On occasion a college professor answers an interview question in such a way that it creates in some listeners a sudden, if fleeting, urge to drop everything, move across the country, and sign up for a course. College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson,...
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Russia’s Campaign To Snuff Off The CIA’s Al-Qaeda Forces
by Moon of Alabama | Oct 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With some 125 strikes in three days the Russian bombing campaign continues to build. The US media is now obsessed with the idea that Russia may be using "dumb bombs" instead of Syrian "barrel bombs". This is becoming a new propaganda meme. But videos from the Russian...
Eric Margolis: US Fight Against ‘Covert Western Asset’ ISIS is a ‘Big Charade’
by Adam Dick | Oct 2, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Eric Margolis returned to the Scott Horton Show on Wednesday for another intriguing interview regarding international relations and war. In the interview, Margolis, a Ron Paul Institute Academic Board member and international affairs writer, lifted the lid on the...
Why is Washington Against Russia Bombing ISIS and Al-Qaeda?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Wednesday the Russian military became active in the fight against ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria. Pursuant to a request from the Syrian government, Moscow first began deploying military equipment and trainers as well as humanitarian assistance. Then the Russian...
US-Funded NGO in Syria Uses Old Photo to Claim Civilian Death in Russian Airstrikes
by Jason Ditz | Oct 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
From the moment the first Russian warplanes started launching attacks inside Syria, a new campaign in the information war was also launched, with various groups trying to get their stamps on conflicting stories about what exactly Russia attacked, whether they hit...
End the Marijuana ‘Sin Taxes’
by Adam Dick | Sep 29, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Legal marijuana in Colorado has been a boon for freedom, allowing people to make, transfer, and consume marijuana products free from the threat of arrest by state or local police. At the same time, there is an unfortunate side-effect of the liberalization of marijuana...
US Exploited Assad’s Fight Against Al-Qaeda
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US government has been relying on its standard narrative that the Syria crisis emerged spontaneously after an "Arab Spring" inspired protest was violently suppressed by the Syrian government. The entire US intervention was justified on these grounds. Thus the...
Washington’s Bias Toward War
by Adam Dick | Sep 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College of William & Mary Professor and Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson examined, in an interview last week with host Paul Jay on the Real News Network, the connection between war and profits. War brings profits, and this feeds a...
Eric Margolis: When Assad Is Gone, We Will Definitely Miss Him
by Adam Dick | Sep 21, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Friday with host Scott Horton on the Scott Horton Show, Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Eric Margolis related the devastating consequences foreign intervention to depose Syria President Bashar al-Assad has created, as well as the further devastation...
New Hampshire Library Stands Up to US Government, Reinstates Tor Relay
by Adam Dick | Sep 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The board of trustees overseeing the Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, on Tuesday decided, despite pushback from the United States Department of Homeland Security, to reinstate a Tor relay the board had approved in an effort to enhance privacy on...
Assange, Manning, and Snowden (as Statues) Challenging War in Geneva
by Adam Dick | Sep 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The whistleblowers and government secrets revealers Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden are not free to travel. But, this week — in the form of a sculpture including their life-size bronze statues — they are standing in a Geneva, Switzerland plaza near...
Ron Paul Discusses Evangelical Zionists’ Support for US Wars
by Adam Dick | Sep 12, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, the former United States presidential candidate and Republican House of Representatives member from Texas, discussed in an August 8 radio interview evangelical Zionists who support the US government’s wars overseas. Paul examines the matter with Patriot’s...
Foreign Invasion Force In Yemen Grows
by Moon of Alabama | Sep 11, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The invasion force in Yemen is growing. The invasion troops now include: 3,000 United Arab Emirates 1,000 Qatar 1,000 Saudi Arabia 6,000 (somewhat unreliable) Yemeni expats hired and trained by Saudi Arabia 600-800 Egypt small contingents from Bahrain, Kuwait and...
Ron Paul: The More US Intervention, the More Chaos in the Middle East
by Adam Dick | Sep 10, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Wednesday with host Charles Payne on Fox Business, Ron Paul Institute Chairman and Founder Ron Paul said “interventionism of Republicans and Democrats” to “remake the Middle East” is to blame for the “utter mess” from which many Middle Easterners are fleeing....
Daniel McAdams and Tom Woods on The Syrian Refugee Crisis: What’s the Cause?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What is the latest with Europe's massive refugee/migrant crisis? RPI Executive Director Daniel McAdams was a guest today on the Tom Woods Show to look at the various explanations for this historic movement of humans from the Middle East to Europe. Was it spontaneous?...
Are Manned US Helicopters Flying In Syria?
by Moon of Alabama | Sep 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A NYT piece on the failure if the "Division 30" Pentagon mercenaries in Syria and their coming Version 2 includes some interesting bits (in bold). The general line of the piece is that the failure of the first group sent in does not lead to significant changes but to...
States Can Build Up the Border Police State Too
by Adam Dick | Sep 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The border-industrial complex has not been content to just count the money and gloat after receiving millions upon millions in “border security” dollars from the United States government. There is more easy money to be had if states can be convinced to take a bigger...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Using Al-Qaeda to Fight ISIS is Crazy and Dangerous
by Adam Dick | Sep 6, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College of William & Mary Professor and Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson frankly assesses that former United States General and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director David Petraeus’ proposal that the US support al-Qaeda to fight the...
White House: Russian Military Action Against ISIS in Syria Would be ‘Destabilizing’
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today's lesson in how propaganda works: The rumor mill turns a trickle of a story early this week about "thousands" of Russian soldiers deploying to Syria any day -- a wholly unsourced story originating on an Israeli website -- into a torrent of hyperventilating about...
Families Choose Homeschooling to Escape Draconian California Vaccination Mandates
by Adam Dick | Sep 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There is an “out” for Californian parents and children dreading the July 2016 implementation of the state’s recently adopted Senate Bill 277 — draconian legislation eliminating exemptions to child vaccination mandates. That out is homeschooling, and many Californian...
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