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The Right to Assembly

The Right to Assembly

by | Apr 18, 2024 |

Last week, the Supreme Court effectively abolished the right to assembly in three Southern states. By refusing to hear an appeal of a speaker accused of being liable for what a protester did in an audience the speaker addressed, the court exposed all protest organizers and speakers to potentially ruinous financial penalties for what unknown persons have done. Here is the backstory. The right to taunt the tyrant -- whether the tyrant be a king or a president or local police -- is among the...

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The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost

The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost

by | Apr 17, 2024 |

If there is anything that confirms that the national-security branch of the federal government rules the roost within the federal governmental structure, it is the Pentagon/CIA torture and indefinite-detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That facility stands as an ongoing testament to the overarching power of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA within America’s governmental structure and the deference to their authority displayed by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the...

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‘Do Not Touch Me…I am a Faculty Member’: Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech

‘Do Not Touch Me…I am a Faculty Member’: Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech

by | Apr 17, 2024 |

Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, was forcibly removed from a Cornell University event this week after disrupting a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. She is only the latest faculty member to seek to prevent others from hearing opposing views. The question now is what Cornell will do about her conduct. To its credit, Cornell resolved to reinvite Coulter to speak after a prior event was disrupted by protesters. On March 13, Cornell Provost...

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FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security.

FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security.

by | Apr 15, 2024 |

House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. When the FISA Act was passed, surveillance state boosters promised that 702 warrantless surveillances would never be used against American citizens. However, intelligence agencies have used a loophole in 702,...

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Iranian Missiles Hit Israel

Iranian Missiles Hit Israel

by | Apr 14, 2024 |

Iran fired several hundred drones, cruise and ballistic missiles towards Israel. With the help of the U.S., UK and Jordan most of the incoming items were intercepted. The expense of several hundred of air defense missiles, at a cost of more than $1 billion, was significant as these are currently hard to get items. More such attacks would soon deplete those which are left. Iran's missiles, for which the drones flew cover, hit their targets. The Nevatim Air Base (vid) and...

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The Missiles of April

The Missiles of April

by | Apr 14, 2024 |

Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century. I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the “ground truth” about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into a book, Target Iran, laying out the US-Israeli collaboration to craft a justification for a military attack on Iran designed to bring down its theocratic government. I followed this book up with...

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The CIA Wants More Power to Spy on Americans!

The CIA Wants More Power to Spy on Americans!

by | Apr 11, 2024 |

Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. These agencies believe that the Fourth Amendment -- which protects the individual right to privacy -- only regulates law enforcement and does not apply to domestic spying. There is no basis in the constitutional text, history or judicial interpretations for such a limiting and toothless view of this...

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Why the JFK Assassination Still Matters

Why the JFK Assassination Still Matters

by | Apr 11, 2024 |

Someone might reasonably ask, “What difference does the JFK assassination make to those of us living today? The assassination took place more than 60 years ago. Everyone involved in it is now dead. Why not just forget it and move on?’ Those are reasonable questions, especially when they come from young people. Why should they care about who killed Kennedy? The reason lies in the governmental structure under which all of us have been born and raised — a national-security state form of...

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The Deep State Prepares for a Trump Victory

The Deep State Prepares for a Trump Victory

by | Apr 10, 2024 |

We’ve all wondered if the fix is already in. Given the irregularities of the last election, and the manner in which the whole of the U.S. establishment rallied around one side, maybe a Biden victory in November is a foregone conclusion. I’m guilty of believing this. I’ve doubted every prediction that Donald Trump or RFK, Jr. can win. This is not because they won’t get votes. It’s because those votes might not matter enough. The power of haters is awesome and ubiquitous. The whole of legacy...

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NPR Editor Blasts the Public-Funded Company for Political Bias and Activism

NPR Editor Blasts the Public-Funded Company for Political Bias and Activism

by | Apr 10, 2024 |

In a scathing account from within National Public Radio (NPR), Senior Editor Uri Berliner blasted the company for open political bias and activism. Berliner, who says that he is liberal politically, wrote about how NPR went from a left-leaning media outlet to a virtual Democratic operation echoing narratives from figures like Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.). The objections have long been voiced, including on this blog, but this account is coming from a long-standing and respected editor from...

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Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It

Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It

by | Apr 10, 2024 |

The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that “someone” is the U.S. taxpayer. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, cronyism and graft to asset...

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Brutal, chaotic war – norms, conventions and laws of conduct are being erased

Brutal, chaotic war – norms, conventions and laws of conduct are being erased

by | Apr 9, 2024 |

We stand on the cusp of what might be termed Chaotic War. Not the formula used by Israel often in the past to intimidate adversaries; this is different. Israeli reporter Eddie Cohen said, in the wake of the attack on the Iranian Consulate: “We are very clear that we want to start a war with Iran and Hezbollah. Do you still not understand?” “Israel wants to drag Iran into a full-scale war in order to be able to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities,” though these facilities are...

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Why Did Washington Insist on the Kosovo War?

Why Did Washington Insist on the Kosovo War?

by | Apr 9, 2024 |

The following remarks were delivered at a conference marking the 25th anniversary of the NATO bombing of Serbia: "The 1999 Red-Green Bombing Terror against Serbia," held on March 20, 2024, at the Bundestag in Berlin hosted by MdB Dr. Rainer Rothfuß and his Alternative for Germany parliamentary group. In 2004, I appeared as the second defense witness called by Slobodan Milošević at his so-called “trial” before the so-called “International Criminal Tribunal for the former...

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America’s Ceasefire Deception

America’s Ceasefire Deception

by | Apr 8, 2024 |

Inarguably, to condemn Israel’s industrial-scale campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza ought to be ethically straightforward. Basic really, for Israel is in violation of God’s law, natural justice, the laws of war and all customary international humanitarian law. That Israel is committing the “the crime of all crimes” against the Palestinians of Gaza is not within the realm of opinion. That the Global North is standing stock-still in the face of this well-documented holocaust is not in...

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FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security.

McConnell Cannot Stop the Non-Interventionist Tide

by | Apr 8, 2024 |

Even Republican stalwarts like current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are starting to notice that something is shifting in the party. While McConnell announced recently that he would step down as Republican leader in the US Senate, in an interview last week he was adamant that he would continue to serve out his term in the Senate with one purpose in mind: “fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party.” He sounds worried. What McConnell deems to be “isolationism” had...

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Israel is Crossing All Boundaries as America Tires of its Endless Wars

Israel is Crossing All Boundaries as America Tires of its Endless Wars

by | Apr 8, 2024 |

A version of this article first appeared as a regular RPI Update. Subscribe for free here. Last week the Israelis scored a bloody "hat trick" - slaughtering seven international food aid workers, demolishing the last major hospital operating in Gaza, and - perhaps most dangerous - attacking an Iranian diplomatic facility in Damascus, Syria, in which several senior Iranian military figures were killed. There is a very good reason diplomatic facilities are off limits even in times of war. It has...

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The Republic of Texas, Part Two

The Republic of Texas, Part Two

by | Jun 21, 2022

Texas was its own nation independent of any other for ten years between gaining its independence from Mexico in 1836 and joining the United States in 1846. Nearly 180 years...

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