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Who in Hell are the Houthis?

Who in Hell are the Houthis?

by | Sep 26, 2026 |

The Houthis are a small tribe in Yemen’s mountainous north who love their quirky Zaidi sect of militant Islam, cherish their guns, and love to chew the narcotic shrub qat. I joined Houthis in the wild mountains of Yemen to follow their wars and chew qat. Houthis like to argue, smoke weed and repel invaders. They live in one of our planet’s wildest, most inhospitable regions, so bleak and arid that even the local camels are cranky and irritable. The highlands are filled with squabbling tribes...

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When Everything Becomes a National Security Threat

When Everything Becomes a National Security Threat

by | Sep 25, 2026 |

“National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave badly. They have become the magic words that can make constitutional restraints disappear—especially when the courts defer to claims of national security. Call something a matter of national security and the normal rules start disappearing: Courts defer. Congress retreats. Secrecy expands. Executive power grows. That game is hardly new. Nixon played it. Bush played it. Obama played it. Biden played it....

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Never Forget Federal Marijuana Frauds

Never Forget Federal Marijuana Frauds

by | Sep 25, 2026 |

For more than 50 years, the federal government shamelessly pretended that marijuana had no recognized medical use. Last December 18, President Trump signed an executive order entitled, “Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research.” Trump ordered the Attorney General and the Drug Enforcement Administration to speed up rule-making to finally enable far more medical research on the benefits of marijuana. On April 23, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that henceforth all...

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Trump’s Ukraine Peace Push: Why There’s No Need to Negotiate Crimea and Donbas

Trump’s Ukraine Peace Push: Why There’s No Need to Negotiate Crimea and Donbas

by | Sep 25, 2026 |

President Trump's emissaries shuttled from Moscow to Kyiv seeking a way to end the Ukraine war. Afterward, Trump negotiator Jared Kushner explained, "…the hardest issue is still territory." That dispute centers on Crimea and Donbas. These areas have been points of territorial intransigence for Ukraine and Russia. However, there is a way to break that deadlock. But it might not be what either side expects. That's because the territorial claims of both Russia and Ukraine rest on competing...

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How War Propaganda Justifies Conscription into Unjust Wars

How War Propaganda Justifies Conscription into Unjust Wars

by | Sep 24, 2026 |

Conscription is a form of indentured servitude. Murray Rothbard argued that everyone has a natural right to self-defense, but “we have no moral right to use coercion—the bayonet or the revolver—to force someone else to defend us.” Rothbard argued that if we want men to stand in our defense, “the way to induce people to volunteer for hazardous jobs is to pay them extra as compensation.” And yet, instead of offering a wage that would reward men who sign up willingly,...

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Fulton Sheen and Me

Fulton Sheen and Me

by | Sep 24, 2026 |

History yields people whose influence extends far beyond their earthly lives. They become teachers to generations they never met, spiritual companions to people whose names they never knew, and reminders that faith is not merely a set of propositions to be accepted but a way of life to be embraced. For me, one of those extraordinary figures is Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Fulton Sheen possessed a rare gift: He could bring the richness, beauty and intellectual depth of traditional Catholicism...

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Another Week of Dangerous Nonsense from Donald Trump

Another Week of Dangerous Nonsense from Donald Trump

by | Sep 23, 2026 |

It is hard to imagine how President Donald Trump’s insane assertions might go beyond the point of being merely demented to something far worse, i.e. catastrophic. Last week provided one such experience when Trump reportedly rushed back from Camp David to the White House so he could contemplate the possibility of “destroying Iran” with the intention of stealing the country’s oil just like he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio did in Venezuela after first abducting that country’s...

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Iran War Continues as Gas Prices and National Debt Soar. Johnson Sends House Home to Avoid Hegseth Impeachment Vote

Iran War Continues as Gas Prices and National Debt Soar. Johnson Sends House Home to Avoid Hegseth Impeachment Vote

by | Sep 23, 2026 |

Instead of six more weeks of winter, we will have at least six more weeks of war, brought to us by Secretary Hegseth and his boss, President Trump, with the help of Speaker Johnson who avoided a procedural vote, taking it upon himself to adjourn, under the Rule 1, Clause 13, of the House of Representatives. Consider. The Administration, compelled by Israeli interests, has driven America into a war of choice against a nation that represented no threat to our country. The war against Iran is...

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A World Turned Upside Down

A World Turned Upside Down

by | Sep 22, 2026 |

Outline of a talk given at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 7 Sept 2026 The global future is often framed as being that of a muli-polar or multi-nodal world, with the implicit assumption that states would get along better – and would resolve their differences more easily through discussion than through war. This was a meme that was in wide circulation in the Pre-WW1 years. Books were written to suggest that war could not happen: The definitive text on this concept, originally published...

