Whenever there is a problem anywhere in the world, the first thing US lawmakers and Beltway foreign policy experts do is urge the US to send weapons. Libyan "freedom fighters" want to overthrow Gaddafi? Send weapons. Eastern Ukraine wants to break away from US-backed...
Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Mass Surveillance Will Continue Even Without PATRIOT Act Section 215
by Adam Dick | May 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Privacy advocates looking forward to an end of the Unites States government’s mass surveillance program due to the looming sunset of PATRIOT Act section 215 may do well to shelve their Champagne bottles. Judge Andrew Napolitano, in a Fox News interview on Wednesday,...
The Conscientious Objector’s Path Away from War’s Killings
by Adam Dick | May 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When you sign up to be in the United States military, in many ways the deck is stacked against you. You are required to go where you are told and to do what you are told — including, potentially, to kill people. You can forget the rosy representations the recruiter...
ISIS Gains as Congress Funds War: Week in Review With McAdams and Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | May 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US failure in Iraq and Syria becomes more obvious as ISIS gains ground; new military spending bill funds the president's wars, but forbids debate on them; a color revolution in Macedonia funded by George Soros and the US taxpayer. This and more as RPI's Daniel...
Lew Rockwell: ‘If You’re Not Seeing the Ron Paul Liberty Report, You’re Not Understanding What’s Going On’
by Adam Dick | May 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Friday, in his Lew Rockwell Show interview with Ron Paul, host Lew Rockwell interjected effusive praise for Paul’s new show, the Ron Paul Liberty Report. The Ron Paul Liberty Report is a new video program hosted by Paul and Ron Paul Institute Executive Director...
Michael Scheuer: Why Bin Laden Was Reading My Book ‘Imperial Hubris’
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
From Sky News to CNN, media are asking Michael Scheuer why Osama bin Laden would have a copy of Scheuer’s book Imperial Hubris. The question arose because Scheuer’s book is included in a list of books seized in a 2011 US military raid on bin Laden’s dwelling in...
Rep. John Duncan: GOP as War Party is a ‘Recipe for Defeat’
by Adam Dick | May 19, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an in-depth interview at C-SPAN’s Washington, DC studio on May 13, Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) appealed for the Republican Party to change its ways so it can be viewed as the Peace Party instead of as the War Party. Duncan’s comments in the interview expand on...
‘Any Time US Official Visits Ukraine, Some Attack Happens Afterward’
by Daniel McAdams | May 19, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What a surprise: Viktoria "F- the EU" Nuland visited Ukraine this week and the US-backed government subsequently launched a massive artillery attack against the independence-seeking eastern provinces. This pattern has been repeated numerous times, particularly when a...
Jacob Hornberger’s Outstanding Jury Nullification Overview
by Adam Dick | May 18, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Isn’t it absurd that a prosecutor and judge will tell a jury to find a defendant guilty even if jury members think what the defendant did — possessing or selling an illegal drug, for example — should be legal? Doesn’t such a restriction on jurors fly in the face of...
NATO: ‘We Are The World’
by Daniel McAdams | May 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
How appropriate to their outsized egos and ambitions that the foreign ministers of NATO countries joined arms and hands to sing an impromptu rendition of the 1980s aid to Africa fundraiser song "We Are The World" yesterday at a military alliance meeting in Turkey.The...
Sen. Bob Corker Thinks the NSA Is Collecting Too Little of Our Private Information!
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) made news on Wednesday with his astounding comment that he is “shocked” by “how little data” the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting via the US government’s mass surveillance program and with his advocacy that the program...
Pentagon Paid NFL Teams to Thank Troops at Games
by Robert Wenzel | May 11, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Propaganda in the fascist state can be a profitable bushiness. NJ.com is out with a detailed report that reveals the Department of Defense is paying millions of dollars to many NFL teams in what are essentially paid promotions to honor "America's heroes." When the...
NATO War Games, NSA Spying, Yemen Dying: Week in Review with Jay Taylor and Daniel McAdams
by Daniel McAdams | May 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What's the latest on NATO's war games near the Russian border? Should we be cheering the recent court decision that NSA's phone collection program is illegal? US support for the Saudi attack on Yemen means starving civilians and a rise of al-Qaeda. Join RPI's Daniel...
Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Two-Minute Case against Extending Expiring PATRIOT Act Provisions
by Adam Dick | May 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano presents this week at the Fox News website his concise, two-minute argument for the United States Congress allowing some of the most liberty-threatening PATRIOT Act provisions to expire at the end of this month. Napolitano, who packs much...
Radical Texas Marijuana Legalization Bill Passes in State House Committee
by Adam Dick | May 7, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Texas took a step toward leapfrogging past all the states that have legalized marijuana for medical and recreational use so far. In March, Texas State Rep. David Simpson introduced legislation (HB 2165) that would remove references to marijuana from the state criminal...
A Documentary Worthy of Ron Paul
by Daniel McAdams | May 6, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lew Rockwell writes on his blog: Lots of documentary makers have approached Ron Paul over the years, but none measured up, until now. Why is this film different? because Charles Goyette is making it. Charles has the technical and artistic abilities, but so did some of...
Thank the US-backed Saudi Attack for the Rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Yemen
by Adam Dick | May 6, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Saudi Arabia’s United States-backed attack on Yemen is contributing to the rise of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) in Yemen. This is the verdict of Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Hillary Mann Leverett in a very informative interview on the CCTV show...
Ron Paul’s Big Announcement
by Daniel McAdams | May 5, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today on his Facebook page, RPI Founder and Chairman Ron Paul announced a new media project to bring daily, live-streaming news and analysis to all liberty-minded -- and liberty-curious -- people. Some of you may have already seen some of the early episodes of his Ron...
Reps. Jones and McGovern In-Depth Discussion of Congress’ Constitutional War Powers
by Adam Dick | May 5, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Friday morning, viewers of C-SPAN’s Washington Journal were treated to nearly an hour of in-depth discussion among Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and James McGovern (D-MA) and show host Peter Slen regarding the representatives’ efforts to bring to the United States House...
CIA Boss: We Were Heroes in Error
by Daniel McAdams | May 5, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Once again, Washington is agog over a former government insider's admission of the "mistakes" made by his agency in a memoir otherwise wholeheartedly endorsing US failed foreign policies. As Iraq and Syria fall to ISIS and al-Qaeda, as Libya's "liberation" has...
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