In his main stage speech at the Republican National Convention in July, Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and current advisor to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, predicted, “What I did for New York, Donald Trump Will do for America.” That does...
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Five Minutes Five Issues: Clinton’s Dictators, Party Principles, Speed Control, Planet K, Sailor Sentenced
by Adam Dick | Sep 2, 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...
The Russians and Sultan Tayyip?
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Aug 31, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It is not clear to me what, if anything, the Russians and Sultan Tayyip (Erdogan) have agreed on. The battle east of Aleppo City out on the green plains of the fertile crescent seems a muddle. I don't see evidence of Russian participation, for or against the Turkish...
Donald Trump’s Wall Would Threaten Americans’ Freedom
by Adam Dick | Aug 30, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Berlin Wall was a tool for oppression. It prevented people from exercising a very important right — the right to leave. In doing so it also helped ensure continuing abuse of individuals trapped by the wall and armed enforcers. In November of 1989, gates of the...
Gary Johnson and Bill Weld Presidential Campaign Dragging Libertarianism Through the Mud
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Senior Fellow Adam Dick, in a Wake Up Call Podcast interview posted on Friday, argues that Libertarian Party presidential and vice-presidential nominees Gary Johnson and Bill Weld have drug the term “libertarian” through the mud with their advocacy...
Ron Paul Nearly Won Electoral College Votes in 2012 Presidential Election
by Adam Dick | Aug 26, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When Americans vote each four years, they are not directly electing a president. Instead, under the United States Constitution, each state, as well as the District of Columbia (DC), appoints to the Electoral College a number of electors that equals the sum of the...
How I Was Blacklisted at CNN, and How Easily America Goes to War Now
by Peter van Buren | Aug 26, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It was about two years ago to the day I was blacklisted at CNN. I don’t want to remind them they were sadly wrong, but they were. So write this off however you prefer, but understand that we were lied to again to drag us again into an open-ended war in Iraq-Syria....
EU Chief Blasts The Very Notion Of National Borders In The Latest Call For Globalism
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For years, European Union advocates denied allegations that they were trying to erase national borders and create a single country with a shared military. Then recently proposals for a single military emerged — just before Britain left the EU. One of the most...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Secretary Romney, Iceland Asylum, Clinton Files, Another Snowden, Fed Wars
by Adam Dick | Aug 24, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Wednesday. 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...
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...
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