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Punishing Freedom

Punishing Freedom

by | May 29, 2025 |

All attempts by the government to evaluate the content of speech and deter or punish what the government and its benefactors hate or fear is un-American, unconstitutional and unlawful; and if not stopped, will reduce the American people to serfdom. During the past three months, the Trump administration has sought to withhold the delivery of governmental benefits in order to punish or reform its perceived political opponents. These opponents -- in the understanding of the White House -- are...

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The Deadly Perils of Predatory Idealism

The Deadly Perils of Predatory Idealism

by | May 29, 2025 |

How would people react if, on the third time their broken-down car was towed to the same repair shop for the same problem, the swaggering mechanic told them: “Sure — the engine doesn’t work today but — follow me on this — next year, you will drive from coast to coast, and get 90 miles to the gallon!” Yet if a politician promises to fix the world, people applaud and follow him regardless of previous crashes. Woodrow Wilson revolutionized the political exploitation of idealism. In his 1917...

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The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny

The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny

by | May 29, 2025 |

The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. As we stand on the brink of a new technological order, the machinery of power is quietly shifting into the hands of algorithms. Under Donald Trump’s watch, that shift is being locked in for at least a generation. Trump’s latest legislative initiative—a 10-year ban on AI regulation buried within the “One Big Beautiful Bill”—strips state and local governments of the ability to impose any guardrails on artificial intelligence (AI)...

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Germany Moves to Thwart Trump’s Ukraine Peace Initiative

Germany Moves to Thwart Trump’s Ukraine Peace Initiative

by | May 29, 2025 |

Efforts to bring peace to Ukraine just received a stifling blow. German Chancellor Fredrich Merz, with less than a month in office, has stepped forward to set back the US sponsored peace initiative.Trump wants to bring Ukraine and Russia together for a peaceful settlement of the war. He is very focused on stopping the killing in Ukraine.But now Merz has emerged with an initiative that seems counter to that. He apparently favors supplying German Taurus missiles to Ukraine.The general notion of...

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The Blair-Bush Project in Syria That Brought Al Qaeda to Power

The Blair-Bush Project in Syria That Brought Al Qaeda to Power

by | May 28, 2025 |

“Sykes-Picot is breaking; putting it back together, even in a different shape, will be a long and bloody affair”. So wrote Tim Marshall back in 2016 in his book Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know about Global Politics — essentially a eulogy for European and British border redrawing, particularly in the Middle East (West Asia) region.  Syria withstood decades of clandestine operations by MI6 and the CIA to reshape history in a sovereign nation...

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Donald Trump’s Lack of Critical Thinking Skills with Respect to Russia and Ukraine

Donald Trump’s Lack of Critical Thinking Skills with Respect to Russia and Ukraine

by | May 27, 2025 |

Donald Trump grabbed headlines on Monday with his Sunday outburst directed primarily at Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Here’s his rant: I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever. I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece...

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A Week Long Drone Fight Which Russia Is Winning

A Week Long Drone Fight Which Russia Is Winning

by | May 27, 2025 |

Over the last seven days the Ukrainian military has launched over one thousand drones against targets in Russia. Most of these were shot down by Russian air defenses. There are no reports of any serious damage. The biggest effect the week long drone attacks achieved was to shut down air traffic in Moscow for several hours. After waiting a few days the Russian military responded in kind. Over the last three days a record number of drones and missiles were launched against...

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We Never Got to Torture Congress

We Never Got to Torture Congress

by | May 27, 2025 |

Folks who believe the current political atmosphere is uniquely hateful have forgotten the boundless vitriol prevailing a few decades ago. During the George W. Bush administration, Republicans relied on push-button rage to suppress all criticism of the war on terror. After I appeared on a 2006 Fox News panel and criticized the Bush administration’s secret illegal financial surveillance regime, I was peppered with hostile emails including this gem: “Every know-nothing lying jackass...

