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The Media Musk? Why the Cancel Campaign Targeting Jeff Bezos Could Backfire

The Media Musk? Why the Cancel Campaign Targeting Jeff Bezos Could Backfire

by | Oct 31, 2024 |

Below is my column on Fox.com on the expanding boycott of the Washington Post by Democratic politicians, pundits, and members of the press. The reason? Because owner Jeff Bezos wants to stay politically neutral and leave the matter to the public. In an age of advocacy journalism, the return to neutrality is intolerable. The reaction is itself revealing. In a heated meeting this week at the Post, writers were apoplectic with attacks on Bezos and alarm over the very notion of remaining...

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Why is EU’s rotating presidency praising a country that flipped off the bloc?

Why is EU’s rotating presidency praising a country that flipped off the bloc?

by | Oct 31, 2024 |

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban took a break this week from annoying the EU establishment at home to annoy it abroad. “For so many years now, the people of Georgia have been striving and fighting for democracy,” unelected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proclaimed in the wake of the Georgian parliamentary elections. “They have a right to know what happened this weekend.” Well, since she apparently needs it spelled out, it would seem that 54% of...

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Some Of Our Leaders Are Putting Other Countries First

Some Of Our Leaders Are Putting Other Countries First

by | Oct 30, 2024 |

Some of our leaders seem to care more about other countries, e.g., Ukraine and Israel, than they do about our own. Once again, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has come to Washington, begging for even more money, this time some $8 billion dollars. The U.S. Congress has already approved $175 billion for Ukraine in the last 2½ years. Added to over $52 billion from the European Union and $43 billion from the World Bank (17.5% of which comes from U.S. taxpayers), Ukraine has had more money...

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Russia Keeps Rolling Forward While Iran Contemplates Retaliation Against Israel

Russia Keeps Rolling Forward While Iran Contemplates Retaliation Against Israel

by | Oct 30, 2024 |

espite my hope that Iran would “take a win” in repelling most of the Israeli cruise missiles launched on Saturday against Iranian military targets, it appears that Iran will hit back in the near future. I base that conclusion on these two recent statements from Iranian senior officials. Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, Deputy Coordinator of the IRGC: “In the coming days, you will witness another crushing blow to the Zionist regime.” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil...

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How Media Continue To Discredit Themselves

How Media Continue To Discredit Themselves

by | Oct 29, 2024 |

Do they not understand how boring this nonsense is? How Russia, China and Iran Are Interfering in the Presidential Election (archived) - New York TimesEight years after Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, foreign influence with American voters has grown more sophisticated. That could have outsize consequences in the 2024 race. Written by three 'journalists' and published at the top of the NYT's homepage the intro reads: When Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S....

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The Politics of Fear: Laying the Groundwork for Fascism, American-Style

The Politics of Fear: Laying the Groundwork for Fascism, American-Style

by | Oct 29, 2024 |

America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other. Everywhere you turn, those on both the left- and right-wing are fomenting distrust and division. You can’t escape it. We’re being fed a constant diet of fear: fear of terrorists, fear of illegal immigrants, fear of people who are too religious, fear of people who are not religious enough, fear of...

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Israel’s ‘zugzwang’ Moment with Iran

Israel’s ‘zugzwang’ Moment with Iran

by | Oct 28, 2024 |

A senior US official told Washington Post that the toned-down early morning Israeli strike Saturday on military targets in Iran was a “proportional strike,” which “was moderate enough to quiet the conflict without provoking Iran into a counterattack.”  However, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted in a speech on Sunday: “We hit hard Iran’s defence capabilities and its ability to produce missiles that are aimed at us. The attack in Iran was precise and powerful, and it...

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Government Gaslights People about the Economy

Government Gaslights People about the Economy

by | Oct 28, 2024 |

Public opinion polls consistently show the economy is one of the top issues, if not the top issue, for American voters. This may strike some as odd, since official government statistics show low unemployment and declining price inflation, suggesting the Federal Reserve has engineered a “soft landing” bringing down inflation without causing a recession. So why the concern over the economy? One reason is more people are realizing government economic figures hide the truth about the economy....

