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Breaking: Did Washington Just Declare a ‘No Fly’ Zone in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Reading between the lines in today's Pentagon press briefing, a bombshell US policy shift is becoming more apparent: Syrian forces and their Russian partners are being told that conducting military operations in some parts of Syrian airspace opens them up to being...
US Warns Syrian Military…Against Operating Inside Syria!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 21, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just when you thought US foreign policy could not get more absurd. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, who is listed as "commander of US forces in Iraq and Syria," has issued a warning to the Syrian military that if its counter-insurgency operations on Syrian soil leave US...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Disappearing Trials, Trump’s Taxes, Indian Marijuana, Hospital Bombing, Freest States
by Adam Dick | Aug 21, 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...
‘Aleppo Child Survivor Image Will be Used as Propaganda for More War – Not Less’
by RT | Aug 20, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When the government wants you to cry over something – a very murderous government – you have to look beyond that and think ‘what are they trying to do, what additional killing are they trying to justify’, Lew Rockwell, chairman of the Mises Institute, told RT.Recent...
Ron Paul: US Intervention Contributes to Risk of Ukraine Fighting Expansion
by Adam Dick | Aug 20, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, interviewed Friday by Stuart Varney at Fox Business, says “trouble has been brewing” around Ukraine since the United States government in 2014 “participated in the coup” in the European nation, resulting in political upheavals including the ousting of...
The Aleppo Poster Child
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Washington’s media presstitutes are using the image of the child to bring pressure on Russia to stop the Syrian army from retaking Alleppo. Washington wants its so-called moderate rebels to retain Alleppo so that Washington can split Syria in two, thereby keeping a...
Breaking: US Issues Threat as Syria Bombs Rebels Near US Special Forces
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US government scrambled jets over northern Syria today as a Syrian government attack on Kurdish rebels came close to US Special Forces fighting on the ground in Syria, media is reporting. The Pentagon also moved some of its Special Forces troops out of the...
John McLaughlin, RIP
by Norman Singleton | Aug 17, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Yesterday was a sad day for political junkies with the news that John McLaughlin had passed away.McLaughlin, a former Jesuit priest and Nixon speechwriter, was best known for "The McLaughlin Group," a weekly round table that pioneered the fast-talking and combative...
See You in September! ‘Peace and Prosperity 2016’ Conference Program
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 16, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The elephant in the living room? Foreign policy. No one wants to really talk about it. Washington is hoping the rest of us won't blurt out that the emperor has no clothes, that US interventionism is making us poorer, less free, and less safe. Even when candidates like...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Clinton Assassination, Yemen Bombing, Bill Weld, Iran Cash, VA Pension
by Adam Dick | Aug 13, 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...
Trump: Americans May Be Tried In Military Tribunals Under His Administration
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I have long been a critic of military tribunals as constitutionally dubious and practically ineffectual institutions. The tribunals at Guantanamo Bay have resulted in few actual trials and undermined the standing of the United States as a nation committed to the rule...
Afghan Maintenance Program You Pay For Wastes $423 Million
by Peter van Buren | Aug 11, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
So, Afghanistan. America’s longest and wackiest war will soon enter its 16th year, and is scheduled to run through the next administration, as no one can remember why the US is fighting there anymore and so no one knows when this thing is over. Did we win yet? How...
The Drug War Built Leviathan Government; Drug War Backlash Can Defeat Leviathan Government
by Adam Dick | Aug 10, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Interviewed Saturday on the Patriot’s Lament radio show on KFAR radio in Fairbanks, Alaska, Ron Paul Institute Senior Fellow Adam Dick zeroed in on the drug war as a major avenue for the expansion of government power at the expense of liberty. Yet, Dick also told...
Ron Paul Recommends Reading This French Book Published in 1850
by Adam Dick | Aug 5, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Thursday on the Tom Woods Show, host Tom Woods asked libertarian communicator Ron Paul what one book Paul would suggest someone read as an introduction to Paul’s views. Paul responded that he would suggest The Law by Frédéric Bastiat. Paul says in the interview that...
The Real Adam Dick Fights For Liberty
by Robert Wenzel | Aug 5, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I have to admit, the first time I saw an Adam Dick essay at ronpaulinstitute.org, it was so solid I thought that Ron Paul Institute executive director Daniel McAdams had written the piece under a pen name.It was that good.The only difference was that it was about a...
Obama at Pentagon: Syria Mess is All Assad’s Fault
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Some presidents grow in office and some presidents grow once out of office (Jimmy Carter comes to mind). But some presidents seem to learn very little during their four or eight year term. Unfortunately, especially when it comes to foreign policy, it seems President...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Khan’s Constitution, Philippines Killings, Johnson’s Justices, Burp Arrest, Aussie Jedi
by Adam Dick | Aug 4, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Thursday. 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 Tipping Point for Liberty: An Important and Timely Book
by Norman Singleton | Aug 3, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity has done a service to everyone looking for intellectual ammunition against statist lies and propaganda. They've published A Tipping Point for Liberty: Exposing and Defeating Leviathan Government. This book is a...
Clinton Admits That It Is ‘Fair’ To Question Her Truthfulness But Then Denies That The FBI Found That Any Of Her Emails Were Classified
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 2, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Hillary Clinton admitted this Sunday that it is “fair” for voters to have questions about her truthfulness. However, she then proceeded to make the very type of statement that has undermined her credibility with voters. Despite the express statement of the FBI that...
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