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How Committed Are the Republicans to War?

How Committed Are the Republicans to War?

by | Sep 17, 2026 |

No matter how often Republicans recite the conservative mantra of the Constitution, limited government, individual freedom, private property, traditional values, free enterprise, and a strong national defense, the truth is that they only selectively believe it. Republicans don’t follow the Constitution in a great many areas. The only limited government they desire is one limited to control by Republicans. They don’t accept the freedom of individuals to do anything that’s peaceful. They don’t...

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No Emergency Exception in the Constitution

No Emergency Exception in the Constitution

by | Sep 16, 2026 |

After the 9/11 attacks, US officials used the “emergency” to wield and exercise extraordinary totalitarian-like powers. This was reflected by such totalitarian-like measures as the USA PATRIOT Act, warrantless telecommunications surveillance, torture, indefinite detention, assassination, the TSA takeover of the airports, and the undeclared wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq. Of course, that isn’t the only time US officials have used an “emergency” to justify the use of...

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The Wrong War: Trump Blames Kyiv for a Diesel Crisis His Own Iran War Triggered

The Wrong War: Trump Blames Kyiv for a Diesel Crisis His Own Iran War Triggered

by | Sep 15, 2026 |

On 14 September 2026, with American diesel having crossed six dollars a gallon for the first time in history, President Trump settled the question of blame in a single sentence posted to social media: “The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran.” A day earlier, at his golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland, he had told Zelensky to “stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” because the strikes were “hurting the world.” It is a tidy story, and it has one great...

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A New Washington Colossus

A New Washington Colossus

by | Sep 15, 2026 |

The excitement In Washington is palpable with the announcement that President Donald Trump has a new project to help beautify the city on top of the huge banners bearing his image festooning the fronts of government buildings, his billion dollar White House fortified ballroom, the paving of the rose garden, the enlarging of the helicopter landing pad, the soon to be demolished and renamed “Trump”-Kennedy Center, the renaming of the “Trump” Institute of Peace, and the soon to be started...

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The Crippling Effects of Unnecessary War

The Crippling Effects of Unnecessary War

by | Sep 14, 2026 |

In California, gas stations are facing a unique challenge. The station signs are only configured to go up to $9.99 per gallon and at several stations the price of diesel has reached that maximum. Diesel prices are higher than they have ever been in history. Worse, according to some news reports the advertising of the maximum price of $9.99 per gallon is meant to signal to truck drivers that they have run out of diesel altogether. Expensive diesel is a hit to the economy, but running out of the...

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Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA Sponsored by Israeli Govt-aligned Outfit, Leaked Contract Shows

Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA Sponsored by Israeli Govt-aligned Outfit, Leaked Contract Shows

by | Sep 12, 2026 |

One year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, The Charlie Kirk Show is distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel and his widow, Erika, has reversed his critical positions on the US-Israeli special relationship. Now, The Grayzone can reveal that the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization he founded is holding faith events sponsored by an Israel-based non-profit with close ties to the Israeli government. A leaked contract obtained by The Grayzone reveals that TPUSA entered into an...

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Sanctions Target Iran’s Government, But Kill Hospitalized 23-Year-Old Woman

Sanctions Target Iran’s Government, But Kill Hospitalized 23-Year-Old Woman

by | Sep 11, 2026 |

Operation Epic Fury, a war of aggression launched on false pretenses, has failed to topple the government of Iran or force the “unconditional surrender” President Trump demanded on the seventh day of a war that’s now in its seventh month. In April, the Trump administration escalated America’s long-running economic war on Iran by launching Operation Economic Fury. Grasping at straws in August, the administration announced a sequel, Operation Economic Outcast,...

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House Republicans Posture against Socialism and for the Constitution

House Republicans Posture against Socialism and for the Constitution

by | Sep 10, 2026 |

The advance of socialism and rejection of the United States Constitution have been continuing themes in America over several decades irrespective of which party has majorities in the US House of Representatives and Senate. Yet, on occasion — and especially as biennial elections approach, Republicans in Congress like to make a show of their fidelity to the Constitution and enmity toward socialism. The posturing is a sham for most the elected Republican politicians. But, hey, some chumps will...

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No Emergency Exception in the Constitution

When War Comes Home: A Constitutional Warning

by | Sep 10, 2026 |

A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of presidential overreach and the enduring wisdom of the Constitution’s separation of powers. It was unauthorized, unconstitutional, illegal, strategically incoherent and -- by the standards by which wars must be...

