Gun rights enthusiast and graduate student Maria Butina has spent the last 10 months in solitary confinement in a notorious Alexandria, VA, maximum security prison. Her "crime"? Befriending NRA leaders and other political movers and shakers with an eye on using their gun rights skills when she returns to her home country. One problem: her home country is Russia and with the Russia hysteria still engulfing the US she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now she has to do another nine months in prison for the "crime" of not registering as a foreign agent - when others convicted of the same "crime" are most often given a very modest fine. RPI's Daniel McAdams is on RT International to condemn this shameful miscarriage of justice - ironically eerily redolent of "justice" in the old Soviet Union... read on...
As RPI Senior Fellow Adam Dick informs us in the below video, we have a very good news story to tell: we who oppose the idiotic four-plus decade "war on drugs" are actually winning one! Especially when it comes to marijuana prohibition, the news is mostly good from a liberty standpoint. Join the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity for a very special conference on winning the war on the war on drugs. The half-day event will feature Ron Paul, RPI senior fellow Adam Dick, Daniel McAdams, as well as special guest speakers Reason's Jacob Sullum and NORML's Paul Armentano. Get tickets here. read on...
What's really going on in Venezuela? Is war propaganda even more dangerous than war itself? RPI's Daniel McAdams joins the Corbett Report to discuss the US-launched coup against the government of Venezuela and how non-interventionists and antiwar activists should react... read on...
Will the neocons chalk up another victory after a suicide attack in Syria has left four Americans dead? Sen. Lindsey Graham blames Trump for the deaths for daring to talk about withdrawing troops. RPI's Daniel McAdams says if anyone is guilty it's Graham over Trump, as Trump would have had the troops home last year. Watch McAdams on RT... read on...
As western society moves from things you should not say to things you must say or face severe consequences, are we at war with freedom of speech and thought itself? What happens when the concept of "group rights" supplants the rights of the individual? Are we slipping down the slope of tyranny? RPI's Daniel McAdams joins a panel discussion on the destruction of language on RT's Crosstalk... read on...
Was French president Emmanuel Macron correct at the WWI commemoration over the weekend when he asserted that patriotism is the opposite of nationalism in a pointed dig at US president Donald Trump? RPI Board Members Lew Rockwell and John Laughland join scholar George Szamuely on RT's Crosstalk to debate whether nationalism is the bogeyman that Macron and others make it out to be? Or is it just a way to further destroy national sovereignty and bring about an unelected permanent globalist empire? read on...
Should we even bother to vote with the duopoly serving up the same stale dish each two years? How should the immigration "crisis" be handled? Troops on the border? End birthright citizenship? Is income tax such a bad thing? Ron Paul takes viewer questions in today's Liberty Report... read on...
What's the real story of the US in the Middle East? Is the current US/Israel relationship healthy for both parties? Are the "White Helmets" the selfless heroes they are made out to be in the Western media..or are they just an arm of al-Qaeda? Can President Trump find a way to jettison his neocons and forge a foreign policy more like he promised as a candidate? Ron Paul Institute executive director Daniel McAdams joins Steven and Jana Ben-Nun of Israeli News Live for a detailed look at the current state of US foreign policy. Don't miss the shock opening question! read on...
Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced Friday a new indictment in his seemingly endless "Russiagate" investigation. This time a 44 year old accountant from St. Petersburg, Russia, was indicted for attempting to meddle in US elections by trying to "create and amplify divisive social media and political content" on social media. The Russian woman is said to work for Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who it is claimed owns the Internet Research Agency, Ltd. RPI's Daniel McAdams points out in the interview below that the timing is highly suspicious, coming just days before Trump's National Security Advisor is scheduled to travel to Moscow in attempt to begin patching up relations... read on...
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins RT America's InQuestion program to discuss the recent purge of more than 800 Facebook pages over accused "inauthentic behavior." What do many of these pages have in common, he asks? Well many are critical of the global US military empire, of the growing police state in the US, and of the failed US drug war. Is there a pattern? Facebook is working with the US government-funded Atlantic Council to decide which pages should be deleted. Might that explain some of it? Watch the panel discussion on the topic... read on...
