The US government has demonstrated with its No Fly and Selectee Lists, in operation for over a decade, how to deny respect for tens of thousands of individuals’ travel and privacy rights without even the slightest nod to due process protections. Over the last 19...
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Ebola, Putin, German Spooks, NATO, etc. — Daniel McAdams With Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Again RPI's Daniel McAdams looks at the news of the week on the Jay Taylor Show. This week Jay and Daniel look at Rep. Walter Jones and US troops in harm's way in Ebolaland, the new German intelligence claim to know who shot down the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17...
‘We Tortured Some Folks…And Thinking About Torturing Some More Folks’
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The New York Times reports that the Obama Administration is considering a return to the Bush-era interpretation of the UN Convention Against Torture, which is that it does not apply to torture conducted outside US borders. This would mean that those conducting what...
Germany Knows Who Shot Down Flight MH-17?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 20, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
That is the claim of the head of German intelligence, the BND, writes German newsmagazine Der Spiegel over the weekend. On RT, RPI's Daniel McAdams remains skeptical of these supposed German claims and criticizes the secrecy and lack of transparency in the...
White House ‘Inherently Resolved’ to Defeat ISIS
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 16, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Sometimes it takes a while for the PR folks to come up with a branding scheme for another US war. In the recent past, we had Desert Shield, which gave way to Desert Storm, when the US first attacked Iraq in 1990. Very exciting, like a storm in the desert. Then came...
Phony ISIS Fight and Ukraine’s Gas Problems — McAdams and Taylor on Real News of Week
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What is Obama's war on ISIS going to cost? Well is the US really at war with ISIS? Or is it a war for regime change in Syria? RPI Director Daniel McAdams again visits with Jay Taylor to go over the real news of the week."Cost? Who cares about the cost," jokes Jay...
Khorasan Group: Anatomy of Propaganda
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 14, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Remember the Khorasan Group? It was only three weeks ago, when the Obama Administration was desperate for any kind of legal justification for its plan to begin bombing Syria, that we began hearing about a horrifically dangerous group that was worse than ISIS and was...
Crimes and Hope: Ron Paul’s Conversation With Lew Rockwell
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Two legendary voices for peace and liberty are at the top of their game in this historic conversation between Ron Paul and his first Congressional chief of staff, Lew Rockwell. Having worked so long for Dr. Paul I can say it sounds in many ways like the conversations...
Own-Goal in Baghdad: ISIS to Shut Down Airport Using US Weapons
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is Baghdad about to fall to ISIS, a group which the US media has told us is more evil than evil itself (except, of course, for the Khorasan Group, which is far more terrifying)?Media reports that ISIS is only a few short miles from Baghdad, having established...
How Much is Obama’s War on ISIS Going to Cost? You Don’t Want to Know!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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