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America the Ugly

America the Ugly

by | Apr 15, 2025 |

President Trump might have inadvertently come up with the perfect solution to America’s decades-old, ongoing, never-ending, perpetual immigration crisis. That solution entails making America so ugly that foreigners will no longer want to come here. After all, that’s what North Korea did. Like the United States, North Korea militarized and sealed its southern border, established a police state, and isolated itself from the rest of the world. Today, no one is striving to get into North Korea...

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Syrian Show Trial for Catholic Nun, Who Spoke Truth to Power

Syrian Show Trial for Catholic Nun, Who Spoke Truth to Power

by | Apr 15, 2025 |

The second of the photographs in this article shows me being honoured by Damascus’ Sunni community, who presented both me and Syria’s Grand Mufti with expensive robes; I quickly gave away to a local Sunni, who appreciated the robe much more than a potato muncher like me ever would. The first photo shows me, in the presence of Melkite Patriarch Gregory 111 Laham and Mother Agnes Mariam, the mother superior of a famous Syrian Melkite convent, being similarly honoured by that country’s Melkites....

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Standing at the Edge of the Iran War Cliff

Standing at the Edge of the Iran War Cliff

by | Apr 14, 2025 |

Millions of people around the world were at the edge of their seats over the weekend, waiting to hear whether Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff’s indirect talks with the Iranian foreign minister would ratchet down tensions or would break down and bring on a major Middle East war. If it seems bizarre that the outcome of a meeting between a US president’s designated negotiator and a foreign government minister could determine whether we plunge into possibly our biggest war since World War II,...

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The Dud Flu Shots

The Dud Flu Shots

by | Apr 14, 2025 |

“Getting vaccinated every year is the best way to lower your chances of getting the flu.” That is the declaration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at its website’s page dedicated to immunization for flu. The problem is that actual medical investigation instead indicates the shots are a dud when it comes to protecting people from flu. The latest study showing this comes from the Cleveland Clinic. The results show a 27 percent higher rate of flu in the 2024-25...

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War With Iran?

War With Iran?

by | Apr 12, 2025 |

There are a number of discussions about a potentially imminent U.S. war on Iran. Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism concludes that a war is more likely than not. Crooke, Mercouris and Diesen are ambivalent (vid) but also seem to expect a conflict. President Trump (or, more correct, Netanyahoo behind him) has made demands towards Iran that are designed to be rejected: End all nuclear programs Destroy medium range missiles which can reach Israel Stop support for all...

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Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?

by | Apr 11, 2025 |

According to press accounts, the Trump administration, which some right-wing libertarians have humorously described as being “antiwar,” is now contemplating dropping bombs on Mexico. Yes, real bombs that kill people and destroy things, just like the bombs that U.S. national-security state officials used to kill people in Iraq, which, like Mexico, never attacked or invaded the United States. More specifically, such a bombing campaign would target drug cartels in Mexico. Make no mistake about...

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Donald Trump is Making the Case for BRICS

Donald Trump is Making the Case for BRICS

by | Apr 10, 2025 |

The boys and girls on Wall Street heaved a big sign of relief yesterday, with the stock market making historic gains, a welcome respite for the losses of the preceding days, when Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause in the severe tariffs, opting only to impose a 10% tariff across the board. Well, not for everyone. Trump boosted tariff’s on China and China responded in kind. Last night, at a Republican fundraiser in New York City, Trump made the vulgar, crass, impolitic comment about the 70...

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Tariffs and the Constitution

Tariffs and the Constitution

by | Apr 10, 2025 |

“No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of [the Constitution’s] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.”-- Ex Parte Milligan, Supreme Court of the United States, 1866. President Donald Trump has recently imposed a national sales tax on nearly all goods emanating from outside the United States to be paid by the ultimate consumer. Thus, if you buy a Ford pickup truck in the U.S., because it...

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AIPAC leader boasts of special ‘access’ to top Trump natsec officials in leaked audio

AIPAC leader boasts of special ‘access’ to top Trump natsec officials in leaked audio

by | Apr 10, 2025 |

The Grayzone has obtained audio of an off-the-record session from the 2025 Congressional Summit of AIPAC, the main US lobbying arm of the state of Israel. Recorded by an attendee of the panel discussion, the audio features AIPAC’s new CEO, Elliott Brandt, describing how his organization has cultivated influence with three top national security officials in the Trump administration – Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Director Mike Waltz, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe – and how...

