Yesterday we noted that the ascension to NATO of the Balkan Five (Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania) and the Baltic Three (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) amounts to some kind of bad joke. Their combined active military forces total...
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Three Cheers For Rep. Thomas Massie!
by David Stockman | Mar 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
Told you so! Donald Trump doesn’t give two hoots about the true agenda that might actually make America freer and more prosperous again. We are referring to the principles of—- peaceful commerce with every nation, entangling alliances with none. minimalist, solvent,...
It’s Rescission Time
by David Stockman | Mar 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
The politicians who run the GOP on Capitol Hill are about ready to rug-pull Elon Musk and his patron in the Oval Office big time. That is, the so-called “clean CR [continuing resolution]” that Speaker Johnson is apparently cooking up will ratify the entirety of the...

NATO: The Case To Get Out Now
by David Stockman | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
See David Stockman in person at the Ron Paul Institute's Spring Conference! The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions: First, the Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine, even as the Fed has run out of capacity...

Make The Ukraine Truce, Then Cut Europe Loose
by David Stockman | Feb 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
Come see David Stockman speak at the Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference! Exactly 177 days after being sworn to office, America’s greatest peace president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, announced that the demolition derby on the Korean peninsula would be halted, and that an...

NATO: The Case To Get Out Now
by David Stockman | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
The case for getting out of NATO now encompasses four fundamental propositions: First, the Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine, even as the Fed has run out of capacity to monetize the skyrocketing public debt. Second, the only viable...
Thunder and Blunder on Day One
by David Stockman | Jan 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
Well, the Donald surely did hit the ground thundering, and some right good noise it was— starting with the 1500 + pardons of the J6 offenders. That promise-kept was crucial because it was one big presidential middle finger rebuke to the Giant Lie that the Washington...
Speaker Johnson’s Ignominious Betrayal
by David Stockman | Apr 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually provide zero...
Reflections on Another Truce: Why There Is Still No Peace on Earth
by David Stockman | Nov 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and the death of the Soviet Union was confirmed two years later as Boris Yeltsin courageously stood down the Red Army tanks in front of Moscow’s White House, a dark era in human history came to an abrupt end. The world had...
Uncle Sam Doesn’t Have One Thin Dime for Joe Biden’s $106 Billion War Package
by David Stockman | Nov 4, 2023 | Featured Articles
When you are faced with an existential threat to your very national survival, this is what you do. You mobilize your economy for all-out struggle and impose heavy-duty “War Taxes” to pay for a dramatic build-up of military capabilities. For instance, between 1939 and...
Enough of the Ukrainian Clown Show!
by David Stockman | Jun 26, 2023 | Featured Articles
If the truth be told, we are getting sick and tired of the little piss-ant who runs the cease-pool of corruption, tyranny, delusion and death called Ukraine. This clown – and that’s what he is actually trained as – just can’t seem to stop stridently demanding money,...
The Trump 'Gotcha' Indictment
by David Stockman | Jun 15, 2023 | Featured Articles
We have minimum low regard for Donald Trump, and not merely because he is a bombastic lout and world historic megalomaniac. His policies were terrible, too. The Federal budget and debt exploded on his watch; the Fed printed money recklessly even as he demanded more;...
Cable Guy Gone…..But Not For Long!
by David Stockman | May 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
We are not sure what the Murdochs were smoking last Monday morning when they shot the immensely profitable Fox News Channel in the kneecaps, but we do know that Tucker Carlson was one of a kind among commentators in the vast journalistic wasteland otherwise known as...
Biden Goes All in on Proxy War Against Russia
by David Stockman | Feb 23, 2023 | Featured Articles
No, Joe, that’s not Hunter you’re sniffing. But Zelensky is a pretty good substitute – every bit as corrupt, drugged-up and delusional as the First Son.So hug away. You have already proven (repeatedly) that there is no betrayal of America’s true homeland security you...
After the Zelensky Spectacle – Let the Partition Begin!
by David Stockman | Dec 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
The spectacle in the US Capitol Building Wednesday night was downright retch-worthy. And we are not actually referring to the detestable little warmongering clown who preened at the podium in a sweatshirt and cargo pants, offering endless lies and hideously false...
Twitter Became the Ministry of Truth
by David Stockman | Dec 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
New material Musk released over the weekend confirms the very worst. The banal boys and girls previously ensconced in Twitter’s top echelons were not only having a jolly time attempting to steer the nation’s news narrative; these executives were actually meeting...
Washington’s Pointless War on Behalf of a Fake Nation
by David Stockman | Sep 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
The messages are coming in loud and clear today – from the crashing pound, to repudiation of establishment governments in Italy, Sweden and more to come, to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban’s call to end the Sanctions War and do so pronto. So let’s be clear:...
What In the Hell Was Washington Thinking?
by David Stockman | Sep 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
What in the hell were those bloody-minded Washington/NATO neocons thinking? At any time in the last nine months they could have had a diplomatic settlement with Russia that would have: Avoided/ended the war in Ukraine, thereby saving tens of thousands of Ukrainian...
Nancy Pelosi’s Utterly Reckless Election-Season Gambit
by David Stockman | Aug 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
We don’t know how it could have been any clearer than this warning from Chicom mouthpiece and ultra-hawk, Hu Xijin. Prior to America’s other senile leader putting herself in harms’ way by touching down in Taiwan today, Xijin let loose a volley of histrionics that left...
Sleepy Joe’s $33 Billion Abomination
by David Stockman | May 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump has been well relegated to the sidelines of America’s political debate, but the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) lives on, more virulent than ever. The latter is what’s behind Washington’s descent into the current mindless Ukraine war fever—an outbreak of...
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