Every time State Department spokespersons proclaim the Department position on critical trouble spots like Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Russia, we have the feeling they are shoveling a line of bovine excrement and well know it. And know we know it. And don't care.Jen Psaki...
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What Would SecDef Ashton Carter Mean for the Military?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We know from RPI Chairman Ron Paul that President Obama's choice to be the next Defense Secretary, Ashton Carter, will mean no big changes in current US foreign and military policy. International correspondent Pepe Escobar informs us that Carter is: ...the typical...
ISIS: Another Chapter in the Forever War
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US politicians and officials keep upping the number of years the US will be at war in Iraq, with Sen. John McCain claiming we must remain for 100 years! In the latest podcast with Ron Paul and Charles Goyette, Dr. Paul shares his concerns that a new and "wildly...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Want to Help Injured Veterans? Stop Interminable War
by Adam Dick | Dec 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, interviewed Tuesday by Jessica Desvarieux on the Real News Network, explains that stopping the United States’ “interminable war” is one important way to help “millions of Americans, who were sent off to do their nation's business and who are...
Weapons to Ukraine? Assad Overthrow? RPI’s Daniel McAdams Speaks With Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Indications that the US is looking to accelerate the conflict in Ukraine, with Vice President Biden in Kiev followed by NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe. Pressure to provide US weapons to the Kiev regime is mounting. Also, what does departure of US Defense...
Gen. Breedlove Announces More Aid to Ukraine Military, Denounces Russian ‘Militarization’
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On the heels of US Vice President Joseph Biden's trip to Ukraine this week, NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, Gen. Philip Breedlove, is in Kiev today pledging increased military assistance to the US-backed government there. As the Kiev regime readies another...
Breaking: Hagel Out, Assad Next
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 24, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Washington is abuzz with news that Chuck Hagel is out as President Obama's Secretary of Defense. The Secretary was said to have never meshed with the rest of Obama's foreign policy team, led by National Security Advisor Susan Rice and flanked by US Ambassador to the...
Obama’s Stealth Surge in Afghanistan
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It is a pattern for President Obama: posing as a peacemaker who ends the wars of the previous administration, while expanding the US use of force in areas the Bush gang could not have even imagined. In Iraq, for example, a miniscule US humanitarian operation to rescue...
Fmr. Bush National Security Advisor: Start WWIII With Russia!
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Stephen Hadley (center)Stephen Hadley, who served as National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, believes that the United States should begin delivering lethal military equipment to the US-backed government in Ukraine as that government moves ever-closer to...
Dennis Kucinich: Support for War and National Security State is Reason for Democrat Election Losses
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Dennis Kucinich, the former Democratic United States House of Representatives member from Ohio and two-time presidential candidate, pins blame for Democrats’ 2014 midterm elections “debacle” on Democrat politicians in the last eight years advancing war and the...
Ed Mullins Returns with More Marijuana Nonsense Talk
by Adam Dick | Nov 19, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ed MullinsWith the recent announcement of the particulars of the New York City Police Department policy change intended to reduce marijuana arrests, Sergeants Benevolent Association police union leader Ed Mullins, who previously lamented that reducing marijuana...
Another US-Supported Group Goes Over to ISIS
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Yet again a US-backed group in the Middle East/South Asia region has thrown in their lot with ISIS. Antiwar.com blog reports that Jundallah, a terrorist organization based in southern Iran and western Pakistan which fights to overthrow the Iranian government, has...
Ron Paul: Congress Approves ISIS War Funding While Ducking Vote on War Itself
by Adam Dick | Nov 16, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul said this weekend that he thinks Congress will continue to duck voting the ISIS War up or down while nevertheless voting for additional funding of the war. Paul’s prediction came during a conversation with Charles Goyette regarding the war and US foreign...
Ron Paul: ‘The Militarism of Big Government is Coming to an End’
by Adam Dick | Nov 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, speaking Saturday at a Ludwig von Mises Institute event in Costa Mesa, California, presented his optimistic prediction for the future of the movement to ensure respect peace and liberty in the United States and around the world. Paul, who is chairman and...
Obama Wants More Money for Syria Rebels
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With the recent US election ensuring continued Congressional support for an interventionist foreign policy, President Obama has embarked on a foreign spending spree. First the president announced that US troop levels in Iraq would double to more than 3,000 – and that...
Success? US Plans to Evacuate Embassy in Yemen
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On September 10, President Obama addressed the nation on his plans to "downgrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS. What had begun just weeks earlier as a humanitarian rescue mission to save a religious minority in Iraq purportedly threatened by ISIS had crept into a...
Asset Forfeiture: A Cop Shopping Spree
by William Norman Grigg | Nov 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Undercover police monitoring a bar in Las Cruces, New Mexico were giddy with covetousness when they saw a man drive up in a brand-new Mercedes. As city attorney Harry S. Connelly later explained, the cops were delighted to find that the man had been drinking,...
For Armistice Day, Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve’s Role in Financing US Militarism
by Adam Dick | Nov 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On this Armistice Day, taking place in the week after midterm elections that promise to buttress US foreign intervention and President Barack Obama’s announcement that he is sending 1,500 troops and desires $5.6 billion more in spending to escalate the war in Iraq and...
Fifty Years Later, Obama to Re-Play Vietnam?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Fifty years after then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara swore that the US troops sent to Vietnam would have no combat role, President Obama announced he would double the number of US troops being sent back to Iraq. Over the weekend, the US president said he is "never...
What Do The Elections Really Mean? Listen To Ron Paul and Charles Goyette
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
How will the midterm election affect the American people’s peace, privacy, and prosperity? RPI Chairman Ron Paul joins Charles Goyette to ponder whether a recklessly spending government that is relentlessly pursuing a global empire while impoverishing its citizens can...
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