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Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal is Former Israeli Spy

Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal is Former Israeli Spy

by | Mar 12, 2025 |

The professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli intelligence official, MintPress News can reveal. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack on Gaza. Khalil’s dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former...

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Europe Faces a MAGA ‘Vibe-Shift’ as Trump Moves to his Primordial Objective – The Global Reset

Europe Faces a MAGA ‘Vibe-Shift’ as Trump Moves to his Primordial Objective – The Global Reset

by | Mar 12, 2025 |

President Trump wants Ukraine settled, full stop. This is so that he can move ahead quickly – to normalise with Russia, and begin the “big picture” project of setting a new World Order, one that will end wars and facilitate business ties. The point here – which Europe feigns to not understand – is that the end to the Ukraine conflict simply is Trump’s “gateway” to the entire rationale and platform on which he stood: The Great Reset of the Geo-Political landscape. Ukraine, simply...

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President Trump, Where Are Those Long-Secret JFK Records?

President Trump, Where Are Those Long-Secret JFK Records?

by | Mar 11, 2025 |

It has now been two months since Donald Trump assumed the presidency. The question naturally arises: Where are those long-secret JFK Records that he repeatedly promised to release to the American people? Or to be more precise, why are those long-secret JFK records still secret? What’s up with the delay, President Trump? After all, it takes about one minute to write and sign an executive order that states as follows: “I, President Donald Trump, hereby order the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, the...

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It’s Rescission Time

It’s Rescission Time

by | Mar 10, 2025 |

The politicians who run the GOP on Capitol Hill are about ready to rug-pull Elon Musk and his patron in the Oval Office big time. That is, the so-called “clean CR [continuing resolution]” that Speaker Johnson is apparently cooking up will ratify the entirety of the runaway spending in the last Biden budget, thereby cancelling virtually every single dime that the DOGE operation has purportedly saved. This awful outlook, of course, is a consequence of the stacked institutional mechanics that...

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Tariffs are Theft

Tariffs are Theft

by | Mar 10, 2025 |

The US and China came closer to a full-fledged trade war last week when China imposed tariffs of up to 15 percent on key US agricultural exports. This was retaliation for President Trump’s increasing of tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States from 10 percent to 20 percent. China’s retaliatory tariffs show how export-dependent industries are harmed by protectionist policies. Even if other countries refrain from imposing retaliatory tariffs, exporters can still suffer from reduced demand...

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DEA Agent Kiki Camarena Died for Nothing

DEA Agent Kiki Camarena Died for Nothing

by | Mar 8, 2025 |

In a desperate attempt to placate President Trump in the hope of averting his imposition of a 25 percent tariff on her nation, Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum recently sent a Mexican citizen named Rafael Caro Quintero to Trump. Caro Quintero is alleged to have orchestrated the kidnapping, torture, and execution of a DEA agent named Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. For his part, Trump is claiming that his tariff plan is designed to combat drug cartels in Mexico, which are shipping fentanyl to the...

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Trump May Succeed Where Others Failed in Personnel Cutting

Trump May Succeed Where Others Failed in Personnel Cutting

by | Mar 6, 2025 |

Disclaimer: Then-Vice President Al Gore awarded my State Department team in Seoul in the mid-90’s a Hammer Award for helping “reinvent government.” Gore was in charge of the Clinton-era plan to create a government that costs less and works better. The plan mostly depended on us run-of-the-mill employees to come up with cost saving hacks and strategies within our own offices. The award, a mounted gold-painted hammer, was supposed to remind us of the expensive, wasteful procurements by the...

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Taking Rights Seriously

Taking Rights Seriously

by | Mar 6, 2025 |

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,and only one person were of the contrary opinion,Mankind would be no more justifiedIn silencing that one person,Than he, if he had the power,Would be justified in silencing mankind.” -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world is filled with self-evident truths -- truisms -- that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proven. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Two plus two equals four. A cup of boiling hot coffee sitting on a...

