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I Wish I Could Stop Reading About The Slaughter In Gaza.

I Wish I Could Stop Reading About The Slaughter In Gaza.

by | May 2, 2025 |

(Photo: journalist Fatima Hassouna, murdered by Israel) As I sat in church last Sunday, before the service started, I thought maybe I read too much. I wish I had not read about Mohammed Hegazy, a seven-year-old Palestinian boy who was blinded by an Israeli grenade that blew up in his face as he played outside his home which is now rubble. His father said he used to smile all the time. “Now we rarely see him smiling. He is having difficulty interacting with people due to his blindness and the...

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Britain’s Coalition of the Willing Decides, Upon Reflection, That it’s unwilling to fight in Ukraine

Britain’s Coalition of the Willing Decides, Upon Reflection, That it’s unwilling to fight in Ukraine

by | May 2, 2025 |

The UK mainstream media has puffed up British military might and fortitude since the war in Ukraine began. Now it turns out that Britain would struggle to send 5000 troops to Ukraine in a so called "deterrence force." Policy thinkers in Whitehall desperately need to engage their brains and reach for peace. In a remarkable turn of events, the Times Newspaper of London published an article of 29 April in which it said Europe would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine. This from...

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Home Invasions on the Rise: Constitution-Free Policing in Trump’s America

Home Invasions on the Rise: Constitution-Free Policing in Trump’s America

by | May 2, 2025 |

“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.”—James Otis, Revolutionary War activist, on the Writs of Assistance, 1761 What the Founders rebelled against—armed government agents invading homes without cause—we are now being told to accept in the so-called name of law and order. Imagine it: it’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is asleep. Suddenly, your front door is splintered by battering rams. Shadowy figures...

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End The Ukraine War With This One Simple Trick

End The Ukraine War With This One Simple Trick

by | May 1, 2025 |

This was adapted from an RPI subscriber update. Subscribe here for free and see it first. The long-debated "minerals deal" was finally signed between the US and Ukraine late Wednesday, after a months-long, whiplash-producing back and forth between the two parties. In the end, Wednesday started with an affirmation that the deal would be signed, then by mid-day we were told that the Ukraine government aircraft turned around mid-flight and the deal was off, and then later in the afternoon the...

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US is Flummoxed by Yemen

US is Flummoxed by Yemen

by | May 1, 2025 |

I almost don’t know what to say about Pete Hegseth’s social media post (see above). It is juvenile, counterproductive and dangerous. During my time living in Central America, I learned a very important piece of wisdom… i.e., The fish dies by its mouth. We need a comparable expression for social media posts like this one. Hegseth, like some angry teenager, is upset that Trump’s version of Operation Prosperity Guardian is a bust. Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG), which was...

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Arresting a Judge

Arresting a Judge

by | May 1, 2025 |

Last week the FBI arrested a Wisconsin state judge as she was walking into the courthouse where she works. The feds had alerted the media -- but not the judge -- to this event, and they arrived and recorded the arrest. The standard and preferred practice when arresting a nonviolent person who is a public official with deep roots in the community is to invite the person to surrender with counsel. Instead, without notice, this judge was stopped on a public street, handcuffed behind her back -- a...

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The House of Representatives Won’t Stop Approving Government Expansions

The House of Representatives Won’t Stop Approving Government Expansions

by | Apr 30, 2025 |

The Republican-majority United States House of Representatives demonstrated this week, through votes on several relatively modest bills, that it will just keep demanding more US government spending and control. Republican representatives often claim to support limited government and frugality, but mostly they, and their Democratic Party colleagues, keep acting as government-loving spendthrifts. In May of last year, I wrote about the House Republican leadership putting on the House floor for...

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IMF and World Bank: Crony Covid Crackdown Enablers

IMF and World Bank: Crony Covid Crackdown Enablers

by | Apr 30, 2025 |

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained last week that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are suffering from “mission creep.” But Bessent announced that Trump will be “doubling down” on supporting the largest foreign aid gushers on earth. “Far from stepping back, ‘America First’ seeks to expand U.S. leadership in international institutions like the I.M.F. and World Bank,” Bessent declared.  Bessent complained that the IMF “devotes disproportionate time and resources to work...

