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The Post-Ideological Age

The Post-Ideological Age

by | Aug 14, 2024 |

Conventional wisdom has it that the US and much of the Western world has polarized into right and left. These tribes are hard-core and share mutual loathing. That model of understanding pervades all popular media and consumes the culture, such that everyone feels the need to choose. It’s simple, harkens back to Cold War binaries, drums up media attention, and further divides the population in ways that benefit the leaders of both sides.  The reality underneath the surface is otherwise....

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Why Did Washington Memory-hole Gaza?

Why Did Washington Memory-hole Gaza?

by | Aug 14, 2024 |

Some are calling it Kamala Harris’s “Sister Souljah moment,” referring to when, in June 1992, then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton publicly rebuked racist comments made by a popular female hip-hop artist as a way of distancing himself from extreme elements of the Democratic base.  For her part, Harris appeared to be drawing her own line Wednesday, shutting down chants from pro-Palestinian protesters at a Detroit rally on Wednesday, with a firm, “I’m speaking now.” The...

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Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect

Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect

by | Aug 13, 2024 |

Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning that anything that arrestees say can be used against them in a court of law. But the Biden administration secretly created a new tripwire: Anything you purchase can be used against you. And if you didn’t want to be categorized as a “lone wolf” potential terrorist, you never should have bought that Bass Pro hat. Federal agencies have long kept an eye on suspicious purchases by Americans considered potential troublemakers. Flash back 50 years, and...

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‘An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand’ – So is War Inevitable?

‘An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand’ – So is War Inevitable?

by | Aug 13, 2024 |

Walter Kirn, an American novelist and cultural critic, in his 2009 memoir, Lost in the Meritocracy, described how, after a sojourn at Oxford, he came to be a member of "the class that runs things" – the one that “writes the headlines, and the stories under them.” It was the account of a middle-class kid from Minnesota trying desperately to fit into the élite world, and then to his surprise, realising that he didn’t want to fit in at all. Now 61, Kirn has a newsletter on Substack and co-hosts a...

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Tyranny in the UK – Can it Happen Here?

Tyranny in the UK – Can it Happen Here?

by | Aug 12, 2024 |

As the UK descends into tyranny, where just re-Tweeting something the government doesn’t like can land a person a multi-year jail sentence, Americans are wondering, “can it happen here?” After all, we have the guarantees of the First Amendment. But while we shake our heads at UK authorities jailing people for their social media posts this past week, we should not kid ourselves. The answer is that silencing dissent can happen here and it is happening here. Here are just three recent examples of...

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Decay, Decrepitude, Deceit in Journalism

Decay, Decrepitude, Deceit in Journalism

by | Aug 12, 2024 |

Russiagate continues to survive like a science fiction monster resilient to bullets.    The latest effort at rehabilitating it is an interview by Adam Rawnsley in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine of one Michael van Landingham, an intelligence analyst who is proud of having written the first draft of the cornerstone “analysis” of Russiagate, the so-called Intelligence Community Assessment. The ICA blamed the Russians for helping Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in...

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There Is Something Rotten in Washington

There Is Something Rotten in Washington

by | Aug 12, 2024 |

One thing you can say about the Administration of President Joe Biden is that nearly every week there is something new and exciting to discuss. Galloping dementia recently gifted us with Joe’s 11 minute abdication speech in which he announced that he would not be running for another term as president. He babbled about how he was taking the step in spite of his desire to continue. The president, who is 81 and recently best noted for his failing mental state causing him to fall down stairs,...

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I’m Speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Annual Conference

I’m Speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Annual Conference

by | Aug 10, 2024 |

In three weeks, I will have the honor of again speaking at the Young Scholar’s part of the Ron Paul Institute’s annual conference at Dulles, Virginia. I’ve had the good fortune of speaking there for the past several years. I will be speaking on “A Limited Government Republic versus a National-Security State.” As longtime supporters of The Future of Freedom Foundation know, I contend that the biggest mistake America has ever made, in terms of destroying our freedom, peace, and prosperity, was...