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NATO: The Case To Get Out Now

NATO: The Case To Get Out Now

by | Mar 5, 2025 |

See David Stockman in person at the Ron Paul Institute's Spring Conference! The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions: First, the Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine, even as the Fed has run out of capacity to monetize the skyrocketing public debt. Second, the only viable starting point for fiscal salvation is slashing the nation’s elephantine Warfare State by at least $500 billion per year. Third, the route to that end is a return...

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Starmer’s Summit Gives Birth To A Mouse – It’s Stillborn.

Starmer’s Summit Gives Birth To A Mouse – It’s Stillborn.

by | Mar 4, 2025 |

A mountain was in labour, uttering immense groans,and on earth there was very great expectation.But it gave birth to a mouse. This has been written for you,who, though you threaten great things, accomplish nothing." Sundays meeting of selected European leaders in London reminded me of the above Aesop fable. Prime Minister Starmer's summit, called for in haste, has achieved nothing: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer rallied his European counterparts Sunday to shore up their borders...

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Tariffs are Theft

Suddenly, Leaving NATO is on the Table!

by | Mar 3, 2025 |

Over the weekend, President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk made quite a stir with just two words posted on his social media platform, X. Responding to a post that, “It’s time to leave NATO and the UN,” Musk replied, “I agree.” The comment immediately made the rounds on social media and also on mainstream and alternative media. Was this the Elon Musk who owns X speaking, or was it the Elon Musk who has become one of President Trump’s closest advisors? Does it even...

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Who Really Provoked the Ukraine War? Was It Russia?

Who Really Provoked the Ukraine War? Was It Russia?

by | Mar 3, 2025 |

Ukrainian “president” Vladimir Zelensky lied when he called Russia the aggressor. Since 2014 his military forces have been shelling their own civilians in the east of Ukraine, killing at least 14,000 people and arresting thousands more with the SBU, the Ukrainian secret police, a de facto Gestapo-like terror organization. Zelensky's regime prohibited the Russian language in schools, political opposition was outlawed, the Orthodox church was banned, and all Russian shows and programs from TV...

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The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust

The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust

by | Mar 1, 2025 |

We have previously discussed polling showing the media at record lows in public trust. Well, the latest survey from Gallup shows that the media hit another all-time low. What is most impressive is that plummeting readers, revenues, and layoffs have done little to convince the mainstream media that the problem is not the public but themselves. The only institution with a  lower level of public trust is Congress, and that says a lot. It is like beating Ebola as the preferred...

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NATO Is the Big Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine

NATO Is the Big Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine

by | Feb 28, 2025 |

During his recent campaign for president, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he had a secret plan for settling the war in Ukraine. He suggested that he would be able to resolve the conflict within a day of so of taking office. That obviously was political hyperbole because the war is still going on. Trump and people in his administration are now talking to Russian president Vladimir Putin and Russian officials in an effort to find a way to end the war and possibly even normalize relations...

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Who Is Lew Rockwell?

Who Is Lew Rockwell?

by | Feb 27, 2025 |

This summary of Lew Rockwell’s contributions to the liberty movement will show that Lew has done more to spread libertarian ideas than anyone else not named Ron Paul. Lew was born in Boston in 1944. His father was an “Old Right” Republican who gave Lew a copy of Henry Hazlitt’s classic Economics in One Lesson for for his twelfth birthday! Lew would later edit Hazlitt while working as an editor for the conservative publisher Arlington House. Lew also edited Ludwig von Mises....

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America as Republic, Not as Empire – Europe’s ‘Sound and Fury’ After Jaw-Dropping Pivots in US Policy

America as Republic, Not as Empire – Europe’s ‘Sound and Fury’ After Jaw-Dropping Pivots in US Policy

by | Feb 27, 2025 |

The bits are falling into a distinct pattern – a pre-prepared pattern. Defence Secretary Hegseth at the Munich Security Conference gave us four “noes”: No to Ukraine in NATO; No to a return to pre-2014 borders; No to “Article 5” peacekeeper backstops, and “No” to US troops in Ukraine. And in a final flourish, he added that US troops in Europe are not ”forever” – and even placed a question mark over the continuity of NATO. Pretty plain speaking! The US clearly is cutting away from Ukraine. And...

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