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...
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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...
Judiciary Branch Has Self-Abolished
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 31, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US no longer has a judiciary. This former branch of government has transitioned into an enabler of executive branch fascism. Privacy is a civil liberty protected by the US Constitution. The Constitution relies on courts to enforce its prohibitions against...
Sexual Assault by the TSA is OK, Except in the Airport Bathroom
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Here is some welcome news for travelers. There seems to be a limit to where Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees can sexually assault travelers — at least at the New York City LaGuardia Airport. WABC-TV reports that a TSA agent was arrested Thursday...
Telling Your Child to Call 911 in an Emergency Can Be Dangerous
by Adam Dick | Aug 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Cop Block co-founder Pete Eyre released a new video this week that, in just four minutes, explains clearly why telling children just to dial 911 is not the best means to ensure children’s safety in emergencies. Just as important, Eyre presents in the video several...
NY Times: Why Isn’t Obama Backing Al-Qaeda in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just fourteen years after al-Qaeda attacked New York, the New York Times is wondering why the Obama Administration is not cooperating more closely with al-Qaeda. Of course they don't put it quite that way. In an article posted yesterday, the "paper of record" first...
Idaho School Bans Confederate Flag On Student’s Car
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 25, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have previously discussed the ongoing controversy over the confederate flag as well as past cases of student speech being curtailed. This story combines those themes after Jordan Beattie, a student at Cossa Academy in Wilder, Idaho was banned from flying the...
Hear Ron Paul, Andrew Napolitano, and Tom Woods from Paul’s 80th Birthday Celebration
by Adam Dick | Aug 22, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Were you unable to make it to Ron Paul’s 80th birthday celebration on August 15? Did you attend the party and now want to hear again the speeches Paul, Andrew Napolitano, and Tom Woods delivered that afternoon to the 675 people who had gathered together in Paul’s...
Syria: Is Israel Planning To Escalate?
by Moon of Alabama | Aug 21, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Yesterday four rockets or mortars fired from the Syrian side of the Golan heights landed on Israel occupied parts of the Syrian Golan without causing any damage. A recent report cited the Israeli defense expert Tzvi Yechezkieli: He noticed that all terrorist activity...
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