A Swollen River of Refugees
February 17, 2016
Last month, as US border patrol agents began rounding up Central American women and children denied asylum, a small group of international peace activists from Voices for Creative Nonviolence boarded a plane for Helsinki, Finland, to visit two longtime Iraqi friends who fled Baghdad last summer and somehow completed a perilous seven-week journey over land […]
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Ron Paul on Turkey Bombing Syria – The Start Of Something Big?
February 16, 2016
After four days of bombing US allies in Syria – the Kurdish YPG militia – the Turkish government is now requesting that the US begin a ground invasion of Syria. Saudi fighter jets have reportedly arrived in Turkey to take part in the invasion if the US agrees. Meanwhile, the US has asked the Turks […]
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Has Turkey Just Started WWIII?
February 15, 2016
The violence in Syria has been devastating for years. New military actions in the country by the Turkish government threaten to escalate the situation into a much larger war. Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Executive Director Daniel McAdams wrote about the most recent developments in the RPI Weekly Update sent out via email […]
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US-Supported Shia Militias in Iraq Lead Ethnic Cleansing
February 13, 2016
Oh, yes, and also civil war. Here’s a preview of what to expect in Iraq after ISIS is mostly run out of the country. Set the scene: the country formerly known as Iraq was basically an steaming pile of ethnic/religious tension in 2003 when the U.S. invaded. It was divided among three broad groups we […]
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Why Are Neocons So Desperate To Rescue al-Qaeda in Syria?
February 12, 2016
Reading Dennis Ross and David Ignatius is a good reminder that the neocons live in a different world than the rest of us. They do not conform their analysis to reality, but rather they conform reality to their view of the world. Where most people would be encouraged to read that Aleppo in Syria was […]
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Homes Demolished in the South Hebron Hills
February 12, 2016
After a breakdown in mediation between the State of Israel and the Palestinian villages of Massafer Yatta, Israeli authorities destroyed 24 homes in the South Hebron Hills. The homes lie within an area which Israel claims as Firing Zone 918, in which approximately 1000 Palestinian civilians live in 8 villages. Early on the morning of […]
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Drafting Women – Equality or Equal Slavery?
February 10, 2016
With the opening of all military combat roles to women, establishment voices like the New York Times are proclaiming that the next fight for equality is to force women to join men in registering for the draft. In what way is it a triumph of rights to have the threat of slavery, which is what […]
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Ron Paul Asks: Are Saudis Poised For Syria Invasion?
February 10, 2016
According to press reports yesterday, Saudi Arabia is assembling a 150,000 man military force to invade Syria from Turkish soil and fight against Islamist terrorists in that country. But surely the rest of the world knows that for the past five years or more, Saudi Arabia has been the main source of support for those […]
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There Are 72 DHS Employees on Terrorist Watch List
February 9, 2016
So you can read this one one of two ways: Either the terror watch list is complete bull, or the Department of Homeland Security has a big problem. Come to think about it, maybe you can read it both ways. At least 72 employees at the Department of Homeland Security are listed on the U.S. […]
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Ron Paul: Obama Caves To Neocons – Military Spending To Skyrocket
February 8, 2016
It looks like the neocons and the Beltway military-industrial complex are going to get their way, as President Obama’s plan to scale back a few weapons systems has hit a brick wall in Congress. Meanwhile, citing the “Russian threat,” the Pentagon announced that it would be quadrupling its military spending in Europe next year and […]
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