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From Industrial Power to Military Keynesianism: Germany’s Engineered Collapse

From Industrial Power to Military Keynesianism: Germany’s Engineered Collapse

by | Jan 8, 2026 |

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz now admits that “parts of Germany’s economy are in very critical condition” and that his government “hasn’t done enough.” That phrasing is an evasion. Germany did not drift into this collapse. The numbers were visible in real time. The warnings were explicit. And suicidal decisions were made anyway. Start with energy, because everything downstream flows from it. Before the 2022 launch of Russia's special military operation (SMO), Germany’s industrial model...

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A Lawless Presidency

A Lawless Presidency

by | Jan 8, 2026 |

The United States invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, the domestically recognized Venezuelan president, violated the US Constitution and international law. The Constitution makes clear that only Congress can authorize a foreign invasion. In the pre-World War II era, Congress declared war on countries that attacked the US or were allied with those that did, and those declarations expired upon the surrender by legal authorities in the targeted countries. In the post-9/11 era,...

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The Ugly Cold War Racket Against Cuba Rears Its Ugly Head Again

The Ugly Cold War Racket Against Cuba Rears Its Ugly Head Again

by | Jan 7, 2026 |

American interventionists are besides themselves with glee over the deaths of 32 members of Cuba’s national-security establishment who were serving as part of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s security team during the US national-security establishment’s violent abduction of Maduro. Their ecstasy demonstrates that the old Cold War mentality that held interventionists in its grip for some 45 years never went away, not even with the ostensible end of the Cold War in 1989, at least not...

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Donald Trump, and Most Americans, Do Not Understand the Monroe Doctrine

Donald Trump, and Most Americans, Do Not Understand the Monroe Doctrine

by | Jan 7, 2026 |

I want to make you a wager… I bet that 99 percent of Americans have never read the speech that President James Monroe made to the US Congress on December 2, 1823. As part of that speech — which was the seventh annual address to the US Congress — President Monroe outlined a policy that is now commonly referred to as the Monroe Doctrine. Understanding what President Monroe actually said has taken on more importance because Donald Trump referenced the Monroe Doctrine to justify his kidnapping of...

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VENI, VIDI, VENEZUELA: Pox Americana from War-a-Iago.

VENI, VIDI, VENEZUELA: Pox Americana from War-a-Iago.

by | Jan 6, 2026 |

This Administration, elected with a promise to end forever wars, has since taken America to war against Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Somalia and Nigeria, while funding genocide against Gazans. It has invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its President, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife; pledged to “run” the county, and to appropriate (steal) Venezuela’s extensive oil reserves. Venezuela spent approximately $ ZERO for its defense in 2024. This is not Pax Americana. It is Pox Americana from War-a-Iago. As a...

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The precursors for war are in place. Iran is the peg to intense political jockeying to define the post-Trump future

The precursors for war are in place. Iran is the peg to intense political jockeying to define the post-Trump future

by | Jan 6, 2026 |

At the 30 December meeting with Netanyahu and his team, President Trump publicly committed to attacking Iran: If they continue with their ballistic missile program, “Yes.” And for their nuclear: “Immediate.” “We’ll knock the hell out of them,” Trump said. By contrast to this belligerency, the Trump language at the Mar-a-Lago meeting reflected only warmth and fulsome praise for Netanyahu and Israel. Publicly, Netanyahu had received Trump’s public backing on an attack on Iran and for Gaza Phase...

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Marco-Terrorism: The US Enters A New Age Of Neoconservatism

Marco-Terrorism: The US Enters A New Age Of Neoconservatism

by | Jan 5, 2026 |

In the interregnum between the Republican administrations of George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump, the foreign policy of the former of the two presidents served as the largest obstacle keeping the party from returning to the White House. Although the Democratic Party under President Barack Obama continued the Bush-era foreign policy by perpetuating the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq while expanding it to Syria, Libya, and elsewhere through covert operations, the Republican Party's...

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Regime Change and Nation-Building Are Back!

Regime Change and Nation-Building Are Back!

by | Jan 5, 2026 |

As was the case the morning after “Shock and Awe” signaled the start of the Iraq war, many are cheering the US military raid on Venezuela and capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro. Overwhelming US military power – and likely some bribed Venezuelan officials – ensured that the operation was swift and dramatic. This was not a war, we were told. It was just a surgical operation to remove a criminal dictator and restore democracy to the country. American oil companies would soon get even richer...

