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Can Trump re-adjust in the post-Tianjin SCO moment? Was the timing of China ‘throwing down the SCO gauntlet’ entirely fortuitous?

Can Trump re-adjust in the post-Tianjin SCO moment? Was the timing of China ‘throwing down the SCO gauntlet’ entirely fortuitous?

by | Sep 9, 2025 |

The gloves are off. The SCO Summit was a clear demonstration of the reality of power starkly coalescing, on the one hand, and one of power visibly ebbing, on the other. The amazing military parade was the summit counterpart – it spoke loudly: You want to take us on? “We are ready.” China has thrown down the gauntlet with precision timing. (You’d almost think they had planned it that way …). “History is being written – in Russian and Chinese ink,” observed one Russian commentator. Western...

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Is Too Late to Establish a Department of Peace?

Is Too Late to Establish a Department of Peace?

by | Sep 8, 2025 |

Our waning and wanton superpower wields the world’s most expensive military, with the most expensive armaments. Washington, DC’s privilege, emerging technology, and newly assumed mantle of global mightiness fused like a bad weld in the 1947 National Security Act, producing a unleashable CIA and an unbounded and unhinged Department of Defense. It is right and proper that this permanent military bureaucracy be known as the Department of War. Everyone on the planet recognizes that it has not...

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Making Corporatism Great Again

Making Corporatism Great Again

by | Sep 8, 2025 |

President Trump has recently endorsed a policy that is arguably as socialist as anything proposed by New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani or Sen. Bernie Sanders — partial government ownership of private corporations. Earlier this year, as a condition of approving Nippon Steel’s purchase of US Steel, President Trump demanded Nippon give the US government a “golden share” in US Steel. This golden share allows the US government to overrule Nippon’s management if the government determines...

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The Danger of Loyalty Tests in US Foreign Policy

The Danger of Loyalty Tests in US Foreign Policy

by | Sep 6, 2025 |

Shahed Ghoreishi was a career‑level press officer who drafted a single, straightforward line for the State Department press office: “We do not support forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.” A short time later his proposed language was cut, and days after that he was fired — an action colleagues told reporters sent a “chilling message” through the building that veering from the administration’s framing could threaten a person’s job. That is far more than a personnel dispute. It...

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Partisan Democrats Even Oppose Efforts To End War In Ukraine

Partisan Democrats Even Oppose Efforts To End War In Ukraine

by | Sep 6, 2025 |

The Democrats are so partisan now and so eager to criticize President Trump on anything he does that they are even attacking him for entering into peace negotiations with Vladimir Putin. They are so desperate that they are even attacking him on things they used to favor, such as being tough on trade and trying to bring more jobs back to the U.S. The war between Russia and Ukraine never would have happened and could have easily been avoided if we had stuck by previous commitments by President...

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The Sword Swings Over Soros

The Sword Swings Over Soros

by | Sep 6, 2025 |

Last week, US President Donald Trump wrote on his social media page that George Soros and his "radical leftist son," Alexander Soros, should be indicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) because they support organizations that incite violent protests and riots through the Open Society Foundations (OSF) in the United States. The American president said, “Soros and his group of psychopaths have caused enormous damage ” to the...

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The Big Con

The Big Con

by | Sep 5, 2025 |

According to a report by the estimable Kelley Vlahos, this year’s National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC came replete with fireworks—of the figurative variety. In a debate moderated by Modern Age editor Dan McCarthy, American Conservative editor Curt Mills faced off with Northeastern University scholar Max Abrahms over Israel. Abrahms touted the alleged success of the US attacks on Iran and deemed those whom he called “MAGA isolationists realists” as “insane.” Mills parried by...

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Making Palestinians Go Away

Making Palestinians Go Away

by | Sep 5, 2025 |

Donald Trump, recently sporting his red ballcap modestly featuring the words “Trump Was Right About Everything,” is apparently in regular contact with Israel’s genocidal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Per Netanyahu, the most recent telephonic exchange had Trump expressing full support for the establishment of control over all of Gaza and the West Bank by the Israeli Army. Trump observed that Israel has been losing the “PR” (Public Relations) war over the carnage and must push...

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Trump’s Drug-War Murders in the Caribbean

Trump’s Drug-War Murders in the Caribbean

by | Sep 5, 2025 |

Apparently taking a page out of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug-war playbook, President Trump is taking credit for the intentional military killings of eleven people in international waters near Venezuela. Duterte is on trial right now before the International Criminal Court for allegedly ordering his drug-war goons to kill accused drug-war offenders on sight — that is, without arrest, prosecution, trial, and due process of law. That’s what Trump just did. He ordered his...

