President Trump's about-face on Syria has left many of his supporters reeling. Repeatedly on the campaign trail -- and over the past several years -- he has mocked President Obama's decision to get involved in a "regime change" project in Syria. He correctly warned...
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Five Minutes Five Issues: US v. Assange, Trump Fan, Macedonia Money, Lincoln’s War, FBI Investigation
by Adam Dick | Apr 24, 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,...
US Preparing Charges Against Julian Assange
by Jason Ditz | Apr 21, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US officials have repeatedly vilified WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over the past several years, and intermittently called for his assassination, but just now appear to be nearing a decision to file charges against him, accusing him of crimes for involvement in the...
Are Psychopaths Running the Show?
by Michal Zoldy | Apr 20, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
According to a study carried out by British researchers back in the 1990s, the number of psychopaths in any given population is one percent. In the case of Britain that means that there are roughly 600 thousand psychopaths in that country alone. The problem is that...
Examining the Drug War and Trump Administration: Adam Dick on Liberty Talk Radio
by Adam Dick | Apr 19, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Tuesday, I was a guest for the second time on Joe Cristiano’s Liberty Talk Radio show. Cristiano is a well-informed and thoughtful talk show host. He adeptly handles interviews, ensuring they are both entertaining and educational. The Tuesday interview begins with...
Ron Paul: Neocons in Trump Administration are Pushing US Conflict with Russia
by Adam Dick | Apr 18, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Libertarian communicator and former presidential candidate Ron Paul examined President Donald Trump’s foreign policy regarding Russia in an in-depth discussion last week with host Sophie Shevardnadze on the RT show SophieCo. Paul says in the interview that he had been...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Trump Intervention, Will Grigg, Border Searches, World Policeman, Symposium
by Adam Dick | Apr 17, 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,...
CNN Confirms Fox’s Napolitano – British Intelligence Passed On Trump Surveillance To US Spy Agency
by Tyler Durden | Apr 13, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Roughly a month ago, during the height of the mainstream media mania over Trump's alleged collusion with Russia, Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on Fox and Friends with a startling new revelation, namely that President Obama circumvented U.S. law and employed a...
Is Krugman Right About Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 13, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is skewed weekly by libertarian luminaries Robert Murphy and Tom Woods in their "Contra Krugman" podcast. For this episode, RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins the duo to pick apart a column by Krugman criticizing Trump's missile...
Will Trump Win?
by Michael S. Rozeff | Apr 13, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
At Trump’s command, the US military is adding forces and use of force everywhere: Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and Korea. Victory is ill-defined in all these places, but the question remains. Will Trump win?I predict that he will lose, and so America will lose....
Ron Paul Warns of Dangers in America from Accelerated Middle East Intervention
by Adam Dick | Apr 13, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, in a new interview with host Anand Naidoo at CGTN, discussed what Paul calls the “accelerated” and “dangerous” United States military actions in the Middle East. Pointing to the fact that there was no Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria until the US began...
The Last Palm Sunday in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 13, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Palm Sunday, Syrian President Assad visited a Christian church to mark the beginning of Holy Week, a most important time on the Christian calendar. Though not himself a Christian, Assad, for all his faults, has maintained Syria as a multi-confessional, secular...
Trump: NATO Is ‘No Longer Obsolete’
by Jason Ditz | Apr 12, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After fueling a lot of tensions with his comments during the 2016 campaign that NATO is an obsolete alliance, President Trump today declared that the alliance is “no longer obsolete” following meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.Though Trump presented...
The Malleable Bi-Partisan Utility of Poison Gas
by Franklin C. Spinney | Apr 12, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If there was a centerpiece to Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign for President of the United States, it was her struggle to convince the American people that Donald Trump was congenitally incapable of reacting rationally when surprised by a dangerous international...
Why Do Civilians Killed by US Bombers Count Less?
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Apr 12, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The number of civilians killed in recent US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria is rising. As we bomb villages to save villages isn't it time to look back to 2002, when President Bush was so sure Iraq had WMDs that he launched a war which killed over 1,000,000 innocent...
Andrew Napolitano: Police Had ‘No Right’ to Drag Passenger off United Plane
by Adam Dick | Apr 11, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Police had no right to yank a passenger from his seat and drag him off a United Airlines airplane says Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano in a new Fox News interview. Commenting on the much-talked-about incident Sunday at Chicago O’Hare International...
Ron Paul: US Attack on Syria is to Prop Up the Military-Industrial Complex
by Adam Dick | Apr 11, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Interviewed Monday by Kennedy at Fox Business, Ron Paul challenged the contention that the United States government was acting in accord with good intentions in attacking Syria last week. Instead, Paul suggests a big motivation was generating profit for the...
White House Sends Confusing Message on Syria Barrel Bombs
by Jason Ditz | Apr 11, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s tendency to improvise when asked questions about US policy has sparked a new round of speculation about exactly where the Trump Administration stands of launching further attacks against Syria, after he declared barrel bombs...
Dennis Kucinich Asks, ‘Why Are We Helping ISIS?’
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former presidential candidate and United States House of Representatives Member Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is not buying the Trump administration line on the US missile attack last week in Syria. Interviewed at Fox News, Kucinich both rejects the reason offered for the...
War and Peace in the Age of Trump
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 10, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Did you miss the Ron Paul Institute/Mises Institute joint conference in Lake Jackson, TX over the weekend? Held to discuss the possibility that President Trump might pursue a more peaceful foreign policy than his recent predecessors, the US attack on Syria just two...
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