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The Kellogg Framework is a Disaster for Trump

The Kellogg Framework is a Disaster for Trump

by | Apr 29, 2025 |

Political warfare in Washington is endemic. But the body count at the Pentagon has started to rise precipitously. Three of Secretary of Defence Hegseth’s top advisors were placed on leave, and then fired. The war continues, with the Secretary now in the firing line. Why this matters is that the Hegseth attrition comes amid fierce internal debates in the Trump administration about Iran policy. Hawks want a definitive elimination of all Iran’s nuclear and weapons capabilities, whilst many...

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The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back

by | Apr 28, 2025 |

News this week that Elon Musk will soon be departing his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is a grim reminder of what happens when you challenge big spending DC. Unfortunately, the lesson once again is that when you challenge the empire, the empire eventually strikes back. President Trump rode into office with the help of Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to cut two trillion dollars in spending and slash useless and bloated government bureaucracies. Opinion polls demonstrated the huge...

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The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 2

The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 2

by | Apr 28, 2025 |

(Read part 1 here) The decade of 2000 marked the start of Ukraine becoming a de facto member of NATO. It not only participated in all of the main exercises, but it hosted many. In fact, between 2000 and 2010, Ukraine is ranked in the top six of countries that hosted a NATO or USEUCOM exercise. Ukraine and Georgia, who was ranked number seven, were not NATO members. What the hell? Two non-NATO countries hosted more NATO exercises than 22 of the member nations. This is prima facie evidence that...

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The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 1

The Road to War in Ukraine — The History of NATO and US Military Exercises With Ukraine — Part 1

by | Apr 26, 2025 |

This is the first of a three-part series on the history of NATO and US European Command military exercises with Ukraine. This shows how the West, acting like a camel, slipped its big nose under the Ukrainian tent as part of a long-term strategy to defeat Russia. While many of these exercises were touted as peacekeeping in nature, the real purpose was to train and equip Ukraine with the ultimate goal of fighting and defeating Russia. In July 1998, for example, NATO’s Sea...

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A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ and Negotiation

A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ and Negotiation

by | Apr 26, 2025 |

Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form of an “industrial concern” infused with Deep State ideology, centred primarily on preserving U.S. global power (rather than on mending of the economy). The key MAGA issue however is not foreign policy, but how to structurally re-balance an economic paradigm in danger of an extinction event. Trump has always been clear that this forms his primordial...

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Gang Deportations Are a Fool’s Errand; Instead, End the Drug War

Gang Deportations Are a Fool’s Errand; Instead, End the Drug War

by | Apr 25, 2025 |

As part of its border strategy, the administration deported Venezuelan migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, claiming the deportees were Tren de Aragua gang members. Because of the nature of gang documentation, the claim that they are all violent gang members is dubious. The policy is more than a legal civil liberties nightmare; it is strategically ill-advised. Deporting suspected gang members will not stop gangs. Transnational gangs are a serious problem, but there is...

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Russia/Ukraine: Final Offer

by | Apr 25, 2025 |

Is Trump’s plan to end the Ukraine conflict a dead letter on arrival? A ceasefire is not peace. Freezing the conflict does not address security issues. Washington provoked this conflict. This is why Trump’s attempt to mediate is doomed to fail. CrossTalking with Daniel McAdams, Hall Gardner, and Alexandre Guerreiro.

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HHS – a Billy Club Enforcing Allegiance to the Israel Government

HHS – a Billy Club Enforcing Allegiance to the Israel Government

by | Apr 25, 2025 |

Supporters of liberty had much reason for hope due to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This man’s tenacity and eloquence in challenging the coronavirus crackdowns suggested great potential accomplishments for both liberty and health at HHS with him in the lead. Indeed, there are early signs that HHS under Kennedy’s oversight is seeking to roll back the dangerous to health and liberty extreme vaccine pushing mission the department...

