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Futile Drug-War Murders

Futile Drug-War Murders

by | Jul 29, 2026 |

The title of an article in the Washington Post says it all: “Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes Have Failed to Curb Cocaine Supply, Pentagon and DEA Officials Say.” Imagine that. Shocking! Who would have ever thought that would be the result of the Pentagon’s murder of more than a hundred innocent people in little boats on the high seas thousands of miles away from American shores? Well, pretty much anyone who has been paying attention to the drug war for the past 50 years. No matter what US...

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The War’s Back is Broken

The War’s Back is Broken

by | Jul 28, 2026 |

Trump ordered the US military not to carry out new strikes on Iran Friday night, despite approving earlier a “Gates of Hell massive attack” on Iran. The US has now requested a new temporary ceasefire with Iran and is seeking a return to the collapsed and suspended MoU, with discussions to include Yemen, and with Trump seeking to make AnsarAllah a party to the negotiations. Clearly Trump is angry, and fears that that the war is consuming his Presidency (and his...

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Is the Department of War Covering Up the True Extent of US Casualties?

Is the Department of War Covering Up the True Extent of US Casualties?

by | Jul 28, 2026 |

Last Wednesday all the signs were pointing to a desperate action by the Trump administration to launch a ground operation inside Iran ostensibly to seize enriched nuclear material from an Iranian nuclear research facility. The report from the Wall Street Journal noted that US special ops forces were once again being deployed to the region to carry out a raid on a Hardened Deeply Buried Target (aka HDBT). But it also revealed something both disturbing and alarming: the deployment of 150 medics....

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A Free Society is an Educated Society

A Free Society is an Educated Society

by | Jul 27, 2026 |

A survey of 2,253 Americans conducted by Morning Consult and the Cato Institute provides some good news but also raises serious concerns about the future. The good news is that the survey indicates 55 percent of Americans believe the Constitution should put firm limits on government power and 58 percent say no political party should be trusted with too much power. However, the survey also indicates that four in ten Americans would approve of a president they voted for “stretching” the...

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Getting Away with Murder: Under Trump, the Buck Stops Nowhere

Getting Away with Murder: Under Trump, the Buck Stops Nowhere

by | Jul 25, 2026 |

Having burned through billions of dollars and depleted critical munitions stockpiles, the Pentagon is running out of money. Our money. According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon is facing an urgent budget shortfall caused largely by the Iran war, with some critical funding accounts expected to run dry within weeks. Training, maintenance and other military priorities are reportedly being squeezed as the government struggles to sustain Trump’s escalating conflict. Once...

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Iran warns it will strike UK air base

Iran warns it will strike UK air base

by | Jul 24, 2026 |

The IRGC has warned the United Kingdom it will be targeted if USAF bombers at the RAF Fairford base in Gloucestershire are deployed in operations against Iran. Tasnim reported the IRGC as saying, “any base used to attack Iranian soil is a legitimate target” after Fairford was used by B1B bombers. GB, a British news channel, reported: The warning, distributed through the IRGC’s Telegram channel on Thursday, came after the organisation alleged that American B-1 bombers had flown from...

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Reviving the Old Cold War Racket Against Cuba

Reviving the Old Cold War Racket Against Cuba

by | Jul 23, 2026 |

President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are making me feel like I’m smack dab back in the middle of the old Cold War racket — the racket that succeeded in making the US national-security state and its ever-growing army of “defense” contractors a permanent feature of American life. The State Department just issued a report that is straight out of the old Cold War playbook. It states that Cuba’s communist regime is behind the democratic socialist movements and radical leftist groups...

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The American Presidency and Perpetual War

The American Presidency and Perpetual War

by | Jul 23, 2026 |

One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress's constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress -- not the president -- the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages it. Over the past several decades, presidents of both major parties have increasingly treated military intervention as an executive prerogative rather than a congressional requirement. The last six presidents have not reflected...

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DeBasification… A Fancy Word for Booting the US Out of the Middle East

DeBasification… A Fancy Word for Booting the US Out of the Middle East

by | Jul 21, 2026 |

Tehran delivered to Washington via Pakistan in early April, a formalized demand for the withdrawal of US combat forces from military bases across the region. It sat in a package alongside the lifting of all sanctions and UN resolutions, the release of Iranian assets held overseas, reparations, and Iran’s right to nuclear enrichment. Instead of waiting for the US to agree to the demand, Iran has launched targeted attacks during the past two weeks on key US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi...

