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The Siren Song of War

The Siren Song of War

by | Dec 9, 2025 |

In October of 2002, I shocked many in my Congressional District and beyond by voting against giving President George W. Bush authorization to use military force in Iraq. The night before that vote, my older sister told me a Knoxville television station had conducted a poll which found that in its viewing area 74 percent were for the war, 9 percent were against, and 17 percent were undecided. When I pushed the button at about 3:00 the next day to cast that vote, I wondered if I might be ending...

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Pro-Israel Forces Intensify Effort To Control American Discourse

Pro-Israel Forces Intensify Effort To Control American Discourse

by | Dec 9, 2025 |

Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under unprecedented threat, Israel’s advocates inside the United States are growing increasingly desperate to suppress the facts, opinions, questions and imagery that are causing this sea change. Pro-Israel forces have long worked to limit and...

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The Hegseth Killings Must Stop

The Hegseth Killings Must Stop

by | Dec 8, 2025 |

Last week the Pentagon, under “War Secretary” Pete Hegseth, carried out yet another military attack on a boat in the high seas that the Administration claims is smuggling drugs. That makes 23 boats blown up by the US military in the waters off Latin America – most near Venezuela - and nearly 100 persons killed. To date the US government has provided no evidence to back up its claim that these boats are smuggling fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into the United States. The US Drug Enforcement...

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‘Fourth Reich’: Musk Strikes Back At EU ‘Tyrants’ After X Fine

‘Fourth Reich’: Musk Strikes Back At EU ‘Tyrants’ After X Fine

by | Dec 7, 2025 |

As Catherine Salgado reports for PJMedia.com, Musk also re-shared a post about Irish teacher Enoch Burke, who was jailed for refusing to use transgender pronouns, and later replied to another user, “So many politicians in Europe who are traitors to their own people.” And Musk highlighted the fact that Meta has a verification program similar to X’s, yet the EU hasn’t onerously fined the more censorship-prone Meta. Musk reposted and reiterated...

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New National Security Strategy: A Stunning Departure, Yet Full of Contradictions

New National Security Strategy: A Stunning Departure, Yet Full of Contradictions

by | Dec 6, 2025 |

This is big. The final U.S. National Security Strategy was just published and the refocus on the Western Hemisphere (i.e. the Americas) is confirmed. The document clearly establishes this as the U.S.'s number one priority, saying that the U.S. will now "assert and enforce a 'Trump Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine." In terms of military presence, they write that this means "a readjustment of our global military presence to address urgent threats in our Hemisphere, and away from theaters whose...

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Donald Trump On A Roll All Week

Donald Trump On A Roll All Week

by | Dec 6, 2025 |

There is always something new and exciting coming out of Washington. Last week’s big story centered on the presumed prerogative of the United States to kill people anywhere in the world without necessarily having to make the legal or moral case that they deserved death. Inevitably, the impulse to do just that derives from the very top of the government system with President Donald J Trump having on a number of occasions verbalized his national security policy, such as it is, by explicitly...

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Viva Venezuela!

Viva Venezuela!

by | Dec 6, 2025 |

A very close friend of mine in southern California used to listen to Fox News pretty much non-stop. The Venezuelan Communists, according to Fox, were planning to invade the USA, he warned me. Hordes of savage Venezuelans were about to ravage the lovely coast of Southern California. Was this before Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, Taliban, and the wicked Iranians sacked California, I asked him? America’s enemies are everywhere, according to the alarmist far right. Today’s rightwing worrywarts are...

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The CIA’s Man in Syria

The CIA’s Man in Syria

by | Dec 5, 2025 |

When Judge Andrew Napolitano asked me on his show how Syria ended up with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as its “president,” I could almost hear the cognitive dissonance on the other side of the screen. How does a man who was once the emir of al-Qaeda in Syria, a co-founder of ISIS by any reasonable historical reading of his trajectory, become Washington’s chosen man in Damascus? For me, the answer is not a mystery. It is the logical end of a dirty war that began not with Syrian protesters in 2011,...

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The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders

The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders

by | Dec 5, 2025 |

Every military servicemember’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is not an oath to a politician. It is not an oath to a party. And it is not an oath to the police state. Yet what happens when those same men and women are being told—by their own government—that obedience to power and loyalty to a political leader come before allegiance to the Constitution they swore to uphold? That question isn’t hypothetical. It is the moral line now...

