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The Imperative of a US Conviction in the Maduro Case

The Imperative of a US Conviction in the Maduro Case

by | Jun 26, 2026 |

Having illegally attacked Venezuela in an effort to kidnap the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and transport him to the United States to stand trial for supposed violations of US drug laws, US officials have placed themselves in a position in which they are now compelled to secure a conviction. After all, how is it going to look if Maduro is acquitted of such charges and walks out of US District Court a free man? What then? Needless to say, Maduro’s defense lawyers are challenging the...

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War and Constitutional Indifference 

War and Constitutional Indifference 

by | Jun 25, 2026 |

Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference. Congress has regulated in areas of governance nowhere articulated in the Constitution. Its general regulatory powers were granted to address interstate commerce, but during the FDR years, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress can regulate events that affect interstate commerce. This has...

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‘Israel Picking up the Pieces of its Deep-Seated Hubris’

‘Israel Picking up the Pieces of its Deep-Seated Hubris’

by | Jun 24, 2026 |

The Iran-US de-escalation framework has been signed. As always, getting a framework agreed is one thing, but preserving it from disruptive actors or malicious distortion of the text is quite another. Who knows how long it will survive intact? The MoU nonetheless constitutes an important phase – albeit one leg – in a long journey ahead for Iran. The Agreement however, may also prompt wider geo-economic “plate” shifts. Iran has succeeded in pushing a reluctant Trump to cross the Rubicon. Danny...

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Sen. Susan Collins’s Antisemitism Schtick

Sen. Susan Collins’s Antisemitism Schtick

by | Jun 24, 2026 |

It’s over. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) just doesn’t understand that. Her antisemitism schtick no longer packs the same punch. People see through it now. They recognize that the majority American opposition to the Israel government’s serial violence — enabled by United States government provided weapons, intelligence, and funding — is not a judgement about Jewish people. It is about opposing the rampant pursuit of property destruction and carnage, all undertaken on the American people’s dime. In...

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Another Week from Hell

Another Week from Hell

by | Jun 23, 2026 |

Last week started on a positive note with President Donald Trump uncharacteristically declaring that a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) had been achieved by US and Iranian negotiators assisted by Pakistani and Qatari mediators to suspend military action and begin sixty days of discussions in pursuit of a peace agreement. The move was based on a what was described as a fourteen-point listing of the steps that would be undertaken to move the process along, including concessions dealing with...

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Trump’s Attempt to End the Iran War Infuriates the Uniparty

Trump’s Attempt to End the Iran War Infuriates the Uniparty

by | Jun 22, 2026 |

Against the odds, the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the US and Iran appears to be holding, after threats and counter-threats. It may collapse, but it has survived a first round of talks between the two sides in Switzerland over the weekend. President Trump started a war on Iran against all sober guidance and in violation of the US Constitution's requirement that only Congress can declare war. There must be a reckoning for our elected leaders who violate their oath of office, the...

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Congress Is Preparing to Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary

Congress Is Preparing to Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary

by | Jun 22, 2026 |

The United States Congress, on the very eve of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, is preparing to formally diminish American independence and sovereignty through a proposed merger and long-term integration of executive functions throughout the government, coordinated by the Department of Defense. Treacherous provisions in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) mandate that the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Commerce Department, and the...

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Tail Wags Dog

Tail Wags Dog

by | Jun 19, 2026 |

It should be cold comfort indeed, but the successive inability of one US administration after another to control Israel and the extraordinary passion with which the leaders of Western Europe, Canada and NATO continue to defy the United States to risk thermonuclear world war with Russia at the whims of Ukrainian junta leader Volodymyr Zelensky are not unprecedented. For the dark, universally unacknowledged world history of the past 120 years is clear: Tails Wag Dogs. Global superpowers and...

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Israeli foreign agent took over The Charlie Kirk Show days after his killing

Israeli foreign agent took over The Charlie Kirk Show days after his killing

by | Jun 18, 2026 |

Charlie Kirk’s media empire and his right-wing activist organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), have come under the control of the Israel-directed forces he spent the last months of his life antagonizing. Erika Kirk now claims her husband supported Israel to the end, while TPUSA misrepresents his opposition to war on Iran.  The Charlie Kirk Show is now distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel tasked with seeding American media with Zionist propaganda. It is part of a whopping $46...