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US Policy: Let Israel Escalate Against Iran, Then Tell Iran Not To Escalate Back

US Policy: Let Israel Escalate Against Iran, Then Tell Iran Not To Escalate Back

by | Aug 9, 2024 |

In an article titled “U.S. Warns Iran of ‘Serious Risk’ if It Conducts Major Attack on Israel,” The Wall Street Journal reports that officials within the Biden administration have been warning Iran not to “escalate” against Israel in its planned retaliatory strikes for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran. “The United States has sent clear messaging to Iran that the risk of a major escalation if they do a significant retaliatory attack against Israel is extremely high,” an anonymous...

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American Theocracy: Politics Has Become Our National Religion

American Theocracy: Politics Has Become Our National Religion

by | Aug 8, 2024 |

“You shall have no other gods before me.”—The Ten Commandments “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore.”—Donald Trump Politics has become our national religion. While those on the Left have feared a religious coup by evangelical Christians on the Right, the danger has come from an altogether different direction: our constitutional republic has given way...

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Problem of Torture

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Problem of Torture

by | Aug 8, 2024 |

In the months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestrating them on Osama bin Ladin. Then, after it murdered bin Ladin, the government decided that the true mastermind was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. By the time of bin Ladin’s death, Mohammed had already been tortured by CIA agents for three years at various black sites and charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder, to be tried before an American military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mohammed and four...

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The GARMs Race: The House Moves Forward With its Investigation of Blacklisting Company

The GARMs Race: The House Moves Forward With its Investigation of Blacklisting Company

by | Aug 7, 2024 |

We have been discussing media rating systems being used to target advertisers and revenue sources for certain cites and companies. NewsGuard and the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) have been criticized as the most sophisticated components of a modern blacklisting system targeting conservative or dissenting voices. I recently had a series of exchanges with NewsGuard after a critical column.  Now, the House Judiciary Committee under Chairman Rep....

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The 1948 Irgun Re-born?

The 1948 Irgun Re-born?

by | Aug 6, 2024 |

The signposts are there for all to read: The West – in deliberately overlooking such explicit markers – cannot then complain, or escape, the ensuing consequences. No, the “tin ear” is not some new western derangement – a unique mass collapse of sanity – that we are living through. It is something worse: a return to a dogmatic, authoritarian version of truth which dissident physicist Eric Weinstein complains has (in the West) also destroyed true science – ignoring and silencing its...

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How America Gave Up Press Freedom and Nobody Noticed

How America Gave Up Press Freedom and Nobody Noticed

by | Aug 6, 2024 |

Did you notice that we've lost the press freedom that is essential in our democracy? If you're like many people, probably not. Do you believe that a free press is a Constitutional guarantee? Most people likely think it is indeed guaranteed. Actually, it is not. Here's the real story as I see it: "Freedom of the press is an implicit and essential right of the people. It is not just freedom of speech for journalists. If a democracy is going to work, citizens have got to make informed political...

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Tyranny in the UK – Can it Happen Here?

America Reaches a Sad Milestone

by | Aug 5, 2024 |

Last week the national debt reached 35 trillion dollars, a mere seven months after the debt reached 34 trillion dollars. To put this in perspective, the national debt first reached one trillion dollars in October of 1981, almost 200 years after the Constitution’s ratification! The fact that the government was adding one trillion dollars in debt in little over half a year was not deemed worthy of comment by President Biden, Vice President Harris, and most other US politicians. This is not...

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Iran to hit Israel hard with smart power

Iran to hit Israel hard with smart power

by | Aug 3, 2024 |

Amidst the cascading tensions in the Middle East following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh by Israel and vows of  ‘revenge’ in Tehran, the new government under President Massoud Pezeshkian, sworn in on Tuesday, made its first move on Thursday. Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was appointed as the ‘Strategic Deputy’ of the Iranian president entrusting him with the responsibility of the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS).  The CSS is...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Did Ukraine Attack NATO?

by | Jun 14, 2023

According to a new Wall Street Journal report, the Central Intelligence Agency warned Ukraine early last summer not to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline and Ukraine did it anyway....

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Watching The Wall

Watching The Wall

by | Jun 14, 2023

As has happened with other individuals who have prominently challenged pro-authoritarian and pro-war narratives pushed by major politicians and media figures, marquee musician...

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