Nope, it's not a trick question. The number is zero. A year ago Congress granted a White House request for half a billion dollars to identify, train, and equip "moderate" Syrians to accomplish the dual US goal of defeating ISIS as well as overthrowing those fighting...
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Armenia Color Revolution? Germany Urged to Build Up Military. Week in Review with McAdams and Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is a color revolution underway in Armenia? The US and EU have long wanted to break Armenia from its free trade agreement with Russia and it looks like US-sponsored NGOs are behind the protests in the capital. Plus, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter urges Germany to...
Sec Def Carter to Russia: ‘Don’t Drag Us Back to the Past’
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 22, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter comes (back) to government service via the military-industrial complex. Whether in the "private" sector or in government military positions, Carter has made his fortune (and those of others) pushing an aggressive and interventionist US...
Macedonia Caves, Congress Slumbers, NATO Moves to Russia Border – McAdams and Taylor’s Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 20, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Did Congress finally discover that there were neo-Nazis fighting in Ukraine? Did the US/Soros coup in Macedonia succeed? Why doesn't Congress care that Obama fights an unauthorized and illegal war in Iraq and Syria? RPI's Daniel McAdams and Jay Taylor are back to look...
Judge Napolitano: What if the US Consulate in Benghazi was a Terrorist Weapons Warehouse?
by Adam Dick | Jun 18, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, in a new riveting two-minute video monologue, is asking important questions regarding the killings of the US ambassador to Libya, another diplomat, and CIA contractors in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. Napolitano is also asking about the connection...
Former NSA Director Michael Hayden: It’s ‘Cool!’ That Congress Has Not Restrained Mass Surveillance
by Adam Dick | Jun 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Almost four months after ludicrously claiming to be an “unrelenting libertarian” while on stage with Ron Paul Institute Board Member Andrew Napolitano, Michael Hayden — whose rotation through high-level United States intelligence offices included several years as...
Your Money Flushed Away in Afghanistan…
by Peter van Buren | Jun 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Keeping abreast of the waste of U.S. taxpayer money in Afghanistan’s so-called “reconstruction” is a full-time job. Since I already have a full-time job and can’t do it, luckily the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) does document the waste as...
South Dakota Native American Tribe Legalizes Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Jun 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe became last week the first South Dakota American Indian tribe to approve marijuana legalization. The approval came via the tribe’s executive committee voting on Thursday to adopt a legalization ordinance. The tribe’s reservation is...
Planet Jeb
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Jeb Bush officially joined the 2016 White House race Monday. He promises to be an outsider -- "not just another member of the club." Don't dare call the third Bush coveting the presidency a blue-blood. He is not "among the pampered elites of Washington."His mission is...
Small Victory: Decades-Old Database of Nevada Handgun Owners to be Destroyed
by Adam Dick | Jun 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In this age of mass surveillance, it is uncommon to hear of the destroying of a government’s surveillance database — even if in just one American county. Yet, that is what the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is preparing to do. As required by Senate Bill 175...
US Joint Chief Dempsey to Israel: We Will Defend You
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 11, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Photo: AMOS BEN-GERSHOM/GPOThe United States is more than $18 trillion dollars in debt, but like a teenager with a credit card it continues to take on financial obligations seemingly without a care in the world. Maintaining a world empire requires the US to hemorrhage...
Judge Napolitano: Prosecute ‘Hothead’ McKinney Pool Party Cop
by Adam Dick | Jun 10, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The resignation on Tuesday of McKinney, Texas policeman Eric Casebolt after the widespread viewing of a video showing Casebolt drawing his gun and brutalizing a teenager outside a pool party may not be enough to bring justice, suggests Judge Andrew Napolitano....
Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Campaign
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When thinking about the protection of human rights, Saudi Arabia doesn't immediately come to mind. After all, this year the Saudis are on course to break their own record of 87 decapitations in 2014. It is only June and the Saudi leaders have already chopped off their...
CIA Director: Blowback is Real
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
CIA Director John Brennan is not known as a big defender of the Constitution. He is regarded as a chief proponent of the CIA's torture program and as "Obama's drone warrior." He also lied to the American people with claims that not "a single collateral death" occurred...
Judge Napolitano: Why the NSA Loves the USA FREEDOM Act
by Adam Dick | Jun 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Why did the National Security Agency (NSA) dispatch hundreds of agents to the US Congress to lobby for the USA FREEDOM Act if the legislation would, as many of the bill’s advocates in the Congress assert, greatly restrain the US government’s mass surveillance program?...
Here We Go: FBI Probes Awarding of Russia World Cup
by Robert Wenzel | Jun 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The FBI is investigating how Russia and Qatar were awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments as part of its expanding probe into corruption at Fifa, people with knowledge of the investigation said, reports FT. In Moscow Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian...
Walter Jones Targeted by Neocons
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Jun 2, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If the neocons hate you, it’s a good character reference. And they want to destroy Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC). Why? Because after supporting Bush II’s aggression against Iraq, and even renaming French fries “freedom fries”–the French being insufficiently warlike–Walter...
US Gives ISIS a Billion Dollars In Mosul
by Daniel McAdams | May 31, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
Speaker John Boehner’s Endless Excuses for Blocking an ISIS War Debate and Vote
by Adam Dick | May 31, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) is like the fellow you ask over for dinner time and again who always has a reason to decline the invitation. He says, in turn, that he has to work late, has to deal with a family emergency, needs to feed the neighbor’s cat,...
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,...
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