As Brown Noses points out on Twitter, it appears as if US aid has arrived to Syria, courtesy of USAID. Isn't it nice to see that the money extorted from Americans and sent to "moderates" in Syria is being put to use building shelters for al-Qaeda and their US-supplied...
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Obama Promises ‘Prudent Limits’ on Drone Killings, Delivers Death by Unreliable Metadata
by Adam Dick | Feb 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
No wonder President Barack Obama has cloaked in secrecy his administration’s justifications for ordering “targeted killings,” including through the use of drones. Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald report in First Look’s "The Intercept" today that kill orders in the...
A Tale of Two Cities: Kiev and Washington
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In Kiev:Violent protestors last month occupied three cabinet ministry buildings as they sought to overthrow the Ukrainian government. Protestors physically blocked the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament from taking his seat at the speaker's podium for weeks. Then...
Targeted Killings and Obama’s Secret Legal Memoranda
by Adam Dick | Feb 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Like the George W. Bush Administration before it that sought to use secret legal memoranda to legitimize heinous treatment of prisoners, the Obama Administration appears to be using questionable and secret legal memoranda in an attempt to justify expanded presidential...
US ‘Ukraine-gate’ Threatens to Blow Up Into Major Conflagration
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt were caught in a phone conversation leaked yesterday actively plotting over which of the Ukrainian opposition figures should take which position in a post-coup Ukraine...
Why Are Syrian ‘Moderates’ Wearing Al-Qaeda and Taliban Clothing?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Thanks to PartisanGirl on Twitter for pointing out that a recent profile of the "moderate" Free Syria Army on the website of The Atlantic, lamenting the diappearance of "Syria’s non-violent activists" from social media, included a picture of featured "moderate" Syrian...
Rep. Walter Jones: More Spending on Afghanistan is ‘Insanity’
by rep. walter b. jones jr | Feb 5, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC), an RPI Advisory Board Member, delivers hard-hitting questions and comments during a House Armed Services hearing this week on the "State of Al Qaeda, its Affiliates, and Associated Groups: View From Outside Experts." On the continuing...
Damage Done, McFaul Exits Russia
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul has announced today that he will step down from his post in Moscow and will leave the Obama Administration entirely. He stated that he wants to spend more time with his family.McFaul leaves behind a legacy of damaged US/Russia...
A Tale of Two Cities: Fallujah and Aleppo
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Iraqi army forces intensified their shelling of Fallujah over the past couple of days in attempt to dislodge control from an al-Qaeda affiliate that last month overran the city and most of the Anbar region in which it lies.US Secretary of State John Kerry pledged...
War Machine Again Gearing Up to Bomb Syria
by Michael S. Rozeff | Feb 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The warmongers clearly have been seeding the press and politics in order to get their war against Syria. This began by planting a propaganda report that Syria was not complying with the timetable for removing chemical weapons. Then it went on to planting a report with...
Ron Paul Goes Off The Grid…With Jesse Ventura!
by Ron Paul | Jan 31, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman Ron Paul joins Jesse Ventura for a segment of Ventura's edgy "Off the Grid" broadcast. Dr. Paul discusses President Obama's State of the Union speech -- and particularly the president's threat to expand his use of executive orders if Congress does not...
Ukraine in Revolt? Daniel McAdams Speaks With Tom Woods
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What are the origins of today's unrest in Ukraine? Is this a continuation of the Orange Revolution? Is it a coup d'etat? How much of a role is the US and EU playing in fomenting the current troubles today?Listen to the whole interview below:
Ron Paul: Rein In Obama or Suffer the Consequences
by Adam Dick | Jan 30, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking with host Neil Cavuto on Fox Business, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul addresses President Barack Obama’s distressing emphasis in the State of the Union Speech on expanding presidential power and using executive orders to bypass the Congress. While Paul...
Geneva II, Iran, Syria, Ukraine: Daniel McAdams Talks with Jay Taylor
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 29, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams is interviewed by Jay Taylor, host of "Turning Hard Times Into Good Times." The two discuss the Geneva II talks on Syria, the US demand that Iran not be included, the myth of "Arab Spring," and more...
Hillary Clinton’s Responsibility for Libya’s Misery
by Michael S. Rozeff | Jan 25, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Libya is a mess, we are told, worse than when Gaddafi was around. Who was instrumental in attacking Libya in an outright aggression? Hillary Clinton. One headline at the time read “Clinton credited with key role in success of NATO airstrikes, Libyan rebels”.In that...
Hillary’s Hasty Rush to War on Syria
by Michael S. Rozeff | Jan 24, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Hillary Clinton backed Obama’s call for military strikes (i.e., war) against Syria. She was sure, based on the U.S. intelligence and interpretations, that Assad had ordered chemical weapons attacks several weeks earlier on August 21, 2013. To this day, that assertion...
Ron Paul: Obama NSA Reform Speech Is “Nonsense,” Public Can Defeat Politicians on Spying
by Adam Dick | Jan 24, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul, interviewed this week on Fox Business, calls President Barack Obama’s mass spying reform speech “a lot of nonsense.” Paul proceeds to express that he is “hopeful and optimistic” that the American people, whose sentiment is shifting...
Judge Napolitano: Obama’s NSA Proposals Maintain Totalitarian Hallmarks
by Adam Dick | Jan 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Tuesday with host Steve Doocy on Fox News, Judge Andrew Napolitano, an RPI Advisory Board member, concludes that the mass spying program reform proposed in President Barack Obama’s Friday speech maintains the program’s “hallmarks of a totalitarian...
The Economic ‘Success’ of US Interventionism
by Chris Rossini | Jan 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal recently released their 2014 Index of Economic Freedom. Usually, such lists never really catch my attention. I have little interest in them, considering the sources especially.However, Ron Paul, in a recent episode...
Iran, Syria and the Tragicomedy of U.S. Foreign Policy
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As the Joint Plan of Action and Geneva II diplomatic initiatives, dealing with Iran and Syria, respectively, RPI academic advisor Hillary Mann Leverett speaks with Scott Horton for Pacifica Radio with words of caution to those who think the new Senate bill imposing...
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