The CIA was allegedly engaged in a training exercise in suburban Virginia, which required real plastic explosives in a real school bus. Then it “forgot” them and returned the bus to the school, where it carried children again. So forget for a moment that this Deep...
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Obama: ‘I Don’t Want to be Iraq’s Air Force…’
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Mar 31, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A friend pointed out to me that in this White House interview Obama told Thomas Friedman (paraphrasing) that during the process of ISIS overrunning much of northern Iraq he deliberately withheld massive air attacks on ISIS so that he could maintain political pressure...
White House to Syrians: Don’t Dare Vote For Assad!
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 30, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US backing for the overthrow of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was supposed to be all about democracy. As Washington tells it, the people took to the street demanding democratic reforms and Assad did not listen, so he lost his legitimacy and needed to be overthrown....
Iraq Ranks In Ten Most Corrupt Countries In World, Again
by Peter van Buren | Mar 30, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Iraq, the failed state that over 4,600 (and counting…) Americans died to free from some evil tyrant 13 years ago, is still ranking high internationally in something. Unfortunately, that something is corruption. A couple of other places where America has been...
A Speech that Would Have Made Waves at AIPAC
by Adam Dick | Mar 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Much has been reported on United States presidential candidates trying to one-up each other at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington, DC last week as they pledged their intentions to, as president, stand with Israel....
In Syria, Assad Liberates Palmyra While CIA Battles the Pentagon
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The big news out of Syria over the past couple of days has been that Syrian government forces with the help of the Russian military have taken back control of Palmyra from ISIS. The fall of Palmyra and subsequent destruction of the spectacular Roman ruins there by...
Media’s Blind Spot on War’s Victims and Blowback
by Adam Dick | Mar 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over at The Intercept, journalist Glenn Greenwald has written a powerful and insightful examination of how media provides Americans with many details regarding the deaths and suffering caused by terrorist attacks in “western” nations but shields Americans from...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Cuban Cigars, Prohibitionist States, Stopping Trump, Cruz Hypocrisy, DEA Danger
by Adam Dick | Mar 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted 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 show here: Read a transcript of the show,...
Breaking: Heckuva Job, Merkel – ISIS Terror Squads Swarm Europe
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Here's the big -- really big -- story of the day: AP is reporting that ISIS has sent at least 400 fighters into Europe in semi-autonomous cells to rain down a wave of terror that may make the Brussels attacks earlier this week look like child's play. This underground...
Brussels – Unrelated to Interventionist Foreign Policy?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What is the meaning of the Brussels bombings? "Experts" will make endless self-serving suggestions about how to better fight terrorism -- these "solutions" will always include more jobs for these "experts." Meanwhile, none of the elites will for a minute consider the...
Ron Paul: Trump Will Win Nomination Despite Convention Tricks, but May Face Third-Party Challenger
by Adam Dick | Mar 20, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Friday with hosts John Berman and Kate Bolduan at CNN, former three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul predicted that shady maneuvers, like the rules changes and replacement of delegates used against Paul at the 2012 Republican National Convention, will be...
Syrians Free to Choose Future…As Long As Washington Likes Their Choice
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 18, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Anyone wondering just how bad is US foreign policy need only turn to the daily press briefing by the US State Department for an answer. And let me tell you, the answer is it's really, really bad. Yesterday's briefing was at the same time one for the record books and...
Ron Paul: Bernie Sanders is Principled, but Not Consistently Antiwar
by Adam Dick | Mar 18, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Fox Business host Kennedy asked Ron Paul on Wednesday to address the similarities between Paul and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), whose presidential campaign, Kennedy noted, has much support from young people as did Paul’s presidential campaigns.Paul responded that...
5M5I: Warmongers Party, Obama Distortion, Trump on War, Lying Cops, Free Speech
by Adam Dick | Mar 17, 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 all episodes of the show at SoundCloud, YouTube, and Stitcher. The show will soon be available via iTunes as well. Listen to the show here:...
Judge Napolitano: Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee is Pro-Government on Big Constitutional Issues
by Adam Dick | Mar 16, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst and former New Jersey State Judge Andrew Napolitano declared in a Fox News interview today that President Barack Obama’s new Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is “almost always on the side of the government” on matters related to...
US Setting Up African Quagmire
by Adam Dick | Mar 14, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While much attention is focused on the United States government’s decades of military intervention in the Middle East, the US government is behind-the-scenes developing another huge intervention quagmire in Africa. In a Tuesday interview with host Scott Horton on the...
Ron Paul on the ISIS War, Authoritarian Presidential Candidates, Paul’s Exercise Routine, and More
by Adam Dick | Mar 14, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Chairman and Founder Ron Paul returned Monday to the Tom Woods Show for another intriguing interview. Among the wide range of topics Paul discusses in the interview are the distortion of the post-September 11, 2001 attacks...
Don’t Put Your Faith in Apple, Judges, or Congress to Protect Your Privacy
by Adam Dick | Mar 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If we put our faith in technology company Apple, the United States courts, or the US Congress to protect our privacy, we may well find ourselves sorely disappointed. That is the message of Ron Paul Institute Senior Fellow Adam Dick in a newly released interview on the...
The Ron Paul Institute Launches New Audio Show: Five Minutes Five Issues
by Adam Dick | Mar 11, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There are thousands of podcasts out on any topic you can imagine. There are plenty of good programs dealing with foreign policy and civil liberties as well. RPI staff often appears on these and we enthusiastically applaud their work. So why on earth would we launch...
Andrew Napolitano Examines Hillary Clinton’s ‘Continuing Pattern of Lying’ in Email Scandal
by Adam Dick | Mar 10, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former New Jersey State Judge Andrew Napolitano says in a new video editorial that it is part of Hillary Clinton’s “continuing pattern of lying” to claim her actions related to her private email server while she was United States secretary of state were not criminal...
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