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...
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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...
The TSA PreCheck Extortion Racket
by Adam Dick | Mar 27, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole touted on Tuesday the expansion of TSA's extortion racket-style program known as the PreCheck. Pistole’s comments were part of his testimony at the US House of Representatives before the Homeland...
Obama Descends to Comedy
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
First they fear you, then they hate you, then they laugh at you? Sadly this is the tragectory of President Obama. Anyone with any sense of irony left can but laugh out loud at his absurd thirty minute speech in Brussels today.Low poll numbers
Democracy Promotion or Total Destruction?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Daniel McAdams joined Jay Taylor's Turning Hard Times Into Good Times radio program this week to discuss the neocons, the left humanitarian interventionists, and the US gambit in Ukraine. Who are the real isolationists? The neocons and the sanctions addicts.
Ron Paul: A New Cold War?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This week on the Ron Paul Weekly Podcast, Dr. Paul and host Charles Goyette discuss the US government's bizarre re-igniting of the Cold War through interventionism and hypocrisy in Ukraine.The interventionists try to stoke up another cold -- or even hot -- war with...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: How to Avoid War Over Ukraine
by Adam Dick | Mar 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking with Chris Hayes on MSNBC this week, details steps the United States government can take to avoid war over Ukraine. Wilkerson suggests: Ukraine needs to be a buffer state between what is now an alliance that Russia hates -- NATO --...
Foiled in Crimea, Is Obama Eyeing Syria Strike?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There is danger in making dramatic but idle threats. President Obama and his administration have been given to extremely muscular rhetoric to warn adversaries away from certain actions only to back down when their warnings are not heeded.The neocons pounce on such...
Ron Paul: Crimea Secedes. So What?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman Ron Paul has an op-ed in Tuesday's USA Today wondering why the US is so eager to saddle up for war over a relatively insignificant piece of land thousands of miles away. Dr. Paul is thankful that the bonds of international trade are tempering the passions...
Ron Paul Gives John Kerry a Reading Assignment
by Adam Dick | Mar 17, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul presents this week at the Ron Paul Channel a list of seven books Paul suggests Secretary of State John Kerry should be reading to understand foreign policy and American history. Of course, these books would provide solid education for...
Judge Napolitano: Congress and CIA Relationship at ‘Turning Point’
by Adam Dick | Mar 14, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business, Judge Andrew Napolitano predicts that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) strong reaction to Central Intelligence Agency snooping on the Senate Intelligence Committee she chairs “is a turning point in the relationship between the...
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