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New York Times Wants The US Military Built Up For War With China

New York Times Wants The US Military Built Up For War With China

by | Dec 11, 2025 |

Just as the United States hits its first official trillion-dollar annual military budget, the New York Times editorial board has published an article which argues that the US is going to need to increase military funding to prepare for a major war with China. The article is titled “Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself,” and to be clear it is an editorial, not an op-ed, meaning it represents the position of the newspaper itself rather than solely that of the authors. This...

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‘Kill Them All’

‘Kill Them All’

by | Dec 11, 2025 |

Does anyone know where the love of God goesWhen the waves turn the minutes to hours? -- Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023)“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” As we learn more about the events on Sept. 2, 2025, in international waters 1,500 miles from the United States, the behavior of the United States military becomes more legally troubling than at first blush. We have learned from members of Congress and others who have seen the videos of the attacks on the speedboat that day that the first...

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Israel Pays Evangelicals with Trump Ties to Create Pro-Israel Content

Israel Pays Evangelicals with Trump Ties to Create Pro-Israel Content

by | Dec 10, 2025 |

A new foreign influence deal aims to shape American public opinion to be more pro-Israel by paying influencers hefty sums to post on social media. The American Conservative reveals that some of the first payments from the so-called Esther Project have been to evangelical Christian consultants, one with links to former Donald Trump aide Brad Parscale, who runs a right-wing media company that’s partially owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Lara Trump. Other consultants paid by the firm come from a...

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Government Unchained: The Year the Constitution Lost Its Guardrails

Government Unchained: The Year the Constitution Lost Its Guardrails

by | Dec 10, 2025 |

We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice. Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at or hollow them out in practice? Two hundred and thirty-four years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, the safeguards meant to shield “We the people” from government abuse are barely recognizable. In ways the Founders could scarcely have imagined—and would never have...

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Do You Believe in Coincidence… Was the CIA Involved in Operation Spiderweb and Israel’s June 12 Attack on Iran?

Do You Believe in Coincidence… Was the CIA Involved in Operation Spiderweb and Israel’s June 12 Attack on Iran?

by | Dec 10, 2025 |

With the benefit of hindsight, we’re all geniuses. The Wall Street Journal article, Inside Ukraine’s Daring Operation Spiderweb Attack on Russia (published December 8, 2025) details the operation’s planning as a 18-month effort starting in late 2023, with significant activities ramping up in 2024. While the piece emphasizes the full timeline’s secrecy and oversight by President Zelenskyy and SBU chief Vasyl Maliuk, it highlights 2024 as a pivotal year for infiltration,...

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Bait and Switch Stage Two – Shooting the Breeze in Moscow

Bait and Switch Stage Two – Shooting the Breeze in Moscow

by | Dec 9, 2025 |

President Trump’s friend, Steve Witkoff, together with Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met on 2 December with President Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow. Taking part in the meeting on the Russian side were Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev. This marked Witkoff’s sixth meeting with Putin in 2025 and Kushner’s first in-person involvement in these talks. Reportedly, the core agenda was an “update” of the US “talking points” – one that is said to have incorporated further...

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The Siren Song of War

The Siren Song of War

by | Dec 9, 2025 |

In October of 2002, I shocked many in my Congressional District and beyond by voting against giving President George W. Bush authorization to use military force in Iraq. The night before that vote, my older sister told me a Knoxville television station had conducted a poll which found that in its viewing area 74 percent were for the war, 9 percent were against, and 17 percent were undecided. When I pushed the button at about 3:00 the next day to cast that vote, I wondered if I might be ending...

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Pro-Israel Forces Intensify Effort To Control American Discourse

Pro-Israel Forces Intensify Effort To Control American Discourse

by | Dec 9, 2025 |

Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under unprecedented threat, Israel’s advocates inside the United States are growing increasingly desperate to suppress the facts, opinions, questions and imagery that are causing this sea change. Pro-Israel forces have long worked to limit and...

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The Hegseth Killings Must Stop

The Hegseth Killings Must Stop

by | Dec 8, 2025 |

Last week the Pentagon, under “War Secretary” Pete Hegseth, carried out yet another military attack on a boat in the high seas that the Administration claims is smuggling drugs. That makes 23 boats blown up by the US military in the waters off Latin America – most near Venezuela - and nearly 100 persons killed. To date the US government has provided no evidence to back up its claim that these boats are smuggling fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into the United States. The US Drug Enforcement...

