How much is Obama's new war on Iraq and Syria going to cost? If you believe the woman who was right about the costs of the last US war on Iraq, Harvard Professor Linda J. Bilmes, it's going to cost a fortune. In a critically important article Professor Bilmes wrote...
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Is Turkey Playing Chicken With US on ISIS Fight?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 9, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is Turkey manipulating the US attack on ISIS to serve its own regional goals? The Erdogan government has demanded that the US re-focus its priorities toward removing Assad rather the Islamic State (ISIS) if the US wants to have Turkey's support in the operation. RPI...
Businessmen Shut Down Hong Kong Protests? Daniel McAdams with Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is back with Jay Taylor to discuss what is really going on in Hong Kong. How much is funded by the US government? Businessmen going against do-nothing protestors? Any proof? And what of Ukraine and Syria? How is the US empire doing these...
Operation Voldemort: The War Which Must Not Be Named
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There is an interesting dimension to the ongoing circumvention of the Constitution over our latest undeclared war. While some Administration officials are finally calling our attacks in Syria as a “war,” the discomfort over defining this indefinite campaign has led to...
Libya Up Next (Again) On Obama’s ‘Bomb the World’ Tour?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While the media tends to tread lightly on the subject (they were, after all, war cheerleaders), it is nevertheless widely known that President Obama's war on Libya to spread democracy and save the Libyan people from a dictator did not quite turn out as advertised. On...
‘Comply Or Die’ is Not The Law
by William Norman Grigg | Oct 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In 1975, as the elected sheriff of Utah’s Davis County, William "Dub" Lawrence helped organize one of the state’s first SWAT teams. On September 22, 2008, his son-in-law, Brian Wood, was killed by that SWAT team outside his home following a 12-hour standoff. After...
Surveying the Empire: RPI’s Daniel McAdams on the Robert Wenzel Show
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 5, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, ISIS, Hong Kong — why is the US at war with much of the rest of the world? Why does the government lie to trick so many Americans into backing their impoverishing and dangerous plans? Who is behind this warmongering and why?RPI Director Daniel...
Israel Lobby Supports Jabhat Al-Nusra, Insurgents In Aleppo Surrounded
by Moon of Alabama | Oct 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Israel gives cover and opened a corridor for Jabhat al-Nusra along the Golan height demarcation line to reach south Lebanon and the southern approaches to Damascus.There seems to be no concern in Tel Aviv that one day Jabhat al-Nusra could turn against Israel too....
Ron Paul: Republican Majority in US Senate Would Not Make Much Difference
by Adam Dick | Oct 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While Washington, DC politicians and pundits are prattling about whether the Democrats or Republicans will control the United States Senate after the November election, Ron Paul is throwing cold water on the whole brouhaha. Paul, speaking Wednesday on the Alan Colmes...
Ron Paul: Technology for Liberty, Not War
by Adam Dick | Oct 1, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul, in a wide-ranging Alex Jones Show interview on Tuesday, commented on the potential of technology to counter “the abusive state.” Noting that government will always use technology for war and against the people, Paul says that in...
The Empire on the Warpath — McAdams and Taylor on Syria, Hong Kong, and More
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 1, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is back with Jay Taylor to have a closer look into the topics the mainstream media refuses to cover. Mass graves in part of Ukraine occupied by US-backed regime? Radio silence in the west. US involvement in Hong Kong color revolution? Don't...
Does Obama’s ‘Pivot to Asia’ Include Regime Change For China?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Barack Obama's "pivot to Asia" was supposed to mean that the US would pull back from its commitments in the Middle East and Europe and focus on improving economic and other ties with East Asia. Instead, the US government has helped foment a coup against an...
Hilarious German Satire of Anti-Russian Propaganda
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While the German media has been at least as propagandistic as the US/UK media in its resurrection of wild, Cold War-style rhetoric over the Ukraine situation, cracks are beginning to appear. Satire, humor, and ridicule have always been among the best forms of social...
Whistleblowers Expose NSA-Partner Israel’s Corrupt Use of Surveillance Information
by Adam Dick | Sep 24, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Israel government, with whom the US government has been sharing for years Americans’ and others’ unredacted private information and communications obtained through the US mass spying program, is being accused by tens of whistle-blowers of abusively using this sort...
US War on Syria, Day Two: Civilian Casualties, New Scarier Group Hit, Israel Joins
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an attack on Syria that the Obama administration promises will be "ongoing," the first day of US bombs has reportedly left eight civilians dead including three children. Some 33 fighters were reportedly killed, producing a typical but troubling civilian-to-fighter...
Andrew Napolitano: US Using Gun Transfer Forms to Violate Free Speech and Privacy
by Adam Dick | Sep 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Advisory Board Member Andrew Napolitano, speaking with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Fox News regarding race and ethnicity questions people are required to answer to purchase a gun from a US government-licensed firearms dealer, explained that mandating answering...
Prof. Flynt Leverett Dissects Obama’s ‘Insane’ Commitment to Never-Ending Middle East War
by Adam Dick | Sep 19, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Penn State University Professor and RPI Academic Board Member Flynt Leverett, as a panel discussion guest this week on CrossTalk on RT, dissected United States President Barack Obama’s “insane” commitment to “never-ending war in the Middle East.” Leverett also...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Derides US Support of “Moderate” Syria Insurgents
by Adam Dick | Sep 17, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking Monday with Ed Schultz on MSNBC, derided United States government support for “moderate” Syria insurgents, noting that you cannot sort out who you are bombing and who you are arming. Wilkerson, a College of...
Mainstream Media Hypocrisy: ‘Where Are the Antiwar Voices?’
by Butler Shaffer | Sep 16, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On CNN yesterday, the question was asked “where are the anti-war voices on TV?” I’ve pondered that question myself. Don’t you remember, at the outset of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, the abundance of speakers who opposed these wars? You know, one major network had the...
Australia Senator, Greens Party Leader Christine Milne Opposes ISIS War, Warns of Blowback
by Adam Dick | Sep 14, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the United States, congressional leaders — both Democrat and Republican — have long supported the US war on ISIS. In Australia, though, there is some vocal opposition, including from Australia Senator and Australian Greens Party Leader Christine Milne. Milne,...
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