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Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces US Gold Reserves Audit Bill

Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces US Gold Reserves Audit Bill

by | Jun 6, 2025 |

The United States government says it has about 261 million troy ounces of gold in its gold reserves. That is rather impressive, if true. The US government is not a great role model for honesty, though. So, it seems a good idea to put its gold claim to the test. President Donald Trump talked on occasion in the first couple months of his second term about traveling to Fort Knox where much of the gold is supposed to be held to check if it is really there. But, more recently, he has largely gone...

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The ‘Golden Dome’ is Pure Fantasy

The ‘Golden Dome’ is Pure Fantasy

by | Jun 6, 2025 |

Mutzig, France – First stop on my annual visit to France’s mighty Maginot Line forts is this lovely Alsatian town. Mutzig was built by the Germans 1893-1916 to defend against enemy approaches to the important city of Strasbourg. It was – and remains – the largest modern fortress in Europe. The vast fortress, which covers over 800 acres, was never attacked during World War I by the Germans or French. But as Europe’s first important fortress made of concrete and fully electrified, it was eagerly...

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Jake Tapper: Biden Cover-up ‘Worse Than Watergate’

Jake Tapper: Biden Cover-up ‘Worse Than Watergate’

by | Jun 5, 2025 |

For years, Jake Tapper, the leading newsreader for CNN, has been very unfair to and very biased against Republicans in general, and to President Trump in particular. Now, in an attempt to restore some of his lost credibility, he has written a new book with Alex Thompson of Axios about the Biden health cover-up. He apparently is embarrassed and/or feels guilty about all he did in a very partisan way to try to keep a very unhealthy Joe Biden in office as president, but I will give him credit for...

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The Right to be Left Alone

The Right to be Left Alone

by | Jun 5, 2025 |

Last week, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies. Here is the backstory. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. Like other amendments in the Bill of Rights, it doesn’t create the right; it limits government interference with it. President Joe Biden often misquoted the late Justice Antonin Scalia suggesting...

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The Deep State’s Drone Attack Was Aimed To Escalate The Ukraine War And Deny Trump His Nobel Peace Prize

The Deep State’s Drone Attack Was Aimed To Escalate The Ukraine War And Deny Trump His Nobel Peace Prize

by | Jun 4, 2025 |

POTUS better wake up. Quick. The Deep State is in the midst of f#cking him yet again. We are referring, of course, to Sunday's utterly reckless attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrent, allegedly by the Ukrainian military. Yes, the one that’s so feeble and incompetent that thus far it has lost one-fifth of its territory—despite upwards 150,000 dead soldiers according to Col. Douglas Macgregor and more than $200 billion of US and European military and economic aid. That is to say, the...

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The Defeat of The West And Its Dislocation

The Defeat of The West And Its Dislocation

by | Jun 4, 2025 |

In 1976 the French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd predicted the down fall of the Soviet Union. In After The Empire, first published in French in 2001, he predicted the (relative) decline of the United States.  In his latest (and last) book, La Défaite de l’Occident (The Defeat of the West), he laments the West's inability to distinguish facts from wishes, as seen in its behavior during the war in Ukraine. Nihilism, a lack of values and of acceptance of reality,...

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Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison

Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison

by | Jun 4, 2025 |

Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in transforming America from a constitutional republic into a digital dictatorship armed with algorithms and powered by unaccountable, all-seeing artificial intelligence. This isn’t about national security. It’s about control. According to news reports, the Trump administration is...

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Trump Won’t Walk Away from Ukraine War

Trump Won’t Walk Away from Ukraine War

by | Jun 3, 2025 |

One of the mysteries of the Ukraine endgame is that President Donald Trump did not issue an executive order on January 20 withdrawing all support for Ukraine. That would have been the easiest way to end the war.  The conditions were propitious — Candidate Trump didn’t mince words that it was a hopeless war that cost the US dearly in treasure; he thought poorly of President Volodymyr Zelensky as a shameless free rider; he saw the war as impeding his foreign-policy priority of the US...

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‘One Quiet Early Morning in Beijing, the Dollar’s Crown Slipped’

‘One Quiet Early Morning in Beijing, the Dollar’s Crown Slipped’

by | Jun 3, 2025 |

“I believe we must start from the notion of defeat leading to revolution – to grasp the Trump revolution.” “The experience underway in the United States, even if we don’t know exactly what it will be, is revolution. Is it a revolution in the strict sense? Is it a counter-revolution?” So spoke the French historian and philosopher Emmanuel Todd in his April Moscow lecture, From Russia With Love. This [Trump revolution] is, in my opinion, linked to defeat. Various people have reported to me...

