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Rules for Thee, Force for Me: America’s Doctrine of Leader-Capture

Rules for Thee, Force for Me: America’s Doctrine of Leader-Capture

by | Jan 3, 2026 |

Here we are watching the rules (for thee but not me) based order perform its favorite magic trick, of turning performative flexing of might into virtue by simply narrating it as law. The United States has kidnapped Venezuela’s sitting president, Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife, via an operation carried out by Delta Forces and removed them from the country. The choreography matters. The message matters more: we can reach into your capital, take your head of state, and call it “justice.” But...

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Neocons Premature Celebration Over Protests in Iran

Neocons Premature Celebration Over Protests in Iran

by | Jan 2, 2026 |

Western media, especially those outlets firmly aligned with the neoconservative view, are quick to jump on reports of protests in Iran as a sign that the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to implode. Events today in Iran provided another spurt of arousal among neocons longing to bring back the Shah and eliminate the mullahs. Here’s a summary of the various news reports: On December 30, 2025, protests in Iran entered their third day, spreading from initial economic grievances in Tehran’s Grand...

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Good Health Instead of Special Interests in 2026

Good Health Instead of Special Interests in 2026

by | Jan 2, 2026 |

In a free society, government would respect that an individual’s health related choices are his own business. There would be no local, state, or national government “health departments” intervening in these matters. All of that would be left to individuals to decide. Government health departments in America have become appendages of entities such as pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies, hospitals, and medical associations. The health departments have become captured regulators....

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NY Times Expose: CIA Fights Russia – Trump’s Peace Deal Runs on Illusion

NY Times Expose: CIA Fights Russia – Trump’s Peace Deal Runs on Illusion

by | Dec 31, 2025 |

Today the NY Times published a long piece on the relations between the Trump administration and the government of Ukraine. The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (archived) – NY Times, Dec 30 2025 There is a lot of gossip about the back and forth between the U.S. Ukraine and Russia in it, but also some interesting nuggets which confirm U.S. intelligence involvement in attacks on Russia and Russia related shipping: Even as Mr. Trump bullied Mr....

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Did Ukraine Try to Kill Putin?

Did Ukraine Try to Kill Putin?

by | Dec 30, 2025 |

On the night of 28–29 December 2025, Russia’s Defense Ministry and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that Ukraine launched 91 long‑range drones at a presidential state residence in Novgorod region, northwest of Moscow. The Defense Ministry and Foreign Minister Lavrov describe the attack as occurring “on the night of December 28–29” and in the “early hours of December 29”, without specifying an exact clock time when the first UAVs appeared. A more detailed Russian‑language summary states...

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Americans who Love their Country should adopt America First as their New Year’s Resolution

Americans who Love their Country should adopt America First as their New Year’s Resolution

by | Dec 30, 2025 |

Gary Heavin and Mike Adams discuss MAGA divided between Israel First and America First.   It is distressing, but true, that Israel not only controls America’s media and publishing, entertainment, financial sector, Middle East foreign policy, but also the Republican House and Senate, the Republican Party, Republican governors, President Trump, and half of MAGA America. It is a joke to speak of the United States as a sovereign nation. The power that Israel exercises over the United States is...

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When Law Becomes Variable, Trust Hardens into Silver and Gold — as the World Discovers the Cost of Weaponized Finance

When Law Becomes Variable, Trust Hardens into Silver and Gold — as the World Discovers the Cost of Weaponized Finance

by | Dec 29, 2025 |

Gold at $4,546 an ounce. Silver printing $79+, with a peak around $80 in the last ten days. That isn’t a metals rally blip. It’s the sound of the market dragging a metal detector across the foundation of the post-WWII order and hearing a hollow thud. Because this is not really about inflation hedges or safe havens in the tidy textbook sense. This is about trust, the rarest commodity on Earth, and how quickly the illusion evaporates once governments treat finance as a battlefield and law as an...

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Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty

Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty

by | Dec 29, 2025 |

President Trump recently signed an executive order changing marijuana’s Controlled Substances Act classification from Schedule I to Schedule III. Schedule I is supposed to include especially dangerous drugs that are likely to be abused and have no medical purpose. Whatever one thinks of the wisdom and morality of using marijuana, the fact is it is less addictive, and quite possibly safer, than alcohol. Many Americans who live in one of the 40 states that have legalized medicinal marijuana use...

