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Israel Crosses Iran’s Redline in a Mission to Prevent Trump From Signing a Peace Deal with Iran

Israel Crosses Iran’s Redline in a Mission to Prevent Trump From Signing a Peace Deal with Iran

by | Jun 8, 2026 |

Nine days after Iran warned the West, Israel in particular, that any further attacks on Beirut would result in Iran retaliating against Israel, Israel hit the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. The attack on Sunday afternoon sent plumes of smoke rising over the suburb, with strikes targeting two apartments in two buildings. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the attack in the Dahiyeh district, saying it was in retaliation for an earlier Hezbollah strike on Israel. At least two...

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Iran Needs Escalation To Avoid The Ceasefire Trap

Iran Needs Escalation To Avoid The Ceasefire Trap

by | Jun 5, 2026 |

A typical US tactic against a strategic target is to ‘boil the frog’ by slowly increasing the temperature of the water it is sitting it. The conflict in Ukraine is an good example for this. Hits against Russia, directed by the CIA, are escalated bit by bit while Russia is reluctant to more severe deterrence measures. The current war on Iran is another example. The US is insisting on a ceasefire while trying to erode Iran’s leverage with economic strangulation. Iran’s major weapon, the blockade...

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House Votes to Terminate Iran War, While Preparing to Vote to Ramp Up the Ukraine War

House Votes to Terminate Iran War, While Preparing to Vote to Ramp Up the Ukraine War

by | Jun 4, 2026 |

On May 25, I wrote about how the Republican leadership of the United States House of Representatives had put off until the House would return from recess in June a vote on ending the Iran War. It had appeared that the war termination resolution would win a majority vote on the House floor Here is an update. On Wednesday, with the House having come back into session this first week of June, the vote on the Iran War resolution took place. The resolution passed by a vote of 215 to 208. Breaking...

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If This Is Winning, America Can’t Afford Much More of It

If This Is Winning, America Can’t Afford Much More of It

by | Jun 4, 2026 |

“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning.”—Donald Trump Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning. If this is what winning looks like, America can’t afford much more of it. We are losing ground economically. We are losing credibility abroad. We are losing tourists, workers, stability, trust, constitutional guardrails, and whatever remained of the illusion that the government answers to “we the people.” The tourism economy is taking a hit, with...

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Conservatives Miss the Point on Marijuana

Conservatives Miss the Point on Marijuana

by | Jun 4, 2026 |

Medical marijuana is legal in 40 states and Puerto Rico. Recreational marijuana is legal in 24 states. Both are legal in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Many conservatives are very upset about this. Naomi Schaefer Riley is one such conservative. She is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on child welfare and foster care issues. She is also a senior fellow at the Independent...

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Gitmo and Torture Revisited

Gitmo and Torture Revisited

by | Jun 4, 2026 |

America’s longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date. The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Originally, the feds had labeled Osama bin Laden as the ringleader. Yet, rather than charging and arresting bin Laden, in order to keep him quiet it sent a team of Navy...

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Iran War Effect Marks the Resetting of World Geo-politics

Iran War Effect Marks the Resetting of World Geo-politics

by | Jun 3, 2026 |

Seemingly, every day brings breathless new claims that an U.S.-Iran “deal” awaits only a signature. As so often happens, the mediators (Pakistanis and Qataris) hope to manage both sides by telling one side that the other party is at the brink of agreement when it is not so, especially in an atmosphere of total mistrust. By these means the mediators hope to push matters towards a final agreement. It is a familiar tactic, but one that quite often results in confusion and distrust – rather than...

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The Israelization of the United States Military Is Proceeding

The Israelization of the United States Military Is Proceeding

by | Jun 2, 2026 |

Few Americans know the history of how Israel’s “wag the dog” relationship with the United States developed. Israel’s 1967 successful war against its neighbors demonstrated to military planners in Washington how a qualitative edge in weapons could enable a small country to resist much larger and seemingly more powerful adversaries. Israel was largely supplied with French weapons at the time that reportedly out-performed the Russian equipment in the hands of Syria and Egypt. As a consequence, in...

