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...
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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...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Exposes the CIA’s Ongoing Cover-Up of Torture War Crimes
by Adam Dick | Jul 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson discussed in detail, as a guest Sunday on Background Briefing with Ian Masters, a “major cover-up” in progress, with the US Central Intelligence Agency altering a still unreleased Senate Intelligence Committee report on...
Another One-Sided Israel Vote Scheduled Today In Congress
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It has been only a few days since Congress re-affirmed its support for the Israeli government's assault on Gaza, in which nearly 1,500 Palestinians have been killed. In this ongoing operation, some three out of four Palestinians killed have been civilians. The...
Abolish the CIA: Does Ron Paul Hate America? Daniel McAdams on Jay Taylor Show
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Jay Taylor again to discuss Ron Paul's recent column on ending the CIA, as well as claims that Ron Paul and RPI are anti-American for resisting the latest neocon push to war with Russia. And...look who's calling Ron Paul a Soviet...
Robert Higgs: The Many Costs of War
by Adam Dick | Jul 27, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The deaths, injuries, and property destruction of battles are obvious costs of war as is all the money spent on weapons, soldiers, and other expenses directly related to battles. Less well understood by many people are the many other war costs, including costs imposed...
Eric Margolis: ‘Blame for this Bloodbath Sits as Much With the US as it Does With Israel’
by Adam Dick | Jul 24, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
International affairs writer and RPI Academic Board Member Eric Margolis, interviewed Monday on the Scott Horton Show, concludes regarding Israel’s military attack on and invasion of Gaza that “the blame for this bloodbath sits as much with the US as it does with...
Fixing Facts Around The Policy: Is the US Government Manipulating Social Media?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US government and in particular the State Department have come under some scrutiny — and even been subject to some ridicule — over increasing reliance on "social media" as evidence to back up US foreign policy positions or conclusions about international events....
US Support For Ukraine Regime Change — Daniel McAdams With Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is back with Jay Taylor discussing the disasters of US foreign policy -- from Libya to Iraq to Ukraine. Being interested in facts and not supporting any government makes us suspect according to the interventionists. Pravda of today is in...
Attacking Ron Paul, National Journal Hits New Lows
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What a bizarre article about Dr. Paul from the National Journal! Beginning from the title, the piece read like something from a high school newspaper. Does a publication playing the role of the grown-up voice on Capitol Hill really publish a piece titled "Ron Paul Is...
We Made It To A Million!
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This week marked a milestone for the Ron Paul Institute's Facebook page. For the first time in our short 15 months of existence we chalked up one million people reached over a one week period! This is most certainly due to the several crises in the world today,...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Reject ‘Raving Maniac’ John McCain; Cooler Heads Can Create Ukraine Peace
by Adam Dick | Jul 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is using the downed Malaysia Airlines passenger airplane to justify his call for escalating US military support for the Ukraine government, RPI Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson counters that the key to creating a neutral, at...
RPI’s Daniel McAdams on Laura Ingraham Show
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams was on the Laura Ingraham Show this past week with guest host the great Charles Goyette. Daniel and Charles discussed the real costs of the US interventionist foreign policy. What will be the economic fallout of the new round of US...
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