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Major conservative split over Israel spills out into the open at NatCon

Major conservative split over Israel spills out into the open at NatCon

by | Sep 4, 2025 |

Don’t look now but the foreign policy divisions among the conservatives gathered at the annual National Conservatism conference are no longer contained. Today they finally spilled out, like gushing hot lava or whatever metaphor is best, all over Breakout Session B. Fascinatingly it wasn’t over the Ukraine War, or China, but over Israel. For many realists and restrainers who include themselves in this annual event — dominated by New Right conservatives who are a bit...

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The Feds Defend Their Tortures Again

The Feds Defend Their Tortures Again

by | Sep 4, 2025 |

While the public’s attention this summer has been drawn to masked ICE agents arresting folks without warrants, presidentially imposed sales taxes on goods emanating from foreign countries that have been invalidated by three federal courts, and the fruitless Kabuki dance between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, last month, the federal government continues its slow assault on the Constitution at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In...

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Israel’s ‘New, Violent Zionism’ as a Harbinger of Imperial Geo-politics of Submission and Obedience

Israel’s ‘New, Violent Zionism’ as a Harbinger of Imperial Geo-politics of Submission and Obedience

by | Sep 3, 2025 |

Israel’s strategy from past decades continues to rest on the hope of achieving some literal Chimeric transformative “de-radicalisation” of both Palestinians and of the Region, writ large – a de-radicalisation that will make “Israel safe,” This has been the “holy grail” objective for Zionists since Israel was first founded. The code word for this chimaera today is the “Abraham Accords,” Ron Dermer, Netanyahu’s Strategic Affairs Minister, former Israeli Ambassador to Washington and key Trump...

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A Police State Presidency: When ‘Rule of Law’ Becomes ‘Rule by Gunpoint

A Police State Presidency: When ‘Rule of Law’ Becomes ‘Rule by Gunpoint

by | Sep 3, 2025 |

Donald Trump has always been a master of imagery. From his red MAGA hats to his choreographed rallies, he understands the language of spectacle. Now he has discovered the perfect propaganda machine: AI-generated images. AI allows the creation of endless variations of Trump-as-warrior, Trump-as-enforcer, Trump-as-savior. These images spread across social media, replicated, remixed, and shared until they become familiar, even normalized. The latest AI-generated images of Trump,...

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Making Corporatism Great Again

Department of War?

by | Sep 2, 2025 |

Last week President Trump took steps to re-name the Department of Defense the “Department of War.” The President explained his rationale for the name change: “It used to be called the Department of War and it had a stronger sound. We want defense, but we want offense too ... As Department of War we won everything…and I think we…have to go back to that." At first it sounds like a terrible idea. A “Department of War” may well make war more likely – the “stronger sound” may embolden the US...

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Israel And The West Set The Stage For Next Round Of Warfare On Iran

Israel And The West Set The Stage For Next Round Of Warfare On Iran

by | Sep 2, 2025 |

Peace-loving people throughout the world breathed a sigh of relief when the Israeli-American war on Iran ended in June after 12 days, with President Trump racing to triumphantly declare US strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program. While his rhetoric suggested he wanted Israel and the world to view the US bombing as a lasting resolution of accusations that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons, Israel and its Western collaborators are already setting the stage for new aggression against...

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Von der Leyen Is Lying About Russian GPS Interference

Von der Leyen Is Lying About Russian GPS Interference

by | Sep 2, 2025 |

There is reason why the name of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is often mangled into von der Lying. She is notoriously negligent with facts. Here she is caught outright lying to spread fake anti-Russian propaganda. When I read the headline below, first published by the Financial Times, I immediately thought that something was very wrong with it. Ursula von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference (archived) - FT, Sep 1 2025 A...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Good for Woody Allen

Good for Woody Allen

by | Aug 25, 2025

As the United States and Russia governments have over the last decade-plus drifted into relations that bring to mind the cold war and that have brought forward the prospect of...

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Starving Gazans

Starving Gazans

by | Jul 23, 2025

Gazans are starving. They are starving because of the actions of the Israel government, undertaken with the critical support of the United States government. A Wednesday...

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The Divine Right of Donald Trump

The Divine Right of Donald Trump

by | Jul 16, 2025

Many people, including President Donald Trump, have been suggesting over the last year that, because Trump survived being shot at during the 2024 presidential campaign, he and...

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