“At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”—Elon Musk (2018) Get ready for Surveillance State 2.0. To...
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A Republic of Spies
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
In 2021, to his credit, President Joe Biden warned the American public against the dangers of zero-click spyware manufactured by an Israeli corporation. Zero-click is unwanted software that can expose the entire contents of one’s mobile or desktop device to prying...
No, Joe Biden Did Not Slip In Murder Sentence Commutations with his Drug Sentence Commutations.
by Adam Dick | Jan 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
On January 17, three days before the end of his term as United States president, Joe Biden announced he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people who had been convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. In response, some people have suggested that included in...
President Trump Gave A Positive, Hopeful Inaugural Address
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jan 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
It was entirely predictable and at times almost humorous to see the sour, partisan reaction by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and some in the national media to President Trump’s inaugural address last week. It was obvious that Biden, Harris and Mrs....
Will There Be a Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
One of the earliest points to become apparent about Donald Trump’s second term as president is that there is a significant difference in foreign policy priorities and a vast change in style from his predecessors over the past 8 or 9 decades. Blather about the...
Is Trump Positioning for a “No-Deal” with Russia – or Not?
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
Trump’s rhetoric about Russia having lost one million men in the Ukraine conflict is not just nonsense (the real number not even reaching 100,000), but his resort to it underlines that the usual meme of Trump being just woefully misinformed is looking less and less...
The Big Freeze at HHS, CDC, and NIH
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
Part of the sweep of government in the first days of the Trump administration has been a freeze on communications. The explosion has hit the whole of public health bureaucracies, which Trump personally blames in part for the meltdown of his previous term of president...
The CIA Report: Why a Low Confidence Finding is the Height of Hypocrisy
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
Every modern president seems to promise transparency during their campaigns, but few ever seem to get around to it. Once in power, the value of being opaque becomes evident. We will have to wait to see if President Donald Trump will fulfill his pledges, but so far...
To Make America Great Again, Separate Money and State
by Ron Paul | Jan 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis” is the title of one of the many executive orders President Trump issued in his first week back in the Oval Office. This executive order directs federal agencies to...
Did Trump Halt Aid to Ukraine?
by Larry C. Johnson | Jan 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, there were a number of “headlines” in the US media claiming all foreign aid was stopped—except for Israel and Egypt. But the Pentagon weighed in today denying that it affects Ukraine: “A Pentagon official confirmed that Trump’s executive order freezing...
Saved from the Terror of TikTok
by Eric Margolis | Jan 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
Thank goodness that our heroes in Congress and the Supreme Court have courageously acted to end the scourge of that nefarious Red Chinese conspiracy, TikTok. This evil computer program was designed to mesmerize, corrupt and mislead America’s youth. Not since the...
Russian Casualties and the Russian Economy — A Memo for President Donald Trump
by Larry C. Johnson | Jan 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
Mr. President, I believe that the CIA is providing you inaccurate, false intelligence about Russia’s casualties and the condition of its economy. If you hope to realize your goal of opening negotiations with President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the war in...
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...
TikTok and the Freedom of Speech
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Congress shall make no law ...abridging the freedom of speechor of the press…”--First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution During the oral argument before the Supreme Court in the famous Pentagon Papers case, a fascinating colloquy took place between Justice William O....
The Competency Crisis Proliferating The West
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
The essayist and military strategist, Aurelien, has written a paper entitled: The Strange Defeat (original in French). The “strange defeat” being that of Europe’s “curious” inability to understand Ukraine or its military mechanics. Aurelien highlights the strange lack...
Euphoria
by Joel Salatin | Jan 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
Teresa and I had the unprecedented privilege to attend the MAHA Inaugural Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria in Washington, D.C. last night, guests of Dr. Eric and Karen Berg. Some 500 revelers converged in one spot to celebrate Trump's victory, but perhaps more importantly,...
The Biden Regime Was an Amazing Collection of Criminals
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
“In its final hours, the most CORRUPT Administration in American history is covering up Democrats’ trail of criminal activity.” — US Rep. Andrew Clyde The Criminal-in-Chief in his last criminal act has issued a “preemptive pardon” to 20 criminals. Mass murderer...
For Inauguration Day, Open Federal Files and Give Truth a Chance
by James Bovard | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Federal agencies classify trillions of pages of documents each year—enough secrets to fill 20 million filing cabinets. Washington politicians and federal agencies routinely blindfold American citizens on the most important and most reckless decisions the government...
Can Trump Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy?
by Ron Paul | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
By the time most of you read this column, we will have a new US President. Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term today at 11:30 AM, Eastern time, and many Americans are hopeful that the disastrous foreign policy of the past four years under Biden...
When it Comes to Terrorism, Israel Beats Hamas
by Larry C. Johnson | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Judge Napolitano asked me a pertinent question today: Why are the persons released by Hamas referred to as hostages and the persons released by Israel as prisoners? I think the answer is simple: Israel and its supporters in the Western media control the...
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