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Rules for Thee, Force for Me: America’s Doctrine of Leader-Capture

Rules for Thee, Force for Me: America’s Doctrine of Leader-Capture

by | Jan 3, 2026 |

Here we are watching the rules (for thee but not me) based order perform its favorite magic trick, of turning performative flexing of might into virtue by simply narrating it as law. The United States has kidnapped Venezuela’s sitting president, Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife, via an operation carried out by Delta Forces and removed them from the country. The choreography matters. The message matters more: we can reach into your capital, take your head of state, and call it “justice.” But...

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Neocons Premature Celebration Over Protests in Iran

Neocons Premature Celebration Over Protests in Iran

by | Jan 2, 2026 |

Western media, especially those outlets firmly aligned with the neoconservative view, are quick to jump on reports of protests in Iran as a sign that the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to implode. Events today in Iran provided another spurt of arousal among neocons longing to bring back the Shah and eliminate the mullahs. Here’s a summary of the various news reports: On December 30, 2025, protests in Iran entered their third day, spreading from initial economic grievances in Tehran’s Grand...

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Good Health Instead of Special Interests in 2026

Good Health Instead of Special Interests in 2026

by | Jan 2, 2026 |

In a free society, government would respect that an individual’s health related choices are his own business. There would be no local, state, or national government “health departments” intervening in these matters. All of that would be left to individuals to decide. Government health departments in America have become appendages of entities such as pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies, hospitals, and medical associations. The health departments have become captured regulators....

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NY Times Expose: CIA Fights Russia – Trump’s Peace Deal Runs on Illusion

NY Times Expose: CIA Fights Russia – Trump’s Peace Deal Runs on Illusion

by | Dec 31, 2025 |

Today the NY Times published a long piece on the relations between the Trump administration and the government of Ukraine. The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (archived) – NY Times, Dec 30 2025 There is a lot of gossip about the back and forth between the U.S. Ukraine and Russia in it, but also some interesting nuggets which confirm U.S. intelligence involvement in attacks on Russia and Russia related shipping: Even as Mr. Trump bullied Mr....

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Did Ukraine Try to Kill Putin?

Did Ukraine Try to Kill Putin?

by | Dec 30, 2025 |

On the night of 28–29 December 2025, Russia’s Defense Ministry and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that Ukraine launched 91 long‑range drones at a presidential state residence in Novgorod region, northwest of Moscow. The Defense Ministry and Foreign Minister Lavrov describe the attack as occurring “on the night of December 28–29” and in the “early hours of December 29”, without specifying an exact clock time when the first UAVs appeared. A more detailed Russian‑language summary states...

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Americans who Love their Country should adopt America First as their New Year’s Resolution

Americans who Love their Country should adopt America First as their New Year’s Resolution

by | Dec 30, 2025 |

Gary Heavin and Mike Adams discuss MAGA divided between Israel First and America First.   It is distressing, but true, that Israel not only controls America’s media and publishing, entertainment, financial sector, Middle East foreign policy, but also the Republican House and Senate, the Republican Party, Republican governors, President Trump, and half of MAGA America. It is a joke to speak of the United States as a sovereign nation. The power that Israel exercises over the United States is...

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When Law Becomes Variable, Trust Hardens into Silver and Gold — as the World Discovers the Cost of Weaponized Finance

When Law Becomes Variable, Trust Hardens into Silver and Gold — as the World Discovers the Cost of Weaponized Finance

by | Dec 29, 2025 |

Gold at $4,546 an ounce. Silver printing $79+, with a peak around $80 in the last ten days. That isn’t a metals rally blip. It’s the sound of the market dragging a metal detector across the foundation of the post-WWII order and hearing a hollow thud. Because this is not really about inflation hedges or safe havens in the tidy textbook sense. This is about trust, the rarest commodity on Earth, and how quickly the illusion evaporates once governments treat finance as a battlefield and law as an...

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Regime Change and Nation-Building Are Back!

Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty

by | Dec 29, 2025 |

President Trump recently signed an executive order changing marijuana’s Controlled Substances Act classification from Schedule I to Schedule III. Schedule I is supposed to include especially dangerous drugs that are likely to be abused and have no medical purpose. Whatever one thinks of the wisdom and morality of using marijuana, the fact is it is less addictive, and quite possibly safer, than alcohol. Many Americans who live in one of the 40 states that have legalized medicinal marijuana use...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

by | Dec 25, 2025

On March 26, 2022, then United States President Joe Biden boasted in a speech in Poland that “unprecedented sanctions” targeting Russia that had been put in place over the last...

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