Since the Minsk II Agreement went into effect earlier this month, there have been many claims and counter-claims that both the Kiev government and the separatists in east Ukraine have violated the terms of the agreement. Both sides accuse each other, and the Kiev side...
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Ukraine’s Very Suspicious Weapons ‘Purchase’
by Franklin C. Spinney | Feb 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Defense News, a defense industry trade publication, just released a report entitled, Ukraine Signs Defense Deal with UAE. It led with: ABU DHABI — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced a deal for unspecified military and technical cooperation with the UAE on...
State Department’s Jen Psaki as Baghdad Bob
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 21, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams takes aim at State Department Spokesman Jen Psaki in this interview with RT. Why is the US determined to continue down the path of conflict while the Germans and French look for a political solution? The interventionists are incapable of...
Ukraine Year One, Syria Rebel Booster Changes Tune and More – RPI’s McAdams and Jay Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 21, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US-backed coup in Ukraine turns one year old. The destruction speaks to the folly of interventionism. Also, US ambassador to Syria and father of regime change policy admits training rebels totally futile. And Italy's sudden fears of ISIS in Libya after backing NATO...
Gen. Wesley Clark: ‘ISIS Got Started With Funding From Our Closest Allies’
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 19, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many remember General Wesley Clark as the man who almost started World War III by ordering the British to fire on Russian peacekeepers who landed in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, before the Americans. British commander of the international KFOR peacekeeping force,...
Upcoming: Ron Paul’s New Book on War
by Adam Dick | Feb 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul revealed Thursday that he is preparing for publication a new book he has written about war. Paul made the revelation at the conclusion of a wide-ranging foreign policy interview on the Scott Horton Show. The former United States House of Representative member...
UK Supplies Saxon APCs to Ukraine…Which Promptly Sells Them!
by Mark Almond | Feb 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There are times when even Jonathan Swift's sense of satire would be silenced by reality. After a lot of huffing and puffing by the "Arms for Ukraine Now!" neocons like General Sir Richard "Helmand" Dannatt over the weekend ridiculing Britain for only supplying Saxon...
Andrew Napolitano: IRS Commissioner Apologizing for Seizing Bank Accounts Is Not Enough
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, speaking with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business, explained that United States Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen‘s apology last week regarding the US government routinely seizing bank accounts based on the mere suspicion that the...
Who is Violating Minsk II? President’s AUMF = Total War – McAdams and Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Will the US be the first to violate the Ukraine ceasefire agreement by sending in the planned 600 US troops? Will Russia be proven truthful or a liar about the claimed 10,000+ Russian troops in Ukraine when the plan is implemented? How does the limiting language in...
The Fed’s Attack Dog is At It Again
by Ron Paul | Feb 13, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Richard Fisher, the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank president, is once again going after everyone who supports an audit of the Federal Reserve System. In particular he has been hitting at Sen. Rand Paul for having introduced Senate Bill 264, which calls for a full audit...
‘Minsk II’ – What About Foreign Troops in Ukraine?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After a marathon 17 hour negotiation session, the leaders of Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine agreed on an upgraded ceasefire plan, "Minsk II," that lays out 13 points to be implemented by the west-backed government in Kiev and the independence-seeking regions in...
Lawrence Wilkerson: Resist ‘Warmonger’ John McCain’s Call to Arm Ukraine
by Adam Dick | Feb 11, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Interviewed Tuesday on the Real News Network, Ron Paul Institute Academic Advisor Lawrence Wilkerson warned that following the advice of “warmongers like Senator John McCain and his cohorts” to “arm majorly” the Ukraine government is “probably one of the fastest ways”...
When Barack Called Vladimir…
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 10, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It must have been like one of those annoying telemarketing calls, ringing up over and over saying the same thing. Today President Obama called Russian president Vladimir Putin to once again harangue him about the Russian "invasion" of Ukraine.One can even picture...
Burning Jordanians, Total War, Arms for Ukraine, Europe Peace Plan? – McAdams and Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Will the Europeans put the kibosh on US war plans with Russia? What about Jordan, which has armed the jihadists and then pretends to be outraged at the ISIS burning of an ISIS fighter pilot? Has there been a whistleblower victory in the US? RPI's Daniel McAdams and...
In Praise of Grover Cleveland
by Adam Dick | Feb 7, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Jesse Ventura released this week his new podcast conversation with Ron Paul. It is a pleasure to hear Ventura engage Paul in an unrushed, wide-ranging examination of United States wars and foreign policy, with some discussion of other matters including marijuana and...
Andrew Napolitano: In a Free Society You Can Reject the Vaccination ‘Scientific Orthodoxy’
by Adam Dick | Feb 5, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
From California State Senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) proposing legislation to prevent parents of children attending government or private schools from making their own decisions regarding vaccinations, to American Conservative Senior Editor Rod Dreher suggesting...
Is Privatizing the Afghan War a Feasible Exit Strategy…
by Franklin C. Spinney | Feb 5, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
...or is it a formula for perpetual war?President Obama may have told Congress and the American people in his state of the union address that the American combat mission in Afghanistan is over, but that claim is a bit disingenuous, to put it charitably. To be sure,...
King Abdullah’s Crocodile Tears Over Burned Pilot
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Jordan's King Abdullah reacted emotionally to a video showing the apparent immolation of a Jordanian fighter pilot shot down over Syrian airspace. The Jordanian leader promised to fight ISIS, who killed the pilot, until his military ran "out of fuel and bullets." His...
Oops They Did it Again: ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels Join Jihadists
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 2, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Obama's plan to send as many as 1,000 US military personnel to train the "moderate" rebels seeking to overthrow Syrian president Assad may have run into yet another rough patch. There has been a steady stream of US-backed "moderates" signing on with either...
Obama Admits US Role in Ukraine Overthrow
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 2, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking on RT yesterday, RPI executive director Daniel McAdams wonders whether President Obama spoke a bit too freely in his recent CNN interview. In the interview, the president told CNN that the US government had "brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine."...
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