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‘Break-a-Leg’ (that old Mafia warning) – Trump has threatened Iran over an ultimatum that likely cannot be met

‘Break-a-Leg’ (that old Mafia warning) – Trump has threatened Iran over an ultimatum that likely cannot be met

by | Apr 9, 2025 |

Trump’s ultimatum to Iran? Colonel Doug Macgregor compares the Trump ultimatum to Iran to that which Austria-Hungary delivered to Serbia in 1914: An offer, in short, that “could not be refused.” Serbia accepted nine out of the ten demands. But it refused one – and Austria-Hungary immediately declared war. On 4 February, shortly after his Inauguration, President Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM); that is to say, a legally binding directive requiring government...

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Why America Don’t Need No Stinkin’ ‘Allies’

Why America Don’t Need No Stinkin’ ‘Allies’

by | Apr 9, 2025 |

OK, the title is a bit crude and is deliberately mocking in tone. But it has to be because there is a deeply-entrenched, almost sacred presumption embedded in the nation’s foreign policy catechism that “allies”, “alliances” and “coalitions of the willing” are the be-all-and-end-all of enlightened, necessary and effective foreign policy. American policy-makers and diplomats perforce should therefore never leave these shores for the wider world without them. This dogma perhaps reached its...

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Trump and Netanyahu Reaffirm Their Vision for the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

Trump and Netanyahu Reaffirm Their Vision for the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

by | Apr 8, 2025 |

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Monday and reaffirmed their desire for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, both claiming that there are other countries willing to take in the Palestinian population. Trump also said it would be a “good thing” for the US to take over and control Gaza. “Well, you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip. I think it’s an incredible piece of important real estate,” he told reporters at the Oval Office. “I...

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Trump’s Third Term

Trump’s Third Term

by | Apr 8, 2025 |

The pundits are having a difficult time understanding how President Trump would fulfill his expressed desire to serve a third term as president. Some of them have fallen back on the possibility that he is joking and just trolling his critics. Others have come up with unlikely scenarios for achieving a third term. For example, one commentator asked Trump whether he planned to have J.D. Vance run as president, with Trump as his vice-presidential running mate. Under this scenario, Vance would...

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Attack Yemen? Yeah, I Warned you, Mr. Trump

Attack Yemen? Yeah, I Warned you, Mr. Trump

by | Apr 7, 2025 |

What surprises me is that many in Washington, DC and media are surprised by the failure of the latest phase of Operation Prosperity Guardian to quell the Houthis. As Homer Simpson is prone to say, “Doh!” Here’s the latest from CNN: US air strikes in Yemen will not be enough to defeat the Houthi movement. The only way to break the resistance may be a ground operation, CNN reports, citing sources and analysts. The channel claims that the American bombings have not caused serious damage...

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Liberation or Obliteration?

Liberation or Obliteration?

by | Apr 7, 2025 |

President Trump was elected in part because he promised to reduce prices and not drag the country into foreign wars. Sadly, President Trump has adopted a tariff policy that will raise prices and abandoned his “America First” foreign policy in favor of a return to Bush-era neoconservatism. Despite criticizing President Biden for bombing Yemen, President Trump has authorized bombing that country under the false pretense that Yemen’s Houthis are threatening international shipping. President Trump...

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Russia and the US made “three steps forward” after two days of consultations in Washington

Russia and the US made “three steps forward” after two days of consultations in Washington

by | Apr 7, 2025 |

The visit by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian president for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev to Washington on April 2-3, the first such visit by a senior Kremlin official since 2022, appears to have been a modest achievement whose productive outcome will be crucial in the rest of US-Russia relations.  If President Vladimir Putin’s choice fell on Dmitriev for such a hugely important pathbreaking mission,...

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Oh, That Influence Peddling: Times Finds Evidence Suggesting Hunter Acted as Foreign Agent

Oh, That Influence Peddling: Times Finds Evidence Suggesting Hunter Acted as Foreign Agent

by | Apr 7, 2025 |

For years, some of us have written about the Biden family’s multimillion-dollar influence-peddling operation and the Justice Department’s refusal to charge Hunter Biden with being an unregistered foreign agent. Now, years later, the New York Times has found evidence suggesting that Hunter Biden was acting as a foreign agent as early as the Obama Administration, when his Dad was Vice President. Last August, the New York Times ran a story about Hunter seeking help from the...

