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Iran vs the US and Israel — Kabuki Theater on Steroids

Iran vs the US and Israel — Kabuki Theater on Steroids

by | Jun 24, 2025 |

Any moment now I am expecting John Cleese (a veteran of Monty Python) to jump out of the bushes and announce the creation of the Ministry of Silly Wars, with Donald Trump as the deranged leader. For you youngsters out there, Monty Python’s skit, The Ministry of Silly Walks, helped make the members of MP legends. I had to reference Monty Python because the line of bullshit the Trump administration is feeding the American people and the world about the amazing, obliterating US attack on Iranian...

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President Trump: End the War Now!

President Trump: End the War Now!

by | Jun 23, 2025 |

Just a few weeks ago in this space I urged President Trump to accept a deal with Iran allowing it to continue pursuing civilian nuclear power while ensuring that it would not pursue nuclear weapons. Iran signaled it was ready to sign such a deal, yet suddenly Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff changed the US position to demand no civilian nuclear enrichment at all. The US Administration understood that Iran could not accept such a demand – that it had that right as a signatory of the...

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Trump Takes America to War

Trump Takes America to War

by | Jun 23, 2025 |

There is a somewhat troublesome backstory to President Donald Trump’s glorification of how Saturday’s US forces attack on three Iranian nuclear sites that “completely obliterated” their targets was carried out without any declaration of war against a country that has not attacked and was not in any way threatening the United States. Minus any imminent threat as a justification, it was a direct Executive Branch challenge to the War Powers Act of 1973, which was intended to maintain...

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A Day That Will Live in Infamy

A Day That Will Live in Infamy

by | Jun 23, 2025 |

On the 21st of June, a day that will live in infamy, President Trump led the American People to War with Iran. Trump’s message to Americans? Striking Iran's three nuclear facilities is all that U.S. Forces will do. Unless, of course, the Iranians have the temerity to strike back. In that case Trump promises to destroy Iran. Ridiculous. Washington has launched its own Pearl Harbor operation.  U.S. Air and Naval Power executed rehearsed strikes against a few "critical" Iranian targets. Then,...

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Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna Argue Congress Should Terminate US War on Iran

by | Jun 22, 2025 |

Interviewed Sunday by Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation at CBS, United States House of Representatives members Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority in ordering this weekend’s US military attack on Iran. The US Congress, they declared. should take action to prevent more use of the US military against Iran. You can watch their interview here: Promoted by both representatives in the interview is the war powers resolution they...

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Will Trump Attack Iran?

Will Trump Attack Iran?

by | Jun 21, 2025 |

This article first appeared as an exclusive to Ron Paul Institute subscribers. Subscribe here for free. As of this writing, the United States military appears to have all of its assets in place for a major attack on Iran. Over the past several days we have seen unprecedented re-orientation of US vast military might from the coast of California to Qatar and everything in-between. President Trump is set to take the United States into a "pre-emptive" war against a country that has not attacked us...

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The Real National Emergency: Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic

The Real National Emergency: Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic

by | Jun 21, 2025 |

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”—President Dwight D. Eisenhower (April 16, 1953) Seventy years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about the cost of a military-industrial complex, America is still stealing from its own people to fund a global empire. In 2025 alone, the U.S. has launched airstrikes in Yemen (Operation Rough...

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Alarming Fox Report Says Tactical Nukes ‘Not Off The Table’ For Trump’s Iran Response

Alarming Fox Report Says Tactical Nukes ‘Not Off The Table’ For Trump’s Iran Response

by | Jun 20, 2025 |

We described earlier that the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has reportedly informed American officials that destroying Iran’s heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility might require the use of a nuclear weapon, based on The Guardian. Officials, briefed on the limitations of the GBU-57 — a 30,000-pound conventional bunker-buster bomb — are worried that even if President Trump give the order it may not be powerful enough to reach and destroy the...

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The Dangerous New Neoconservatism

The Dangerous New Neoconservatism

by | Jun 20, 2025 |

It is remarkable that many of those who swore never to repeat the mistakes of the Iraq invasion are now set on another misconceived adventure. Once again we are told that a Middle Eastern nation needs to be bombed so it can taste the fruit of freedom. Once again the propaganda machine is on overdrive. Once again it is said that the regime is days away from attacking not just Israel but all of its Western allies with weapons of mass destruction. This is a claim that, in the case of Iran, has...

