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...
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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:
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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