Many news reports are heralding that the expiration this week of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act authority has ended the United States government’s mass surveillance program. Meanwhile, in a Fox News interview, Judge Andrew Napolitano throws cold water on such claims....
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UAE Sends ‘Blackwater’ Colombian Mercenaries to Yemen
by Peter van Buren | Nov 30, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
So file this one under “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” subcategory, “Everything.” American ally the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to Yemen to fight in that country’s raging conflict, adding a volatile new element in a...
President Ventura?
by Adam Dick | Nov 29, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
May former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura announce in March his candidacy for president of the United States? According to a new discussion of Ventura and Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst and former New Jersey Judge Andrew Napolitano on Ora TV, Ventura’s decision...
US Census Bureau Has Your Ticket to Internment Camp
by Adam Dick | Nov 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Beware the United States Census Bureau. While it may seem innocuous, this government agency, which asks Americans questions and publishes demographic statistics, can quickly be turned into an instrument for mass rights abuse. James Bovard warns in his Monday USA Today...
The Corporatocracy Behind US Foreign Policy
by Adam Dick | Nov 26, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a Tuesday interview with Real News Network host Paul Jay, Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member and former United States Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson started off acknowledging that companies’ billions of dollars a year of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia...
Why is Turkey Not in Hot Water?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 26, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
By any estimate, Turkey should be in hot water today. First, after violating Greek airspace thousands of times per year, after routinely violating Syrian airspace and territory in support of jihadists seeking to overthrow the government, Turkish President Racep...
Escalation! Two Russian Aircraft Downed in Syria!
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a sudden and dramatic escalation of the Syria conflict, two Russian aircraft -- a SU-24 fighter jet and a rescue helicopter -- have been downed in Syria. The fighter was shot down by the Turkish military after it claimed an airspace violation, and the rescue...
Forty Percent of Millennials Favor Censorship of Offensive Speech By Government
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 23, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have long discussed the rapid decline of free speech protections in the West. I have long argued that the West appears to have fallen out of love with free speech, which is more often viewed as a rising scourge rather than a defining value in some countries. A...
Jim Bamford Agrees With Ron Paul
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Nov 18, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The great NSA scholar says in Time: With intelligence protection largely illusionary, the only way to prevent continued terrorists attacks is for countries to re-evaluate their foreign policies. For more than a decade, Western countries have waged endless war in the...
Ron Paul: US Troops Will Come Home ‘Because We’re Flat-Out Broke’
by Adam Dick | Nov 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It may seem as if nothing can restrain the United States government’s intervention overseas. But, Ron Paul says economic conditions will impose a limit and that that means the days of expansive US military intervention are numbered.The former presidential candidate...
Who’s Making A Killing From the Paris Terror Attacks?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Terrorism is great for business if you're in the business of growing the government leviathan. The bodies in Paris are not yet buried, while the vultures with dollar signs (and pounds and Euros, etc) in their eyes have already swooped down for a feast.Terrorism, what...
Will Oakland Raiders Linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong Go to Prison for ‘Taunting’ a Police Dog?
by Adam Dick | Nov 11, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It is not even a man bites dog story. Instead, it is just a man barks at dog story. Yet, for one National Football League (NFL) player it is a story that threatens to conclude with his incarceration.Oakland Raiders Linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong’s alleged barking at a...
Participating in Class? School Cops Can Arrest You for That Too
by Adam Dick | Nov 6, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Some people came to the defense of school cop Ben Fieldes who last week yanked a student in a Spring Valley High School math class in South Carolina out of her seat and attached desk, hurled her across the classroom floor, and arrested her. They said Fields’ actions...
‘Lawless’ Washington Committing Crimes Against Syria – and the US Constitution
by RT | Nov 6, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Damascus is opposed to having US troops on its soil, thus the US is committing aggression and international crimes against the nation of Syria, says Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute. RT: Assistant Secretary of State for Near-Eastern Affairs...
Middle East Not Going According To Empire Plan
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
How are things going in the Middle East? Has the Russian entrance into the Syria disaster changed the equation at all? And what really is a libertarian, non-interventionist foreign policy? RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St and...
Ron Paul Classic: No War in Syria
by Norman Singleton | Nov 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Since our Nobel Peace Prize winning President is sending "a few" special operations forces to Syria, it seems like a great time to revisit one of Ron Paul's columns from 2013. In it, Dr. Paul asked if war with Syria was justified even if President Obama sought and...
Is Israel Bombing Syrian Military to Benefit ISIS Near Lebanon?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 2, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The neoconservative Washington Free Beacon is reporting that the Israeli air force has attacked a Syrian government-controlled missile base near Syria's border with Lebanon. The Beacon cites a pro-rebel website that claims: Israeli planes breached Lebanese and Syrian...
Peter Van Buren Got it Right: Killed Delta Force Member Used to Build PR for US Ground Troops Announcement
by Adam Dick | Oct 31, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Always question why people in government suddenly do something they just about never do. Your questioning may well provide insight into what the government will do next.On Tuesday, author Peter Van Buren, who worked at the United States Department of State for 24...
Iraq to Washington: We Don’t Want Your Troops
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What a difference a day makes. Just 24 hours ago US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was telling the Senate Armed Services Committee all about the Obama Administration's new military strategy for the Middle East. The headline grabber from his testimony was the...
Washington: Assad Still Must Go
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
At the State Department's daily briefing today, Spokesman John Kirby conceded that the Syrian government led by President Assad may have a role to play in a "political transition" of the country. The apparent shift was in response to a reporter who pointed out that...
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