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What Triggered Trump to Make the Deal with Iran?

What Triggered Trump to Make the Deal with Iran?

by | Jun 18, 2026 |

To quote James Carville, “Its the economy stupid!” On Monday I wrote: So the question we ought to ask is why did Donald Trump blink and accept the proposal that Iran proffered way back in April? I think there are several reasons, but the principal one is that the US is running out of oil, which means Trump will not be able to artificially suppress the price of gasoline. US strategic oil reserves have fallen to their lowest level since 1983, reports CNN. The decline comes amid continued...

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A Republic or an Empire?

A Republic or an Empire?

by | Jun 18, 2026 |

The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, embraces two value sets. The first is natural rights, and the second is limited government. After 250 years, neither value has survived, and the opposite of each currently prevails in America. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration in three days while staying at a rooming house in Philadelphia. He had been greatly influenced by the British philosopher John Locke. Locke is the godfather of the theory of natural rights, which he extrapolated...

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Trump Breaks It, We Pay for It: The Cost of Cleaning Up the Deep State’s Mess

Trump Breaks It, We Pay for It: The Cost of Cleaning Up the Deep State’s Mess

by | Jun 17, 2026 |

The American taxpayer has become the cleanup crew for the American Police State. We pay for the constitutional violations. We pay for the wars. We pay for the lawsuits, the settlements, the cover-ups, the damage control, the reconstruction, the overreach, the incompetence and the corruption. And when government officials are finally called to account for their misconduct, we pay for that, too. That is the dirty little secret of government accountability in America: even when the...

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US Offers To Ignite Sectarian War

US Offers To Ignite Sectarian War

by | Jun 17, 2026 |

During a press conference at the G7 meeting in France US President Donald Trump criticized Israel’s way of waging war against Hizbullah. Video via FOXnews. Partial transcript: I tell you what – Israel is fighting Hizbullah too long and too many people are being killed. And you don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you are looking for somebody. Because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses and not all are Hizbullah. That I can tell you. Trump does not...

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Sen. Rick Scott is Anti-American

Sen. Rick Scott is Anti-American

by | Jun 16, 2026 |

As if there were no Congressional business awaiting our elected officials' attention, Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) set his sights on the very document to which he raised his right hand and swore to defend: the US Constitution. Speaking at the Florida Holocaust Museum, Sen. Scott argued that a scheduled June concert by musician Kenye (Ye) West must be cancelled and that the entertainer should be barred from future performances at any taxpayer-supported facilities. "If we don't stop this...

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Post-Iran War: The End of an Era, Not to Decline, but as a Trigger to Abrupt Change

Post-Iran War: The End of an Era, Not to Decline, but as a Trigger to Abrupt Change

by | Jun 16, 2026 |

Professor Michael Hudson, in a recent discussion, takes issue with those who speak today of the “decline of the US hegemon.” A decline implies something goes up and down, Hudson says, but it always recovers. “But there’s never been any such thing statistically as a cycle … There’s no decline, it’s a crash” — We’re seeing the ending of an era, not a decline, but an abrupt change. And this change is not stemming from without: The ending of the American power did not result from any foreign civil...

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Why Iran Signs the MOU: Realism Over Illusion

Why Iran Signs the MOU: Realism Over Illusion

by | Jun 16, 2026 |

The announcement that United States and Iranian negotiators have agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding to end the war raises an obvious and pressing question. Why would Tehran sign anything with a Trump administration? The biggest danger is not simply that the United States will renege on its commitments or fail to deliver on economic promises. The greatest threat is another surprise attack. Yet Iran signs because they approach this agreement with clear eyes, knowing full well it is unlikely...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Governor Thomas Massie?

Governor Thomas Massie?

by | Apr 10, 2026

A run for governor may be in the future for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), but only if he first wins his May 19 Republican primary contest — the next step in his race for reelection...

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