Ron Paul, the former United States presidential candidate and Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Texas, strongly condemned on Wednesday presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal that the US government shut down remittances of money from...
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United States Maintains Banking Sanctions Against Iran
by Paul-Martin Foss | Apr 7, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Despite the lifting of international sanctions against Iran earlier this year, the United States government intends to continue denying Iranian companies access to the US financial system. This highlights how the US financial system is viewed not as a market-based...
Merle Haggard’s Peace Song ‘America First’
by Adam Dick | Apr 6, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Merle Haggard, who died today, will be remembered with appreciation by many people for his songs over the decades. Among those songs is “America First.” Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Chairman Ron Paul included “America First” in a list of peace songs in...
See Ron Paul at a Conference This Year? A Few Generous Donors Can Make It Happen!
by Adam Dick | Apr 5, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
How about a Ron Paul Institute (RPI) conference this year? Ron Paul, RPI’s chairman, is excited about the idea. Of course, he would be a featured speaker at the conference. The only barrier to making the conference a reality is money. The institute needs to spend its...
Dozens, Maybe Hundreds, Smoke Marijuana in Front of White House; Two Fined $25 Each
by Adam Dick | Apr 3, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Saturday saw marijuana prohibition protestors walking through the United States capital city to outside the White House. Once there, dozens — maybe hundreds — of the protestors smoked marijuana. The response of the many assembled police to the lawbreaking: two people...
They’re at it Again: Pentagon Training New Syrian Rebels
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 2, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Official White House Photo by Pete SouzaYou know the old saying: if at first you don't succeed, keep trying the same dumb thing over and over and wonder why you are still not succeeding. Well, at least that's the Beltway version of that old saying. We know what...
School Bus Bombing?
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Apr 1, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Sanders Wins, Obama Clemencies, Chief Rabbis, Stacked Hearing, Phone Privacy
by Adam Dick | Apr 1, 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...
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...
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