President Trump is suggesting the U.S. should change the name of the Department of Defense back to the “Department of War,” as his commerce secretary teases plans for the U.S. government to acquire equity stakes in top defense contractors. Trump may be claiming he’s...
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by Adam Dick | Aug 25, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As the United States and Russia governments have over the last decade-plus drifted into relations that bring to mind the cold war and that have brought forward the prospect of descent into nuclear war, there has been much effort from within America and other NATO...
The People Score Two Victories Against Automated License Plate Readers
by Adam Dick | Aug 25, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Eleven years back, John W. Whitehead warned in his weekly column about the danger from government’s proliferating use of automated license plate readers across America. Whitehead included these devices among the tools being employed in the construction of what he...
Health Secretary Kennedy Challenges Pediatricians Organization and Its Pharma Backers
by Adam Dick | Aug 24, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long been an adamant pusher for children in America to be given an increasingly long list of shots at an early age as laid out in the childhood vaccine schedule of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
The Ron Paul Institute Conference is Next Weekend! Conference Tickets and Hotel Rooms Are Still Available.
by Adam Dick | Aug 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
You still have time to obtain tickets for the Ron Paul Institute’s annual conference near Dulles Airport in Virginia, and to book your guest room at the conference hotel at a special reduced rate. The Saturday August 16 conference titled “Blueprint for Peace” provides...

Starving Gazans
by Adam Dick | Jul 23, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Gazans are starving. They are starving because of the actions of the Israel government, undertaken with the critical support of the United States government. A Wednesday statement signed on to by over 100 aid organizations describes how the Israel government has...
The Divine Right of Donald Trump
by Adam Dick | Jul 16, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many people, including President Donald Trump, have been suggesting over the last year that, because Trump survived being shot at during the 2024 presidential campaign, he and the things he does are endorsed by God. Indeed, this week, Trump, speaking with a reporter...
US Justice Department Drops Charges against Dr. Moore
by Adam Dick | Jul 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Earlier today I wrote about the United States Department of Justice under the Donald Trump administration continuing the prosecution of Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, Jr. because of actions he was accused of taking to protect patients from the dangers of coronavirus...
Trump Administration Continues Effort to Throw in Prison a Doctor Who Thwarted the Coronavirus Crackdown
by Adam Dick | Jul 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In January of 2023, the United States government’s coronavirus crackdown set its sights on the medical practice of Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, Jr., with the US Department of Justice charging him and three other individuals with crimes stemming from the allegation that the...
FDA Gives Full Approval to Moderna’s mRNA Coronavirus Shot for ‘At-risk’ Children
by Adam Dick | Jul 10, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This is not the kind of news many supporters of the placement of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in charge of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wanted to see come out of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now under his purview. Reuters...
Thomas Jefferson and the Ron Paul Scholars
by Adam Dick | Jul 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Each Fourth of July is a good time to consider the eloquent and insightful commentary filling the Declaration of Independence that was adopted by the Continental Congress in 1776. The Declaration of Independence was initially drafted by Thomas Jefferson. At the time,...
California Does Not Stop Its Marijuana Tax Increase After All
by Adam Dick | Jul 3, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On the first day of July already relatively high marijuana taxes in California went up more with the kicking in of a tax increase from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. It had looked like this tax increase would likely be avoided. But, here it...
Ron Paul Rewind: 2008 Interview with Bill Moyers
by Adam Dick | Jun 28, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Bill Moyers is properly being described as “legendary” in reporting on his death this week. The long-time journalist excelled at discussing ideas in a thoughtful manner. And, as an interviewer Moyers regularly welcomed elaboration from people, even when he disagreed...
A Worrisome Pledge to Substantially Increase US ‘Defense’ Spending
by Adam Dick | Jun 26, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Big news out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meeting this week is member governments agreeing to a declaration stating they each “commit to invest 5 percent of GDP annually on core defence requirements as well as defence-and security-related spending...
Trump’s Iran War and Bush’s Iraq War
by Adam Dick | Jun 18, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many people have been comparing President Donald Trump’s ongoing push for war on Iran to a similar course taken by President George W. Bush in regard to Iraq a little over twenty years ago. And there are definitely similarities including allegations against the...
Bilderbergers Meet as Threat of World War III Looms
by Adam Dick | Jun 17, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It’s Bilderberg time again. Government and corporate pooh bahs met privately June 12 through 15 at a posh Stockholm, Sweden hotel for the by invitation only 71st Bilderberg meeting. As tends to be the case, war was a major focus among the Bilderberg hobnobbers. For...
Supreme Court Offers Some Hope for Restraining Cops
by Adam Dick | Jun 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Last month, I wrote about an example about how lawless police have become in America, noting that in recent oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the case of Martin v. United States “a lawyer for the US government argued, in the case concerning a wrong house...
Do We Still Have a Constitution?
by RPI Staff | Jun 11, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins RPI Board Member Judge Andrew Napolitano's "Judging Freedom" program to discuss how Congress skirts its Constitutional obligations while exceeding its Constitutional authority. They also discuss the riots in Los Angeles and the use of...
Libertarian National Committee Rebukes Former Libertarian Party Chairman
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Four months after her resignation as chairman of the United States Libertarian Party, Angela McArdle has been singled out for ostracism by the Libertarian National Committee (LNC) that oversees the party. “Whereas the Special Investigatory Committee finds that former...
Merz’s Reich
by RT | Jun 6, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What has happened to Europe? Why is its rhetoric so bombastic and militaristic? Why are Europe’s leaders so afraid of democracy? Why is the continuation of the Ukraine war so important for them? And what does any of this have to do with so-called ‘European values’?...
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