As the radical Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) continues its march through the US-trained Iraqi army like a knife through butter in the Baghdad sun, the US-backed Maliki government is looking its collapse square in the eyes. What to do? Ask Washington for Gulf...
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Ron Paul Alumni Meet on Jay Taylor Show to Talk War and Peace
by Ron Paul | Jun 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul's Congressional office colleagues Daniel McAdams (Ron Paul Institute) and Jeff Deist (Mises Institute) meet again on Jay Taylor's radio broadcast to discuss the nexus between monetary policy and US foreign policy. How does the money printing and the...
Iraq Falls to ISIS? — Daniel McAdams on Tom Woods Show Today!
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Has Iraq Fallen? RPI Director Daniel McAdams is on the Tom Woods Show today to discuss breaking news on the fall of Mosul and Tikrit in Iraq, the total failure of the Iraq war narrative, the total failure of "the surge," the disaster of the COIN.Also on the menu is...
Ron Paul: Legal Pot, Not SWAT
by Adam Dick | Jun 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul addresses Monday on the Ron Paul Channel the menacing militarization of police in the United States. Paul, the chairman and founder of RPI, explains the problem extends from small towns obtaining military combat vehicles to United States government agencies...
US Support for Lugansk Massacre — Daniel McAdams on the Scott Horton Show
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What happened in Lugansk, in eastern Ukraine? RPI Director Daniel McAdams is on the Scott Horton Show to discuss his recent article on the strange US response to a military attack on civilians in Lugansk. As new Ukraine President Poroshenko is sworn in, the violence...
John Kerry Caught in Lie to Promote War With Russia
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We all remember Secretary of State John Kerry lying through this teeth last summer, when he swore that US intelligence reports proving that Syria used chemical weapons in Ghouta were “as clear as they are compelling.” However, the US administration never provided any...
Washington Post At War With Reality on Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
(still from YouTube)Anyone reading the Washington Post's coverage of Ukraine and Russia over the past several months knows well that when it comes to fealty to the regime, the Post makes the USSR's Pravda look like a samizdat. As long as the US administration has...
Ron Paul on ‘The Strange Case of Bowe Bergdahl’
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The current debate over whether Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl, recently swapped for five Guantanamo detainees, was a traitor or hero obscured what should be the real debate of our foreign policy, Ron Paul told Charles Goyette in his weekly podcast today. Many on the pro-war side...
Have You Reset the Net?
by Adam Dick | Jun 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Suppose your neighborhood experienced a dramatic increase in home break-ins. What might you and your neighbors do in response? Some residents may join together in a neighborhood watch. Many residents will review their home security precautions. Some people will put...
Obama and Cameron Issue Putin an Ultimatum
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 5, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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