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Are There, or Will There Be, US Negotiations with Iran?

Are There, or Will There Be, US Negotiations with Iran?

by | Apr 2, 2026 |

The short answer is “no.” Trump was confabulating when he said that he was already in negotiations with “important” Iranians. There is a back history to the US’ “negotiations narrative.” In earlier rounds of “negotiations” centred on the Ukraine conflict, Trump regularly would suggest that political negotiations with Russia were ongoing, when in practice, Witkoff and Kushner were simply engaging in a series of endless talks with the Europeans about establishing a ceasefire and the putative...

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Privatize the Private Airport Security Screeners

Privatize the Private Airport Security Screeners

by | Apr 2, 2026 |

I am old enough to remember when your family members could accompany you to the airport and share a meal with you before your flight or wait at the gate with you until you boarded your flight. There is one thing preventing a return to those idyllic times: the TSA. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks as part of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001. It was designed to consolidate all airline security...

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Hope For the Dead

Hope For the Dead

by | Apr 2, 2026 |

“That God, which ever lives and loves,One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine eventTo which the whole creation moves.” -- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, editorials and sermons was not “safety” or “taxes”; it was “freedom.” Yet, two intolerable acts of Parliament so assaulted personal freedom that they broke the bonds with the mother country. The first was the Stamp Act of...

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The War as the Trade

The War as the Trade

by | Apr 1, 2026 |

WSJ: UAE preparing to formally enter the war, the first Gulf state to become a combatant lobbying for a UN Security Council resolution authorising force to open the Strait of Hormuz. Emirati diplomats racing across Washington, Brussels and Tokyo. Abu Dhabi wants US troops to seize Abu Musa island. Dubai wants to mine-sweep for America. The once wannabe neutral hub of the new multipolar order volunteering to be the tip of Netanyahu’s spear. The WSJ piece then pivots to Trump telling aides he’s...

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The Weight on Delcy Rodriguez

The Weight on Delcy Rodriguez

by | Apr 1, 2026 |

As I was leaving the University of the Communes in Tocuyito, after a joyful and uplifting visit, an earnest young Professor came up to me and pulled me aside. Very quietly, he asked me what was going to happen. A number of the students were terrified there would be regime change and they, picked as young socialist leaders in the commune movement, would be imprisoned, tortured and executed. It was a sharp reality check after a great day at this fledgling university. But it is very real. I had...

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War On Iran: It Is Cheaper To Pay For Hormuz Passage Than To Wage War

War On Iran: It Is Cheaper To Pay For Hormuz Passage Than To Wage War

by | Apr 1, 2026 |

US President Donald Trump is reportedly ready to give up on the Persian Gulf passage: Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz (archived) – WSJ In recent days, Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks. He decided that the US should achieve its main goals of hobbling Iran’s navy and its missile stocks and wind down current hostilities while pressuring Tehran...

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Hijacking Religion: How the Pentagon Turned the Sermon on the Mount into a War Manual

Hijacking Religion: How the Pentagon Turned the Sermon on the Mount into a War Manual

by | Apr 1, 2026 |

“We negotiate with bombs.”— Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary for the Trump Administration The language of modern government is the language of empire. It is the language of domination, retaliation, conquest and control—of enemies to be crushed, nations to be subdued, and dissenters to be silenced. Under the Trump Administration, the language of empire has also been imbued with a religious fervor that recasts Jesus Christ—not as a peacemaker—but as a mascot for power, conquest and control. War...

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The American (and Israeli) Role in Syria exposed

The American (and Israeli) Role in Syria exposed

by | Mar 31, 2026 |

The official narrative constructed by the United States and its allies throughout the war in Syria has consistently sought to conceal a central element of the conflict: the deliberate use of extremist groups as a geopolitical tool. For years, independent analysts have argued that Washington not only tolerated but actively encouraged the actions of radical militias in order to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. Even so, Western media and US authorities have persistently denied any...

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A War No One Can Afford

A War No One Can Afford

by | Mar 31, 2026 |

Speaking as a former harbor master, operator of cargo ships, and a military specialist on the Mideast, the current war in Iran is a fool’s errand. The much-ballyhooed Strait of Hormuz is only 33 odd kilometers wide and averages only 220 meters deep. It’s a bottom-scraper for the huge oil tankers that use it. What will happen if the Iranians scuttle one or two large tankers in these narrow waters? The Egyptians did so in 1956 in Suez and jammed up world oil traffic for months. Someone in the...

