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...
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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...
Send Sunil Dutta Back to the Police Academy… or Not
by Adam Dick | Aug 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Sunil Dutta, who has worked 17 years in the Los Angeles Police Department, has some advice for anyone encountering him on the job: do whatever I say and don’t complain, or I will hurt or kill you. Here is Dutta’s advice, in his own words, from his Tuesday Washington...
Mission Creep in Iraq, More Mayhem in Ukraine — Daniel McAdams on Jay Taylor Show
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Another round of attempts to solve Ukraine crisis without US participation will be launched next week, as more thousands of civilians killed in eastern Ukraine. There is no reporting on the massacre in east Ukraine, no State Department briefings demanding a stop to...
Eric Margolis: US Manipulating Afghanistan Election to Extend US Military Presence
by Adam Dick | Aug 20, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Much American public attention is focused on the US military escalation in Iraq and, to some extent, the rivalry for leadership in that nation where Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has worn out his US government welcome. Among other offenses, Maliki failed to ensure...
Who’s Zoomin’ Who in Novorossiya?
by TTG | Aug 19, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I share Paul Craig Roberts’ disgust for the behavior of Western media in their coverage of the war in Ukraine. Not only does Western reporting show these “newspeople” to be nothing more than a pack of idiots and whores, as Roberts suggests, but the heavy handed...
To Stop War, Set Money Free!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 19, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In his new book, Set Money Free, RPI contributing writer Chris Rossini has managed to explore the dark nexus between the United States’ dishonest monetary system and that system’s usefulness in financing the US military empire. Chris asks the following questions: What...
Selective Humanitarianism and the Week in War — McAdams and Taylor Discuss
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is Russia sending a Trojan horse convoy into Ukraine? Is Putin hiding S-300s in with medicine and blankets to the displaced in eastern Ukraine? That is how it is reported in the western media. How close is the government in Kiev to economic suicide by cutting off gas...
Dennis Kucinich: US Fueled Christian Persecution in Iraq; More Intervention Is Not the Answer
by Adam Dick | Aug 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former US House of Representatives member and Democratic Party presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, speaking Wednesday with Bill Hemmer on Fox News, explained that “Christians, in effect, are receiving the blowback from the US war against Iraq,” and that further US...
Did ‘Non-Interventionists’ Drink the ‘Bomb Iraq’ Kool-Aid? — Daniel McAdams on Tom Woods Show
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Why are so many of those who call themselves "non-interventionist" suddenly jumping on the "bomb Iraq" bandwagon with the latest dose of US government propaganda about the critical need to "save the Kurds"? Do people really believe the US government is telling the...
Cold Winter: Will Ukraine Cut Off Russian Oil to Europe?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Will the Ukrainian government vote to freeze the trans-shipment of oil from Russia to the European Union? What will it mean to Poland, the Baltics, and much of central Europe to suddenly be cut off from their main supply of natural gas with cold weather just a couple...
US Sends Humanitarian Bombs to Iraq as it Warns Russia Against Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US administration began bombing Iraq today, with hopes that the disaster created by the 2003 Iraq War II could be rectified by starting Iraq War III. The pretext was to rescue a religious minority trapped by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters. It was...
NY Times Truncated Ron Paul History Puts Libertarians in Republican Box
by Adam Dick | Aug 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As libertarians participate in a trans-ideological and trans-partisan effort that may overturn the warfare-police-surveillance state, the old media leaders seem to be taking on a mission to tame libertarianism’s adherents by defining them as mainly a subgroup in the...
Big PR’s Info Wars
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Thanks to the Guardian, we can all get our daily dose of full-spectrum fascism in one easy swallow. The high-minded, omniscient people from among others and for example, Burson Marsteller, who brought you Russian Economic Reform nonstop starring Anatoli Chubais in the...
Andrew Napolitano: Obama Appears ‘Out to Lunch’ Regarding CIA Spying on Congress
by Adam Dick | Aug 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Tuesday on Fox News, Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that Central Intelligence Agency Director John O. Brennan’s admission that the CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee indicates President Barack Obama either has committed an impeachable offense...
The Anatomy of Propaganda: Ukraine, CIA, WWIII, and the Power of Social Media
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
How does the Obama administration frame the issue on the shootdown of the Malaysian Airliner to pin the blame on Putin? Get out early, go hard, go heavy, get your mainstream ducks in a row and dominate, dominate, dominate!But what about the narrative falling apart?...
Ukraine Antiwar Movement Grows
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Ukrainian government is desperate for more men on the eastern front to fight the separatists. The Ukrainian president, Poroshenko, has announced yet a third round of general military mobilization, and draft orders are being delivered across Ukraine. Scores more...
Did Ukraine Shoot Down the Plane?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Evidence from too many different sources raises a good deal of doubt about the US government version of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 last month. What about the Ukrainian fighter said by many witnesses — and seemingly confirmed by Russian air traffic...
US Grants Israel Emergency Access to Billion Dollar US Weapons Cache
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 31, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just hours after the Israeli government killed scores of Palestinians shopping at a marketplace and sheltering from the relentless attack on Gaza in a UN school, the US government gave the green light for Israel to access the "War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel...
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