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My Weekend in Moscow

My Weekend in Moscow

by | Mar 14, 2025 |

When an invitation from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the renowned Professor Alexander Dugin to visit them in Moscow arrived in my inbox, it was actually the culmination of a series of emails and telephone calls from Russian-American friends giving me a heads up. Still, it startled me. So, last week, I flew to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and from there to Moscow. The sanctions President Joe Biden imposed on Russian persons and businesses -- and kept in place by President...

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DOJ Deploys ‘Antisemitism Task Force’ to Four US Cities as Part of Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Protests

DOJ Deploys ‘Antisemitism Task Force’ to Four US Cities as Part of Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Protests

by | Mar 14, 2025 |

The US Department of Justice said Thursday that its recently created “Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism” will be heading to four US cities as part of the Trump administration’s broad crackdown on college protests critical of Israel. The DOJ said the task force, led by attorney Leo Terrell, will be visiting the leadership of New York, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles to discuss “their responses to incidents of antisemitism at schools and on college campuses in their cities...

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Trump Opts For More War With Russia

Trump Opts For More War With Russia

by | Mar 13, 2025 |

The Trump administration has decided to resume the provision of weapons and intelligence to Ukraine. It is thus aiming at escalating the conflict. The outcome of yesterday's talk between a Ukrainian and a U.S. delegation Saudi Arabia was not completely in favor of the European/Ukrainian idea of a 30 day ceasefire restricted to air and sea attacks. But it opened the desired pathway to prolonging the war. The U.S. asked the Ukrainians to accept a 30 day long ceasefire offer. This would of course...

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The Genesis of Sectarian Violence in Syria: The Fall of Assad to US Supported Extremists and the Massacre of Christians and Alawites

The Genesis of Sectarian Violence in Syria: The Fall of Assad to US Supported Extremists and the Massacre of Christians and Alawites

by | Mar 13, 2025 |

While many in Washington claim to defend Christianity and Western values, their policies have led to the systematic annihilation of some of the world's oldest Christian communities. The same politicians who posture as defenders of faith have not just turned a blind eye to the suffering of Christians in the Middle East, from Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza to Lebanon and Syria, they have chosen instead to fund their murderers. U.S. tax dollars funneled through the CIA and USAID, have played a...

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When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins

When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins

by | Mar 13, 2025 |

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state. You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship. You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law. There’s always a boomerang effect. Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out...

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MAGA should embrace Thomas Massie

MAGA should embrace Thomas Massie

by | Mar 13, 2025 |

Donald Trump managed to get his preferred spending bill passed in the House of Representatives without Thomas Massie. The Kentucky Republican’s was the only vote Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson lost in their bid to send the bill to the Senate and avert a government shutdown on Friday. In the process, though, MAGA subjected one of the Right’s best ambassadors to a fresh round of abuse in a doomed pressure campaign that never had a chance of succeeding. “POTUS is spending his day attacking...

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Mr. Trump, you would’ve been lucky to have Dan Davis on your team

Mr. Trump, you would’ve been lucky to have Dan Davis on your team

by | Mar 12, 2025 |

Earlier today the Jewish Insider magazine ran a story saying that the White House tapped retired Lt. Col. Danny Davis for Deputy Director of National Intelligence, working under the newly confirmed DNI Tulsi Gabbard. It was a hit piece by a pro-Israel platform that primarily focused on Davis's critical views — published only in articles and on his popular podcast — on Gaza and Iran. Within hours, he was informed there would be no job, Responsible Statecraft has confirmed....

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Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal is Former Israeli Spy

Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal is Former Israeli Spy

by | Mar 12, 2025 |

The professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli intelligence official, MintPress News can reveal. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack on Gaza. Khalil’s dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former...