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Americans Should Never Have Given the US Government a Pass After 9/11

Americans Should Never Have Given the US Government a Pass After 9/11

by | Sep 10, 2026 |

One of the most disastrous consequences of the 9/11 aftermath was the pass that the American people gave to their own government. Their anger was focused entirely on the terrorists rather than on both the terrorists and the government that provoked the attacks. There were two reasons for this phenomenon. The biggest reason is that Americans bought into the rationale that U.S officials immediately announced as to motive — that is, the reason the terrorists struck on 9/11 with their devastating...

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The Crippling Effects of Unnecessary War

Corporatism Goes Global

by | Sep 8, 2026 |

Last Monday, a day before the Republican-controlled House passed a resolution condemning socialism, the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital announced that it had acquired a 35 percent stake in North American Blue Energy Partners, one of Venezuela’s largest private oil producers. In the deal, the Venezuela government gives the company a hundred years lease for some oil fields. The deal also provides the US government with veto power over appointments to the company’s board of directors....

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Front Row At the Revolution

Front Row At the Revolution

by | Sep 8, 2026 |

I spent the past weekend as a participant in the annual Ron Paul Institute conference that takes place in the Washington area, in northern Virginia. This year the theme was “Front Row at the Revolution” and the circa 500 attendees that filled the Hilton Hotel ballroom certainly got what the gathering’s theme sought to deliver. The outstanding list of speakers included Congressman Thomas Massie, Dennis Kucinich, Jim Webb, Josh Paul, Michael Vlahos, Max Blumenthal and Joe...

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Trump lifts sanctions on top Al Qaeda recruiters, financiers days before 9/11 anniversary

Trump lifts sanctions on top Al Qaeda recruiters, financiers days before 9/11 anniversary

by | Sep 8, 2026 |

The administration of President Donald Trump has removed the names of some of the world’s most notorious commanders, recruiters and financiers for the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda from its list of specially designated terrorists. Among those relieved of US sanctions this August was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Salafi-jihadi cleric from Saudi Arabia who participated in videotaped massacres of captive soldiers and recruited droves of foreign youth to carry out suicide bombings throughout...

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Massie, Kent Join Ex-Officials Lighting up Ron Paul ‘Revolution’

Massie, Kent Join Ex-Officials Lighting up Ron Paul ‘Revolution’

by | Sep 7, 2026 |

In his first non-Congressional public speech since his Republican primary loss to Ed Gallrhein, Thomas Massie brought some of the loudest energy to the Ron Paul Institute’s Washington conference on Saturday. He was full of jokes and promise for the future. Massie said he was not interested in mourning the defeat and declared that he was, in a way, happy he had lost. When addressing what he planned to do next, he joked that “you could scan my head” for an answer and still...

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God’s Little Helpers

God’s Little Helpers

by | Sep 7, 2026 |

Stalin once said, `The death of one person is a tragedy. The death of thousands is a mere statistic.’ He was quite right, of course. Palestine is the current example of Stalin’s cynical observation. There, young, violent Israeli hoodlums – known as ‘settlers’ in western media – have been trying to terrorize Arab villagers into flight. It’s all part of a broad plan of genocide against peaceful Palestinian villagers. In fact, this is a repeat of what happened in the region in the 1940’s and 50’s...

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A Small but Welcome Justice at Gitmo

A Small but Welcome Justice at Gitmo

by | Sep 3, 2026 |

The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution. The United States government today alleges that Mohammed was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, a crime of historic horror that demands accountability. For nine years, the government told us that the mastermind of the attacks was Osama bin Laden, whom it never charged for 9/11-related crimes. Then, after it...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Waiting for Kei Truck Freedom

Waiting for Kei Truck Freedom

by | Jun 30, 2026

In April of 2024, I wrote about the Texas government opening up roads in the state to mini vehicles often referred to as kei trucks or kei cars. Then, in December of last year,...

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The Especially Unpopular Iran War

The Especially Unpopular Iran War

by | Jun 29, 2026

According to analysis by Stephen Semler in a Friday Responsible Statecraft article, Americans’ opposition to the Iran War exceeds Americans’ previous polling-indicated opposition...

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Secretary of War Crimes

Secretary of War Crimes

by | Jun 11, 2026

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth likes to be referred to by the title secretary of war. Given his answer to a question at a Wednesday press conference at MacDill...

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