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World War III Update

World War III Update

by | Jun 20, 2025 |

Here is my prediction… Donald Trump will change his mind at least three times in the next three days. Trump did nothing to calm fears that he has lost touch with reality when his press secretary, Ms. Leavitt, announced that Trump would make the decision on US participation in a war with Iran within two weeks, since there was still a chance for negotiations. That makes sense. The Zionist crowd in Washington and Tel Aviv are chirping that Iran is just a week away from building a nuke, so Trump...

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Nuclear War Ala Mode?

Nuclear War Ala Mode?

by | Jun 19, 2025 |

One of the more interesting aspects of the expanding war between Israel and Iran is the way the media and the crowd of “experts” have avoided any discussion of the possible, or perhaps even likely, upcoming decision of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dig deep into his secret nuclear weapons arsenal to enable the total destruction of Iran’s prime targets. Such targets are likely to include Iran’s own apparently civilian use nuclear develop program, which is protected deep underground in...

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Ron Paul Rewind: No War on Iran Without a Congressional Declaration of War

by | Jun 19, 2025 |

It is déjà vu concerning the United States going to war against Iran. Back in a February of 2012 Republican presidential nomination race debate, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was asked about if the US should go to war against Iran because of the same purported threat that President Donald Trump is now using to support movement toward war on Iran — that Iran may soon have a nuclear weapon. In answer, Paul stood out from his three opponents at the debate, arguing that the US government should not take...

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Trump, War and the Constitution

Trump, War and the Constitution

by | Jun 19, 2025 |

Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be central to a debate over the U.S. involvement in Ukraine, Gaza and Iran. Sadly, there has been no great debate. The mainstream media are mouthing what the CIA is telling them, and only a few websites and podcasts are...

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Trump Orders ‘Unconditional Surrender’ by Iran. Who’s Listening?

Trump Orders ‘Unconditional Surrender’ by Iran. Who’s Listening?

by | Jun 18, 2025 |

Israel’s blitzkrieg against Iran five days ago is failing spectacularly. The Russian media reported that: i) Israel’s Rafael weapons complex has been destroyed; ii) Haifa oil refinery is in flames; iii) the Iron Dome has been breached; iv) and, Israel’s air dominance is a figment of imagination.  On Tuesday, Iran fired cruise missiles for the first time against Israel. Another wave of Iranian missile and drone attack targeted the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, where stealth fighter...

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Secret Deals, Endless Wars: The America First Betrayal in Iran?

Secret Deals, Endless Wars: The America First Betrayal in Iran?

by | Jun 18, 2025 |

Israel’s airstrikes on Iran and US involvement shatter the illusion that America First guides President Trump’s Middle East policy. The hijacking of “America First” for hawkish goals is clear as Trump treads the same failed interventionist path in the Middle East. Beyond policy, these attempts to co-opt the legacy of America First for the sake of the status quo discard key insights once associated with the label. The America Firsters of old would be appalled at the US government’s...

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The regime change maniacs are back: Iran is in their sights, and they’ve learned nothing

The regime change maniacs are back: Iran is in their sights, and they’ve learned nothing

by | Jun 18, 2025 |

In 2002, the Bush administration was met with scant resistance from the mainstream media or wider establishment as it drummed up the case for toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. But there were a handful of dissenters, above all Brent Scowcroft. The two-time former national-security adviser (under Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush) urged the nation to consider the law of unintended consequences — and to open its imagination to nightmare scenarios. A similar imagination is desperately...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Julian Assange Speaks

by | Oct 3, 2024

It was wonderful news to many people last week when word came that Julian Assange would speak publicly this week. For a long time it seemed that such a day would never come as...

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J.D. Vance, Israel Firster

J.D. Vance, Israel Firster

by | Oct 2, 2024

Donald Trump likes to talk about how he puts America first. Last night, Trump’s presidential race running mate J.D. Vance made it clear that Vance has other priorities. In answer...

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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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