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We Never Got to Torture Congress

We Never Got to Torture Congress

by | May 27, 2025 |

Folks who believe the current political atmosphere is uniquely hateful have forgotten the boundless vitriol prevailing a few decades ago. During the George W. Bush administration, Republicans relied on push-button rage to suppress all criticism of the war on terror. After I appeared on a 2006 Fox News panel and criticized the Bush administration’s secret illegal financial surveillance regime, I was peppered with hostile emails including this gem: “Every know-nothing lying jackass...

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Take the Deal, President Trump

Take the Deal, President Trump

by | May 26, 2025 |

Deal-making is said to be President Trump’s specialty, yet after five rounds of indirect talks with Iran – most recently just days ago – we seem as far away from an agreement as ever. The fifth round ended last Friday with no breakthrough, but at least no breakdown. However, each day that passes without a document signed on the table is another day for the neocons to maneuver the US president toward an attack on Iran. One way the war party does this is to continuously move the goal posts and...

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SignalGate 2.0 and the Casual Indifference to War

SignalGate 2.0 and the Casual Indifference to War

by | May 24, 2025 |

We recently learned that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared details of impending drone strikes on Yemen in a group chat with his wife, brother and personal attorney. If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it comes just weeks after national security leaders—including Hegseth—accidentally added Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat. The outrage is understandable. Why were military plans shared on an unsecured channel? Were...

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Making Palestine Go Away

Making Palestine Go Away

by | May 24, 2025 |

It has been another exciting week in a world at war where the word “diplomacy” has no meaning and would probably be defined by America’s head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as a doctrine in which you shoot someone first before he or she can shoot you. In my article last week I discussed the reports that there has been a serious rift between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, exemplified by Trump’s unwillingness to talk to the Israeli leader...

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Decision Day in Rome

Decision Day in Rome

by | May 23, 2025 |

On the eve of Iran’s meeting in Rome on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, summarized the situation quite succinctly… accept Iran’s offer to not build nuclear weapons or there is no deal. I do not think this is hyperbole or posturing. I believe it is the firm position of Iran. The decision is now in the hands of Donald Trump. The Friday meeting in Rome marks the fifth time that Iran and the US have met for indirect talks. Oman has the unenviable task of running...

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Why Negotiations With Iran Are So Difficult

Why Negotiations With Iran Are So Difficult

by | May 23, 2025 |

American and other Western elites complain ad nauseam, decrying the Iranians’ intransigent, devious, aggressive, and unreliable behavior. They claim Iran will not make or keep an agreement. Never forget, however, that Iran is more than five millennia old with a long history of diplomacy. The Iranians may be difficult, but one of the barriers to an agreement could be the Iranians’ wariness of the United States’ long pattern of broken agreements. In 1945 the U.S. signed the United...

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Sic transit gloria mundi

Sic transit gloria mundi

by | May 23, 2025 |

The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and yet still die. Here are the options: China Neither South Korea nor Japan want anything to do with a war against China, leaving only the Philippines dumb enough to play along. The US apparently pulled another brigade out of South Korea. They’ll pull out more in the future. They know damn well the North Koreans could easily conquer the entire...

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Iranian Diplomats Suspect Trump Using Talks as Instrument of Sabotage

Iranian Diplomats Suspect Trump Using Talks as Instrument of Sabotage

by | May 22, 2025 |

With nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran’s Reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate, lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks in Muscat, Oman. Like most Iranians, the diplomats were eager for a durable deal that would provide sanctions relief. But they said their side could not seem to break through to a Trump team they described as dithering, divided,...

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Government Attacks on Private Property

Government Attacks on Private Property

by | May 22, 2025 |

A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement. The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the private property of anyone against that person’s will was a significant contributing factor to the American Revolution. Their most notorious invasion of private property was a subterfuge, perpetrated by the British Parliament, which...

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How America Is Being Made Great Again

How America Is Being Made Great Again

by | May 21, 2025 |

Perhaps Putin should tell the Russian people and the Russian Army that his interest in resolving the conflict in Ukraine with peace negotiations lies in the possibility that the negotiations could be used to achieve a Great Power Agreement like what he and Lavrov tried to achieve with the West during the winter of 2021-2022 prior to Russia’s forced intervention in Ukraine. A New Yalta in effect.   Russian foreign affairs commentators have been speaking for some time about the need...

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Israeli Hatred For Children In Gaza Is Shocking

Israeli Hatred For Children In Gaza Is Shocking

by | May 21, 2025 |

The hatred of some in Israel for the people of Gaza – even for little children – is just astounding. If they have even a tiny bit of belief in God, they should pray for forgiveness. Unfortunately, NPR reported last Thursday (May 15) on “deadly airstrikes, killing more than 150 people in the past day, including dozens of children.” On May 9 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and many other publications reported on a meeting of a subcommittee of Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. The...

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Trump Calls Putin, the Game Remains the Same

Trump Calls Putin, the Game Remains the Same

by | May 20, 2025 |

Donald Trump is refusing to follow the Zelensky/European script for trapping Russia. The leaders of the UK, France, Germany and Poland made a desperate effort to get Trump to demand to Russia accept an unconditional, 30-day ceasefire, or face a new round of bone-crushing sanctions. Zelensky, like the trained monkey he is, repeated this mantra. Trump did not take the bait. Presidents Trump and Putin spoke for about two hours on Monday (May 19). Trump used a big tube of...

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Disappearing People

Disappearing People

by | May 20, 2025 |

One of the ways that brutal right-wing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet would terrorize the Chilean people into patriotic submission to his authority was by disappearing people. This was different from simply torturing and executing them. He and his goons certainly did that too. But disappearing people was different. With executions and bodies, families at least had certainty with respect to what had happened to their loved one. With disappearances, they never could be certain that their...

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The Magical Mystery Tour That Wasn’t

The Magical Mystery Tour That Wasn’t

by | May 19, 2025 |

It has been an interesting few days with the United States renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Persian Gulf while also doubling down on spying directed against Greenland in expectations that it will be acquired as a US territory sometime soon. Meanwhile, some of us who have been watching developments in what has been described as Donald Trump’s “peace initiative” trip to the Middle East, which might also have included a stop in Istanbul to sit in with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, are now...

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Take the Deal, President Trump

Cutting Military Spending Would Make for a Big and Beautiful Bill

by | May 19, 2025 |

Last week, Moody’s Ratings lowered the United States credit rating. Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings had already lowered the US rating. This new downgrade was driven by Congress’s failure to make any efforts to reduce the almost 37 trillion dollars national debt. When Moody’s made its announcement, the House Budget Committee was scrambling to get the votes to pass legislation extending the 2017 tax cuts. President Trump has dubbed this the “big beautiful bill.” The bill also has new...

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There Is Only One Way to Eradicate Mexico’s Drug Cartels

There Is Only One Way to Eradicate Mexico’s Drug Cartels

by | May 17, 2025 |

There is only one way to eradicate Mexico’s drug cartels and the massive violence that has come with them. That one way is drug legalization — that is, the end of the drug war by legalizing the possession, ingestion, and distribution of all drugs. There is no other way to eradicate Mexico’s drug cartels. Longtime readers of The Future of Freedom Foundation know that I have emphasized this point for a few decades. But it just bears repeating periodically, given that so many people, including,...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

US Military to Leave Iraq

US Military to Leave Iraq

by | Sep 8, 2024

In August, the news arrived that United States military forces and assets had been removed from Niger. Writing about this development, I opined on August 6 that “the US would be...

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