Protocols exist allowing the president to select American citizens, without a whit of due process, for drone killing.Only overseas, he says, but you can almost see the fingers crossed behind his back. Wouldn’t an awful lot of well-meaning Americans have supported an...
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‘Syrian War is Conflict Between West & Russia’
by RT | Oct 11, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The real issue in the Syrian civil war, apart from the important one of Syria itself, is the struggle for power between Russia and the West, says John Laughland from the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris. On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Clinton-Weld, Marijuana Worry, Computers Destroyed, Filming Cops, Kratom Update
by Adam Dick | Oct 9, 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...
A Desperate Obama Administration Resorts To Lying And Maybe More
by Moon of Alabama | Oct 8, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On September 28 the French mission to the UN claimed that two hospitals in east-Aleppo had been bombed. It documented this in a tweet with a picture of destroyed buildings in Gaza. The French later deleted that tweet. It is not the first time such false claims and...
Ron Paul’s Gettysburg College Constitution Day Lecture
by Adam Dick | Oct 6, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On September 29, libertarian communicator Ron Paul returned to Gettysburg College, from which Paul graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1957, and presented the college’s annual Constitution Day lecture. As reported on the Gettysburg College website, over 800 people...
A Ron Paul Institute Event in Alaska?
by Adam Dick | Oct 5, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Saturday, I returned to Alaska airwaves as a guest on hosts Joshua Bennett and Michael Anderson’s radio show Patriot’s Lament on Fairbanks, Alaska station KFAR. Like in my July of 2015 and August of this year interviews on the show, this new hour-and–a-half...
Ron Paul Comments on the Libertarian and Green Presidential Tickets
by Adam Dick | Oct 4, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, who ran for president twice as a Republican and once as a Libertarian, was interviewed Monday by host Thomas Roberts at MSNBC about Paul’s thoughts on the 2016 presidential race. In the interview, the discussion largely focuses on the Libertarian Party and...
Jesse Ventura and Lew Rockwell Discuss Ending the War on Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Oct 3, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lew Rockwell’s new Lew Rockwell Show interview with author Jesse Ventura provides interesting criticism of the war on marijuana in America and thoughts on the prospect of a future without that war. Rockwell mentions at the beginning of the interview that he loves the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Marijuana Arrests, Johnson ‘Gaffes,’ Presidential Debate, NPR Bias, Legal Heroin
by Adam Dick | Oct 2, 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...
Oops They Did it Again: US ‘Misdirected’ Drone Strike on Somalia Kills 22 Civilians, Soldiers
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In what the US is calling a "misdirected" airstrike, some 22 Somali citizens and soldiers were killed by a US missile fired from a drone intended to take out al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabab militia members. According to the BBC, the airstrike may have been a ruse by one...
Judge Napolitano: Donald Trump Supports ‘Authoritarian Police State’ Stop-and-Frisk
by Adam Dick | Sep 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Constitutional scholar and former New Jersey state judge Andrew Napolitano, in an interview Wednesday with host Brian Thomas at KRC-Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio, decried as an authoritarian police state activity the now-discontinued New York City stop-and-frisk program...
Five Minutes Five Issues: WaPo Betrayal, Tulsa Charge, NYPD Cash, Marijuana Defense, Boehner’s Bonanza
by Adam Dick | Sep 26, 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...
Ron Paul: Clinton and Trump Support More Militarism, Mass Surveillance, and Drug War
by Adam Dick | Sep 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Thursday with host Kennedy at Fox Business, former presidential candidate Ron Paul critiqued Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for their support of the continuation of militarism, mass...
In Kerry’s Own Words: Syria Prohibited from Attacking al-Qaeda
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
No wonder the United States insisted that its Syria ceasefire deal with Russia remain secret! It turns out that one of the US demands was that the Syrian air force must be prohibited from attacking al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria). Crazy conspiracy theory? Listen to...
‘Claims of Russian airstrike on Syrian aid convoy comes at convenient time for US’
by RT | Sep 21, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Concern over the fate of 62 Syrian soldiers, killed in a US airstrike just days ago, is now overshadowed by claims that Russian and Syrian forces targeted a Syrian aid convoy, Daniel McAdams, executive director at the Ron Paul Institute, told RT.Following an attack on...
Breaking: US Military Strikes Syrian Forces, Allowing ISIS to Advance
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 17, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Associated Press is reporting that the US military has struck Syrian government positions in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour today, as the Syrian military was involved in a battle with ISIS forces. According to the report, the US attack on Syrian troops...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Israel Aid, Anti-Marijuana Dollars, Ballot Access, Guantanamo Vote, Conference Report
by Adam Dick | Sep 17, 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...
Politicians Won’t Make America Great Again
by Adam Dick | Sep 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Wednesday, I was a guest on Liberty Talk Radio with host Joe Cristiano. The interview explored many topics, including foreign intervention, incarceration in America, the United States presidential election, and my new book, A Tipping Point for Liberty: Exposing and...
Rep. Thomas Massie Joins the Ron Paul Institute Advisory Board
by Adam Dick | Sep 14, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US House of Representatives Member Thomas Massie (R-KY) is the newest addition to the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity (RPI) Advisory Board. RPI Executive Director Daniel McAdams first made the announcement of Massie’s selection as a board member Saturday...
Kerry: US Must Approve All Syrian Airstrikes During Ceasefire
by Jason Ditz | Sep 13, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an attempt to clarify questions about the Syrian ceasefire, and the Nusra Front not being a party to it, Secretary of State John Kerry today offered more details, confirming that the US and Russia needed to provide joint permission before the Syrian government was...
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