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Trump and Netanyahu Meet Again

Trump and Netanyahu Meet Again

by | Dec 27, 2025 |

As has been reported, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will yet again be in Washington on Monday December 29th. It is a visit that initial media reports claimed had been requested by Trump, which would underline the value of the relationship to the US president. Nevertheless, there have also been some suggestions that Netanyahu, working through his Embassy in Washington and employing the considerable resources of the domestic US Israel Lobby, might have been the real force behind the...

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Netanyahu’s New Slant to Lure Trump into War with Iran

Netanyahu’s New Slant to Lure Trump into War with Iran

by | Dec 26, 2025 |

In these last days, the Trump Administration has boarded or seized three tankers either loaded with Venezuelan oil or destined for Venezuela (such as the Bella1). The most egregious seizure – in terms of illegality – being a Chinese-owned, Panama-flagged vessel reportedly destined for China – and on no one’s sanctions list. In a different zone of conflict, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) last Friday claimed that it had struck a Russian so-called “shadow fleet” tanker, the Qendil, with...

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Taking Christmas Seriously

Taking Christmas Seriously

by | Dec 26, 2025 |

We all know that God works in mysterious ways. Recently, I was deeply moved at a theatrical production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge from a rasping, grasping old miser into a lovable, generous old man who, late in life, becomes determined to make amends for all his extreme selfishness and his public denunciations of charity. After tossing and turning in bed on Christmas Eve night, during...

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Europe’s Panic Economy: Frozen Assets, Empty Arsenals, and the Quiet Admission of Defeat

Europe’s Panic Economy: Frozen Assets, Empty Arsenals, and the Quiet Admission of Defeat

by | Dec 24, 2025 |

When a prime minister tells her own staff to rest because next year will be much worse, it is not gallows humor. It is not exhaustion speaking. It is a slip of the mask, the kind of remark leaders make only when the internal forecasts no longer align with the public script. Giorgia Meloni was not addressing voters. She was addressing the state itself — the bureaucratic core tasked with executing decisions whose consequences can no longer be disguised. Her words were not about a mundane...

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Trump Morphs From Asset to Liability for Israel

Trump Morphs From Asset to Liability for Israel

by | Dec 23, 2025 |

Leading Israeli commentator, Anna Barsky, in Ma’ariv (in Hebrew) writes: “Let [Trump’s] plan in Gaza – fail.” An Israeli ‘waiting ploy’ is being formulated: not to hurl out a frontal rejection … [but rather] to bet that reality in the region will take its course.[Yet], the fault line [over] Trump’s Gaza Plan is real … Israel demands a clear order: First, the disarmament of Hamas, i.e., first its actual removal from power, and only after that – reconstruction, international power and Israeli...

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Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty

A Christmas Gift to the War Machine

by | Dec 22, 2025 |

Late last week, Congress passed and President Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill marks the first time the US military budget officially passed the one trillion dollar mark. Of course, when you add in other military-related spending such as interest on the debt, veterans’ affairs, and military components of other government agencies, the true number is at least one and a half times that amount. To paraphrase the famous 1953 President Eisenhower speech,...

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The Geopolitical Imperative Behind US Policy Toward Venezuela

The Geopolitical Imperative Behind US Policy Toward Venezuela

by | Dec 21, 2025 |

In the intensifying great-power competition of the 21st century, Venezuela has emerged as a pivotal battleground in the Western Hemisphere—a proxy arena where the United States confronts the encroaching ambitions of China and Russia to preserve its historic regional dominance. Conventional explanations for Washington's unrelenting pressure on Caracas, citing resource acquisition or counternarcotics imperatives, crumble under scrutiny amid America's strategic primacy, energy independence, and...

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Trump and Netanyahu Meet Again

Netanyahu Wants To Attack Iran Again, Will Lobby Trump In Mar-a-Lago Visit

by | Dec 20, 2025 |

Many analysts agree that the last round of fighting between Israel and Iran last June was not the final conflict the two regional powers will face. Despite President Trump having declared that the Islamic Republic's nuclear program had been completely obliterated in the US knock-out strikes against three nuclear facilities which came at the end of the 12-day war, Israel suspects the Iranians are still conducting nuclear development activity in secret, and are busy reconstituting and expanding...

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War and Peace w/ Daniel McAdams

by | Nov 21, 2025

RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins the popular geopolitical podcast The Duran to discuss the latest Russia/Ukraine peace deal, Venezuela, US politics and Congress, and more...

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