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Trump Declares MoU With Iran is Dead

Trump Declares MoU With Iran is Dead

by | Jul 9, 2026 |

The drama over the Strait of Hormuz escalated on Wednesday with Donald Trump declaring the MoU with Iran is dead and vowed more attacks on Iran. Trump continues to insist that Iran has no right to interfere with any ship trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz, but the fact is that Iran is acting within its rights under the terms spelled out in paragraph five of the MoU (which I discussed in my previous post). The US attack on Iranian outposts along the shore of the Persian Gulf on Tuesday...

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The American Revolution and the Danger of Standing Armies

The American Revolution and the Danger of Standing Armies

by | Jul 8, 2026 |

Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat of standing armies. This was a heritage of British legal thought and history, and it became an underappreciated part of American political thought and experience. Why were peacetime standing armies viewed as such a threat? To many Americans of this period, peacetime standing armies posed a threat not only because they could be used...

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MoU Stacked in Holding Pattern as US Pivots to Plan ‘B’

MoU Stacked in Holding Pattern as US Pivots to Plan ‘B’

by | Jul 7, 2026 |

Plan “A” was to topple the Islamic Republic which was seen as nothing more than a fragile house of cards. That collapse – it was expected – would ripple through, and take down several connected Axis of Resistance fronts, according to the analysis of Mossad and interlinked Israeli power centres in the US (Certain US officials did, however, entertain doubts). The prediction of a popular uprising in Iran has proved to have been a strategic mistake of such bearing that per contra, it catalysed a...

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Let’s Leave the Strait of Hormuz Alone

Let’s Leave the Strait of Hormuz Alone

by | Jul 6, 2026 |

President Trump was reportedly “shocked” to see many thousands of Iranians in the street mourning at the funeral of the country’s late leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, over the weekend. Khamenei was assassinated by the United States at the beginning of the February US surprise attack on Iran. The US attack on Iran was sold to Trump by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and US neocons as an easy “cake walk” that would lead the Iranian government to fall and be replaced with a US-friendly regime....

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Israel’s Days Are Numbered

Israel’s Days Are Numbered

by | Jul 6, 2026 |

Maybe you’ve heard of Dr. John Mearsheimer? He appears regularly on a variety of news shows and independent podcasts because of his deep understanding of foreign relations. Dr. Mearsheimer is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and co-authored the well-regarded book “The Israel Lobby” published in 2006. Recently Dr. Mearsheimer has opined that something is seriously wrong in the state of Israel. In particular he was referencing the nations obsession with military...

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House Vote on NDAA Blocked after Republican Members Rebel

House Vote on NDAA Blocked after Republican Members Rebel

by | Jul 3, 2026 |

Typically, all the members of the majority party in the House of Representatives vote for the rule to bring legislation to the House floor for debate, even if some of those members plan to vote against the legislation after the floor debate. Meanwhile, minority party House members typically all vote against the rule. But, on occasion, some majority party members think there is something wrong enough with legislation or the process by which leadership is seeking to bring the legislation to the...

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Trump’s Plan to Send Troops to Disarm Hezbollah

Trump’s Plan to Send Troops to Disarm Hezbollah

by | Jul 3, 2026 |

On June 29, General Joseph Aoun, the president of Lebanon, met with Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of the US Central Command at the Baabda Palace overlooking Beirut. “During the meeting, discussions were held regarding the preparations related to the start of implementation of the framework agreement that was approved as a result of the Lebanese-American-Israeli negotiations in Washington,” the office of the Lebanese Presidency posted to social media. Lebanon signs 'framework deal'...

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Apply TODAY: 2026 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

Attention Upper Division Undergrads and Grad Students! This year we will celebrate our Seventh class of Ron Paul Scholars and that means if you are a student interested in peace and prosperity, a non-interventionist foreign policy, liberty, and in making contacts among like-minded peers, we welcome your application to be a 2026 Ron Paul Scholar! What is it? The Ron Paul Scholars Seminar is a one-day, interactive foreign policy and civil liberties “boot camp,” with lectures from some of the...

