in Afghanistan were the subject of a short and informative report on WNCT-TV in Greenville, North Carolina this week. “Here we are sworn by the Constitution to have the...
Five Democrat Votes Allow Trump’s Saudi Weapons Deal To Clear Senate
by Tyler Durden | Jun 14, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A bipartisan bid to block President Trump's recently negotiated $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia failed in the Senate. The effort to stop the weapons sales, authored by Senators Rand Paul and Chris Murphy, fell short on a 47-53 vote, with four Republicans...
US Troops Kill Three Civilians After Afghan Roadside Bombing
by Jason Ditz | Jun 12, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A US military convoy in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province was hit by a roadside bomb earlier today, with Pentagon officials quick to insist that no one was wounded in the incident. Three civilians, however, two of them children, were killed in the immediate...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Comey’s Memos, Back Channel, Arizona Gold, Frisking Students, Total Information
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2017 | 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,...
Qatar Will Pay John Ashcroft $2.5 Million To Defend Against Terrorism Accusations
by Tyler Durden | Jun 10, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Who better to defend Qatar from accusations it is a hotbed of terrorism-funding (as per a recent list released by Saudi Arabia et al according to which 59 individuals and 12 entities in Qatar are terrorist) than the US Attorney General who served during the September...
Ron Paul: US Intervention in Syria Undermining Syria War Deescalation Effort and US National Security
by Adam Dick | Jun 9, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Interviewed Thursday at RT regarding United States actions in opposition to Syrian and allied military forces in Syria, libertarian communicator Ron Paul argued that the US should have respected Syrian sovereignty and kept out of the country. Refraining from...
Did Comey Violate Laws In Leaking The Trump Memo?
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 8, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
One of the most interesting new disclosures today in the Comey hearing was the admission by former FBI Director James Comey that he intentionally used a “friend” on the Columbia law faculty to leak his memos to the media. Comey says that he did so to force the...
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