Donald Trump ran for president presenting himself as the peace candidate. A little over two months into his presidency, Trump, however, appears to be establishing himself as a war president. Instead of quickly ending the US government’s support for war against Russia...
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Voters Turn against Trump on Price Increases and Financial Conditions
by Adam Dick | Mar 30, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the November of 2024 presidential election, CNN exit polling indicated that Donald Trump won the support of 76 percent of voters who answered that in the past year inflation had caused their families “severe hardship.” Now, less than five months later, voters are...
The Big Fall in the US Government’s Marijuana Arrests since States Started Legalizing
by Adam Dick | Mar 28, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Marijuana is still illegal under United States law, as it was before the waves through states to first legalize marijuana for medical use and then adopt, starting in 2012, “recreational marijuana” legalization. Faced with this expanding of respect for free choice, the...
Progress toward Ending US Government Funding for NPR and PBS
by Adam Dick | Mar 27, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On November 9, a few days after Donald Trump won election to return to the White House, I wrote an article titled “Defunding NPR.” In the article, I presented reasons why “a spending cut that jumps out as among the most obvious for [Department of Government Efficiency...

Australia Prime Minister Rejects Imposing ‘Self-harm’ Retaliatory Tariffs
by Adam Dick | Mar 13, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States President Donald Trump is out imposing tariffs of different sorts on products from countries across the world. In many instances, the governments of countries hit by tariffs have responded with retaliatory tariffs against America. Refreshingly, it looks...

Maybe the Reason the Trump Administration Wants to Deport Mahmoud Khalil is because There Is No Good Reason to Deport Him
by Adam Dick | Mar 13, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Donald Trump administration is offering no good reason to deport Mahmoud Khalil, who was involved in protests at Columbia University in New York City related to the Israel government and to United States government support for that government. He is not charged...
Cracking Down on US Colleges, for Israel
by Adam Dick | Mar 11, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States government does not need to give a dime to any college. But, if it does continue its funding of colleges, the First Amendment of the US Constitution bars that funding from being denied to a college because the college is determined to have...
HHS is Opposing Experimental Bird Flu ‘Vaccines’ for Poultry. USDA Seems Supportive.
by Adam Dick | Mar 8, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Last week, I wrote about experimental “vaccines” that the United States government has been working with pharmaceutical companies to develop — different ones for poultry and people. I asked if Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy,...
President Trump’s Shout-out to the Military-Industrial Complex
by Adam Dick | Mar 6, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump’s efforts, through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and otherwise, to reduce United States government spending is the focus of much attention. Indeed, in his speech Tuesday night in the US Capitol, Trump listed several expenditures...
More Empty Threats from Donald Trump?
by Larry C. Johnson | Mar 6, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Trump’s act is starting to wear thin. He tried this same gambit a month ago and, despite what appeared to be a genuine threat, he did nothing. I think the latest dire threat is to divert attention from the fact that Mr. Witkoff is in Doha, Qatar talking directly to...
Del Bigtree Looks Back at the Disneyland Measles Outbreak
by Adam Dick | Mar 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The media are overflowing with discussion using an ongoing measles infection outbreak in Texas to whip up disdain for and fear of people who have not taken vaccines. Much media coverage was similar in 2015 when there was what was referred to as the Disneyland measles...
The US Government’s Terrible Bird Flu Scheme
by Adam Dick | Feb 28, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“The unfolding bird flu narrative serves as a chilling echo of the COVID-19 pandemic, starkly illustrating a playbook dusted off and redeployed,” wrote Joseph Mercola in the concluding paragraphs of his Friday article at mecola.com detailing the outrageous actions the...
The Start of a US Government Exit from Supporting Coronavirus Shots Development?
by Adam Dick | Feb 26, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Even people who took one, two, or three experimental coronavirus “vaccine” shots during the height of the coronavirus scare are saying “nope” to taking any more “boosters.” Yet, behind the scenes, the United States government has kept funding companies in the...
New HHS Secretary Curtails US Government Role as Drug Promoter
by Adam Dick | Feb 21, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It has been commonplace for so long that most Americans cannot remember a time before the United States government was out running public relations campaigns urging Americans to take this or that vaccine or other pharmaceutical industry product. Now, an early action...
Yves Engler: I’m Being Charged for Responding to Anti-Palestinian Hate on X (Twitter)
by Yves Engler | Feb 21, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
UPDATE: After writing the report below, the Montreal police claimed that Engler was victimizing the police by writing the report below. Engler wrote this update before being taken into custody. Engler says that a new investigator has...
Promising Statement from the Louisiana Surgeon General
by Adam Dick | Feb 15, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In September of 2021, I wrote about Joseph Ladapo speaking “boldly in favor of freedom and against using health fearmongering, including the overstating of dangers from coronavirus, as an excuse to violate individual rights” in the comments he made upon Florida...
President Trump Provides Reason for Hope the Ukraine War May End Soon
by Adam Dick | Feb 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The change in tone is night and day from the Joe Biden administration to the Donald Trump administration. Biden refused to talk with Russia President Vladimir. At the same time, Biden escalated US efforts against Russia, including in the Ukraine War. Trump, in...
Keeping Up with US Sanctions against Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Etc.
by Adam Dick | Feb 5, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It can be hard to keep up with the United States government’s sanctions imposed against countries, organizations, and individuals across the world. There are just so many sanctions against so many targets. And each year it seems that the US sanctions reach expands....
Thoughts On Musk’s Raid Of USAID
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced to reconfigure U.S. foreign policy from a unipolar view to a multi-polar concept of strong states. But, as Brian McDonald warns, that does not mean that the U.S. has given up hope of being the biggest dog in...
Seeing the Destruction the Israel Military Has Caused in Lebanon
by Adam Dick | Feb 1, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
British journalist and former diplomat Craig Murray has provided a great service to people around the world in traveling to Lebanon to provide updates on the situation there in the wake of the Israel military’s invasion of the country. Murray’s latest video report,...
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