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Tail Wags Dog

Tail Wags Dog

by | Jun 19, 2026 |

It should be cold comfort indeed, but the successive inability of one US administration after another to control Israel and the extraordinary passion with which the leaders of Western Europe, Canada and NATO continue to defy the United States to risk thermonuclear world war with Russia at the whims of Ukrainian junta leader Volodymyr Zelensky are not unprecedented. For the dark, universally unacknowledged world history of the past 120 years is clear: Tails Wag Dogs. Global superpowers and...

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Israeli foreign agent took over The Charlie Kirk Show days after his killing

Israeli foreign agent took over The Charlie Kirk Show days after his killing

by | Jun 18, 2026 |

Charlie Kirk’s media empire and his right-wing activist organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), have come under the control of the Israel-directed forces he spent the last months of his life antagonizing. Erika Kirk now claims her husband supported Israel to the end, while TPUSA misrepresents his opposition to war on Iran.  The Charlie Kirk Show is now distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel tasked with seeding American media with Zionist propaganda. It is part of a whopping $46...

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What Triggered Trump to Make the Deal with Iran?

What Triggered Trump to Make the Deal with Iran?

by | Jun 18, 2026 |

To quote James Carville, “Its the economy stupid!” On Monday I wrote: So the question we ought to ask is why did Donald Trump blink and accept the proposal that Iran proffered way back in April? I think there are several reasons, but the principal one is that the US is running out of oil, which means Trump will not be able to artificially suppress the price of gasoline. US strategic oil reserves have fallen to their lowest level since 1983, reports CNN. The decline comes amid continued...

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A Republic or an Empire?

A Republic or an Empire?

by | Jun 18, 2026 |

The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, embraces two value sets. The first is natural rights, and the second is limited government. After 250 years, neither value has survived, and the opposite of each currently prevails in America. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration in three days while staying at a rooming house in Philadelphia. He had been greatly influenced by the British philosopher John Locke. Locke is the godfather of the theory of natural rights, which he extrapolated...

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Trump Breaks It, We Pay for It: The Cost of Cleaning Up the Deep State’s Mess

Trump Breaks It, We Pay for It: The Cost of Cleaning Up the Deep State’s Mess

by | Jun 17, 2026 |

The American taxpayer has become the cleanup crew for the American Police State. We pay for the constitutional violations. We pay for the wars. We pay for the lawsuits, the settlements, the cover-ups, the damage control, the reconstruction, the overreach, the incompetence and the corruption. And when government officials are finally called to account for their misconduct, we pay for that, too. That is the dirty little secret of government accountability in America: even when the...

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US Offers To Ignite Sectarian War

US Offers To Ignite Sectarian War

by | Jun 17, 2026 |

During a press conference at the G7 meeting in France US President Donald Trump criticized Israel’s way of waging war against Hizbullah. Video via FOXnews. Partial transcript: I tell you what – Israel is fighting Hizbullah too long and too many people are being killed. And you don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you are looking for somebody. Because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses and not all are Hizbullah. That I can tell you. Trump does not...

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Sen. Rick Scott is Anti-American

Sen. Rick Scott is Anti-American

by | Jun 16, 2026 |

As if there were no Congressional business awaiting our elected officials' attention, Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) set his sights on the very document to which he raised his right hand and swore to defend: the US Constitution. Speaking at the Florida Holocaust Museum, Sen. Scott argued that a scheduled June concert by musician Kenye (Ye) West must be cancelled and that the entertainer should be barred from future performances at any taxpayer-supported facilities. "If we don't stop this...

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Post-Iran War: The End of an Era, Not to Decline, but as a Trigger to Abrupt Change

Post-Iran War: The End of an Era, Not to Decline, but as a Trigger to Abrupt Change

by | Jun 16, 2026 |

Professor Michael Hudson, in a recent discussion, takes issue with those who speak today of the “decline of the US hegemon.” A decline implies something goes up and down, Hudson says, but it always recovers. “But there’s never been any such thing statistically as a cycle … There’s no decline, it’s a crash” — We’re seeing the ending of an era, not a decline, but an abrupt change. And this change is not stemming from without: The ending of the American power did not result from any foreign civil...

