The UN Security Council today agreed on a plan to "train and equip" an army loyal to the Libyan "Government of National Accord" after US Secretary of State John Kerry made a strong case for the remilitarization of the conflict. The UN-created "Government of National...
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Oops! CIA ‘Accidentally’ Destroyed Its Only Copy of Senate Torture Report
by Daniel McAdams | May 16, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The CIA was once so interested in the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture that it secretly spied on the US Senate to see what they were coming up with. These days...well, not so much. They hardly seem interested in the report at all. In fact, the CIA...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Cliven Bundy, NFL Marijuana, Trump Democrats, Murder Inflation, Giuliani Commission
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted today. 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 show here: Read a transcript of the show, including...
Did You Know? US Special Forces Fighting in Libya and Somalia
by Daniel McAdams | May 13, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With the ongoing larger US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and elsewhere, it can easily become the "new normal" that US troops are also fighting in (relatively) small numbers in places we just do not hear about, in wars the media does not question, in...
TSA Meltdown: Thousands of Bags Lost While Long Lines Push Passengers To Near Riot
by Jonathan Turley | May 13, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have previously discussed the meltdown at airports due to the latest failure of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Passengers are being asked to show up hours in advance and many are missing their flights due to endless lines. Now, thousands of bags...
‘We Do Investigations Here At The FBI’: FBI Director Reportedly Contradicts Clinton On Email Investigation
by Jonathan Turley | May 11, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The FBI and its director James Comey have been careful not to be swept into the political campaign in comments about the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s personal server. The Clinton campaign, and the candidate herself, have repeatedly scoffed at any danger of an...
US Can’t Say Whether or Not $759 Million Spent on Education in Afghanistan Helped Anything
by Peter van Buren | May 10, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If at where you work you spent $759 million on something, and then told your boss you have no idea if anything was accomplished, and that the little data you do have is probably fraudulent, how might that work out for you? If you are the US government in Afghanistan,...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Pushing PreCheck, Plaintiff Killed, Bush’s Pledge, Matalin’s Party, 28 Pages
by Adam Dick | May 8, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted today. 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 show here: Read a transcript of the show, including...
Film Review: National Bird Looks Deeply in the Drone War’s Abyss
by Peter van Buren | May 7, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
National Bird, a new documentary by filmmaker Sonia Kennebeck, co-produced with Errol Morris and Wim Wenders, is a deep, multilayered, look into America’s drone wars, a tactic which became a strategy which became a post-9/11 policy. To many in Iraq, Afghanistan and...
Breaking: 100 US Troops Land in Yemen?
by Daniel McAdams | May 5, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US military in Lahij, YemenCiting the Arab language Al Masirah TV news site, 20th Century Wire is reporting that some 100 US Army Special Forces have landed recently at the Anad air base in Lahij, Yemen. This deployment is said to augment other Arab forces currently...
Will Failure to Indict Hillary Clinton Lead to her Replacement on Presidential Ticket?
by Adam Dick | May 5, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many pundits are saying former Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has the Democratic presidential nomination sewn up. Not so fast, counters Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst and former New Jersey State Judge Andrew Napolitano. The investigation of Clinton’s handling of...
Chelsea Manning: Solitary Confinement is ‘No Touch’ Torture
by Adam Dick | May 3, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Torture comes in many forms. In comes in the form of waterboarding, in which an individual is made to believe he will drown. It comes in the form of pain-inducing, humiliating, and disfiguring treatment. Torture can also take the form of solitary confinement, the...
NATO Prepares Four Battalions for Russian Border
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 30, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that NATO is preparing to deploy four battalions -- approximately 4,000 troops -- to Russia's western border. US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work was in Brussels today to announce the Western military escalation on...
Five Minutes Five Issues: War Spending, Hawaii Drugs, Sanders Delegates, 28 Pages, Hastert Sentencing
by Adam Dick | Apr 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted today. 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 show here, YouTube embed below: Read a transcript of...
In Syria, US Rejects Russia Call to Name al-Qaeda Allies ‘Terrorist’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The total muddle that is US policy toward Syria continues to astonish. This week we saw the spectacle of a State Department Spokesman telling us that President Obama's promise to not put US boots on the ground in Syria, was never a promise not to put boots on the...
State Department Jokesman: ‘Obama Never Said No Boots on Ground in Syria!’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Watching State Department Spokesman John Kirby spar with one of Washington's last real journalists, AP diplomatic correspondent Matt Lee, is one of the best tickets in town. From his claims that "the entire international community" is demanding that Syria's Assad step...
Breaking: Obama to Announce Major US Escalation in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 24, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that tomorrow (Monday) President Obama will announce that he is quintupling the number of US troops inside Syria. From the current 50 troops the US admits are operating in Syria, the US will raise the total to 300 under the guise...
Five Minutes Five Issues: War Escalation, Canada Marijuana, FBI Hack, EU Regime, Senate Snoopers
by Adam Dick | Apr 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted today. 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 show here: Read a transcript of the show, including...
‘How the War Party Works’: RPI’s Daniel McAdams on Mises Weekends
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Washington, D.C. is a foreign policy bubble, where big money rules and coloring outside the interventionist lines is forbidden. Does the rest of the country buy into the idea that we must run the world? RPI Director Daniel McAdams speaks with his former colleague in...
White House ‘Concerned’ as Russia Moves Equipment to North Syria
by Jason Ditz | Apr 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
White House officials are complaining of being “concerned” by recent media reports of Russia shifting its artillery further north in Syria, with suggestions they were moving to back the Syrian military in renewed offensives against al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front.Even though...
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