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‘Fourth Reich’: Musk Strikes Back At EU ‘Tyrants’ After X Fine

‘Fourth Reich’: Musk Strikes Back At EU ‘Tyrants’ After X Fine

by | Dec 7, 2025 |

As Catherine Salgado reports for PJMedia.com, Musk also re-shared a post about Irish teacher Enoch Burke, who was jailed for refusing to use transgender pronouns, and later replied to another user, “So many politicians in Europe who are traitors to their own people.” And Musk highlighted the fact that Meta has a verification program similar to X’s, yet the EU hasn’t onerously fined the more censorship-prone Meta. Musk reposted and reiterated...

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New National Security Strategy: A Stunning Departure, Yet Full of Contradictions

New National Security Strategy: A Stunning Departure, Yet Full of Contradictions

by | Dec 6, 2025 |

This is big. The final U.S. National Security Strategy was just published and the refocus on the Western Hemisphere (i.e. the Americas) is confirmed. The document clearly establishes this as the U.S.'s number one priority, saying that the U.S. will now "assert and enforce a 'Trump Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine." In terms of military presence, they write that this means "a readjustment of our global military presence to address urgent threats in our Hemisphere, and away from theaters whose...

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Donald Trump On A Roll All Week

Donald Trump On A Roll All Week

by | Dec 6, 2025 |

There is always something new and exciting coming out of Washington. Last week’s big story centered on the presumed prerogative of the United States to kill people anywhere in the world without necessarily having to make the legal or moral case that they deserved death. Inevitably, the impulse to do just that derives from the very top of the government system with President Donald J Trump having on a number of occasions verbalized his national security policy, such as it is, by explicitly...

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Viva Venezuela!

Viva Venezuela!

by | Dec 6, 2025 |

A very close friend of mine in southern California used to listen to Fox News pretty much non-stop. The Venezuelan Communists, according to Fox, were planning to invade the USA, he warned me. Hordes of savage Venezuelans were about to ravage the lovely coast of Southern California. Was this before Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, Taliban, and the wicked Iranians sacked California, I asked him? America’s enemies are everywhere, according to the alarmist far right. Today’s rightwing worrywarts are...

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The CIA’s Man in Syria

The CIA’s Man in Syria

by | Dec 5, 2025 |

When Judge Andrew Napolitano asked me on his show how Syria ended up with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as its “president,” I could almost hear the cognitive dissonance on the other side of the screen. How does a man who was once the emir of al-Qaeda in Syria, a co-founder of ISIS by any reasonable historical reading of his trajectory, become Washington’s chosen man in Damascus? For me, the answer is not a mystery. It is the logical end of a dirty war that began not with Syrian protesters in 2011,...

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The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders

The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders

by | Dec 5, 2025 |

Every military servicemember’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is not an oath to a politician. It is not an oath to a party. And it is not an oath to the police state. Yet what happens when those same men and women are being told—by their own government—that obedience to power and loyalty to a political leader come before allegiance to the Constitution they swore to uphold? That question isn’t hypothetical. It is the moral line now...

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POLITICO’s Delusion Cracks: Belgium Isn’t Helping Russia — It’s Trying to Save Europe From Itself

POLITICO’s Delusion Cracks: Belgium Isn’t Helping Russia — It’s Trying to Save Europe From Itself

by | Dec 5, 2025 |

The great farce of late-imperial Europe is that every time Brussels stumbles into another historic blunder of its own making, it immediately searches for a foreign hand to blame. And so the EU’s court chronicler, Politico, delivers its latest fever dream: that Belgium, the most indecisive, over-medicated country in the bloc, has somehow transformed into “Russia’s most valuable asset.” In reality, the only asset Russia needed was the EU’s own arrogance. Belgium merely did the unthinkable, it...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

War and Peace w/ Daniel McAdams

by | Nov 21, 2025

RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins the popular geopolitical podcast The Duran to discuss the latest Russia/Ukraine peace deal, Venezuela, US politics and Congress, and more...

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