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Bring The Troops Back. End This War Now!

Bring The Troops Back. End This War Now!

by | Mar 30, 2026 |

As we begin a new week, the media is filled with reports that President Trump is ready to approve a US ground operation against Iran, either to seize Iran’s uranium or to attack an island off the country’s coast. Thousands of US troops have sped to the conflict area to await President Trump’s decision. The President is on the verge of making a serious mistake to add to a series of deadly mistakes that have characterized this terrible war of choice against Iran. A US ground operation against...

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Who Gets a Seat at the Multipolar Table?

Who Gets a Seat at the Multipolar Table?

by | Mar 28, 2026 |

The unipolar club is closed. The United States no longer holds the only key. A new table is being set in global politics, and the question isn’t whether the world is becoming multipolar. It aleady is. The question is: who actually gets a seat? Not who is invited. Not who is hoped for. Who earns it. For decades, there was no table. There was only a throne. The United States sat alone at the head of the global order. Everyone else stood below - either as vassals secured by American protection or...

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The Stealing of America: You’re Not a Citizen—You’re a Revenue Stream for the Power Elite

The Stealing of America: You’re Not a Citizen—You’re a Revenue Stream for the Power Elite

by | Mar 27, 2026 |

You’re not imagining it. Everything costs more. Everything is monitored. Everything feels like it’s designed to take—from your wallet, your time, your freedom. That’s because it is. The government has turned everyday life into a revenue stream—funding endless wars, bloated agencies, surveillance systems, and profit-driven policing… all on your dime. You’re not just paying taxes. You’re paying to be watched. Paying to be policed. Paying to be controlled. This isn’t government. It’s a business...

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War and Morality

War and Morality

by | Mar 26, 2026 |

War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting old men’s power games. It is the health of the state. The war President Donald Trump is waging against the people and the government of Iran is immoral, unconstitutional and unlawful. Yet, because Congress is not doing its job,...

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Boots on the Ground as Israel Sabotages Trump’s 15 Point Peace Plan

Boots on the Ground as Israel Sabotages Trump’s 15 Point Peace Plan

by | Mar 26, 2026 |

Former Army lieutenant general Keith Kellogg thinks all the US need do to turn the tide in Iran is take Kharg Island. “We don’t necessarily have to send troops into Iran, but we need to capture Kharg Island. We need to do it the way the Romans did. We need to put legions on the ground to secure the territory,” he said. The Roman legions didn’t face Shahed-136 kamikaze drones. Iran will undoubtedly send a legion of drones, missiles, and rockets against any attempt to occupy Kharg, Qeshm,...

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Now that the Dow has Dropped, Can AG Pam Bondi Answer Questions?

Now that the Dow has Dropped, Can AG Pam Bondi Answer Questions?

by | Mar 26, 2026 |

A United States executive branch official evading answering questions at a congressional hearing is not a new thing. But, on February 11, Attorney General Pam Bondi took the evasion to a new level. There she was complaining that the House Judiciary Committee members asking her questions related to the topic of the hearing — oversight of the Justice Department — at which she was testifying should instead be talking up the economic miracle brought about by President Donald Trump. This...

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Introduction: Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment

Introduction: Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment

by | Mar 25, 2026 |

When Gülçin and I, in May of 2006, opened the Karia Princess for the first meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (PFS), many questions, organizational as well as substantive, had been still unresolved in our minds. It took years of experimenting and learning: of defining, refining and fine-tuning the very product that now is the PFS and its annual salon.2 Throughout all changes occurring during the last 20 years of its existence, however, the PFS has remained...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Keeping DHS Unfunded

Keeping DHS Unfunded

by | Mar 19, 2026

In January, I wrote about Democrats in the United States Senate proposing a group of changes in US immigration enforcement. Listing some of the suggested changes, I summed them...

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Iran Strikes Back!

by | Mar 12, 2026

RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Col. Doug Macgregor and Clayton and Natali Morris on their Redacted podcast to discuss the latest developments in the US/Israel war on Iran.

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