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Can the President Tax You?

Can the President Tax You?

by | Nov 6, 2025 |

This week the Supreme Court will begin the process of deciding if the president can impose a sales tax on products and services which originate in foreign countries and are purchased in the United States. The president calls these taxes tariffs. Tariffs are nearly as old as the republic and when imposed by Congress -- as they have been going back to the presidency of Thomas Jefferson -- are clearly constitutional. Yet the questions before the court ask if Congress delegated away to the...

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Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government

Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government

by | Nov 5, 2025 |

America has been backsliding into kleptocratic territory for years now, but this may finally be it. A kleptocracy is literally “rule by thieves.” It is a form of government in which a network of ruling elites “steal public funds for their own private gain using public institutions.” As analyst Thomas Mayne explains, it’s “a system based on virtually unlimited grand corruption coupled with, in the words of American academic Andrew Wedeman, ‘near-total impunity for those authorized to loot by...

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US Foreign Policy in Contention: Is Trump Allowed to Agree a Deal With China (But Not Russia or Iran)?

US Foreign Policy in Contention: Is Trump Allowed to Agree a Deal With China (But Not Russia or Iran)?

by | Nov 4, 2025 |

US foreign policy, drenched in the hubris that the US won the Cold War militarily (in Afghanistan); won it economically (liberal markets); and culturally too, (Hollywood) — and therefore rightly deserves, as Trump puts it, the “fun” of “running both the country the world.” Well, that policy is now in contention for the first time. Will this matter? This month, the RAND Organisation, an institution whose shadow has long lain across US foreign policy matters, has challenged the Cold War hubris...

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World War Gorka

World War Gorka

by | Nov 4, 2025 |

News comes this weekend that the ‘Department of War’ now has Nigeria in its crosshairs. Taking to Truth Social on Saturday, Trump let loose on the Nigerian government, warning that, …If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities, I am...

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Senior IDF Official Arrested After Leaking Footage Exposing Israeli Torture Of Palestinian POWs

Senior IDF Official Arrested After Leaking Footage Exposing Israeli Torture Of Palestinian POWs

by | Nov 4, 2025 |

Although the Netanyahu regime launched its ground offensive into the Gaza Strip with the aim of destroying Hamas, the conflict has proven to have done more to destroy Israel's reputation on the world stage than it has to defeat terrorism. Scenes showing the hell on Earth that Gaza has become throughout the course of the years-long war have exposed how Israel's claims that it is defending its right to exist are little more than a facade it hides behind to justify committing a genocide...

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Another Regime-Change War Will Accelerate America’s Slide into Authoritarianism

Another Regime-Change War Will Accelerate America’s Slide into Authoritarianism

by | Nov 3, 2025 |

The New York Times has just published an excellent editorial on the dangerous direction in which America is headed under President Trump. It is entitled “Are We Losing Our Democracy?” The editorial lists 12 factors pointing toward America’s slide into authoritarianism. I highly recommend reading it. Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment are now accelerating America’s slide into authoritarianism with their violent and deadly regime-change operations in Venezuela. Using...

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Can’t Afford a Vacation? Blame the Fed.

Can’t Afford a Vacation? Blame the Fed.

by | Nov 3, 2025 |

According to data collected by the research firm Statista, 29 percent of Americans cannot afford to take a vacation this year. A vacation is not the only thing Americans are struggling to afford. The failure of wages to keep up with price inflation is why household debt hit a record level of 18.4 trillion dollars this year, with the average household owing more than 100,000 dollars. The Federal Reserve is responsible for the decline in American living standards and the rise in income...

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Ukraine – Hail Mary Operation To Unblock Pokrovsk Has Failed

Ukraine – Hail Mary Operation To Unblock Pokrovsk Has Failed

by | Nov 1, 2025 |

The Ukrainian army has lost control over the Pokrovsk / Myrnograd agglomeration. Russian forces had over months slowly enveloped the cities from the east and the west. The corridor leading out of it was put under Russian drone control. Any vehicle trying to pass through was attacked. The Ukrainian leadership had thrown any reserves it had to reopen the corridor to the city. All such attempts were destined to fail. A last Hail Mary move was the helicopter insertion of a dozen special forces...