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The Worst Pope in History

The Worst Pope in History

by | Apr 24, 2025 |

A little over a year ago, I spent a week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a university-like organization of scholars that explores ideas of interest to the Vatican. Last year, the Academy addressed the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas on the 750th anniversary of his death. This is not an esoteric subject. Aquinas taught that all rational persons are capable of discerning right from wrong and good from evil by the exercise of...

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War Dust and Collateral Inhalation: Israel Breathes in Gaza’s Dust

War Dust and Collateral Inhalation: Israel Breathes in Gaza’s Dust

by | Apr 23, 2025 |

Gaza is suffering the most intense bombing, per capita, of anywhere on earth, ever. Over 100,000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Gaza, an area slightly smaller than the City of Detroit, Michigan, resulting in the recorded deaths of at least 60,000 Gazans and injuries to hundreds of thousands.¹ It is impossible to overstate the effects of the abominable bombing war on Gazans, their lives, their families, their health, and their communities. What has escaped attention up until now is the...

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Stop the US Abuse of Cuba

Stop the US Abuse of Cuba

by | Apr 23, 2025 |

Amidst the horrific US abuse of foreigners through the use of tariffs and police-state enforcement of immigration controls, it’s easy to forget that the US government abuses foreigners in other ways, such as sanctions, embargoes, invasions, occupations, wars of aggression, torture, indefinite detention, and state-sponsored assassinations. Perhaps the longest-lasting, continuous example of this foreigner-abuse syndrome is the US government’s horrific abuse of the Cuban people, which has gone on...

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Israel – Killing  Ambulance Workers, Starving Little Children

Israel – Killing  Ambulance Workers, Starving Little Children

by | Apr 23, 2025 |

On Palm Sunday (April 13), Israeli bombs destroyed the surgery and intensive care sections of the “last fully functional hospital in Gaza City,” according to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The hospital was run by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, part of the Anglican Church. The bombs also struck surrounding buildings, including St. Philip’s Church. The Diocese said it was “appalled” at the bombing of the hospital and church “on the morning of Palm Sunday and the beginning...

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US Plays ‘Mediator’ in its Own War on Russia

US Plays ‘Mediator’ in its Own War on Russia

by | Apr 22, 2025 |

CNN in a recent article has reported that: The United States could end its efforts on ending the Ukrainian conflict within “days” if there are no signs of progress, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Friday. 'If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,' he told reporters before departing Paris, where he had held high-level talks with European and Ukrainian officials. 'We need to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about a matter of days, whether...

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Trump’s Unconstitutional, Presidential War Against Yemen

Trump’s Unconstitutional, Presidential War Against Yemen

by | Apr 22, 2025 |

For Americans who still think that Donald Trump is an advocate of realism and restraint in foreign policy, the events in Yemen should come as a rude awakening.  Unfortunately, the most prominent indicator enabled the president’s political opponents to evade their own share of the blame for the tragic events in that country.  Revelations that members of Trump’s national security team had conducted a discussion of highly classified information about war plans in Yemen over an...

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Fateful Errors: Why NATO Leaders Should Have Listened to George Kennan in 1997

Fateful Errors: Why NATO Leaders Should Have Listened to George Kennan in 1997

by | Apr 21, 2025 |

In 1997, veteran U.S. diplomat George Kennan stated that ‘expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American foreign policy in the entire post-Cold War era’. Twenty-eight years later, who would say he was wrong? George Kennan famously authored the U.S. policy of containment of the Soviet Union, in an article in the New York Times of 1947, which he signed X, to maintain his anonymity. His view was that containment would lead to the eventual break up or mellowing of Soviet power and, as...

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The Empire Strikes Back

REAL ID: Phony Security, Real Authoritarianism

by | Apr 21, 2025 |

Those who hoped the second Trump Administration would reject big spending, war, and restrictions on liberty continue to be disappointed. A new disappointment came when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced her department would in May begin enforcing the REAL ID law. Passed in 2005, the REAL ID Act created federal standards for driver’s licenses. The law requires everyone applying for a driver’s license to provide the DMV with his social security number, proof of legal...

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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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