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July 4, 2026

July 4, 2026

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

Which is better -- to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away? -- Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known colonial-era preacher with the famous uncle -- Cotton Mather -- addresses the age-old question of whether liberty can long survive in a democracy. Byles was a...

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FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights

FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

When former FBI director Robert Mueller died in March, the New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.” Media tributes poured in as if Mueller was the law-enforcement version of Mother Theresa. Mueller’s abuse of power goes way back But tell that to the Liberty City Seven, victims in a landmark case in the war on terror that should have defined Mueller’s legacy far more than his photo ops at congressional hearings. The FBI...

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Gen Z Is Tired of War

Gen Z Is Tired of War

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

On September 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order which revived the original name for the Department of Defense, “The Department of War.” While technically the name remains the Department of Defense for legal purposes (as only an act of Congress can officially change the name), the Trump administration has done everything else in its power to rebrand the institution in this regard, claiming the original name is “woke” and that the change ensures the...

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The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges

The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges

by | Jul 1, 2026 |

What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit. Freedom has become conditional. Constitutional rights have become political bargaining chips. Government now claims the authority to decide which religious beliefs...

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Americans Want Peace, Israel Wants War

Americans Want Peace, Israel Wants War

by | Jul 1, 2026 |

America wants peace. Israel wants war. The great majority of Americans want an end to the war against Iran. The great majority in Congress just want more contributions from the Israel Lobby and its supporters. Now, most members of Congress are really squirming. They know that most of their constituents are fed up with foreign wars and want this stupid war in Iran over, the sooner the better. But they are afraid to criticize Israel’s war for fear of the Israel Lobby steering big campaign...

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Russia Hearing the European Clamor for War, Announces it is Ready

Russia Hearing the European Clamor for War, Announces it is Ready

by | Jun 30, 2026 |

The de-escalation framework that unfolded in the US-Iran Lucerne talks largely stayed true to the original Iranian 10-point plan. Meanwhile, President Trump and Vice-President Vance deliberately muddy the waters, claiming that Iran has already agreed to IAEA inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities (a claim repeatedly denied by Iran): Vance announced that the IAEA could have begun inspections this week. No – – the “Framework” only refers to the possible IAEA supervision of the dilution to the...

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Virginia’s New Gun Laws are Already Costing Jobs 

Virginia’s New Gun Laws are Already Costing Jobs 

by | Jun 30, 2026 |

Newly elected Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va, and her Democratic-controlled state legislature set their sights firmly on the Second Amendment after taking office earlier this year. The Governor signed a litany of bills into law including a ban on the sale and manufacturing of so-called “assault weapons,” including the wildly popular AR-15, and a ban on magazines with a capacity of fifteen or more rounds which criminalized most modern sporting rifle (MSR) magazines and some pistol...

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FARA Docs: Israel is Spying On Millions Of Christian Americans In Their Churches

FARA Docs: Israel is Spying On Millions Of Christian Americans In Their Churches

by | Jun 30, 2026 |

If you are a Christian living in the Western United States, you have almost certainly been targeted with pro-Israel, anti-Palestine propaganda, paid for directly by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Your searches, location, and internet activity is being monitored by Israel, and your algorithms and search results across multiple platforms are being manipulated by Israeli government in what its American partner calls the “largest geofencing and targeted Christian digital campaign ever.”...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

What Agreement?

by | Jul 1, 2026

Not surprisingly the Memorandum of Understanding ending the US-Israel war on Iran means different things to different people. Since its signing, the Trump administration has...

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Waiting for Kei Truck Freedom

Waiting for Kei Truck Freedom

by | Jun 30, 2026

In April of 2024, I wrote about the Texas government opening up roads in the state to mini vehicles often referred to as kei trucks or kei cars. Then, in December of last year,...

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The Especially Unpopular Iran War

The Especially Unpopular Iran War

by | Jun 29, 2026

According to analysis by Stephen Semler in a Friday Responsible Statecraft article, Americans’ opposition to the Iran War exceeds Americans’ previous polling-indicated opposition...

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Secretary of War Crimes

Secretary of War Crimes

by | Jun 11, 2026

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth likes to be referred to by the title secretary of war. Given his answer to a question at a Wednesday press conference at MacDill...

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