This week RPI Chairman Ron Paul joined Jay Taylor's radio broadcast to discuss how the money-printing of the Federal Reserve feeds the warfare state, how the foreign wars set the stage for attacks on our civil liberties at home, and how the cause of liberty is a...
Peace and Prosperity Blog
Alaska, DC, and Oregon Voters Legalize Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Nov 5, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
State and local governments continued going their own way on marijuana laws in elections Tuesday, with voters in the sates of Alaska and Oregon, along with United States capital city Washington, DC, approving ballot measures legalizing marijuana for recreational use....
Is Kiev Preparing Another Attack?
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has steadily ramped up the rhetoric following last weekend's elections in breakaway eastern regions of the country. In just 15 minutes today, the US-backed leader racked up more than 30 Tweets mixing threats against the breakaway...
Scream! Top Ten Government Things to Be Afraid of for Halloween
by Peter van Buren | Oct 31, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The government’s main function these days is to promote fear among Americans. Fear is good for our current way of life, allowing your opinion and votes to be manipulated, and to make sure you’ll go along with any terrible things the government wishes to do to you...
RPI: Still Lean and Mean…But Growing!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Readers of the Ron Paul Institute's work over the past year or so will most likely recognize the frequent appearance of Adam Dick on the website. Adam has written more than 200 articles and blog posts for the Institute as a part-time contractor. Dr. Paul and I are...
What Putin Said — RPI’s McAdams and Jay Taylor Discuss
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI director Daniel McAdams is back with Jay Taylor this week to discuss the big issues in the world. The fallout and western reaction to Putin's big speech at the Valdai Club; the western media reaction to the speech; who is telling the truth? Also Turkey's game in...
Ron Paul on the Selective Service System’s Psychological Manipulation
by Adam Dick | Oct 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul, speaking with Charles Goyette during their most recent weekly podcast, addresses the military draft, which Paul refers to as “slavery,” and the psychological manipulation involved in requiring 18-year-old American men to register in...
John Stossel Demolishes Old Saw about Libertarians as ‘Spoilers’ for Republican Candidates
by Adam Dick | Oct 25, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
John Stossel, in a conversation Thursday with fellow Fox Business host Stuart Varney, demolished with three arguments the old saw that Libertarian Party candidates are “spoilers” for Republican candidates. First, Stossel notes that, in the many races that are not...
Will ‘Indispensable’ West Consider Putin’s Latest Speech?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 24, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a forceful speech today at the Valdai Club's annual meeting held in Sochi, Russia. The Russian president criticized the US for destabilizing countries like Ukraine, Libya, and Syria though its practice of "regime change." He...
Eric Margolis: Formerly ‘Liked Everywhere’ Canada Has Moved ‘Into the Gun Sights’
by Adam Dick | Oct 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
International affairs writer Eric Margolis, interviewed Wednesday on the Scott Horton Show, commented that he would not be surprised if the killers of Canada soldiers in Ontario and Quebec this week were motivated to react to the Canada government’s adoption of “a...
35,000 People and Counting on New York’s New ‘No Guns List’
by Adam Dick | Oct 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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