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After Three Years, Ukraine is a Grim Scene

After Three Years, Ukraine is a Grim Scene

by | Jun 3, 2025 |

We can see that the direction of Ukrainian military operations has placed serious doubts in the minds of many of the front-line regular troops, and especially over the past year or so their uncertainty has increased and their morale has diminished. It is impossible for the Ukraine military to successfully fight on a front which covers not only the whole east of the country, but is now also expanding in the north, an entire front whose length exceeds 1,000 km from the east and may include...

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A Golden Share Will Not Make America Great Again

A Golden Share Will Not Make America Great Again

by | Jun 2, 2025 |

Japanese company Nippon Steel’s plan to purchase US Steel was bound to provoke a strong reaction from left- and right-wing economic nationalists. After all, US Steel was once the world’s largest company, and it was the first company to be valued at over a billion dollars. US Steel was thus a symbol of America’s economic dominance. So it was not surprising that Nippon Steel’s purchase of US Steel was blocked by both the Biden and Trump administrations. This was disappointing — especially since...

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Israeli Mossad Named as Funder of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Israeli Mossad Named as Funder of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

by | Jun 2, 2025 |

Israel’s scheme to commandeer aid distribution in Gaza ended in chaos on May 27, with Israeli soldiers reportedly opening fire on stampeding crowds of hungry Palestinians after just 8000 boxes of rations were handed out by an opaque organization calling itself the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). 🚨BREAKING : Thousands of starved Gazans stormed the dystopian Israeli-American aid complex in west Rafah after being forced to stand in endless queues under the scorching sun inside a fenced camp,...

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Putting Israel First, Rubio Victimizes Harmless Student Over Op-Ed

Putting Israel First, Rubio Victimizes Harmless Student Over Op-Ed

by | Jun 2, 2025 |

Given Marco Rubio’s long history of subservience to the State of Israel — which has earned him a mountain of campaign cash from the country’s US-based collaborators — many Americans were understandably wary that his ascension from senator to secretary of State portended disturbing moves to advance Israel’s interests. However, few foresaw Rubio orchestrating the abduction, imprisonment and deportation of foreign students for using their universal human right of free speech to criticize the...

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‘Bad Things’ Happen in Washington

‘Bad Things’ Happen in Washington

by | May 31, 2025 |

There were quite a lot of what Donald Trump might describe as “bad things” taking place in Washington over the past week, to include the worsening of relations with China shortly after what appeared to be an agreement had been reached over tariffs; the arrival at an apparent impasse in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program; and friction with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over possible initiatives relating to the genocide that is continuing in Gaza. The pointless break...

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The Military’s and CIA’s Assassination of JFK

The Military’s and CIA’s Assassination of JFK

by | May 30, 2025 |

There are two types of evidence in criminal cases — direct evidence and circumstantial evidence. Direct evidence comes in the form of things like confessions, admissions, or eyewitness testimony. Circumstantial evidence comes in the form of indirect evidence. For people who believe only in direct evidence, they will never accept the fact that the U.S. military-intelligence establishment orchestrated and carried out the assassination of President Kennedy. That’s because there is no direct...

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Great Words From President Trump And Others

Great Words From President Trump And Others

by | May 30, 2025 |

As many people know, I have spent most of my waking hours reading – books, newspapers, magazines – for work and pleasure since probably my early teens. Two of my favorite nationally syndicated columnists are now deceased: Charley Reese died in 2013 and Georgie Anne Geyer in 2019. Both became columnists after long careers as newspaper reporters. Both would have loved President Trump’s recent speech in Riyadh in which he attacked neocons, nation builders and interventionists. Both wrote words in...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

The Libertarian Nonparty

The Libertarian Nonparty

by | May 15, 2024

Check out the United States Libertarian Party’s website for its national convention later this month at which a major focus will be the choosing of the party’s presidential...

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See Texas in Your Kei Truck

See Texas in Your Kei Truck

by | Apr 16, 2024

In the 1950s Dinah Shore sang her encouragement to “see the USA in your Chevrolet.” Decades later, some Americans would like to take that road trip in their kei trucks imported...

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