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Israeli Authorities Refuse to Return Massive Trove of Oct 7 Video. What are They Hiding?

Israeli Authorities Refuse to Return Massive Trove of Oct 7 Video. What are They Hiding?

by | Jun 2, 2026 |

The Israeli government is still holding a massive trove of video documentation of the Oct. 7 attack captured by individuals and communities caught up in the fighting. One bereaved parent even accuses Israeli authorities of deleting a video of her son’s last moments before returning his phone to her.  According to Israel’s Channel 13, “all the cameras, memory cards and films that documented the atrocities were collected, but two and a half years later, these materials have not been...

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Trump Administration Targets Americans Opposed to Zionism

Trump Administration Targets Americans Opposed to Zionism

by | Jun 1, 2026 |

Gabrielle Cuccia, a MAGA influencer and former chief Pentagon correspondent for One America News (OAN), was hired earlier this year to write a script for Vine & Fig Tree Institute (VFT), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization “that combats antisemitism and hate.” The image of “vine and fig tree” is mentioned several times in the Old Testament. References appear in Kings, Micha, and Isaiah. “VFT is a pro-Israel organization with ties to the administration,” Cuccia posted to X on May 22....

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The Federal Reserve is Why the People are Unhappy

The Federal Reserve is Why the People are Unhappy

by | Jun 1, 2026 |

According to the University of Michigan’s latest Index of Consumer Sentiment, a record number of Americans have negative views of the economy. This is yet more evidence that the American people are dissatisfied with their economic condition. Some commentators have claimed to be perplexed by the people’s negative views of the economy since government statistics show that most Americans have good jobs that pay them good salaries. One problem with this defense of the economy is that government...

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Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries

Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries

by | May 30, 2026 |

At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the US to the Israeli military more than ever before. Buried in the House's version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the US military with the Israeli military than the more...

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The US Bares Its Fangs against US Citizens

The US Bares Its Fangs against US Citizens

by | May 30, 2026 |

The fangs of the US Empire are now being bared against not only the Cuban people but also against the American people. The Empire has issued subpoenas to two American citizens — Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink, and Hasan Piker requiring them to provide Empire officials with detailed information about a trip that Benjamin and Piker recently took to Cuba. The purpose of their trip? To assist the Cuban people, who the Empire has targeted with death and suffering as part of the Empire’s...

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The Permanent War Government: Who’s Really Calling the Shots in Washington?

The Permanent War Government: Who’s Really Calling the Shots in Washington?

by | May 28, 2026 |

Who is actually running the government? That is no longer a rhetorical question. As America’s war with Iran lurches from escalation to ceasefire to renewed threats of military force, Americans are being asked to trust that someone, somewhere, knows what they are doing. But who? This is the constitutional crisis hiding in plain sight. The question is not merely whether Donald Trump is fit to lead. The question is whether any president still leads in any meaningful constitutional sense once the...

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A Nation of Suspects

A Nation of Suspects

by | May 28, 2026 |

Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal government spies on innocent Americans without suspicion and without warrants. The spying seems to fall into several categories. The National Security Agency, which is in the Department of Defense, employs...

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Delcy’s ‘Gatekeeper’: Sources say ex-Trump Official Claver-Carone Holds Keys to Caracas

Delcy’s ‘Gatekeeper’: Sources say ex-Trump Official Claver-Carone Holds Keys to Caracas

by | May 27, 2026 |

Speaking with reporters on May 21, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez was on her way to New Delhi to discuss energy issues, and that he would be in India as well. “This is an important trip, I’m glad we’re able to do it,” Rubio chirped after explaining the trio of nations would discuss how to increase Venezuelan oil sales to India. His statement — and his announcement of Rodriguez’s trip before she had — perfectly illustrated Washington’s...

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Governor Thomas Massie?

Governor Thomas Massie?

by | Apr 10, 2026

A run for governor may be in the future for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), but only if he first wins his May 19 Republican primary contest — the next step in his race for reelection...

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