The Pentagon has announced today that the US has begun conducting military airstrikes against Libya with the stated intent of defeating ISIS in that country. According to the Pentagon spokesman, the Libyan "Government of National Accord" requested that the US begin...
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Dennis Kucinich: To Diminish Terrorism, Stop Funding It and Stop Bombing Countries
by Adam Dick | Aug 1, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Interviewed last week at the Democratic National Convention, two-time Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich offered a succinct explanation of what the United States government can do to diminish terrorism. “If we want to diminish terrorism in the world,...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Paul Conventions, Barney Frank, Sanders Supporters, Giuliani Plan, My Book
by Adam Dick | Jul 30, 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...
Hillary to Deliver Syria to Jihadists?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
According to Hillary Clinton's foreign policy advisor, Jeremy Bash, if Clinton is elected she will order a "re-set" of US policy toward Syria to emphasize the "murderous" nature of the Assad regime. As the Telegraph reports, Hillary Clinton will breathe new life into...
The Disposable Veterans
by Karen De Coster | Jul 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The obituary says he “lost his battle with PTSD.” He lost his battle for freedom and a quality life once he signed up to be used as cannon fodder for the US Government. Quote: Ketchum had been struggling with PTSD and substance abuse after returning home from his...
Robert Wenzel’s Early Praise for A Tipping Point for Liberty
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 27, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Robert Wenzel is publisher of the enormously popular websites Target Liberty and Economic Policy Journal. Today he posted a terrific early review of RPI's new book release, A Tipping Point For Liberty, written by RPI's Adam Dick. We are grateful for Robert's reaction...
Dennis Kucinich: Bernie Sanders Should Consider Withdrawing His Hillary Clinton Endorsement
by Adam Dick | Jul 26, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who in 2004 and 2008 sought the Democratic presidential nomination, says that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) should consider withdrawing Sanders’ endorsement of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton given new...
Boos and Jeers from Home State Delegation Greet Debbie Wasserman Schultz
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It was a rowdy scene at the Democratic National Convention this morning when Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) addressed her home state of Florida’s delegation to the convention. Wasserman Schultz over the weekend announced her resignation as chair of the...
Like the F-35, US Latest and Most Expensive Aircraft Carrier Doesn’t Work
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 24, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Why does the US spend more on its military than the next largest several countries combined? One reason is that the military budget has far less to do with protecting the United States than it does to further enriching well-connected military contractors. Politicians...
Intervention Fail: ISIS Makes Bloody Gains in Post ‘Liberation’ Afghanistan
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 24, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Shortly after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 1996 (their rise to power itself a result of the 1979 Soviet intervention in Afghanistan), we began to hear endless stories of the horrors of this student movement turned governing power. They ruled by Sharia law,...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Convention Infomercial, ISIS War, Clinton Foundation, VP Pence, Medical Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Jul 22, 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...
Milestone: We’ve Just Dropped Our 50,000th Bomb on ISIS
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In August, 2014, the US-led "coalition" began bombing Iraq and Syria to, in the words of President Obama, "degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as ISIS.” For nearly two years -- despite President Obama announcing last November that ISIS was...
Retaliation for Nice? France Bombs 120 Civilians in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just days after Tunisian-born French resident Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a truck into a crowded Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing at least 84, a French-led bombing attack on the Syrian villages of Tokhar and Hoshariyeh today has reportedly killed...
Ron Paul: Currency Destruction Funds Wars
by Adam Dick | Jul 18, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, who regularly challenged Federal Reserve Board chairmen as a member of the US House of Representatives' Financial Services Committee, continues to describe the problems the Federal Reserve causes. In his Monday column “Don’t Reform the Fed, Fed-Exit!” Paul...
‘Why They Didn’t Fire Is A Mystery’ – Coup Pilots Had Erdogan’s Plane In Their Sights And Did Nothing
by Tyler Durden | Jul 17, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Looking back at the failed Turkish coup, one question that nobody has been able to answer is why, if the coup was indeed a serious attempt at government overthrow, did the organizers not do the first thing that military coups have done since time immemorial: either...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Anti-Trump ACLU, 28 Pages, Africa Intervention, Government Schools, Busy Cops
by Adam Dick | Jul 15, 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...
Judge Andrew Napolitano: ‘Reprehensible’ to Label Black Lives Matter as Terrorist Group
by Adam Dick | Jul 13, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking this week with host Jamie Allman on 97.1 FM radio in St. Louis, Missouri, former New Jersey state Judge Andrew Napolitano said it would be “reprehensible” to label Black Lives Matter a terrorist group. Some people have suggested such action in the wake of the...
Ron Paul: No Matter the Presidential Race Outcome, the US Is Going the Way of the USSR
by Adam Dick | Jul 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul, interviewed Tuesday on Fox Business, suggested that in the 2016 presidential race, in which Paul is not supporting any candidate, neither Democrat Hillary Clinton nor Republican Donald Trump is proposing a course of action...
Dallas Violence: Wave Of The Future?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 11, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In recent shooting attacks, Republicans have wanted to blame "violent jihad" and Democrats have wanted to blame guns. The Dallas shooting has upset this scenario to a degree. Was the shooter influenced by his time spent near the battlefield in Afghanistan? Was he on...
Ron Paul on the Drug War, Federal Reserve, and Killing of Dallas Cops
by Adam Dick | Jul 10, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
To understand the conditions in America that can contribute to tensions with police and even potentially individuals being motivated to kill cops as occurred in Dallas, Texas on Thursday, it is important that people look at the United States government’s war on drugs...
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