Today RPI's Daniel McAdams joins the Tom Woods Show to take apart a few of the topics in the headlines that we need to keep an eye on. What is really at stake in the FBI vs. Apple showdown? What is causing Europe's migrant crisis, who are the players, who are the good...
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Rep. Thomas Massie: Zombie Fighter
by Adam Dick | Mar 2, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), in a new interview with Reason Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie, says his “mission in life” is to prevent new United States Congress members “from becoming zombies when they get to DC.” Massie explains that “we get probably 12 to 20 guys every...
Ron Paul: No Change in US Overall Policy No Matter Who Wins Presidential Race
by Adam Dick | Mar 2, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As Americans voted in the Super Tuesday elections, former US House of Representatives member and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul threw some cold water on hopes that the US presidential election will usher in significant change for the better. Paul, a guest...
Ron Paul Ridicules Media’s Super Tuesday Focus on Fake KKK Scandal Instead of Important Issues
by Adam Dick | Mar 1, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul had little patience Tuesday morning for CNN host Carol Costello starting off an interview with Paul with questions regarding the supposed scandal of the day that presidential candidate Donald trump might be a fan of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Paul, who has run...
Pot, Meet Kettle: Ash Carter Says Russia ‘Completely Wrongheaded’ to Join in Syrian Civil War
by Adam Dick | Feb 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told Rachel Martin of National Public Radio, in a new interview released Sunday, that Russia behaved “completely wrongheaded” when it “came in and joined the [Syrian] civil war on the side of [Syrian President Bashar...
Guess Who’s Violating the Syria Ceasefire?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
...the Turks, of course. According to Qadri Jamil, one of the leaders of the opposition Syrian Popular Front for Change and Liberation, the temporary ceasefire in Syria is for the most part holding. But the main violator of the agreement thus far, he says, is the...
Putting the Ron Paul Institute in Trump’s Kitchen Cabinet?
by Adam Dick | Feb 26, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Earlier this week came news that Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign had sought advice from Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity (RPI) Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson. Today, Robert Wenzel is recommending at Target Liberty that Donald Trump include...
HOT: FBI Director Backtracks, Admits Apple iPhone Litigation Will be Precedent!
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey seems to have quickly reversed course to admit the obvious — that the February 16 magistrate judge’s order for Apple to help the US government breach an iPhone’s security, including encryption, is as much...
Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Campaign Reaches Out to RPI Advisor on Foreign Policy
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson, a member of the Ron Paul Institute’s Academic Board since the institute’s 2013 founding, has provided some advice to the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, according to an article by Michael Crowley in...
The Incredible Shrinking Syrian ‘Ceasefire’
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 24, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Syria "cessation of hostilities" agreement seems all the stranger as huge unanswered questions regarding signatories, partners, monitoring, reporting, adjudication, and enforcement are raised. It seems more and more like something cobbled together without much...
Did the FBI Intentionally Bumble the San Bernardino iPhone Investigation?
by Adam Dick | Feb 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over at We Meant Well, always-interesting writer Peter Van Buren provides a funny rundown of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s blunders he suggests prevented it from accessing information on an iPhone connected to the December 2 San Bernardino, California...
The Apple Court Order and the Obama Administration’s Anti-Privacy Push
by Adam Dick | Feb 21, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the fall of 2015, American privacy supporters were relieved that draconian legislation requiring companies to create backdoors for the US government to overcome encryption of individuals’ private information did not make its way through Congress. In fact, the Obama...
Showdown: Justice Department Escalates Against Apple
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US Justice Department escalated its standoff with Apple today, filing a motion to compel Apple to create software that would facilitate the Federal Government's breaking the encryption of an iPhone in the possession of one of the San Bernardino shooters. Apple has...
Ron Paul Explains Libertarianism
by Adam Dick | Feb 18, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Prominent libertarian communicator and former United States presidential candidate Ron Paul presented on Wednesday a short explanation of libertarianism in response to a question from host Anand Naidoo on the CCTV show The Heat. Asked by Naidoo “What is a...
Judge Napolitano Applauds Apple’s Tim Cook for Defending the Constitution
by Adam Dick | Feb 17, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, in a new Fox Business interview with host Stuart Varney, said he applauds Apple CEO Tim Cook for “defending the Constitution” by resisting a United States magistrate judge’s order that Apple aid the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in...
Larry Summers: ‘It’s Time to Kill the $100 Bill’
by Robert Wenzel | Feb 16, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot university professor at Harvard, former US Treasury Secretary and former director of the National Economic Council, in a column at The Washington Post tiled, It’s time to kill the $100 bill, is calling for the banishment from...
Has Turkey Just Started WWIII?
by Adam Dick | Feb 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The violence in Syria has been devastating for years. New military actions in the country by the Turkish government threaten to escalate the situation into a much larger war. Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Executive Director Daniel McAdams wrote about the...
While Kerry Talks Ceasefire, US Allies Secretly Ship Grad Missiles to Syria Rebels
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photoThe big news yesterday was that after some five hours of intense negotiation on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, an agreement was reached between the major powers on a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria within the next week. According to the...
Hillary Clinton Top Aides May Testify Against Her in Clinton Emails Case
by Adam Dick | Feb 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano said in a Thursday Fox News interview that the United States Department of Justice will likely seek to make deals with individuals who were top aides to Hillary Clinton so those aides will testify against her if there...
Ron Paul ‘The Maverick’ at University of Texas, Arlington
by Adam Dick | Feb 6, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, the prominent libertarian communicator, has said many times that the great interest in the ideas of liberty he finds among young people on university campuses gives him reason for optimism. In fact, Paul has made it a priority to speak at universities often,...
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