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America’s Syrian Civil War

America’s Syrian Civil War

by | Jul 21, 2025 |

As Syria descends into full-scale civil war, with more than a thousand people killed in just the last few days, it may be a good time to remember the phrase, “Assad must go.” That was the slogan the regime-changers rolled out some 14 years ago during the “Arab Spring” that was supposed to usher liberal democracies into power throughout the region. From Tunisia to Egypt to Libya and on to Syria, the plan was to remake the Middle East according to the will of Washington’s “master planners.” The...

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The CIA Initiated an Intelligence and Terrorist War on Russia Based on a Lie

The CIA Initiated an Intelligence and Terrorist War on Russia Based on a Lie

by | Jul 21, 2025 |

Foreign Policy published an article last week by Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes, with the title, When the Threat Is Inside the White House: What CIA insiders make of the MAGA moles and toadies now in charge of U.S. national security. While the intent of the article is to paint Trump and his team as a bunch of Russian toadies, Weiner unwittingly paints a picture of the CIA’s leadership as biased operators with no understanding of Russia… They still think they are...

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What’s Going On In the ‘Honeypot?’

What’s Going On In the ‘Honeypot?’

by | Jul 19, 2025 |

What goes on in Washington is underappreciated for those of us who like a bit of humor mixed in with our politics. This past week we have been treated to a whole series of malapropisms coming out of the mouth of President Donald Trump, including the questioning of the president of Liberia Joseph Boakai by Trump over how he speaks such excellent English. “Such good English,” Trump said. “Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? In Liberia? That’s very interesting. Where were you...

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Just Six US House Members Vote Against Sending Israel Another Half Billion Dollars in Military Aid

Just Six US House Members Vote Against Sending Israel Another Half Billion Dollars in Military Aid

by | Jul 18, 2025 |

Special interests are continually finagling to gain more support from the United States government that oversees a vast trove of money and power. A vote just after midnight Friday morning in the US House of Representatives suggests that the government of Israel is at the top of the heap of special interests when it comes to being able to extract benefits from the US with very widespread support from American legislators. The vote was on an amendment Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) offered...

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World War III has Already Begun

World War III has Already Begun

by | Jul 18, 2025 |

Many now speak of humanity’s drift towards World War III, imagining events similar to those of the 20th century. But war evolves. It will not begin with a June 1941 Barbarossa-style invasion or a Cuban Missile Crisis-style nuclear standoff. In fact, the new world war is already underway – it’s just that not everyone has recognized it yet. For Russia, the pre-war period ended in 2014. For China, it was 2017. For Iran, 2023. Since then, war – in its modern, diffuse form – has intensified. This...

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Trump’s Election-Interference Tariff

Trump’s Election-Interference Tariff

by | Jul 17, 2025 |

Like a child with his new favorite toy at Christmas, President Trump is using tariff taxes not only to attempt to centrally plan the pricing of thousands of goods and services in the economy, but also to engage in election interference in other countries. The latter statement refers to how he recently put the government of Brazil on notice that 50 percent tariff taxes would be imposed on Brazilian imports to the U.S. unless it dropped the legal case against the former Brazilian President...

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No Due Process at Gitmo

No Due Process at Gitmo

by | Jul 17, 2025 |

Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in the United States on 9/11. Originally, the federal government blamed Osama bin Laden as the 9/11 mastermind. Then, after bin Laden was murdered in his home in Pakistan by the feds, they decided that Mohammed was the real...

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Two Cheers for DHS’ Kristi Noem

Two Cheers for DHS’ Kristi Noem

by | Jul 17, 2025 |

We have been pretty critical for some of the more bonehead moves coming from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in these early days of the Trump Administration. She has staged some embarrassing cosplay "takedowns" of illegals and she inexplicitly spent her first Memorial Day as a Senior US Official - a day to honor fallen American soldiers - wailing at Israel's "Wailing Wall" for some reason. Nevertheless - and some may rightly criticize the slow pace of "progress" - the "easily excited"...