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War Watch: The Storm Cone

War Watch: The Storm Cone

by | Sep 21, 2026 |

"This Is the midnight - let no star"Delude us - dawn is very far."This is the tempest long foretold"Slow to make head but sure to hold."Rudyard Kipling, England's greatest poet of Empire, who then became the unwilling prophet and witness of that empire's catastrophe and coming dissolution, published that frightening warning in 1932, the year after Japan seized Manchuria when the mighty British Empire that had dominated Asia for a century could not raise a fingernail to stop it.Kipling...

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President Trump Bribes the People

President Trump Bribes the People

by | Sep 21, 2026 |

President Trump, speaking at the Republicans' midterm convention, pledged that if Republicans maintained control of the Congress in the November election every adult American will receive 5,000 dollars from the government. President Trump said that the government could afford the estimated 1.3 trillion dollars cost “because we’ve done so well and because our country is making so much money.” The truth is the economy is not doing well. Prices are rising faster than incomes. And, thanks to the...

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Republicans Who Support War In Iran Are Giving Democrats Chance To Control Congress

Republicans Who Support War In Iran Are Giving Democrats Chance To Control Congress

by | Sep 19, 2026 |

The three top headlines in the Sept. 18 Drudge Report said: "Blue Wave Builds, Dems 84% Chance to take House—55% Senate, Weeks Before Midterms—EVERYTHING Getting More Expensive." Newsweek carried a story headlined "Texas Republicans Face 'Generational Wipeout' Amid Disastrous Polls." Many other publications, both in print and online, have reported that Republicans are running even or behind in states that have been safe for Republicans in the past. And it is all because Israel's Prime...

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The Constitution Can’t Protect You If You Don’t Protect It

The Constitution Can’t Protect You If You Don’t Protect It

by | Sep 18, 2026 |

What’s the point in celebrating the Constitution one day a year if we permit the government to violate it the other 364? September 17 marks the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a document designed not merely to establish a government but to restrain it. Yet restraint is in increasingly short supply. Across the political spectrum, Americans continue to tolerate abuses of power so long as those abuses are carried out by the “right” people, against the “wrong” people, or in...

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Covert Pentagon propagandists are tracking anti-war Americans, skirting the law

Covert Pentagon propagandists are tracking anti-war Americans, skirting the law

by | Sep 18, 2026 |

In mid-August, a conservative activist using the digital moniker “Datarepublican” quietly admitted she was employed by the Pentagon as a “special government employee.” For months, she’d been pocketing a government paycheck while intensely lobbying for President Trump’s imperialist misadventures online and tracking their most vocal critics in a digital database. Datarepublican was identified in 2025 as Jennica Pounds, a Utah-based mother with nearly a million followers whose stated raison...

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More Threats to the Freedom of Speech

More Threats to the Freedom of Speech

by | Sep 18, 2026 |

The freedom of speech and of the press is not a gift bestowed by a president, Congress or a federal agency. It is a natural right of all persons. The First Amendment does not create that right; it prohibits the government from infringing upon it. The ability to think, speak, write, criticize, ridicule, persuade, offend, dissent and challenge those in government is among the most fundamental preconditions of the exercise of human liberty. It is also indispensable to personal happiness. A person...

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Syrian Protests Spread To Aleppo, Raqqa While Jolani Enjoys Red Carpet At Dubai Media Event

Syrian Protests Spread To Aleppo, Raqqa While Jolani Enjoys Red Carpet At Dubai Media Event

by | Sep 17, 2026 |

Syria's fuel price hike protests have persisted from Sunday into the heart of this week, and increasingly they are becoming full on anti-Sharaa regime demonstrations. Of course Sharaa - whose al Qaeda/ISIS name is Jolani - was never elected in the first place. Monday into Tuesday the protests have spread across multiple cities and governates, including Raqqa in the east and Aleppo in the north. Demonstrators have been burning tires, blocking highways, and confronting security forces after...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

US Passports Fall Behind

US Passports Fall Behind

by | Jul 23, 2026

One benefit of being a United States citizen has been the ability to have a US passport that facilitates the maximum amount of travel freedom around the world. Those days are in...

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Rejecting Corporatism

Rejecting Corporatism

by | Jul 20, 2026

In his column last week, Ron Paul discussed the threat in America from corporatism, “where power remains nominally in private hands but the government gains significant control.”...

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What Agreement?

by | Jul 1, 2026

Not surprisingly the Memorandum of Understanding ending the US-Israel war on Iran means different things to different people. Since its signing, the Trump administration has...

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