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Take the Deal, President Trump

Take the Deal, President Trump

by | May 26, 2025 |

Deal-making is said to be President Trump’s specialty, yet after five rounds of indirect talks with Iran – most recently just days ago – we seem as far away from an agreement as ever. The fifth round ended last Friday with no breakthrough, but at least no breakdown. However, each day that passes without a document signed on the table is another day for the neocons to maneuver the US president toward an attack on Iran. One way the war party does this is to continuously move the goal posts and...

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SignalGate 2.0 and the Casual Indifference to War

SignalGate 2.0 and the Casual Indifference to War

by | May 24, 2025 |

We recently learned that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared details of impending drone strikes on Yemen in a group chat with his wife, brother and personal attorney. If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it comes just weeks after national security leaders—including Hegseth—accidentally added Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat. The outrage is understandable. Why were military plans shared on an unsecured channel? Were...

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Making Palestine Go Away

Making Palestine Go Away

by | May 24, 2025 |

It has been another exciting week in a world at war where the word “diplomacy” has no meaning and would probably be defined by America’s head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as a doctrine in which you shoot someone first before he or she can shoot you. In my article last week I discussed the reports that there has been a serious rift between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, exemplified by Trump’s unwillingness to talk to the Israeli leader...

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Decision Day in Rome

Decision Day in Rome

by | May 23, 2025 |

On the eve of Iran’s meeting in Rome on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, summarized the situation quite succinctly… accept Iran’s offer to not build nuclear weapons or there is no deal. I do not think this is hyperbole or posturing. I believe it is the firm position of Iran. The decision is now in the hands of Donald Trump. The Friday meeting in Rome marks the fifth time that Iran and the US have met for indirect talks. Oman has the unenviable task of running...

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Why Negotiations With Iran Are So Difficult

Why Negotiations With Iran Are So Difficult

by | May 23, 2025 |

American and other Western elites complain ad nauseam, decrying the Iranians’ intransigent, devious, aggressive, and unreliable behavior. They claim Iran will not make or keep an agreement. Never forget, however, that Iran is more than five millennia old with a long history of diplomacy. The Iranians may be difficult, but one of the barriers to an agreement could be the Iranians’ wariness of the United States’ long pattern of broken agreements. In 1945 the U.S. signed the United...

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Sic transit gloria mundi

Sic transit gloria mundi

by | May 23, 2025 |

The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and yet still die. Here are the options: China Neither South Korea nor Japan want anything to do with a war against China, leaving only the Philippines dumb enough to play along. The US apparently pulled another brigade out of South Korea. They’ll pull out more in the future. They know damn well the North Koreans could easily conquer the entire...

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Iranian Diplomats Suspect Trump Using Talks as Instrument of Sabotage

Iranian Diplomats Suspect Trump Using Talks as Instrument of Sabotage

by | May 22, 2025 |

With nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran’s Reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate, lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks in Muscat, Oman. Like most Iranians, the diplomats were eager for a durable deal that would provide sanctions relief. But they said their side could not seem to break through to a Trump team they described as dithering, divided,...

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Government Attacks on Private Property

Government Attacks on Private Property

by | May 22, 2025 |

A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement. The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the private property of anyone against that person’s will was a significant contributing factor to the American Revolution. Their most notorious invasion of private property was a subterfuge, perpetrated by the British Parliament, which...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

DOGE Failure

DOGE Failure

by | May 28, 2025

Elon Musk, the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency in Donald Trump’s presidential administration, has expressed in a new interview his disappointment in Trump’s...

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The Ten Seconds Census

The Ten Seconds Census

by | May 27, 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is in the news for claiming it has eliminated several Census Bureau surveys and that it will be reviewing others in turn. That may...

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Lawless Cops

Lawless Cops

by | May 12, 2025

Cops enforce laws. On first impression that may seem a good thing as one considers long in place laws, such as against assault, murder, and theft, that can help protect...

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