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Why Iran Signs the MOU: Realism Over Illusion

Why Iran Signs the MOU: Realism Over Illusion

by | Jun 16, 2026 |

The announcement that United States and Iranian negotiators have agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding to end the war raises an obvious and pressing question. Why would Tehran sign anything with a Trump administration? The biggest danger is not simply that the United States will renege on its commitments or fail to deliver on economic promises. The greatest threat is another surprise attack. Yet Iran signs because they approach this agreement with clear eyes, knowing full well it is unlikely...

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Israel Fails to Sabotage Islamabad Accord… At Least for Now

Israel Fails to Sabotage Islamabad Accord… At Least for Now

by | Jun 15, 2026 |

This is as Close as the US and Iran Will Get to Signing an MOU. Well, when news broke that Israel had bombed the southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday afternoon, the Iranians started gearing up for promised retaliation only to be dissuaded by a Donald Trump bribe. Iran and the US reportedly were closing in on an agreement based on Iran’s 14-point plan when the Israeli strike in Lebanon threw everything into chaos. Iran quickly started ramping up for a renewed missile strike on Israel, but Donald...

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Time for Trump to Tell Benjamin Netanyahu to Go Away!

Time for Trump to Tell Benjamin Netanyahu to Go Away!

by | Jun 15, 2026 |

In addition to the regular lethal American and Israeli attacks on Iran, last week alone the Israeli military killed 13 Gazans and 13 Lebanese. Gaza is now 70% Israeli occupied, contrary to what was agreed upon in the ceasefire arrangement, as is much of south Lebanon. More than 1,000 Gazans have been murdered by Israel since the temporary ceasefire was declared in October 2025. And one might add to the toll the constant aggression in south Syria, where Israel is creating an army base...

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Biden’s Closed Circle on Russia

Biden’s Closed Circle on Russia

by | Jun 15, 2026 |

An excerpt from ‘The Great Betrayal.’ Joe Biden’s presidency may ultimately come to be seen as a cautionary tale. Here was a president who showed little interest in entertaining arguments that might have contradicted his most deeply held assumptions.[1] And there were precious few within the upper ranks of the administration who might have attempted to do so, after all, only policy hands and political operatives who had come up through the ranks of the Clinton and Obama administrations or...

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Congress’s Failure is Liberty’s Gain

Congress’s Failure is Liberty’s Gain

by | Jun 15, 2026 |

Congress accidentally protected the American people’s liberty this week when it failed to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. However, it has been “interpreted” by the FISA court to allow US intelligence agencies to wiretap conversations between a US citizen and a foreign target of Section 702 surveillance. The intelligence agencies can then conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans who...

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Trump State Department Moves to Deport Trita Parsi

Trump State Department Moves to Deport Trita Parsi

by | Jun 13, 2026 |

President Trump’s State Department has reportedly opened an investigation into Trita Parsi, an Iranian-Swedish international relations writer, political analyst, vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and critic of the administration’s war against Iran. A Trump official informed the Free Press that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been “extremely clear” about his intention to focus on individuals who “support adversaries of the United States” and...

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America the Unfree—Home of the Policed, Surveilled and Occupied

America the Unfree—Home of the Policed, Surveilled and Occupied

by | Jun 11, 2026 |

“I love the inflation.”—Donald Trump (June 2026) America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, and a ruling class that treats the American people as little more than collateral damage in its pursuit of power, profit and control. We have been policed, surveilled, taxed, indebted, manipulated, censored, tracked, searched, silenced and sold...

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Trump Violates Humanitarian Law: the Bombing of a Water Facility in Iran

Trump Violates Humanitarian Law: the Bombing of a Water Facility in Iran

by | Jun 11, 2026 |

During what has been described as tit-for-tat attacks, on June 10 the US bombed the drinking water supply in the Bemani district of Sirik, Hormozgan province, Iran. The 500-cubic-meter tank and a 2,000-cubic-meter reservoir provided water for 20,000 Iranians. “Targeting civilian water infrastructure raises serious humanitarian concerns,” the Iranian Consulate in Mumbai, India said. “The incident occurred amid a wave of reported explosions in Iran’s south, including several powerful blasts...

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Secretary of War Crimes

Secretary of War Crimes

by | Jun 11, 2026

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth likes to be referred to by the title secretary of war. Given his answer to a question at a Wednesday press conference at MacDill...

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