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Chilling Development: NSA Takes on Amash Amendment
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 23, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: Gage SkidmoreThe Huffington Post reports today that NSA director General Keith Alexander called an emergency Top Secret/SCI-level meeting on Capitol Hill to urge Members to vote against Rep. Justin Amash's (R-MI) amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill...
Navalny Reporting Shows Western Media Clueless on Russia
by John Laughland | Jul 22, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member John Laughland appeared on France 24 recently to discuss the Alexei Navalny trial in Russia. Dr. Laughland was outnumbered on the panel, but his main point was that the Western mainstream media continues to completely...
Who Needs Prison Time: Greenwald or Hayden?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 20, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: Gerald R. Ford School of Public PolicyFormer director of the CIA and NSA, General Michael Hayden, oversaw the early construction of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping database of the telephone conversations of American citizens. He demonstrated his ignorance by...
Why is US Ambassador McFaul Sticking His Nose Into the Navalny Trial?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 20, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: U.S. Consulate VladivostokAs Bradley Manning finds his escape routes from a life sentence for his whistle-blowing quickly shut down by judges who are closely tied to the prosecutors, and as whistle-blower Edward Snowden faces life on the run from the largest...
Goodbye, Janet
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 18, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: U.S. Embassy Tel AvivAs Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano departs her post for the fairer climes of the University of California, she leaves behind a government monstrosity that not only is not in better shape than when she arrived, but is teetering...
Obama’s Second Term Foreign Policy: A Full Tank or Running on Empty?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 15, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
At the Ron Paul Institute, our job is to look critically at US foreign policy and point out the disasters of successive interventionist and empire-building administrations. But asked to more clearly define what this Administration is really up to thus far in its...
A ‘Salafi Shindig’: Obama’s Middle East Disaster
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Jul 12, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The jihadis in Syria have now declared that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are as much the enemy as the Syrian government. They have backed that up by killing one of the senior leaders of the FSA and declaring in telephone calls that they intend to kill all the leaders of...
Reflections on the Egyptian Coup
by RPI Staff | Jul 6, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Egypt is the big story this week, and the way things are going it is going to become an even bigger story. RPI is concentrating on these important events in this extremely important country of more than 80 million people. The evolving situation is complex, with very...
Congress to Obama: Punish Iranians!
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 5, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The House Foreign Affairs Committee plays hide and go seek with Iran's imaginary nuclear weapons programs this week, demonstrating the utter futility in hoping for any sort of foreign policy intelligence coming from the "People's Branch" of government. As Professor...
Roll Call Announces New National Security Blogger … Boeing!
by Adam Dick | Jul 4, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Roll Call announced this week the launch of its new blog, Topic A: Defense, for the "national security community." The blog is sponsored by Boeing—one of the highest dollar value US government contractors both overall and in the defense category.As explained in the...
Father Francois Murad Beheaded By US-Allies in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 1, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Thanks to RPI contributor Pat Lang for putting a face to the victim of the US-backed Syrian rebels' latest ghastly atrocity. Father Francois Murad was a Franciscan priest who had been in hiding since the monastery he was building in Syria came under attack from the...
Obama’s Syrian Allies
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 28, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Washington Times is reporting that the US shift in favor of overtly arming the Syrian rebels was celebrated by the rebels with an orgy of innocent blood. According to the Times, a Christian priest and another Christian believer were beheaded by the US-allied...
What Can One Person Do Versus the Leviathan?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 25, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over at Lew Rockwell's blog, RPI Academic Board Member Butler Shaffer has written a thought-provoking piece on how the (thus far) successful escape of NSA leaker Edward Snowden reveals how the individual with his innumerable complex and ever-changing calculations and...
US Military to Egypt?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 21, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
KCEN-TV is reporting (via Drudge) that a group of US soldiers from Fort Hood are preparing to deploy to Egypt in a riot control capacity and to "protect" Egypt's border with Israel. The brief report raises far more questions than it answers, such as why the US...
Government’s Gun Law Ruse to Access Mental Health Records
by Adam Dick | Jun 19, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: grover_netYour appointment with a psychiatrist or admission to a mental health facility may now be included in United States and state government databases. What happened to the protection of medical privacy? The United States government and some state...
New Tourism Opportunities in Egypt
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 18, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Post Arab Spring Egypt is a barrel of laughs. Just over two years ago the president glowingly praised the US-assisted Arab Spring, claiming a triumph of US-style values. He reaffirmed American exceptionalism and his "firm belief that America’s interests are not...
Who is Ben Rhodes?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 17, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: U.S. Embassy Jakarta, IndonesiaEveryone is wondering who is Ben Rhodes, a 30-something who ascended from literally nowhere to be what seems a main driving force behind Obama's foreign policy. He is credited with convincing the president to embrace the Arab...
Chemical Weapons ‘Discovery’ in Syria Opens Door for US Bombs
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 13, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Barely a week after President Obama announced the ascendance of the left-neocon, humanitarian interventionist cultists Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the top of his foreign policy team, and in a time of choking scandal, alas a light at the end of the tunnel has...
Are Internal Passports Next?
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
J.D. Tuccille relates at reason.com the sad history of dramatic deterioration in the United States government's respect for the freedom to travel. Tucille begins: Last week, my vacationing family was stopped at not one, but two, internal checkpoints along Interstate 8...
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