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A Free Society is an Educated Society

How to Honor the Dead US Service Members

by | Jul 20, 2026 |

Over the weekend the Pentagon announced that four more US soldiers have been killed in President Trump’s war on Iran. That brings the total to 17, but many believe the real number of dead US servicemembers is much higher than that. The Pentagon has claimed it has no obligation to reveal how many military personnel have been injured, which suggests that number may be much higher than we are hearing. Many of these injuries will be horrific and life-altering. Back on April 12th, President Trump...

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No Peace In Middle East Until Israel Stops Its Killing Spree

No Peace In Middle East Until Israel Stops Its Killing Spree

by | Jul 20, 2026 |

On July 17, NBC News televised portions of a lengthy investigation proving that Israeli military forces had attacked medics at least 116 times in South Lebanon over the last several months. On that same day, Reuters reported that eight people were killed and 20 others were wounded when Israeli planes carried out an air strike against mourners attending a funeral in Gaza. Most of the military equipment, guns, bullets, planes and tanks used to kill defenseless people over the last several years...

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Rahm Emmanuel’s Israel-Endorsed ‘Opposition’ to Israel

Rahm Emmanuel’s Israel-Endorsed ‘Opposition’ to Israel

by | Jul 18, 2026 |

Hoping to transition from being “Chicago’s Most Connected Banker” to once again holding elected office, the two-term former Mayor of Chicago and former chief of staff to Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, did this month what all savvy political hopefuls do: He traveled to meet some of the largest power brokers in American politics at their homes in Tel Aviv. In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama flew to Israel and declared his “unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security,” and in 2015, Hillary...

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While the Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds the Digital Police State

While the Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds the Digital Police State

by | Jul 18, 2026 |

You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. —George Orwell, 1984 While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward. The government is watching. It watches where...

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Gaming the Clock for Industry

Gaming the Clock for Industry

by | Jul 17, 2026 |

In the 1880s, in a fit of technocratic enthusiasm, the railroad industry hatched an audacious scheme. They would force every town in America to abandon what was called time for all recorded history and instead adopt a new conception. The goal was to make it easier to follow train schedules. The trouble, as they saw it, was that every town had a slightly different time on the clock. You could ride the train for an hour and be at the destination at a time not different or even earlier from one...

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Can Trump Sue Himself?

Can Trump Sue Himself?

by | Jul 16, 2026 |

The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami -- can the president sue an entity in the executive branch of the federal government and benefit from the resolution of that lawsuit? -- seems to beg the question.  How could anyone sue an entity he controls and derive a benefit from the amicable resolution of such a lawsuit at the expense of others who are not parties to the lawsuit?  Here is the backstory.  During President Donald Trump's first term in office, an IRS...

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Iran No Longer Bound by MoU, Adjusts Tactics

Iran No Longer Bound by MoU, Adjusts Tactics

by | Jul 15, 2026 |

Iran’s announcement declaring the MoU dead was quickly followed by a definitive change in Iran’s military tactics. On Tuesday, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi: ‘The U.S. has not merely ‘violated’ the Memorandum of Understanding. With tonight’s action (naval blockade) the MoU has been completely dismantled. Iran is no longer bound by the MoU. Until today Iran scrupulously adhered to the MoU… It did not attack US targets until it was first attacked. In other words, Iran...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

What Agreement?

by | Jul 1, 2026

Not surprisingly the Memorandum of Understanding ending the US-Israel war on Iran means different things to different people. Since its signing, the Trump administration has...

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Waiting for Kei Truck Freedom

Waiting for Kei Truck Freedom

by | Jun 30, 2026

In April of 2024, I wrote about the Texas government opening up roads in the state to mini vehicles often referred to as kei trucks or kei cars. Then, in December of last year,...

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The Especially Unpopular Iran War

The Especially Unpopular Iran War

by | Jun 29, 2026

According to analysis by Stephen Semler in a Friday Responsible Statecraft article, Americans’ opposition to the Iran War exceeds Americans’ previous polling-indicated opposition...

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