RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Jay Taylor to look back on the week in foreign affairs. The hypocrisy of the Paris "unity" march, the free speech crackdown in France, free speech in the US, the US decision to begin training Syrian rebels with US troops, Ukraine...
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Ron Paul: What is Really Behind Violent Police Confrontations in US Cities?
by Adam Dick | Jan 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul is a well-known opponent of the militarization and nationalization of local police in America. Yet, he cautions against looking at this development in isolation. On the Alex Jones Show on Tuesday, Paul discussed the economic policies of the US government and...
After Free Speech Rally, France Cracks Down on Free Speech
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Well that didn't take long. Just three days after the French government hosted dozens of foreign leaders in a "unity rally" to defend free speech in the wake of last week's shooting at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, France has begun arresting its citizens for actually...
Civilian Bus Attacked in Ukraine, Washington Blames Rebels
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Tuesday a civilian bus was attacked in the breakaway region of eastern Ukraine. Some 12 people were killed in what was initially reported to be a grad missile attack but that looks much more like the work of some sort of small arms fire or anti-personnel mine....
Hypocrisy of the Paris Marchers
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 13, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Paris "unity rally" to stand up for free speech in the face of last week's magazine shooting in Paris was an exercise in hypocrisy by the western political leaders who rushed in for the photo-op, RPI Director Daniel McAdams told Sputnik News today. France,...
Paris Attack, Blowback, is Ron Paul Right? – McAdams and Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 10, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman Ron Paul was criticized for daring to mention "blowback" in relation to the recent attack on a provocative French magazine. The usual neocon outlets made their usual superficial accusations that Dr. Paul was somehow justifying the attack. But is it...
Michael Scheuer: The Paris Killings Are Blowback
by Adam Dick | Jan 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Micheal Scheuer, whose twenty-plus years working at the Central Intelligence Agency included several years in charge of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit, describes the killings at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris this week as blowback. Scheuer, a Ron Paul Institute...
How Many Current US Wars? Let’s Ask Obama…
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Non-interventionists and antiwar activists are often accused of exaggerating the extent of US military actions overseas to make our point about the costs of empire. We are said to over-estimate US troop deployments and level of military activity overseas. We reject...
The Evil of Sanctions
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Jan 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Free trade is essential to prosperity, peace, and civilization. But free trade does not mean State-managed trade of the Nafta sort. It means businesses and individuals able to deal across international borders as easily as across town borders. Many things hamper free...
North Korea Sanctions? Afghan Victory? McAdams and Jay Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Director cannot understand new Obama sanctions on North Korea as the US case against North Korea involvement in recent hack of Sony falls apart. North Korea hacks Sony to block a film featuring assassination of North Korea leader? What about the...
Oliver Stone: CIA Fingerprints All Over Ukraine Coup
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Famed Hollywood director Oliver Stone created a media storm this week with his statements about the February coup that ousted democratically elected Ukrainian leader Victor Yanukovych. Stone has concluded that the mysterious sniper fire that killed dozens and...
Students for Liberty: The ‘Regime Change’ Libertarians
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Libertarian activists in Ukraine?The Students for Liberty are at it again, mainstreaming deviationism with a reckless fervor. While it is a generally accepted tenet of libertarian thought that state involvement in regime change operations overseas is anathema, there...
Russia Sanctions and Shifting Cuba Policy – McAdams and Taylor’s Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 20, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Obama has admitted that sanctions do not work, as he announced a major US policy shift toward Cuba. But he turned around and immediately signed a bill authorizing more sanctions on Russia. There is a big disconnect between rhetoric and actions in the US...
Report: Afghanistan War Reaches $1 Trillion And Will Require Hundreds of Billions More
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Despite the public pledge of President Obama to pull out of Afghanistan, we continue to spend huge amounts of money in the war and the Obama Administration has fought to keep US troops in the country. Now an estimate from the Financial Times and independent...
New US Bill Arms Ukraine, Adds Sanctions — RPI’s McAdams on RT
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The House and Senate late last week passed legislation authorizing $350 million in US lethal aid to Ukraine and imposing a new round of sanctions on Russia. Co-author of the bill, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), claims the bill is in response to the "Russian invasion of...
Meaning of Torture Report: Simply a Catharsis? – Daniel McAdams and Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 14, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What is the final meaning of the Senate's recent release of its report on CIA torture activities? We know that no one will be prosecuted, as they have already been given immunity by the president. We have no reason to believe the out-of-control CIA will have its wings...
Rep. Walter Jones: Omnibus Bill? Are You Kidding? I Don’t Even Know What’s In It!
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), an RPI Board Member, again demonstrates why he is one of the few exemplary Members of Congress left in the House. Asked by CNSNews whether he would be voting for the monstrous omnibus continuing resolution on the House Floor this past week,...
The US Must Purge Itself
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Dec 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
CIA Director Brennan's self administered auto-de-fé fell flat. He met with the president this morning and was evidently told to get his statement in line with the president's position "or else." The "else" is pretty clear. He could easily find himself doing the "Hagel...
House Russia Bill, New SecDef, Hungary Regime Change: Foreign Policy Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams joins Jay Taylor again to look back over the top foreign policy stories of the past week. Why is Ukraine naming a former State Department employee to head its finance ministry? Is Ukraine the 51st state? What about Congress flexing its muscles at...
The Anatomy of Regime Change
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What do all regime change operations have in common? RPI Board Member John Laughland explains to the "World Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations" conference last month that all such interventions essentially include the criminal prosecution of the vanquished...
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