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‘Break-a-Leg’ (that old Mafia warning) – Trump has threatened Iran over an ultimatum that likely cannot be met

‘Break-a-Leg’ (that old Mafia warning) – Trump has threatened Iran over an ultimatum that likely cannot be met

by | Apr 9, 2025 |

Trump’s ultimatum to Iran? Colonel Doug Macgregor compares the Trump ultimatum to Iran to that which Austria-Hungary delivered to Serbia in 1914: An offer, in short, that “could not be refused.” Serbia accepted nine out of the ten demands. But it refused one – and Austria-Hungary immediately declared war. On 4 February, shortly after his Inauguration, President Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM); that is to say, a legally binding directive requiring government...

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Why America Don’t Need No Stinkin’ ‘Allies’

Why America Don’t Need No Stinkin’ ‘Allies’

by | Apr 9, 2025 |

OK, the title is a bit crude and is deliberately mocking in tone. But it has to be because there is a deeply-entrenched, almost sacred presumption embedded in the nation’s foreign policy catechism that “allies”, “alliances” and “coalitions of the willing” are the be-all-and-end-all of enlightened, necessary and effective foreign policy. American policy-makers and diplomats perforce should therefore never leave these shores for the wider world without them. This dogma perhaps reached its...

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Trump and Netanyahu Reaffirm Their Vision for the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

Trump and Netanyahu Reaffirm Their Vision for the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

by | Apr 8, 2025 |

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Monday and reaffirmed their desire for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, both claiming that there are other countries willing to take in the Palestinian population. Trump also said it would be a “good thing” for the US to take over and control Gaza. “Well, you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip. I think it’s an incredible piece of important real estate,” he told reporters at the Oval Office. “I...

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Trump’s Third Term

Trump’s Third Term

by | Apr 8, 2025 |

The pundits are having a difficult time understanding how President Trump would fulfill his expressed desire to serve a third term as president. Some of them have fallen back on the possibility that he is joking and just trolling his critics. Others have come up with unlikely scenarios for achieving a third term. For example, one commentator asked Trump whether he planned to have J.D. Vance run as president, with Trump as his vice-presidential running mate. Under this scenario, Vance would...

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Attack Yemen? Yeah, I Warned you, Mr. Trump

Attack Yemen? Yeah, I Warned you, Mr. Trump

by | Apr 7, 2025 |

What surprises me is that many in Washington, DC and media are surprised by the failure of the latest phase of Operation Prosperity Guardian to quell the Houthis. As Homer Simpson is prone to say, “Doh!” Here’s the latest from CNN: US air strikes in Yemen will not be enough to defeat the Houthi movement. The only way to break the resistance may be a ground operation, CNN reports, citing sources and analysts. The channel claims that the American bombings have not caused serious damage...

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Standing at the Edge of the Iran War Cliff

Liberation or Obliteration?

by | Apr 7, 2025 |

President Trump was elected in part because he promised to reduce prices and not drag the country into foreign wars. Sadly, President Trump has adopted a tariff policy that will raise prices and abandoned his “America First” foreign policy in favor of a return to Bush-era neoconservatism. Despite criticizing President Biden for bombing Yemen, President Trump has authorized bombing that country under the false pretense that Yemen’s Houthis are threatening international shipping. President Trump...

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Russia and the US made “three steps forward” after two days of consultations in Washington

Russia and the US made “three steps forward” after two days of consultations in Washington

by | Apr 7, 2025 |

The visit by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian president for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev to Washington on April 2-3, the first such visit by a senior Kremlin official since 2022, appears to have been a modest achievement whose productive outcome will be crucial in the rest of US-Russia relations.  If President Vladimir Putin’s choice fell on Dmitriev for such a hugely important pathbreaking mission,...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Folly of Escalation

by | Jun 13, 2024

As Western leaders recklessly talk of escalating the conflict in Ukraine, European voters have sent the exact opposite message. The pro-war elites are clearly out of step with...

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