What does Ron Paul think about the recently-signed "Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act" recently signed into law by President Obama as part of the National Defense Authorization Act? In this episode of "Ask Ron Paul" we learn his reaction to this chilling...
Peace and Prosperity Blog
Why Lew Rockwell is Optimistic the Drug War Will End
by Adam Dick | Dec 27, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Look to the war on drugs to understand why the United States has become “a prison state,” says Lew Rockwell in a new video interview with Future of Freedom Foundation President Jacob Hornberger. And, says Rockwell, look to educational efforts and state governments’...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Faithless Electors, ‘Russian Hack,’ Avenue Strategies, Pelosi Vote, Electoral College
by Adam Dick | Dec 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Friday. 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: Purported Russian Hack in US Election is Insignificant Compared to What US Does Overseas
by Adam Dick | Dec 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“I think it’s politics more than anything else,” says former House of Representatives Member Ron Raul (R-TX) regarding calls for an investigation of purported hacking by the Russian government influencing the United States presidential election. Interviewed Wednesday...
Ron Paul Rewind: John Birch Society 50th Anniversary Speech
by Adam Dick | Dec 20, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Pema Levy, in a Monday Mother Jones article, wrote that Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), who President-elect Donald Trump has picked to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, spoke in July at a dinner held by a chapter of the John Birch Society in Mulvaney’s...
Philippines President Duterte Using China Leverage to Strike Better Aid Deal with Donald Trump?
by Adam Dick | Dec 18, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States foreign aid dollars, and even police training, have been supporting for several months large-scale systematic street executions of supposed drug dealers and users in the Philippines. Now, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who has promoted the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Police Militarization, Canada Marijuana, CIA Chorus, Vermont Pardons, Year End
by Adam Dick | Dec 17, 2016 | 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,...
If You Have Nothing to Hide . . .
by Mary Theroux | Dec 17, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For years, the national security establishment has been telling us, “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” Ergo, the feds ought to be provided complete access to all of our emails, cell calls, internet browsing records, location, private in-home...
Donald Trump Meets with Judge Andrew Napolitano Regarding Supreme Court Nomination
by Adam Dick | Dec 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, who serves on the Ron Paul Institute Advisory Board in addition to being the senior judicial analyst at Fox News, met for an hour Thursday with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York City. Napolitano related in an interview...
Foreign Policy Hawks Not Ready to Give up Turf
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If President Trump is serious about a foreign policy that does not seek to destabilize and overthrow governments overseas, he is going to have to deal with the neocons who have polluted Washington with their bad ideas for decades. If he thinks they will just fade...
Truth About Aleppo: RPI’s Daniel McAdams Debates
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins independent journalist Vanessa Beeley and columnist for The Hill Brent Budowsky to discuss real versus fake news on Aleppo. Is it a liberation or an extermination? Sparks fly in this half-hour heated exchange so you won't want to miss...
Don’t Just Legalize Marijuana, End the Entire Drug War
by Adam Dick | Dec 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Voters approving marijuana legalization in four more states on November 8 took another bite out of the drug war in America. Still, in regard to other drugs, the drug war rages on. Also, many state and local governments, as well as the United States government,...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Leon Orr, One-Party Control, NY Marijuana, California Marijuana, Okinawa
by Adam Dick | Dec 10, 2016 | 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...
Rep. Thomas Massie: Judge President Trump on Adherence to Nonaggression Principle
by Adam Dick | Dec 9, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking this week with host Kennedy at Fox Business, US House Member Thomas Massie (R-KY) insisted that Donald Trump’s performance as president should be judged according to whether Trump adheres to the nonaggression principle that Massie describes as “the heart of...
Judge Napolitano on Sanctuary Cities’ Challenge to US Government Power
by Adam Dick | Dec 8, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a Thursday video commentary at the Fox News website, Judge Andrew Napolitano discusses the relationship between local government powers and United States government powers that will be on display should Donald Trump, as president, seek to deport large numbers of...
State Department to Hungary: ‘Let NGOs Decide Terrorism Cases’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 8, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On September 16th, Syrian-born Ahmed Hamed crossed illegally into Hungary as he sought a new residence in the European Union. Hungary had by then already experienced several waves of migrants, many fleeing the chaos produced by US regime change policy in Syria, and...
Rebels Lose Aleppo – An End in Sight for Syria War?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 6, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Syrian government forces today made dramatic gains in retaking the last major population center still in rebel hands, eastern Aleppo. First the Syrian army retook several neighborhoods on the eastern side of the divided city, and then late in the day they re-took the...
Washington Post: Pentagon Suppresses its Own Study of $125 Billion in Waste
by Winslow T. Wheeler | Dec 6, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a stunning and exquisitely timed article, the Washington Post tells us that the leadership of the Pentagon tried to suppress a study it requested of its own Defense Business Board. The Board found $125 billion in waste in DOD's management of its own personnel over...
The War on Cash in South Korea
by Paul-Martin Foss | Dec 3, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The South Korean government is preparing to move to a cashless society as the Bank of Korea plans to phase out all coinage by 2020. Apparently not all governments are proceeding as quickly as the Indian government. South Korea’s government hopes to get its citizenry...
McCarthyism Is Breaking Out All Over
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 2, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Seasoned journalist, White House official, and historian Pat Buchanan has responded to the Washington Post’s fake news about the independent journalists on the 200 List being Russian agents by reminding us that the US government has always been a major disseminator of...
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