In his address to the nation outlining his strategy to defeat ISIS last week, President Obama made three important points regarding Syria:1) He would not hesitate to bomb ISIS on Syrian territory even without permission from Syria, a UN resolution, or Congressional...
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One Party Interventionist State — Ron Paul With Charles Goyette
by Ron Paul | Sep 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The two US political parties are united in their dedication to foreign interventionism, Ron Paul told Charles Goyette in their weekly podcast. Where did all the weapons come from that ISIS is using to wreak havoc in parts of Iraq and Syria? From the US! That is why...
Shorter Obama War Speech…The Top Five List
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Here are the top five take-aways from President Obama's September 10 speech announcing a new, multi-year in the Middle East:1) Obama officially adopts Bush Administration's pre-emptive war doctrine. Obama: If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing...
Iraq: Done; Libya: Done; Now for Syria! — Daniel McAdams with Jay Taylor Radio
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is back with Jay Taylor this week to bring us up to date on the latest US intervention plans in Iraq and Syria, while recent interventions in Libya and Iraq continue to fall apart. Do they think no one will notice?The humanitarian...
Dennis Kucinich: US Lying and Manipulating Fear to Justify War on ISIS
by Adam Dick | Sep 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Advisory Board Member Dennis Kucinich, interviewed this week on the Alan Colmes Show, emphatically argues against the United States military attacking ISIS. In particular, Kucinich explains that the US government is lying and manipulating fear to justify war on...
Obama to Secretly Arm Kiev?
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 9, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Even as a shaky ceasefire holds in east Ukraine between pro-independence and US-backed government forces from Kiev, details begin to emerge of secret agreements made on the margins of last week's NATO summit in Wales that will escalate the conflict. While NATO as a...
NATO to Ship Weapons to Kiev — But Don’t Call it Escalation!
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today in Cardiff, Wales, NATO agreed to provide $15 million to the Ukrainian government for "cyberdefense, logistics, rehabilitating soldiers injured by the rebels, and command, communications and control capabilities." The government in Kiev has waged war against...
Mr. Cantor Goes to Wall Street
by Adam Dick | Sep 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Hightailing it out of the United States House of Representatives after losing his reelection effort in the Republican Party primary is paying off well for uber war advocate and former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA). With four months remaining in the House...
Don’t Blink, You’ll Miss Another US Attack!
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 2, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US bombs have been falling on Iraq for several weeks now, and an attack is also planned against Syria. At the NATO summit in Wales this weekend it was agreed to position thousands of troops on Russia's border to be prepared for an attack in a moment's notice.It seems...
Well Done Hillary, Islamists are Swimming in Our Pool!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 31, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Images from Libya today speak more clearly about the folly of US interventionism, US "regime change" operations, US-led bombing campaigns to "promote democracy" than anything else.Arguing passionately in favor of a US attack on Libya, over the objections of...
Russian ‘Soldiers Mothers Committees’ — a US Covert Op?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A major component in the latest western government and media claims of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is protests of the various Russian "Soldiers' Mothers Committes" over the supposed disappearance of their soldier sons in Ukraine. Absent compelling visual evidence of...
About That Russian Invasion…
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Day after day we hear new frantic claims of a Russian incursion into -- or now, invasion of -- Ukraine. Thousands of Russian troops are fighting in Ukraine, we are told. The "evidence" is an ambiguous satellite photo procured from a private satellite firm and offered...
Ron Paul and Charles Goyette: Syria and Iraq the Fruits of Interventionism
by Ron Paul | Aug 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It was only weeks ago that President Obama requested an extra $500 million dollars for Syrian rebels. Now we are told that the US must start bombing some of those rebels in Syria. The elective Bush war in Iraq for WMDs that never were is a good case history in the...
Freedom and Moose on Patriot’s Lament in Alaska
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I joined Alaska freedom fighters Jim O'Connor and Joshua Bennett at the Patriot's Lament radio program this week and I really would love for you to hear this show! After a wonderful conversation with these great guys, I had the double pleasure of being sent plenty of...
Is a Nationwide Local Government Backlash Against Police Militarization Beginning?
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
KCRA TV is reporting that the Davis, California City Council voted Tuesday evening, after hearing from concerned people at the city council’s meeting, to get rid of the police department’s Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected military vehicle. The police department had...
Liberty Across the Board: Ron Paul vs Boston Globe on The Right to Use Heroin
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Boston Globe published this week a guest editorial arguing, as RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul memorably did during a 2011 Republican presidential primary debate in South Carolina, that heroin should be legalized. While the Globe editorial presents strong...
Ron Paul Challenging Government Secrecy and the “Truther” Label
by Adam Dick | Aug 25, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, speaking Friday with Charles Goyette in their weekly podcast discussion, decries the trend of the US government keeping more and more information secret. Paul also laments that people trying to discover the truth — whether about the September 11, 2001...
Against The Murder Machine: Daniel McAdams on the Lew Rockwell Show
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The wheels are coming off the US empire, RPI Director Daniel McAdams tells Lew Rockwell today. Chaos breaks out, unintended consequenses, blowback: ISIS, Kurds, PKK, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Libya, and more. In Kurdistan, the US arms the PKK, which is on its terrorist...
Islamist Rise and The Fall of Tripoli Airport
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today Islamist fighters of the Fajr Libya (Libyan Dawn) have taken control of the international airport in Tripoli, Libya, after weeks of intense fighting. Adding to the chaos in Tripoli, mystery war planes, possibly belonging to former Libyan general Khalifa Haftar,...
Ron Paul: The Battle is Between Liberty and Interventionism, Not Republicans and Democrats
by Adam Dick | Aug 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a Ron Paul Channel commentary on Wednesday, Ron Paul took issue with aspects of the August 7 New York Times article “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” In particular, Paul argues that the article describes the growing influence of libertarianism wrongly...
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