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How the Federal Government Acquired the Power of Assassination

How the Federal Government Acquired the Power of Assassination

by | Oct 31, 2025 |

Americans oftentimes forget that the Constitution called the federal government into existence and, equally important, limited its powers to those enumerated in the Constitution itself. In fact, the only reason our American ancestors accepted the Constitution was because they were assured that its powers would be few, limited, and extremely restricted. Thus, the Constitution did not call into existence a government with inherent powers, like the traditional “police powers” that characterized...

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Donald Trump the School Bully

Donald Trump the School Bully

by | Oct 31, 2025 |

Now that Donald Trump is President of the United States of America and is strenuously attempting to confirm his right to do “whatever I want to do” over the entire world, it is easy to forget that minus his inability to articulate a coherent sentence his predecessors suffered from much of the same delusion. George W Bush called for a global war on terror and declared himself to be the “new sheriff in town,” a conceit that led to killing millions in Afghanistan and Iraq, while Barack Obama...

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Jailed in America for Free Speech

Jailed in America for Free Speech

by | Oct 30, 2025 |

In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats who concluded that anti-Kirk views could harm the employers’ businesses or were inconsistent with institutional values. All discipline based on speech needs to be scrutinized strictly. Yet, even in states with strong public...

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Leaks expose collapse of EU/US-backed Belarusian ‘opposition’ 

Leaks expose collapse of EU/US-backed Belarusian ‘opposition’ 

by | Oct 30, 2025 |

When Belarusian opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya declared herself “President” of an alternative government in 2020, she was enthusiastically embraced – and showered with funding – by the Western governments which yearned to depose the longtime leader of her country, Alexander Lukashenko, and remove Russia’s closest regional ally from the geopolitical chessboard. The New York Times set the tone by lionizing Tsikhanouskaya as a modern-day Joan of Arc. However, a wave of...

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The World Financial and Geo-political Framework at a Time of Imminent Disorder

The World Financial and Geo-political Framework at a Time of Imminent Disorder

by | Oct 30, 2025 |

Trump’s attempt to build a “Budapest scenario” (i.e. a Putin-Trump summit grounded on the earlier Alaska “understanding”) was unilaterally cancelled (by the US) amid acrimony. Putin had initiated the 2.5 hr Monday call. It reportedly contained tough talking by Putin about the lack of US preparation towards a political framework – both in respect to Ukraine, but crucially also in respect to Russia’s wider security needs. However, when it was announced by the American side, Trump’s proposal had...

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The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances

The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances

by | Oct 29, 2025 |

Monsters don’t always come wrapped in the trappings of horror or myth. Most often, monsters in the real world look like ordinary people. They walk among us. They smile for the cameras. They promise protection and prosperity even as they feed on fear and obedience. All is not as it seems. We are living in two worlds. There’s the world we’re shown—the bright, propaganda-driven illusion manufactured by the government and its corporate sponsors—and the world we actually inhabit, where economic...

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Norwegian Peace Council Rejects Peace Prize Winner

Norwegian Peace Council Rejects Peace Prize Winner

by | Oct 28, 2025 |

Norway's largest peace organization, the Norwegian Peace Council, has announced that it would forego its traditional torchlight procession for the Nobel Peace Prize winner this year after widespread dissatisfaction with the Nobel Committee's selection of Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado as this year's laureate. Eline H. Lorentzen, Chairwoman of the Peace Council, explained that: We have great respect for the Nobel Committee and the Peace Prize as an institution, but as an...

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Can’t Afford a Vacation? Blame the Fed.

The Rubio Doctrine: Neocons Are Back!

by | Oct 27, 2025 |

According to several recent news reports, the two major Trump foreign policy shifts last week are the handiwork of Marco Rubio, the President’s Secretary of State and (acting) National Security Advisor. As with all neocon plans, they will be big on promises and small on delivery. First up, according to Bloomberg it was Rubio who finally convinced President Trump to take “ownership” of the US proxy war on Russia, and for the first time place sanctions on Russia. Up to this point President Trump...

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Gun Rights Are People’s Rights

Gun Rights Are People’s Rights

by | Sep 9, 2025

“Take the guns first; go through due process second,” recommended Donald Trump in a meeting with Congress members during his first term as president. Through this comment offered...

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