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US Hubris-Driven Blunders Transform the Entire Complexion of the Wider War

US Hubris-Driven Blunders Transform the Entire Complexion of the Wider War

by | Jul 16, 2025 |

The big issue emerging from the US’ 22 June strike on Iran – second only to “wither Iran?” – is whether in Trump’s calculus he can “rhetorically impose” the having “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme claim long enough to both restrain Israel from hitting Iran again, yet still allow Trump to pursue his show-stopper headline, “WE WON: I’m in charge now and everybody is going to do what I tell them.” These were the key conflicting issues that were to be hammered out with Netanyahu during his...

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The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, and Control You

The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, and Control You

by | Jul 16, 2025 |

Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing. We are entering a new age of algorithmic, authoritarian control, where our thoughts, moods, and biology are monitored and judged by the state. This is the dark promise behind the newest campaign by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, to push for a future in which all Americans wear biometric health-tracking devices. Under the guise of public health and...

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The Redheaded Stepsister Goes to the Ball

The Redheaded Stepsister Goes to the Ball

by | Jul 16, 2025 |

Against the AGM-158 JASSM missile, has Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge finally met its match? Talk of sending Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles to Ukraine commenced last year, during the later months of the Biden administration. It was reported at the time that it would take "months" to adapt the missiles to operate with the rag-tag Ukrainian air fleet consisting of a few surviving Soviet Su-27s and MiG-29s and whatever 1980s-era boneyard F-16s NATO could cobble together...

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My 46 Years of Contempt of Congress

My 46 Years of Contempt of Congress

by | Jul 16, 2025 |

“Those bastards didn’t send back my article! Now I have to re-type the whole piece before I can submit it somewhere else!” I growled standing by the apartment cluster mailbox on a sultry afternoon of July 3, 1979. “Did they just throw away or steal the stamps from the self-addressed stamped envelope I sent along with my piece?!” The New York Times logo on the front of a postcard in that day’s mail sparked my ire. I had dropped out of Virginia Tech three years before, confident that I...

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The Systematic Unraveling of the Administrative State

The Systematic Unraveling of the Administrative State

by | Jul 15, 2025 |

In 1883, when the Pendleton Act was passed, creating the US civil service, it must have seemed like no big deal. The forgotten Chester A. Arthur was the president. The fear of being assassinated like his predecessor James Garfield convinced him to back the legislation. The case for passage: government needs professionals with institutional knowledge. Technicians were changing the world, so why not government too? Science and engineering were the rage – electricity, steel bridges, telegraphic...

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IDF Soldiers Say Grenade-Drones Being Used On Civilians: ‘None Of Them Were Armed’

IDF Soldiers Say Grenade-Drones Being Used On Civilians: ‘None Of Them Were Armed’

by | Jul 14, 2025 |

The Israel Defense Forces are routinely killing civilians in Gaza with commercial drones modified to drop grenades on them -- often leaving the corpses to be eaten by dogs, according to interviews with seven soldiers and officers conducted by Israeli investigative journalists. The tactic is being used to deter civilians from venturing into areas declared off-limits by the IDF, with indifference to the fact that the individuals -- some of them children -- pose no threat. Compounding the...

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By the Numbers — Western Propaganda on Russian Losses

By the Numbers — Western Propaganda on Russian Losses

by | Jul 14, 2025 |

Over the past week, the Western media has frantically pushed the narrative that Russia is suffering massive losses. Marco Rubio’s remarks in Kuala Lumpur a couple of days ago is a typical example: One hundred thousand since January? But it is not just Rubio… The Economist provides a more modest estimate, but the key word is estimate: As of July 9th our tracker suggests there have been between 900,000 and 1.3m Russian casualties since the war began, including some...

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Downsized DOGE

Downsized DOGE

by | Jan 11, 2025

Elon Musk stirred up much hope among many small government advocates when he spoke on stage at Donald Trump’s October 27 presidential campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in...

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