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Europe Faces a MAGA ‘Vibe-Shift’ as Trump Moves to his Primordial Objective – The Global Reset

Europe Faces a MAGA ‘Vibe-Shift’ as Trump Moves to his Primordial Objective – The Global Reset

by | Mar 12, 2025 |

President Trump wants Ukraine settled, full stop. This is so that he can move ahead quickly – to normalise with Russia, and begin the “big picture” project of setting a new World Order, one that will end wars and facilitate business ties. The point here – which Europe feigns to not understand – is that the end to the Ukraine conflict simply is Trump’s “gateway” to the entire rationale and platform on which he stood: The Great Reset of the Geo-Political landscape. Ukraine, simply...

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President Trump, Where Are Those Long-Secret JFK Records?

President Trump, Where Are Those Long-Secret JFK Records?

by | Mar 11, 2025 |

It has now been two months since Donald Trump assumed the presidency. The question naturally arises: Where are those long-secret JFK Records that he repeatedly promised to release to the American people? Or to be more precise, why are those long-secret JFK records still secret? What’s up with the delay, President Trump? After all, it takes about one minute to write and sign an executive order that states as follows: “I, President Donald Trump, hereby order the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, the...

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It’s Rescission Time

It’s Rescission Time

by | Mar 10, 2025 |

The politicians who run the GOP on Capitol Hill are about ready to rug-pull Elon Musk and his patron in the Oval Office big time. That is, the so-called “clean CR [continuing resolution]” that Speaker Johnson is apparently cooking up will ratify the entirety of the runaway spending in the last Biden budget, thereby cancelling virtually every single dime that the DOGE operation has purportedly saved. This awful outlook, of course, is a consequence of the stacked institutional mechanics that...

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Tariffs are Theft

Tariffs are Theft

by | Mar 10, 2025 |

The US and China came closer to a full-fledged trade war last week when China imposed tariffs of up to 15 percent on key US agricultural exports. This was retaliation for President Trump’s increasing of tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States from 10 percent to 20 percent. China’s retaliatory tariffs show how export-dependent industries are harmed by protectionist policies. Even if other countries refrain from imposing retaliatory tariffs, exporters can still suffer from reduced demand...

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DEA Agent Kiki Camarena Died for Nothing

DEA Agent Kiki Camarena Died for Nothing

by | Mar 8, 2025 |

In a desperate attempt to placate President Trump in the hope of averting his imposition of a 25 percent tariff on her nation, Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum recently sent a Mexican citizen named Rafael Caro Quintero to Trump. Caro Quintero is alleged to have orchestrated the kidnapping, torture, and execution of a DEA agent named Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. For his part, Trump is claiming that his tariff plan is designed to combat drug cartels in Mexico, which are shipping fentanyl to the...

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Trump May Succeed Where Others Failed in Personnel Cutting

Trump May Succeed Where Others Failed in Personnel Cutting

by | Mar 6, 2025 |

Disclaimer: Then-Vice President Al Gore awarded my State Department team in Seoul in the mid-90’s a Hammer Award for helping “reinvent government.” Gore was in charge of the Clinton-era plan to create a government that costs less and works better. The plan mostly depended on us run-of-the-mill employees to come up with cost saving hacks and strategies within our own offices. The award, a mounted gold-painted hammer, was supposed to remind us of the expensive, wasteful procurements by the...

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Taking Rights Seriously

Taking Rights Seriously

by | Mar 6, 2025 |

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,and only one person were of the contrary opinion,Mankind would be no more justifiedIn silencing that one person,Than he, if he had the power,Would be justified in silencing mankind.” -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world is filled with self-evident truths -- truisms -- that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proven. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Two plus two equals four. A cup of boiling hot coffee sitting on a...

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NATO: The Case To Get Out Now

NATO: The Case To Get Out Now

by | Mar 5, 2025 |

See David Stockman in person at the Ron Paul Institute's Spring Conference! The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions: First, the Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine, even as the Fed has run out of capacity to monetize the skyrocketing public debt. Second, the only viable starting point for fiscal salvation is slashing the nation’s elephantine Warfare State by at least $500 billion per year. Third, the route to that end is a return...

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