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POLITICO’s Delusion Cracks: Belgium Isn’t Helping Russia — It’s Trying to Save Europe From Itself

POLITICO’s Delusion Cracks: Belgium Isn’t Helping Russia — It’s Trying to Save Europe From Itself

by | Dec 5, 2025 |

The great farce of late-imperial Europe is that every time Brussels stumbles into another historic blunder of its own making, it immediately searches for a foreign hand to blame. And so the EU’s court chronicler, Politico, delivers its latest fever dream: that Belgium, the most indecisive, over-medicated country in the bloc, has somehow transformed into “Russia’s most valuable asset.” In reality, the only asset Russia needed was the EU’s own arrogance. Belgium merely did the unthinkable, it...

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Stealth Bombers and Bunker Busters

Stealth Bombers and Bunker Busters

by | Dec 4, 2025 |

A retrospective analysis of the so-called 12-Day War, and the triumphantly celebrated Operation Midnight Hammer. The GBU-57 is a big fat gravity bomb with fins. To achieve effective precision, a B-2 bomber must drop it on its intended target from no further than about five nautical miles — essentially right on top of the target. Its penetration depth is claimed to be 200 feet. But that capability has NEVER been tested against a seriously hardened deep-underground target encased in...

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Murder for Christmas?

Murder for Christmas?

by | Dec 4, 2025 |

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle, the amiable child’s cartoon character, in a helicopter using a military weapon to kill people in a small boat below him, and captioned it “For your Christmas wish list,” it understandably caused an uproar. Should the secretary of defense be mocking the people his troops have killed? Should he engage a child’s cartoon character to produce this mockery? Should anyone in his right mind, who professes to understand...

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Summarily Murdering Venezuelan ‘Narco-Terrorists’ is Profoundly Un-American

Summarily Murdering Venezuelan ‘Narco-Terrorists’ is Profoundly Un-American

by | Dec 4, 2025 |

President Trump said on Tuesday that in addition to the airstrikes on Venezuelan boats suspected of trafficking drugs to the United States, the U.S. military would begin hitting targets on land. Not only are all these strikes unconstitutional by any construction, but they are also unprovoked acts of war against a country that poses no threat to the United States. Since September, the administration has carried out at least twenty-one attacks on civilian vessels in the Caribbean,...

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TSA’s New Confirm.ID Tax

TSA’s New Confirm.ID Tax

by | Dec 3, 2025 |

Back in March of 2014, I wrote about how the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operates an extortion racket-style scheme via its PreCheck program that gives travelers who pay a fee and jump through a bunch of hoops including submitting to fingerprinting and a background check a chance, though no guarantee, that they can evade some harassment from the TSA itself. In the same vein, starting in February, TSA is planning to roll out a new tax and other demands, termed Confirm.ID, that...

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NATO Thinks Of ‘Pre-emptive Strikes’ Against Russia To ‘Defend’ Against Something That Did Not Happen

NATO Thinks Of ‘Pre-emptive Strikes’ Against Russia To ‘Defend’ Against Something That Did Not Happen

by | Dec 3, 2025 |

As it is becoming obvious that Ukraine is losing in the proxy war against Russia, the ideas European governments are are throwing around are getting more crazy. Some are now eager to ‘pre-emptively’ attack Russia in ‘retaliation’ for alleged ‘hybrid attacks’ against European countries. Those ‘hybrid attacks’ are mostly pure fantasies. Politico was first to report this nonsense: Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia – Politico, Nov 27 2025Countries are looking...

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Negotiating in Moscow on the Negotiations

Negotiating in Moscow on the Negotiations

by | Dec 3, 2025 |

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow. The approximately five-hour session focused on a revised U.S. peace proposal aimed at ending Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine. This marked Witkoff’s sixth meeting with Putin in 2025 and Kushner’s first in-person involvement in these talks. The U.S. delegation arrived directly from recent negotiations with Ukrainian...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Lasting legacy (Dick Cheney)

by | Nov 7, 2025

Dick Cheney was probably the most powerful and consequential vice president in American history. His legacy is enormous, but not in a positive sense. He and his fellow neocons...

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