President Obama met with British Prime Minister David Cameron today in Brussels, where the two leaders issued an ultimatum to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader would have just one month to meet their demands or face deeper "structural" sanctions...
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Judge Napolitano: NSA Intercepting Private Photos ‘Blatantly Violates the Constitution’
by Adam Dick | Jun 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano condemns as a violation of privacy and the United States Constitution the recently revealed US National Security Agency practice of intercepting millions of images each day from communications including emails, text messages, and...
Obama Declares ‘Holy War’ in Poland
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This week President Obama traveled to eastern Europe with one billion dollars in his pocket. He plans to use it to finance more NATO military exercises on Russia's border and to rotate more US troops into Poland and other new NATO member countries. Yes, the same...
Sorry Obama, America is With Ron Paul
by Daniel McAdams | May 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Obama on Wednesday delivered one of the most bellicose foreign policy speeches of his presidency. Promising more, not less, US interventionism overseas, the president told the graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point: [T]he question each of you...
Lew Rockwell: Central Banks Make World Wars Possible
by Adam Dick | May 28, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As people worry a new world war may rise out of Ukraine, RPI Advisory Board Member Lew Rockwell proposes Wednesday on the Tom Woods Show that the creation of central banks makes world wars possible. Rockwell's comments regarding central banking are made in a...
Patriotic Blasphemy
by Laurence M. Vance | May 27, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A relative of mine attended the church of another relative of mine on the Sunday before Memorial Day. Here is the patriotic blasphemy he reports that he observed: Battle Hymn of the Republic sung to open the service, some kind of WWII memorial at the front of the...
Can Kinky Friedman Bring Legal Marijuana and Hemp to Texas?
by Adam Dick | May 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Kinky Friedman, who is competing in a runoff election Tuesday for the Democratic Party nomination for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, describes his race as “kind of a referendum on lifting this prohibition on hemp and on pot.” Can Friedman, who has gained notoriety...
Walter Block’s Libertarian Journey: Booing Ayn Rand and Playing Risk with Murray Rothbard
by Adam Dick | May 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new interview with Kyle Platt at Liberty.me, RPI Academic Board Member Walter Block — jovial as usual — tells the lively tale of his discovery of libertarian ideas as a young man. It all started in the early 1960s when Block, then — in Block’s words — a “pinko...
Memorial Day and the Meaning of Freedom
by Jeff Deist | May 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Memorial Day provides the political class countless opportunities to ruin an otherwise thoroughly enjoyable holiday weekend. Like clockwork, local congressmen, mayors, city council members, et al. materialize at parades, picnics, and churches to give speeches about...
Judge Napolitano on Obama Helping ‘Targeted Killings Memo’ Author Become Judge
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, speaking with Shepard Smith on Fox News, denounces President Barack Obama’s ongoing delay in providing the legal arguments used to justify the executive branch’s “targeted killings” program. In particular, Napolitano criticizes Obama’s refusal...
Toothless USA FREEDOM Act Losing Support
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
NSA Champion Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) The USA FREEDOM Act (HR 3361), which is supposedly designed to thwart the US government’s mass spying program, appears to be confirming RPI Executive Director Daniel McAdams’ warning from September: “beware NSA spying and beware...
How’s Libya These Days? Daniel McAdams and Jay Taylor on US Foreign Policy Successes
by Daniel McAdams | May 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US mainstream media misinforms the American public on Ukraine and the dangers of war with Russia. They back US foreign policy to the hilt, assuring the people that they know what they are doing. But look at the track record for US intervention in the past 15 years.How...
NATO Aims To Repeat Its Libya ‘Success’ In Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | May 17, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As NATO and its US masters edge the US and EU closer to war with Russia over Ukraine, it might be appropriate to have a look at NATO's last "success" story.Yesterday in Libya, where NATO bombs fell just over three years ago to "liberate" the people from Gaddafi,...
Ron Paul: The Ukraine Fuse Has Been Lit
by Daniel McAdams | May 17, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul and Charles Goyette discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, including a new Senate bill that seeks to push the US to the very brink of war with Russia. In addition to ramping up NATO's military presence on Russia's borders, the bill will appropriate $10...
White House Flip-Flop: Voting Now Crucial in Ukraine!
by Daniel McAdams | May 16, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just five days ago the Obama White House condemned a vote held in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of eastern Ukraine to decide whether those regions would break away from the US-backed government in Kiev.At the time, White House spokesman Jay Carney was unequivocal...
Ron Paul Praises States’ Nullification of US Marijuana Prohibition
by Adam Dick | May 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, Wednesday on Fox Business’ The Independents, praises state governments’ nullification of marijuana prohibition. Paul, though, proceeds to warn against the taxation motivation behind liberalizing marijuana laws, noting that “if you had a libertarian society,...
Ukraine Deteriorates: Daniel McAdams With Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | May 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In Ukraine over the weekend, eastern Ukrainian oblasts Donetsk and Lugansk held referenda to decide whether they would declare independence from Kiev. RPI's Daniel McAdams explains to Jay Taylor the motivations behind the vote and the US reaction.
Is Today ‘Lie about Ron Paul in Headlines Day’?
by Adam Dick | May 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Looking at the Washington Post and Rare, one has to wonder if today is Lie about Ron Paul in Headlines Day. First, the Washington Post published an article with the headline “Ron Paul thinks drug use is rampant inside prisons. He’s wrong.” That is a rather provocative...
Ron Paul: Victory For Peace Candidate Walter Jones is Great News
by Daniel McAdams | May 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The war party did everything they could to defeat pro-peace Republican Walter Jones in the North Carolina primary last week, said Ron Paul, but in the end Rep. Jones prevailed. One important lesson from the victory, Dr. Paul pointed out, was that you can represent a...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Oligarchs Run US Foreign Policy
by Adam Dick | May 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
William & Mary Professor and RPI Academic Board Member Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, in an in-depth interview with this week with Paul Jay on the Real News Network, argues that oligarchs run United States foreign policy. Having served in US government positions...
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