Politics

Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams joins Tom Mullins' podcast to discuss the latest brinksmanship on Ukraine. What's behind the threats and the troop movements? Is Putin about to invade? What is the larger context, especially considering that Washington's military-industrial-complex is still running the show:
http://player.captivate.fm/episode/678f0b46-545a-485d-84e1-eda147b497da

It is so rare to see an actual journalist rather than a regime stenographer in the US mainstream media that there really needs to be a federal "endangered species" protection designation. In this case it would be AP's Matt Lee, their diplomatic affairs correspondent, who's been around the block many times and whose reputation is that he takes no crap from flacks regardless of party. Imagine that!So in today's State Department brief, spokesman Ned Price was given the unenviable task of dressing up the Administration's latest offering of bovine excrement and selling it as a gourmet dip.

The United States and Russia are on a collision course.  Unfortunately, the guys running the show in both countries are not exactly sane, and they deeply, deeply distrust one another.  So what happens when a bunch of lunatics decide to play a game of chicken with the fate of the entire world at stake?  Unfortunately, it appears that we are about to find out.