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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...
Gen. Breedlove Pushes Senate to Arm Ukraine…And More?
by Daniel McAdams | May 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
General Philip Breedlove, who serves as Commander of the US Command in Europe and NATO's top general in Europe, is a good example of what happens when the division between a military and the civilians who in a democratic society should control that military breaks...
Kerry ‘Issuing a Warning’ to EU on Russia Sanctions
by Daniel McAdams | May 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This week US Secretary of State John Kerry met with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Washington where he admitted that there were some differences between the US and EU on approaches to Russia. RPI Director Daniel McAdams appeared on RT to discuss what...
Ron Paul Rewind: Oppose PATRIOT Act Renewal, Respect the Fourth Amendment
by Adam Dick | May 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On February 8, 2011, then-Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) spoke against renewing what he termed “the three worst parts” of the USA PATRIOT Act during a US House of Representatives debate over legislation that would do just that. The provisions, without congressional action, were...
Andrew Napolitano on Unjustifiable Killings of Americans in Baltimore and Overseas
by Adam Dick | Apr 29, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
You can hear a high level of outrage in the voice of Judge Andrew Napolitano when he discusses on the Alan Colmes Show on Tuesday the death of an American in police custody in Baltimore, Maryland and the use of United States drones to kill three more Americans...
George W. Bush: Don’t Talk to Iran!
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former President George W. Bush's foreign and military legacy is not one resplendent with great victories. He and his advisors -- with the help of an obedient media -- lied the US into a war on Iraq where the mission was claimed accomplished before the real war had...
Ron Paul: End the Fed that Funds Perpetual War and Puts War Profiteers on the Gravy Train
by Adam Dick | Apr 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking April 11 in Austin at the University of Texas, former presidential candidate and United States House of Representatives member Ron Paul stressed the importance of ending the Federal Reserve. In particular, Paul explains how the Fed allows the US to pursue...
Kansas One-Ups Texas by Adopting Concealed Carry without Classes, Fees, or a Surveillance Database
by Adam Dick | Apr 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many people perceive Texas as a bastion of rugged individualism and minimal government. Kansas not so much so. This month both states’ governments are moving toward implementing laws removing some restrictions on people carrying handguns. Yet only Kansas is doing so...
US Funded Industrial Park in Afghanistan Found With Only One Business and No Electricity . . . And Missing Records
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have yet another example of how we are wasting billions of dollars in Afghanistan where a combination of incompetence and corruption continues to drain the US treasury. This week, SIGAR released two reports showing how, an inspection of the $7.8 million Shorandam...
Are We Really Winning Against ISIS?
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 23, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When President Obama welcomed Iraqi prime minister Abadi to Washington last week he glowed with optimism over the US fight against ISIS. The US is making "serious progress" against ISIS, he said, and "what is clear is that we will be successful."RPI Director Daniel...
Don’t Take Our Raisins! An Introduction to American Takings Law
by Adam Dick | Apr 22, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With the United States Supreme Court hearing oral arguments Wednesday in Horne v. Department of Agriculture — a case concerning the application of the US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment Takings Clause to raisin farmers, it seems an appropriate time to review some of...
VA Sending Veterans’ Mental Health Information to the FBI to Aid Gun Restrictions
by Adam Dick | Apr 22, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A February 2012 memorandum of understanding between the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) lays out a process pursuant to which the VA has been regularly sending to the FBI mental health information about VA...
Ukraine’s American Finance Minister Asks John McCain for Weapons
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 21, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When the US-installed government of Ukraine went shopping for a finance minister last year, it found an American woman who had not only spent a good deal of time in Ukraine but who knew how to milk the USAID gravy train. Her ability to burn through US taxpayer dollars...
Ron Paul: ‘NATO’s an Entangling Alliance We’d Be Better Off Without’
by Adam Dick | Apr 21, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Monday on the Alan Colmes Show, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Chairman Ron Paul discussed the danger the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) poses to peace.Paul explains his reasoning for shutting down NATO in response to a query from...
More Repercussions From US/European Militarism
by Chris Rossini | Apr 21, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over the weekend, a ship filled with migrants capsized off the coast of Libya. Hundreds of people, fleeing from the Middle East and Africa were reported to be on this ship and have perished. Libya.......That country rings a bell, right? Didn't the U.S. and its...
US to Widely Export Killer Drones
by Peter van Buren | Apr 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Here’s one of those “Now what could possibility go wrong?” stories. Drones for Everyone Reversing years of restricted sales of America’s robot drone killers, the Obama administration announced it will begin allowing sales of armed drones to some friendly and allied...
US Military Lands in Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Paratroopers from Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade en route to Ukraine.Paratroopers from the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade have arrived in Ukraine to begin training that country's national guard and provide it with new military equipment. The Ukrainian government took...
Ending Vaccination Mandate Exemptions in Australia and the US
by Adam Dick | Apr 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Under a new government policy announced by Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott, many Australian families are respectively facing the denial of thousands of dollars in welfare and tax benefits over a year’s time because their children have not received all the...
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