RPI Chairman Ron Paul appeared on the Fox Business program "The Independents" last night to discuss the recent standoff between a Nevada rancher and the federal government. Dr. Paul again expressed his support for people standing up to federal government abuses and...
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Judge Napolitano: Bundy Ranch Protestors’ Line in the Sand Stops Thieving Feds
by Adam Dick | Apr 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, speaking Monday with Stuart Varney on Fox Business, explains the significance of the United States government backing off its raid of the Bundy ranch in Nevada after “suffering such a terrible PR loss” from its confrontation with protestors,...
Washington’s Outrageous Ukraine Double Standards
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Washington foreign policy establishment is furious. Protesters in eastern Ukraine, who feel threatened by the US-backed government in Kiev that has cancelled Russian-language television programming and installed oligarchs to rule over them, have poured out into...
Ron Paul: The Senate CIA Report And Torture
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul again joins Charles Goyette in a weekly podcast providing insight on the most critical issues of the day. Dr. Paul and Mr. Goyette discuss the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the abuses of the CIA. But how many of the sordid details of this report...
Ron Paul: US Threatens Challengers to Dollar Hegemony
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a commentary available to view from his Ron Paul Channel, RPI Chairman Ron Paul explains how the US has targeted any country that threaten to use currencies other than dollars with which to conduct international commerce. In Libya, Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere, says...
Lew Rockwell’s Pessimistic Optimism
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Today the US media is entirely the spokesmen for the government, said RPI Board Member Lew Rockwell on the Ben Swann radio show yesterday. Every country not totally controlled by the US must be destroyed, and the media is out front to provide propaganda for the...
RPI Editorial Policy: A Note of Clarification
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Throughout his career, Ron Paul has been known for his willingness and eagerness to build broad coalitions of people who may disagree on many issues, but who come together on the central issue of peace and prosperity. On September 10, 2008, Dr. Paul held a press...
How the State Department Spends Your Money
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 9, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US State Department under Secretary John Kerry has become a laughingstock. While Spokesperson Jen Psaki occupies herself by Tweeting mindless "selfies," her boss's "social media" team are busy putting together incomprehensible platitudes like the below. Can anyone...
‘Foot-in-Mouth’ Kerry’s Nixonian Blunder
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 9, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US and EU appear incapable of distinguishing between action and reaction. The coup they backed in Kiev against the elected government has thrown off the delicate balance in Ukraine and left the pro-Russia eastern portion of the country feeling threatened. In this...
Ron Paul: ‘Hands Off Raw Milk!’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
To Ron Paul, the raw milk issue is a matter of personal freedom, and he is very pleased that Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced two bills -- one quite sweeping and the other more incremental -- that would make it easier for individuals to make their own decisions about...
Eric Margolis: US Afghanistan Elections Not Up To Standard of Soviet Afghanistan Elections
by Adam Dick | Apr 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While reviewing media reports of democracy in action in the Afghanistan election to select a replacement for President Hamid Karzai, consider the comments of RPI Academic Board member Eric Margolis on the Scott Horton Show on Friday. Margolis starts off the interview...
Ron Paul: How The Aid to Ukraine Scam Works
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 5, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On his weekly podcast with Charles Goyette, Ron Paul explains the Congressional trick that actually opens the door to far more aid to Ukraine than is reported in the media. He also points out that the IMF money going to Ukraine in great part comes from the US as well....
Ron Paul: What the Media Won’t Say About the Latest Ft. Hood Tragedy
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On his Ron Paul Channel, RPI Chairman Ron Paul comments on the latest tragedy at Ft. Hood military base, where a soldier killed three people before taking his own life. What Ron Paul will tell us that the mainstream media will not, is that the shooter had been treated...
Zombie NATO
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Where is NATO in 2014? The debate continues on just why, more than 20 years after the communist threat it was created to defend against has disappeared, NATO continues to nudge its way into smaller conflicts and end up making them bigger ones. RPI academic advisor,...
Origins of NATO Expansion — Daniel McAdams on Jay Taylor Show
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams speaks with Jay Taylor of "Turning Hard Times Into Good Times" this week on the origins of NATO expansion in central Europe, the ongoing Ukraine crisis, the still-unresolved implications of the break-up of the USSR, and more:
Ron Paul: US and IMF Bailout of Ukraine is a Bankers Bailout
by Adam Dick | Apr 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Wednesday on the Ron Paul Channel, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul challenges the United States and International Monetary Fund bailout of Ukraine, calling the bailout “criminal.” Paul explains: All this nonsense we hear now of bailing out Ukraine -- it’s...
Daddy Warbucks Seeks President
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 2, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Much is made of money in politics and how the process is shaped by big donors. While RPI does not concern itself with politics or elections, there is a disturbing related phenomenon that does indeed concern our mission: big money purchasing war. Take casino magnate...
Infantile Diplomacy and Double Standards
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 1, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Frank Furedi at Spiked Online has published one of the best pieces we have seen on the remarkable inability of American and Western diplomats, NGO employees, and others to see US foreign policy as those on the receiving end might see it. In the toxic religion of...
Obama’s War On History
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Obama's speech in Brussels this week was a shocking mélange of ignorance and arrogance masquerading as foreign policy. Attempting to justify placing the US on war footing with Russia over the recent referendum in Crimea, the president stated: Kosovo only...
Col. Wilkerson: ‘What American Wants to Die for Kiev?’
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 27, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI academic advisor Col. Lawrence Wilkerson appears in a thought-provoking interview on MSNBC, where he expresses his hopes that President Obama can find a way to walk back from the increasing US/Russia war footing. Asked by the host about the neocons who are...
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