Last week, just as the US-backed rebels were overthrowing the government in Ukraine, RPI founder Ron Paul advised the US government to stop meddling in Ukraine. In "Leave Ukraine Alone," Dr. Paul warned about the interventionists who "keep pushing their own agenda for...
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Ron Paul: Don’t Just Cut Troops, ‘Downsize’ US Foreign Policy
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 1, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a recent interview with NewsMax, RPI founder and chairman Ron Paul explained his vision of how to deal with the pressures on the Pentagon to make serious cuts, as the US budget situation becomes more critical.Although he supports the reported plan by Secretary of...
RPI’s Adam Dick Addresses the Rise of Libertarians in American Politics
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Contributor Adam Dick comments today regarding the rise of libertarian ideas in American politics in a MintPress News article: 'It is unfair to say that Libertarians are separating from conservatives,' Adam Dick, a writer with the Ron Paul Institute, told...
Did Susan Rice Just Threaten Russia With War?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US and EU got their regime change in Ukraine (for now). The legal government has been overthrown by an armed mob in the streets. As in Egypt, where the military overthrow of the democratically-elected Morsi government was called by US Secretary of State John...
Ron Paul to President Obama: Snowden is Perfect Example for Granting Clemency
by Adam Dick | Feb 23, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Following up on his interview with the Voice of Russia earlier this week, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul elaborates, in his weekly podcast with Charles Goyette, why Paul is encouraging people to sign a petition urging President Barack Obama to grant clemency for...
Ron Paul Discusses Snowden Clemency Petition and Foreign Policy In Depth
by Adam Dick | Feb 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It is a treat to hear a non-rushed interview of Dr. Ron Paul that allows him to lay out more fully the reasoning behind his views. Paul, the chairman and founder of RPI, had such an interview this week with the Voice of Russia. Over 15 minutes, Paul discusses his...
Ukraine Is Responsible For Its Demise…But We All May Suffer
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ukraine is an utter disaster. A few thousand violent rebels in a country of more than 40 million have turned Kiev into a post-apocalyptic hell, where the government is incapable of restoring order, incapable of protecting its own police force from snipers whose...
Judge Andrew Napolitano: DHS License Plate Tracking is Right Out of East Germany
by Adam Dick | Feb 20, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, speaking with Stuart Varney on Fox Business this week, passionately denounces the United States Department of Homeland Security effort to indiscriminately track our movements with automated license plate readers. Napolitano, an RPI Advisory...
Why Does Ukraine Seem So Much Like Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 20, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In Ukraine, US-backed rebels seize weapons from a military depot and begin firing on police -- killing at least ten. The rebel groups occupy and torch government buildings, trade union headquarters, the central post office, and political party headquarters. They...
Ron Paul Podcast: Busted! US Officials Caught Meddling in Ukraine
by Ron Paul | Feb 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Listen to RPI Founder and Chaiman, Ron Paul, on his weekly podcast with Charles Goyette on recent leaked phone calls between US officials plotting to influence the next government in Ukraine. Get Ron Paul's take at the link:
RPI on Antiwar Radio: Nuland, Ukraine, Syria and More
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Scott Horton's Antiwar Radio to discuss Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s captured comments on the US regime change goals for Ukraine; the provocative plans for NATO expansion to Russia’s border; and why Al Qaeda and the...
US/UN Fears Assad Win in Free Syrian Election?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Every now and then we have a chance to peek through a tiny window to see how "diplomacy" is done behind closed doors. Last week the leaked conversation between US diplomats plotting the overthrow of Ukraine's government was one such dramatic moment. Another came...
Who is Victoria Nuland? RPI’s McAdams Joins Jay Taylor to Explain
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 12, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Fighting the propaganda! RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Jay Taylor to discuss the Ukraine unrest and the Victoria Nuland scandal. Who is Victoria Nuland? A member of the premier family of neoconservatism in the US, who seamlessly moves from advising Dick Cheney to...
US Aid Arrives in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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