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Trump Shares Collateral Murder-Style Snuff Film On 15th Anniversary Of Collateral Murder

Trump Shares Collateral Murder-Style Snuff Film On 15th Anniversary Of Collateral Murder

by | Apr 6, 2025 |

President Trump has posted a video on social media showing a US airstrike in Yemen killing dozens of people who he claims are “Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack.” Trump also bizarrely suggested that Ansar Allah has been sinking US ships in its Red Sea attacks, writing “They will never sink our ships again!” There is no public information about any US ships having been sunk by Houthi attacks. As of this writing there is also no evidence supporting the president’s claim...

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Our Peanut Allergy Epidemic Sprang From Experts’ Exactly-Wrong Guidance

Our Peanut Allergy Epidemic Sprang From Experts’ Exactly-Wrong Guidance

by | Apr 6, 2025 |

In the 1980s, peanut allergies were almost entirely unheard-of. Today, the United States has one of the highest peanut-allergy rates in the world. Disturbingly, this epidemic was precipitated by institutions that exist to promote public health. The story of their malpractice illuminates the fallibility of respected institutions, and confirms that public health’s catastrophically incorrect guidance during the Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t an isolated anomaly. The roots of this particular...

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A Powerful Government and a Weak Nation

A Powerful Government and a Weak Nation

by | Apr 5, 2025 |

For many Americans, it is an article of faith that a vast and powerful federal government equals a great and strong nation. Actually, it’s the exact opposite. The more powerful the federal government, the weaker the nation. Contrariwise, the smaller and weaker the federal government, the more powerful the nation. Part of the problem here is that many Americans have been taught to believe that the federal government and the nation are one and the same thing. They aren’t. They are two completely...

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America’s New Lost Cause

America’s New Lost Cause

by | Apr 4, 2025 |

They say that “History is written by the victors.” Fortunately, we know that that is not always true. History is written by those who can assert the most appealing narrative. Those who offer the most charismatic and beguiling story — even those defeated in battle — can emerge, if not as victors, then as winners: Revered as those who triumphed in battle after battle, only to be brought down at last by overwhelming odds. After the American Civil War, a broken Confederacy embraced the narrative...

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General Cavoli’s Schizophrenia on Ukraine

General Cavoli’s Schizophrenia on Ukraine

by | Apr 4, 2025 |

The Commander of US forces in Europe (aka USEUCOM), General Chris Cavoli, was on Capitol Hill today testifying before the Senate Armed Services committee. His opening statement is a remarkable mix of candor, fantasy and pure unadulterated male bovine excrement (MBE). It highlights my past contention that senior US defense officials will shade the truth (a euphemism for “lie“) in order to keep an existing policy intact, even if that policy is failing. We saw that in the...

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War With Iran Is a Path to Destruction

War With Iran Is a Path to Destruction

by | Apr 3, 2025 |

Donald Trump rode into office—twice now—on a wave of promises to upend the Washington consensus, to drain the swamp of its self-serving mandarins and to keep America out of endless wars. His base cheered when he skewered the neoconservative architects of Iraq and Afghanistan, wars that bled our Treasury, and most importantly, many of our sons for little more than bragging rights in Beltway and Tel Aviv salons. Yet here we are, in the early days of his second term, with whispers growing louder...

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Taking the Constitution Seriously

Taking the Constitution Seriously

by | Apr 3, 2025 |

The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to establish a new central government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are direct, some are subtle, and some are hidden. The chief instrument of limitation is the separation of powers, the brainchild of James Madison. The late Justice Antonin Scalia called the separation of powers the most unique and freedom-enhancing aspect of the document. Madison himself would later argue that he intentionally crafted the separation so as to enhance...

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Transactional Weakness Tips the Balance of Power – ‘Hold to no Illusions; There is Nothing Beyond This Reality’

Transactional Weakness Tips the Balance of Power – ‘Hold to no Illusions; There is Nothing Beyond This Reality’

by | Apr 2, 2025 |

The post-WWII geo-political outcome effectively determined the post-war global economic structure. Both are now undergoing huge change. What remains stuck fast however, is the general (Western) weltanschauung that everything must “change” only for it to stay the same. Things financial will continue as before; do not disturb the slumber. The assumption is that the oligarch/donor class will see to it that things remain the same. However, the power distribution of the post-war era was unique....

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A DOGE Switcheroo

A DOGE Switcheroo

by | Apr 4, 2025

Many actions associated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been met with support from advocates of reducing the size and power of the United States...

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