In a move that the New York Times reports is nearly unprecedented, some 51 mid-level State Department employees have signed a letter calling for the Obama Administration to begin bombing the Assad government in Syria immediately. Demonstrating the reality that the...
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You Can’t Make This Up: Kerry and Saudi Prince Pledge to Fight Extremism After Orlando Shooting
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 14, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Here is further proof that US foreign policy fact is stranger than fiction: one day after the Orlando shooting where some 50 patrons of a homosexual bar were gunned down, US Secretary of State John Kerry sat down to dinner with with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman in...
No, There Are Not Hundreds of Mass Shootings Each Year in America
by Adam Dick | Jun 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On the heels of the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida early Sunday morning, the media reports are coming out again of there being hundreds of mass shootings a year in America. For example, we have this headline at Vox: “After Sandy Hook we said never again. And then...
Kucinich: Cowardly US Leaders Push Endless Cycle of War
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Jun 11, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There is a chilling account in today's Washington Post entitled, "A desperate woman’s email from Iraq reveals the high toll of Obama’s low-cost wars," detailing the civilian casualties caused by the US government in its pursuit from high altitudes of enemy combatants...
Susan Rice Assures Israel of ‘Largest Military Aid Package in American History’
by Jason Ditz | Jun 8, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While her speech today at the American Jewish Committee Global Forum included some vague criticism of ongoing Israeli settlement expansion, as usual that will have no impact on US policy, as National Security Adviser Susan Rice centered the speech on pledges of a...
Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch is Back
by Adam Dick | Jun 7, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In 2009, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst and former New Jersey state Judge Andrew Napolitano launched on the internet his interview and commentary show Freedom Watch. The next year, Napolitano’s show of the same name began a television run on Fox Business. The show’s...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Neocons4Clinton, Libertarian Spoilers, Marijuana Flip-Flop, David Simpson, More Flags
by Adam Dick | Jun 5, 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 Hands Corrupt Ukraine Another Billion US Dollars
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 3, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
One of the downsides of the US "regime change" business is that when you break it, you often have to buy it. It's all fun and games when you wander through the streets of Kiev with a bag of cookies encouraging the people to overthrow their government, or when you...
Washington to Moscow: Stop Targeting al-Qaeda in Syria – You’ll Kill Our Moderates!
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 3, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Associated Press is reporting this afternoon that the Obama Administration has requested that the Russians cease and desist from bombing al-Qaeda's Nusra Front in Syria because Washington's "moderate" rebels are fighting together with al-Qaeda in Syria and any...
Ron Paul Wishes Gary Johnson Were ‘More of an Outspoken Champion of Liberty’
by Adam Dick | Jun 3, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Asked by Fox Business host Kennedy on Thursday what he would recommend were he advising Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson, Ron Paul replied, “I would want him to be more of an outspoken champion of liberty and be crisp and clear and not make people wonder...
Ron Paul’s Advice at the Libertarian National Convention: Don’t Be Wishy-Washy
by Adam Dick | Jun 1, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, whose forty-plus years in the political arena include a run for president as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988, received at the party’s national convention last weekend a Hall of Liberty award for his achievement in advancing the libertarian movement....
Breaking: US Soldier in Syria – ‘Kill ’em All!’
by Daniel McAdams | May 27, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After continued Pentagon denials that US Special Forces in Syria equals "boots on the ground" in Syria, new video has just emerged of a US soldier standing next to what looks like an armored personnel carrier with Kurdish militia "YPG" spray-painted on it. It appears...
Five Minutes Five Issues: TSA Kills, Chris Kyle, Granite Nation, Marijuana Billions, McAdams/Raimondo 2020
by Adam Dick | May 27, 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...
Caught on Film: US Special Forces Fighting on Ground in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | May 26, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Map credit. Click for higher resolution.Today Agence France-Presse published shock photos of US Special Forces troops engaged in combat inside Syria with the US-backed, mostly-Kurdish "Syrian Democratic Forces" as they moved toward the ISIS "capital" of Raqqa. The...
Ron Paul Praises Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders…With Reservations
by Adam Dick | May 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Chairman Ron Paul told host Larry King on the Friday episode of Ora TV's Politicking that in November he would vote for neither Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump nor Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Nevertheless, Paul...
DNI to Make Recommendation by Today on 28 Pages Declassification
by Adam Dick | May 21, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper met this week with the Rep. Walter Jones who is the sponsor of a resolution (H.Res. 14) seeking the publication of the redacted 28 pages of Congress’ Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Activities Before and After the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: VA Marijuana, Stingy Clemency, Closing Guantanamo, Resisting PreCheck, Bill Weld
by Adam Dick | May 21, 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...
US Rejects Russia’s Call for Joint Strikes Against Syria’s al-Qaeda Forces
by Jason Ditz | May 21, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front taking over more and more territory in Syria, and reportedly preparing to establish an independent “emirate” that would mirror the government set up by ISIS, Russia today issued a statement calling for joint operations against the Islamists...
Hidden Mics as Part of Government Surveillance Program
by Peter van Buren | May 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In another example of multi-dimensional clash among the Fourth Amendment, privacy, technology, and the surveillance state, hidden microphones that are part of a broad, public clandestine government surveillance program that has been operating around the San Francisco...
Ron Paul: Improved Relations with Cuba and Iran Are ‘Best Things that Obama Ever Did’
by Adam Dick | May 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Wednesday with host Sandra Smith on Fox Business, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Chairman Ron Paul praised President Barack Obama for opening relations with Cuba and Iran. Paul strongly criticizes in the interview Obama’s interventions overseas —...
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