Saudi Arabia's recent North Korea-like cry for US attention -- announcing it was downgrading ties with its most important ally -- was all just drama for the camera. US Secretary of State John Kerry answered the plea of a weepy ally and again rushed to the Middle East to hold hands with his Saudi counterpart, Saud al Faisal. The ties have been mended, it seems, all is forgiven.
The Saudis were miffed that the hundreds of millions of dollars they spent to overthrow Syrian president Assad have not done the trick, and that in light of their failure the US had not taken up their fight in a more assertive manner. A last minute US pull-back from war, brokered by the Russians, left the Saudis without any muscle to back up their money. read on...
Just as the mainstream press is reporting -- in astonishment -- that the Syrian government has actually abided by its unilaterally agreed upon pledge to submit its strategic chemical weapon deterrent to destruction by the international community, the international media is reporting that the Israeli military has once again launched a military attack against Syrian territory.
This marks at least the fifth time in 2013 that the Israeli military has, in clear violation of international law, launched military attacks against neighboring Syria. In violation of Lebanese airspace as well, it was reported that Israeli bombers flew over Lebanon to strike a Syrian military base near Latakia. read on...
In a heated Q & A after his testimony this month before the US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, RPI Academic Board Member Michael Scheuer educated committee members regarding how US government foreign interventions motivate people to fight the US. read on...
It appears to me that James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and Michael Hayden, former Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and NSA director, have decided that the Obama White House has been trying to "stake them out" as sacrificial goats in the kerfluffle over NSA intercepts in Europe.
The Obama Administration has been trying to claim that such intercepts are a new development brought on by technological advances in the last decade. They are also trying to imply that NSA and the Intelligence Community (IC) generally have been "off the reservation" and conducting intercept operations that Barack Obama (the commander in chief of the IC) did not know of. read on...
RPI Director Daniel McAdams appeared on RT Television's CrossTalk program today to discuss the ongoing NSA spy scandal, what it might mean to US diplomacy, and the dangers of "reform." Watch at the link. read on...
Daniel McAdams and Jay Taylor discuss US/Saudi relations, NSA scandal, the Ron Paul Channel, and more. This week on "Turning Hard Times into Good Times." Listen at the link. read on...
Ron Paul, chairman and founder of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, discussed RPI and its work to "promote the idea of nonintervention in foreign policy" Tuesday on the Tom Woods Show. read on...
Poor James Clapper. The Director of National Intelligence -- a superfluous position born of the Intelligence Community's failures on 9/11 -- was again dragged before Capitol Hill, this time to explain the highly embarrassing revelations that the NSA had been monitoring the personal communications of allied state leaders. Last time he was forced to lie that the NSA was not monitoring our phone calls. This time he may have been telling an inconvenient truth. read on...
So Sen. Feinstein as Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, did not know what the NSA did and does? Is this some sort of sick joke? Agencies like the NSA, CIA, DIA, etc. are quick to brief key members of Congress and the president about their accomplishments. Boasting is the order of the day in the contest for appropriations. So, just accept the fact that our “seeker after justice,” President Obama, knew all about it, all of it. read on...
