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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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Cutting Military Spending Would Make for a Big and Beautiful Bill

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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‘For Posterity’s Sake’: Why the Biden-Hur Tapes is a Virtual Racketeering Indictment

‘For Posterity’s Sake’: Why the Biden-Hur Tapes is a Virtual Racketeering Indictment

by | May 17, 2025 |

“For posterity’s sake.” Those words from President Joe Biden sum up the crushing impact of the leaked audiotapes from the interview between then-President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur. Not only did they remove any serious doubt over Biden committing the federal crimes charged against President Donald Trump, but they also constituted what is akin to a political racketeering indictment against much of the Washington establishment. The interview from Oct. 8-9, 2023, has long been...

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How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy for a Century

How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy for a Century

by | May 16, 2025 |

The New York Times this week reports that the Trump administration has canceled many grants that were to fund “research” on “misinformation.” This is being presented by the media as a dastardly deed that will supposedly allow the spread of misleading or false information through various media channels. Of course, if there were any genuine interest in studying the most egregious efforts to spread misinformation, media outlets like the Times would...

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State Department must declassify Rümeysa Öztürk deportation rationale

State Department must declassify Rümeysa Öztürk deportation rationale

by | May 16, 2025 |

A federal judge recently ordered the release of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk from custody with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge William Sessions III said that Öztürk’s only apparent offense was co-authoring an op-ed critical of Israel. This is good news for free speech and due process, but the Department of Homeland Security has said it will continue its efforts to deport Öztürk. It is incumbent upon the administration to...

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What if Freedom Is Suspended?

What if Freedom Is Suspended?

by | May 15, 2025 |

What if the writ of habeas corpus has been guaranteed to the British since 1215 and to Americans since 1789? What if this encompasses the right of every person who is confined by the government against his or her will to compel the jailer to justify the confinement before a neutral judge? What if this right is personal and individual and applies to all persons at all times? What if the right can be exercised by anyone who is arrested, whether it be for spitting on the sidewalk or murder? What...

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Can Trump Slip the Grip of the Neocons?

Can Trump Slip the Grip of the Neocons?

by | May 15, 2025 |

During the 1988 campaign, George W. Bush came to the Courthouse in Maryville, TN to speak at a rally for his Dad. As we were leaving, I told my friend and later Chief of Staff, Bob Griffitts, “Bob, he is better than his Dad.” When he ran for President in 2000, then Governor Bush went all over the Country saying we needed a more humble foreign policy, and according to Foreign Policy Magazine, he "famously campaigned against nation building." The Independent Institute reported that in a 2000...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

The Trouble with Biden

The Trouble with Biden

by | Jun 28, 2024

In January I wrote that Donald Trump would likely jump at the opportunity of playing to his strength in debating Joe Biden, but that Biden, relentlessly shielded from reporters’...

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