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The Kims Are Coming!

The Kims Are Coming!

by | Oct 26, 2024 |

This article first appeared as an exclusive for Ron Paul Institute subscribers. Subscribe for free here. After a few cat and mouse days of Defense Secretary Lloyd "Raytheon" Austin's denials, the Pentagon finally yesterday affirmed that there was evidence of a North Korean military presence in Russia. Asked what they were doing in Russia, Austin replied, “What exactly they are doing? Left to be seen. These are things that we need to sort out.” For days, South Korea (no conflict...

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I Have Video Evidence that Iran Stymied Israel’s Attack

I Have Video Evidence that Iran Stymied Israel’s Attack

by | Oct 25, 2024 |

Social media is lit up like Times Square on New Year’s Eve with reports that Israel, finally, delivered on its vow to attack Iran. And attack it did. Here is the video. Ok. I sent this to my brother-in-law and he asked, “Are you fu*king with me?” No, not really. Yes, that is a clip from the Matrix Reloaded, but it is an accurate representation of the failure of Israel’s attack. The explosions heard around Tehran reportedly came from the Russian-supplied air defense systems, which launched and...

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American Healthcare Workers Plead For End To Gaza Bombing

American Healthcare Workers Plead For End To Gaza Bombing

by | Oct 24, 2024 |

On October 3, 2024, 99 American healthcare workers in Gaza released an open letter to the White House pleading for an end to Israel’s bombing of little children. The letter was sent by American physicians, surgeons, nurse practitioners, and nurses who had volunteered a combined five years to treat the besieged people of Palestine. The letter said: “Every day that we continue supplying weapons and munitions to Israel is another day that women are shredded by our bombs and children are murdered...

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War and the Constitution

War and the Constitution

by | Oct 24, 2024 |

Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be addressed in a national debate over the U.S. military involvement in Ukraine and Israel. Sadly, there has been no debate. The media are mouthing what the CIA is telling them, Congress is in lock-step, and only a few websites and podcasts -- my own, “Judging Freedom” on YouTube, among them -- are...

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Joe Biden Allowed His Friend Bibi to Destroy His Presidency and Legacy

Joe Biden Allowed His Friend Bibi to Destroy His Presidency and Legacy

by | Oct 23, 2024 |

In 2020, amid lockdowns, Joe Biden prevailed in the election, running his campaign from his home. Biden was clearly experiencing significant cognitive decline, so the American people were presented with a carefully choreographed message that a vote for Biden was a return to normalcy. Since Donald Trump descended the golden escalator, Americans have been subject to a non-stop barrage from establishment media and politicians wailing that we are in an existential battle for our country's soul. We...

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India and China Declare Truce — a Lesson in Diplomacy for the West

India and China Declare Truce — a Lesson in Diplomacy for the West

by | Oct 23, 2024 |

Ahead of the BRICS summit in Russia, India and China announced an end to the four-year military standoff between the two countries along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will have their first official bilateral meeting in five years! India and China have reached an agreement on patrolling arrangements along the LAC and the border areas. This has led to a disengagement and resolution of the issues that...

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The Draft Is Antithetical to Liberty, Even if It Is Never Used

The Draft Is Antithetical to Liberty, Even if It Is Never Used

by | Oct 23, 2024 |

Fall may finally have arrived in DC, but one discussion that never seems out of season is pontificating on a need for a return of military conscription. While the leaves may have turned, the substance of the case from those who advocate for conscription remains the same: blending arguments of geopolitical necessity and socio-cultural improvement, arguing that such an institution “would contribute to maintaining the integrity of our domestic political life.” As radical as such an idea...

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The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart

The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart

by | Oct 22, 2024 |

The global Covid response was the turning point in public trust, economic vitality, citizen health, free speech, literacy, religious and travel freedom, elite credibility, demographic longevity, and so much more. Now five years following the initial spread of the virus that provoked the largest-scale despotisms of our lives, something else seems to be biting the dust: the postwar neo-liberal consensus itself.  The world as we knew it only a decade ago is on fire, precisely as Henry...

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