This is an excerpt from RPI Academic Advisor John Laughland's recent RT interview. -ed.Joining an old European geopolitical and ideological project would have been catastrophic for the Ukrainian economy, political expert John Laughland told RT, noting that it was actually the EU, not Russia, blackmailing Ukraine into signing a suicide note.RT: The European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says Ukraine's U-turn is indeed a major disappointment. Who is the biggest loser here - Ukraine or...
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The Globalization of NATO: Military Doctrine of Global Warfare
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Nov 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
The world is enveloped in a blanket of perpetual conflict. Invasions, occupation, illicit sanctions, and regime change have become currencies and orders of the day. One organization – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – is repeatedly, and very controversially, involved in some form or another in many of these conflicts led by the US and its allies. NATO spawned from the Cold War. Its existence was justified by Washington and Western Bloc politicians as a guarantor against any...
US Dead-Enders Still Dream of Color Revolutions
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post's Deputy Editorial Editor Jackson Diehl, is the last of those who still worship at the altar of Georgia's washed up Rose Revolution and its US-funded architect, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Diehl carries water for the Washington Post's institutional Russophobia and Cold War nostalgia, and like all neoconservatives he loves the idea of revolution. In his mind, former Central and Eastern European countries are to be judged only by the degree to which they...
What We Should Not Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”—Daniel Webster I will be the first to acknowledge that there is much to be thankful for about life in America, especially when compared to those beyond our borders whose daily lives are marked by war,...
America's Little Spy Helpers Down Under Create an Uproar
by Eric Margolis | Nov 25, 2013 | Featured Articles
JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Indonesians are usually an easy-going, amiable people. But this week, they are boiling with anger and a sense of betrayal after revelations that Australia’s Signals Directorate had been tapping the phones of senior Indonesian government officials, including President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and, worst of all, his wife, First Lady Ani Yudhoyono. Aussie intelligence was also spying in the very same senior Indonesian cabinet officials who, like the president, are regarded as...
Peace Breaks Out…Neocons Weep
by Chris Rossini | Nov 24, 2013 | Neocon Watch
A peaceful agreement has been reached between the P5+1 nations and Iran. As expected, the bomb-dropping idea peddlers are crying like babies: Daniel Pipes calls peace a disaster: “Barack Obama has made many foreign policy errors in the past five years, but this is the first to rank as a disaster.” Jennifer Rubin hopes Israel can still find a way to bomb: “Admin needs to reaffirm final deal will comply fully with UN resolutions. If not Israel should act”. Michael Ledeen is not losing hope for...
Can Karzai Save Us?
by Ron Paul | Nov 24, 2013 | Featured Articles
After a year of talks over the post-2014 US military presence in Afghanistan, the US administration announced last week that a new agreement had finally been reached. Under the deal worked out with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the US would keep thousands of troops on nine military bases for at least the next ten years. It is clear that the Obama Administration badly wants this deal. Karzai, sensing this, even demanded that the US president send a personal letter promising that the US would...
William Kristol: Israel-Hater
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 23, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Not feeling at all chastened over his role in pushing the US into war in Iraq based on his lies and those of his neoconservative allies, William Kristol has now taken to the pages of his Weekly Standard to peddle more lies to push Israel into a war of its own. Kristol, whose teeth you can literally hear gnashing in his latest furious missive, is desperately egging Israel on to attack Iran and thereby unleash what will no doubt be mass mayhem and carnage throughout the region, including on...
Terrorism and the Bill of Rights
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
In the aftermath of the Boston bombings last spring, GOP Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham and others called on Barack Obama to treat the surviving suspect in the bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as an “enemy combatant” rather than as a criminal defendant. The episode highlighted the revolutionary change in the relationship of the American people to the federal government that took place in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. For while Obama rejected the plea to treat Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant,...
P5+1 Talks With Iran Headed For Failure?
by harley | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, while taping a discussion of the latest round of P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran on Russia Today’s CrossTalk that was broadcast today (see here or, on You Tube, here), Flynt said: I hope I’m wrong, but I’m not particularly optimistic about a deal being reached this week. I don’t think that there’s been a lot of progress on the issues that kept agreement from being reached the last time the parties convened in Geneva:There’s the issue of Iran’s nuclear rights, and how they get...
Free Speech Repressing Bureaucrat Threatens Alex Jones and Hundreds at Dallas Gathering
by Adam Dick | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
Wednesday night in front of the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas I witnessed bureaucratic tyranny in action. There a mild-mannered and soft-spoken representative of the Dallas police threatened talk show host Alex Jones and over 200 people with $500 fines if they held signs too close to the road and handed out leaflets. Watch her in action in the first two videos here. Irrespective of whether anyone is fined, the threat of fines alone — especially multi-hundred dollar fines —...
Rep. Walter Jones: Congress Should Decide if US Military Stays in Afghanistan
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2013 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones, speaking on the US House of Representatives floor yesterday morning, called on Congress to exercise its constitutional power over US military policy in Afghanistan. In particular, Jones insisted that Congress debate and vote on the matter instead of acquiescing to keeping the US military in Afghanistan for ten more years under a bilateral security agreement being negotiated by US President Barack Obama and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. Near the conclusion of his four...
Neocon Senators Seek To Tighten The Iranian Noose
by Chris Rossini | Nov 21, 2013 | Neocon Watch
The Daily Beast reports: Defying the wishes of President Obama, six Republican senators Tuesday proposed an amendment to a defense spending bill that would introduce a new round of sanctions on Iran on the eve of diplomatic talks the president hopes will end Iran’s quest for a nuclear weapon.The amendment, offered by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Il.) and co-sponsored by five other Republican senators, including Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as well as Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Sen. John...
Veterans Day and Foreign Interventionism
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
Commemorating Veterans Day, people honored Americans who have served in the U.S. military, especially those who have fought and died in America’s foreign wars. In doing so, however, it’s easy to forget the fact that what the soldiers fought for and died for in those foreign wars wasn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Consider World War I. American soldiers fought and died in that war under the notion that it would finally be the war that would end all European wars into the future. It was also...
Your Congressional Guide for the Week, Nov. 18
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 18, 2013 | Congress Alert
Do you follow Congress? Let us make it easier for you. Here is your guide to House and Senate hearings and mark-ups of interest to RPI readers for the week beginning Nov. 18, 2013.House of Representatives: Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee Hearing: Crisis in the Central African Republic Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations. 2172 House Rayburn Office Building Washington, DC 20515Nov 19, 2013 10:00am Witnesses Panel I The Honorable...
Drones, Tanks, and Grenade Launchers: Coming Soon to a Police Department Near You
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
“The argument for up-armoring is always based on the least likely of terrorist scenarios. Anyone can get a gun and shoot up stuff. No amount of SWAT equipment can stop that.”—Mark Randol, former terrorism expert with the Congressional Research Service Why does a police department which hasn’t had an officer killed in the line of duty in over 125 years in a town of less than 20,000 people need tactical military vests like those used by soldiers in Afghanistan? For that matter, why does a...
Escalation! Rep. Kinzinger Drops 'War With Russia' Bill In The US House
US Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) has introduced an authorization for the use of force against Russia bill in the US House, allowing President Biden to take the country to war with...
Escalation! Rep. Kinzinger Drops 'War With Russia' Bill In The US House
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US Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) has introduced an authorization for the use of force against Russia bill in the US House, allowing President Biden to take the country to war with...
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