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America’s National Security Scam Rolls On

America’s National Security Scam Rolls On

by | Sep 30, 2026 |

Once upon a time the United States of America was confident that it, shielded by broad oceans to the East and West and having friendly countries that it dominated economically and militarily to the North and South, was safe from any threat by any foreign nation or even any combination of nations. Washington was confident that it could defeat any adversary in conventional warfare and, if push came to shove, its nuclear weapon capability gave it a unique and decisive edge that no enemy would...

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Trump: Invading Cuba will be a ‘Great Honor’

Trump: Invading Cuba will be a ‘Great Honor’

by | Sep 29, 2026 |

During an Oval Office interview, President Trump declared Cuba is his and he can do whatever he likes with it, the same as he does with Mar-a-Lago and Trump Turnberry. “I think I’ll have the honor of conquering Cuba,” said 47, hunched over the Resolute Desk. “That wouldn’t be bad. It would be a great honor. I can liberate it or conquer it, I think I can do what I want with it,” he said. Last week, Trump hinted at an invasion of Cuba. Marco Rubio said the broken-down and impoverished communist...

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Eisenhower and Washington Both Spoke Out Against War

Eisenhower and Washington Both Spoke Out Against War

by | Sep 29, 2026 |

“God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do,” - President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his White House Staff Secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster. These words are quoted in a book about Eisenhower’s foreign policy called “Ike’s Bluff—President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle To Save The World,” by Evan Thomas. In the same paragraph as the words above are these: “When Defense Secretary Neil McElroy warned him that further cuts would harm national...

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The Coming GOP Bloodbath?

The Coming GOP Bloodbath?

by | Sep 28, 2026 |

Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November. Polling with generic ballots suggest a big win for the Democrats and likely the loss of Republican control of both houses of Congress. There is little reason to cheer a Democratic party victory, however Republicans in charge have for the most part earned what is coming to them. They have refused to uphold their Constitutional obligation to take leading...

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Force the CIA to Disclose Its Chile Records

Force the CIA to Disclose Its Chile Records

by | Sep 28, 2026 |

For some odd reason, the CIA steadfastly refuses to disclose all of its records relating to the 1973 Chilean coup, which the CIA ardently supported. The CIA says that “national security” will be jeopardized if its records are disclosed to the American people. That’s ridiculous. What do they think will happen — that the United States will fall into the ocean or be taken over by the communists, the terrorists, the Muslims, or some other scary boogeyman? The disclosure issue is more relevant than...

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Trump Prepares for an Invasion of Cuba

Trump Prepares for an Invasion of Cuba

by | Sep 26, 2026 |

On May 21, Marco Rubio stood on the tarmac at the Miami Homestead Airport and told reporters Cuba “has been one of the leading sponsors of terrorism in the entire region.” The Secretary of State insisted Cuba is a threat to the national security of the United States, although he did not provide evidence to support the claim. Rubio made his remarks on the same day the Justice Department unsealed a murder indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro and the United States...

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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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America’s National Security Scam Rolls On

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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Peace & Prosperity Blog

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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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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