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Evasive Maneuvers

Evasive Maneuvers

by | Apr 30, 2025 |

(photo: The erstwhile USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), now dubbed the USS Trembling Puppy for its multiple episodes of fleeing Yemeni missile strikes in a panic.) In the aftermath of the USS Trembling Puppy acknowledging the loss of yet another fighter aircraft in the midst of a Yemeni missile attack, many speculations have arisen regarding what actually happened. The "official" story is that an F/A-18 and its tow tractor were flung overboard while performing "evasive maneuvers" in the face of...

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The Uhuru Prosecution Brings Egg on the Face of the Justice Department – The Future of Freedom Foundation

The Uhuru Prosecution Brings Egg on the Face of the Justice Department – The Future of Freedom Foundation

by | Apr 29, 2025 |

In what can only be called one of the most ridiculous federal criminal prosecutions in U.S. history, the U.S. Department of Justice and, specifically, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida, ended up with a massive amount of egg on its face. The case involved the criminal prosecution of Black rights activists affiliated with the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement, including the 82-year-old chairman of the Party, Omali Yeshitela, and some White allies,...

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The Kellogg Framework is a Disaster for Trump

The Kellogg Framework is a Disaster for Trump

by | Apr 29, 2025 |

Political warfare in Washington is endemic. But the body count at the Pentagon has started to rise precipitously. Three of Secretary of Defence Hegseth’s top advisors were placed on leave, and then fired. The war continues, with the Secretary now in the firing line. Why this matters is that the Hegseth attrition comes amid fierce internal debates in the Trump administration about Iran policy. Hawks want a definitive elimination of all Iran’s nuclear and weapons capabilities, whilst many...

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The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back

by | Apr 28, 2025 |

News this week that Elon Musk will soon be departing his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is a grim reminder of what happens when you challenge big spending DC. Unfortunately, the lesson once again is that when you challenge the empire, the empire eventually strikes back. President Trump rode into office with the help of Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to cut two trillion dollars in spending and slash useless and bloated government bureaucracies. Opinion polls demonstrated the huge...

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The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 2

The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 2

by | Apr 28, 2025 |

(Read part 1 here) The decade of 2000 marked the start of Ukraine becoming a de facto member of NATO. It not only participated in all of the main exercises, but it hosted many. In fact, between 2000 and 2010, Ukraine is ranked in the top six of countries that hosted a NATO or USEUCOM exercise. Ukraine and Georgia, who was ranked number seven, were not NATO members. What the hell? Two non-NATO countries hosted more NATO exercises than 22 of the member nations. This is prima facie evidence that...

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The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 1

The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 1

by | Apr 26, 2025 |

This is the first of a three-part series on the history of NATO and US European Command military exercises with Ukraine. This shows how the West, acting like a camel, slipped its big nose under the Ukrainian tent as part of a long-term strategy to defeat Russia. While many of these exercises were touted as peacekeeping in nature, the real purpose was to train and equip Ukraine with the ultimate goal of fighting and defeating Russia. In July 1998, for example, NATO’s Sea...

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A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ and Negotiation

A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ and Negotiation

by | Apr 26, 2025 |

Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form of an “industrial concern” infused with Deep State ideology, centred primarily on preserving U.S. global power (rather than on mending of the economy). The key MAGA issue however is not foreign policy, but how to structurally re-balance an economic paradigm in danger of an extinction event. Trump has always been clear that this forms his primordial...

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Gang Deportations Are a Fool’s Errand; Instead, End the Drug War

Gang Deportations Are a Fool’s Errand; Instead, End the Drug War

by | Apr 25, 2025 |

As part of its border strategy, the administration deported Venezuelan migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, claiming the deportees were Tren de Aragua gang members. Because of the nature of gang documentation, the claim that they are all violent gang members is dubious. The policy is more than a legal civil liberties nightmare; it is strategically ill-advised. Deporting suspected gang members will not stop gangs. Transnational gangs are a serious problem, but there is...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

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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