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The Iran Deal Deconstructed - RPI's Daniel McAdams With Jay Taylor

Friday April 3, 2015

With so much spin being spun around the Framework Deal between Iran and the P5+1, RPI's Daniel McAdams goes point-by-point on what Iran agreed to give up in exchange for an end to the decades-long US, EU, and UN sanctions. The neocons in the US and their kindred spirits in Israel claim that Iran gave up nothing and will continue to build a nuclear weapon. Of course their own countries' intelligence services disagree, but that has never stopped neocon hyperbole. This deal, in the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "does not block Iran's path to the bomb. Such a deal paves Iran's path to the bomb." Of course Netanyahu's Iran hysteria goes back to at least 1992, when he claimed that Iran was just a couple of years away from a nuclear weapon.
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As Civilian Deaths Mount in Yemen, US Pledges Saudi Attackers More Support

Monday March 30, 2015

Saudi fighter planes continue to attack neighboring Yemen in hopes of re-installing ousted Yemeni president Mansur Hadi and putting down the rebellion that forced him to depart. As usual, civilians bear the brunt of such a foreign attack. Today, the Saudi-led coalition bombed a refugee camp, killing more than 40 and wounding as many as 200. 

Hadi's ouster earlier this year came on the heels of mounting public anger over his cooperation with the US government's five years of drone attacks on Yemen, which killed scores of civilians. Hadi, who was "elected" by an impressive 99.80% of the vote (on a single-candidate ballot) had previously overthrown long-time Yemeni ruler, Abdullah Saleh, in the "Arab Spring" uprisings of 2011.
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When it's OK to Bomb Your Own People

Saturday March 28, 2015

One of the chief US/UK justifications for their regime change policy in Syria is the claim that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is "bombing his own people." While in fact the intentional targeting of his civilian population is more propaganda than fact, there is a country not far from Syria where the president actively calls for the bombing of his own people. As RPI advisor Mark Almond points out, ousted Yemeni president Hadi escaped to Saudi Arabia from where he urges the continued bombing of his own country and his own people. To the enthusiastic approval of the US and UK governments.
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Norman Singleton Discusses the Terrible Way the PATRIOT Act Became Law

Thursday March 26, 2015

Norman Singleton, who worked for years as the legislative director for former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), provided a very revealing account on Tuesday of the terrible way the PATRIOT Act was moved quickly to passage by a huge majority of votes in the US House of Representatives and Senate in October of 2001. Singleton, who is currently the vice president of policy at the Campaign for Liberty, made the comments as a panelist in a Washington, DC congressional briefing regarding the Surveillance State Repeal Act (HR 1466) introduced this week by Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Thomas Massie (R-KY).
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The Interventionist Holocaust

Thursday March 26, 2015

This month, the Physicians for Social Responsibility released a report on the number of Afghanis, Iraqis, and Pakistanis killed in the ten year US "war on terror." Titled "Body Count" the report from the Nobel Peace Prize winning organization has found that what was supposed to make the world a safer place has in fact resulted in mass casualties of historic proportions. 

In terms of body count, the report has found that:

...the war has, directly or indirectly, killed around 1 million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan, i.e. a total of around 1.3 million. Not included in this figure are further war zones such as Yemen. The figure is approximately 10 times greater than that of which the public, experts and decision makers are aware of and propagated by the media and major NGOs. And this is only a conservative estimate. The total number of deaths in the three countries named above could also be in excess of 2 million, whereas a figure below 1 million is extremely unlikely.

As many as two million people killed. And three trillion dollars spent. The result of this decade of destruction is a far more dangerous and volatile Middle East and south Asia than before the interventionists started. Not only a failure, but a hugely immoral and ugly failure.
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Melkite Church Patriarch: Please Stop Bombing Us

Tuesday March 24, 2015

Melkite Catholic Church Patriarch Gregoire III Laham of Damascus, Syria, has a message for those who continue to intervene in Syria's tragic four year civil war: please stop. 

The Patriarch rejected the idea that international military intervention would be helpful to Syria's beleaguered Christian community, which has suffered greatly under the insurgency of US and Gulf State-backed Islamists seeking to overthrow the Assad government...
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Why Washington Provides Neither Peace Nor Prosperity

Monday March 23, 2015

When did RPI Director Daniel McAdams first start following the ideas of Ron Paul? How did he come to work for Dr. Paul? When and how did he embrace non-interventionism? How did RPI come about and what are its priorities for 2015? Why is Germany the battered spouse of Europe? Read about it and also his take on why the US is facing off with Russia over Ukraine in a weekend profile of McAdams in the prominent free-market web publication, the Daily Bell. You can find the entire interview here.
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Twelve Years After Start of Iraq War, Neocons Still on Top

Friday March 20, 2015

Obama blames the rise of ISIS and al-Qaeda in Iraq on US military action against Iraq in 2003. So what is his solution? More military action against Iraq! And what if ISIS continues to capture hundreds of millions of dollars of US military equipment to use against the US? Send in more equipment!

RPI's Daniel McAdams is interviewed by Ben Swann on the anniversary of the US attack on Iraq...
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RPI's McAdams on Ukraine's New Special Operations Law

Thursday March 19, 2015

What are the implications of a new law passed by Ukraine's parliament making it legal for Kiev to undertake special operations in the breakaway east? Will this open the door for assassinations and other covert operations against the secession-minded Lugansk and Donetsk regions? What are the implications for the Minsk 2.0 ceasefire if this new law is implemented? Will Kiev's western sponsors speak up? RPI's Daniel McAdams is interviewed on this development today on RT...
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'Shock and Awe' Twelve Years On: Flashback to My Iraq War Opposition

Thursday March 19, 2015

Twelve years ago today, the US government unleashed "shock and awe" on Iraq. We were assured the invasion would be a cakewalk, wouldn't cost much if anything at all, and that democracy would break out all over the Middle East after Iraq's "liberation." We all know how that worked out.
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