The real reason we have this mess on the border — with thousands of kids streaming over — says Ron Paul, is foolish government policies on both sides of the border. Most of the problem from the US side, he says, stems from the US drug war and the violent gangs it...
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Ron Paul: Don’t Blame Putin For Malaysian Jet Shoot Down
by Ron Paul | Jul 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman Ron Paul was on NewsMax today to discuss yesterday's apparent shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine. While the US media and the Obama administration have jumped to the conclusion that the Russians (or their "proxies") must have...
Dennis Kucinich: Congress Should Recognize That Palestinians Exist
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Jul 17, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
One of the few regrets I have in not being a member of the 113th US Congress is that I was not present in the House chambers to oppose H.Res.657, which passed by a voice vote, supporting Israel without mentioning the Palestinians. Congress missed a huge opportunity to...
Ron Paul: ‘Who Are the Real Isolationists?’
by Ron Paul | Jul 17, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Who are the real isolationists? Ron Paul tells Fox Business it is those who demand sanctions on Russia, Cuba, Iran, and any other country that does not follow the dictates of Washington. We non-interventionists, he says, are the ones who want to be internationalists...
Tired of US Spying, Germany? Here’s Some Good Advice…
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 16, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Germany is reeling from ongoing revelations about the extent of the US spying operation against the country, as at least two spies have been uncovered burrowed into German intelligence, the BND. The German government has responded by asking the CIA station chief in...
Is NATO The Ghost of Brezhnev? Daniel McAdams Back on Jay Taylor Show
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 16, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What's going on with Eric Cantor and Israel? RPI's Daniel McAdams is back with Jay Taylor this week to discuss the violence in Gaza and Israel's American cheerleaders, NATO's planned propaganda blitz and its morph into a USSR-like entity. Also Brzezinski's plan for...
Dennis Kucinich: Americans ‘Have to Break the War Culture’
by Adam Dick | Jul 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an engaging, wide-ranging interview with Peter Z. Scheer at Truthdig, RPI Advisory Board Member Dennis Kucinich expanded on his statement earlier this month on Democracy Now that “interventionism is not the wave of the future,” by explaining in the new interview...
Eric Cantor’s Final Assault
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 14, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) may have lost his primary to a relatively unknown challenger, but that does not mean he is going quietly into that good night. His long track record of ramming through the House the most one-sided resolutions praising the...
Dennis Kucinich on America’s Dangerous, Anti-Democratic Path
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Jul 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Who will protect us from our government? That is a central question I have after reading the Washington Post's publication of NSA intercepts given to them by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The article describes an "exponential" increase in NSA spying on American...
Is It A Crime To Insult the Police?
by William Norman Grigg | Jul 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Arena, Wisconsin is a village of roughly 800 people, most of whom are white, politically liberal, and materially comfortable. Despite having a very low crime rate, the village has a police department that, like every other, exists primarily to collect revenue.Two...
Is Brzezinski Pushing Ethnic Cleansing for Eastern Ukraine?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Global chessboard enthusiast Zbigniew Brzezinski has a plan for Ukraine. In a recent speech to the Woodrow Wilson Center, excerpted by the Atlantic Council, he argues forcefully in favor of the United States providing the Ukrainian military far more weapons. Under the...
Ron Paul: US Threatening Greater Middle East War, Stock Market Crash, and Oil and Gold Rise
by Adam Dick | Jul 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over at the Ron Paul Channel, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul is warning of consequences from the US government escalating its military involvement in Iraq. Paul concludes: Expect one day for this insanity of our foreign policy to translate into a much greater war...
Ukraine’s Chocolate King Oligarch — Daniel McAdams on Scott Horton Show
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 1, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is back on the Scott Horton Show to discuss the latest events in Ukraine, which continues to burn as much attention focuses on the implosion of Iraq. The protests in Kiev were supposed to be against the oligarchic misrule of Ukraine, yet...
RPI’s Adam Dick Discusses the Drug War, Elections, and Smokey and the Bandit on the Lions of Liberty Podcast
by Adam Dick | Jun 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Adam Dick joined the Lions of Liberty Podcast on Thursday for a discussion of the drug war and advancing liberty through electoral politics. Dick discusses with host Marc Clair how states and local governments going their own way on marijuana laws are overcoming...
Despite $72 Billion Intel Collection Budget, US Has No Clue About Iraq
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Thanks to the always astute MoA blog for pointing out that for the estimated $72 billion per year the US government spends on intelligence gathering (the actual figure is classified and probably much higher), the US government is flying blind on what is happening in...
‘Your Tax Money to Arm The Jihad’: Ron Paul Speaks With Charles Goyette
by Ron Paul | Jun 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Don't miss Ron Paul's discussion with Charles Goyette this week. Dr. Paul points out the foolishness of arming jihadists in one country and feigning surprise when they attack a different country. It started with US funding the mujahideen in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda...
Rep. Walter Jones on Foreign Policy: ‘We in America are in the Eleventh Hour’
by Adam Dick | Jun 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), an RPI Advisory Board member, discusses in-depth in a Friday C-SPAN Washington Journal interview his opposition to continued borrowing and spending for the United States to “police the world.” Jones says in the 33 minutes interview that the...
Ron Paul Appears in Movies Based on Novels Atlas Shrugged and Alongside Night
by Adam Dick | Jun 20, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is former Member of the United States House of Representatives and current RPI Chairman Ron Paul “going Hollywood?” Not quite, he is still living in Texas and focused on protecting freedom. But, according to media reports, Paul has small roles in new movies based on...
Judge Andrew Napolitano: No New US War in Iraq
by Adam Dick | Jun 19, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Thursday on Fox News, RPI Advisory Board Member Andrew Napolitano explains that the United States government engaging in another war in Iraq would be contrary to US national interests as was the US invading and making war on Iraq in 2003. That prior Iraq war,...
Ethnic Cleansing Coming in East Ukraine — McAdams Speaks WIth Scott Horton
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is on the Scott Horton Show this week, discussing what is going on in Ukraine while everyone is paying attention to the disintegration of Iraq. The shelling of Slavyansk continues while the danger of US-sanctioned ethnic cleansing of...
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