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The Republican Establishment’s Sterile Foreign Policy Perspective

The Republican Establishment’s Sterile Foreign Policy Perspective

by | Jul 2, 2024 |

Those Americans who might hope that the growing public opposition to continuing U.S. aid to Ukraine might signal a wave of fresh thinking about foreign policy in the Republican party are likely to be disappointed. Most members of the establishment cling to the idea that the principal worry about Republican policy views is the growing appeal of “isolationism.”  A recent example was a Washington Post column by Marc A. Thiessen. Thiessen was responding to a speech by President...

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The West – Indubitably – has Lost Russia, and is Losing Eurasia Too

The West – Indubitably – has Lost Russia, and is Losing Eurasia Too

by | Jul 2, 2024 |

There perhaps was a momentary shrugging-off of slumber in Washington this week as they read the account of Sergei Lavrov’s démarche to the US Ambassador in Moscow: Russia was telling the US – “We are no longer at peace”! Not just “no longer at peace,” Russia was holding the US responsible for the “cluster strike” on a Crimean beach on last Sunday’s Pentecost holiday, killing several (including children) and injuring many more. The US thereby “became party” to the proxy war in Ukraine (it was...

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The Art of Being Eternally Shocked: How the Press and Pundits are Again Mystified by the Obvious

The Art of Being Eternally Shocked: How the Press and Pundits are Again Mystified by the Obvious

by | Jul 2, 2024 |

No one would think of the Beltway as being a place of the naive innocents of our society. Washington is the only ecosystem composed entirely of apex predators. Yet, this week everyone seems to be eternally shocked by what has been obvious for years. The press and pundits are coming off an embarrassing couple of weeks where the Hunter Biden laptop was authenticated in federal court as real. This occurred in the trial of the president’s son almost on the anniversary of a debunked letter of...

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The Debate Should Be a Wake-Up Call For Americans

The Debate Should Be a Wake-Up Call For Americans

by | Jul 1, 2024 |

There were plenty of surprises in last week’s presidential debate. For one, Americans who rely on the mainstream media for their news learned that they had been lied to for the past three years about President Biden’s capability to do the job he was elected to do. The realization that the media has been lying for years about Biden is a positive development, as, hopefully, thoughtful Americans might begin wondering what else the media has been lying about. For example, they will find out that...

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The Last Wunderwaffe

The Last Wunderwaffe

by | Jun 29, 2024 |

F-16s, Romanian bases, and NATO pilots I shall return yet again to the prospect of “Made in the USA” F-16s sallying forth boldly into eastern Ukraine to "teach the cabbage heads what Airpower (capitalized) really means." From what information I've been able to glean in recent weeks, it does in fact look as though the US is aggressively setting up air ops housekeeping in Romania, very near the Black Sea coast — ostensibly to serve as the base of F-16 operations against Russia. I...

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What an Awful Choice!

What an Awful Choice!

by | Jun 29, 2024 |

This week’s presidential debate made me both horrified and dismayed. Here was the world’s most powerful nation trying to decide which elderly candidate to select as its presidential candidate. Maybe the best expression is ‘cringe-worthy.’ Joe Biden was left looking feeble and halting before the bombastic Trump. At least Trump made some sense in what he said whether true or false. The former president’s mouth is his biggest enemy as well as his strongest point. Biden was shockingly...

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Julian Assange Is Free!

Julian Assange Is Free!

by | Jun 27, 2024 |

“I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.”-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) It wasn’t until 1969 that the Supreme Court’s modern First Amendment jurisprudence made it clear that whenever there is a clash between the government and a person over the constitutionality of the person’s speech, the courts will give every benefit and draw every inference to the speaker, and none to the government. This is so because the freedom of speech is a natural right, it is also expressly...

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Lost in the Labyrinth: Left and Right in Geopolitics

Lost in the Labyrinth: Left and Right in Geopolitics

by | Jun 26, 2024 |

The current ideological debate between the right (which normally defends private enterprise, market economies with minimal government interference, democratic forms of government and traditional family values) and the left (which supports social solidarity, government involvement in the economy, subordination of democratic forms to social priorities and defence of minority rights on social behaviour) is a struggle between opponents who are not necessarily true to themselves and therefore often...

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‘Draft Notice’ from the Shop of Horrors

‘Draft Notice’ from the Shop of Horrors

by | Jun 26, 2024 |

The coming wars are not patriotic. They are the result of the abject failure of political leadership and a long trail of lies stretching back decades.  Those who control the narrative and push for ever-increasing war as a solution to all ills are leading America, and America’s future generations, into an abyss from which we may never be able to recover.  Generations of political leaders have destroyed America’s economic largess through the signing of trade agreements which exported...

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Putin’s ‘War’ to Re-Shape the American Zeitgeist

Putin’s ‘War’ to Re-Shape the American Zeitgeist

by | Jun 25, 2024 |

The G7 and the subsequent Swiss “Bürgenstock Conference” can – in retrospect – be understood as preparation for a prolonged Ukraine war. The three centrepiece announcements emerging from the G7 – the 10 year Ukraine security pact; the $50 “billion Ukraine loan;” and the seizing of interest on Russian frozen funds – make the point. The war is about to escalate. These stances were intended as preparation of the western public ahead of events. And in case of any doubts, the blistering...

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Ideas for Candidates Beyond Talking Points

Ideas for Candidates Beyond Talking Points

by | Jun 25, 2024 |

American political, economic, and military global hegemony—sustained by America’s past economic productivity, the dollar’s reserve status, and the reliance on forward-deployed American military power—is over. In a new world shaped by sweeping technological change in warfare, business and finance, it’s not just the end of the much exaggerated “unipolar moment.” The tectonic plates of the international system are shifting beneath America’s feet, crushing Washington’s reactionary, postwar world...

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The Myth of the European ‘Far-Right Surge’

The Myth of the European ‘Far-Right Surge’

by | Jun 24, 2024 |

There has been much talk of a “far-right surge” in the European Parliament. For example, BBC ran a headline, “Far right eyes Europe vote surge…,” shortly before the elections. On June 5th, Politico reported, “As the far right surges, this week’s European Parliament election will reorder the Continent’s political landscape.” One of CNN’s post-election headlines ran, “Far right surges in European Parliament elections but center still holds.” These sorts of headlines...

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The Debate Should Be a Wake-Up Call For Americans

Stop Taxing Tips

by | Jun 24, 2024 |

Donald Trump recently promised that, if he wins the November election, he will support eliminating taxes on tips as part of his proposal to renew and expand the 2017 tax cuts. This tax law change would be a long overdue boost for millions of Americans. Tips often comprise a substantial portion of the earnings of waiters and waitresses, as well as of other service-sector employees. However, unlike regular wages, a service-sector employee usually has no guarantee of, or legal right to, a tip....

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What If It’s Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong?

What If It’s Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong?

by | Jun 20, 2024 |

What if the government is a myth? What if it doesn’t produce what we pay it for? What if it fails to safeguard our lives, liberties and property from its own agents? What if nothing changes after these failures and after elections? What if we’re stuck with it? What if the National Security Agency -- the federal government’s 60,000-person strong domestic spying apparatus -- has convinced Congress that it needs to cut constitutional corners in order to spy on every person in America? What if...

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Macron’s Idiotic Ukraine Policies Have Paved Way For Triumph Of The French Right

Macron’s Idiotic Ukraine Policies Have Paved Way For Triumph Of The French Right

by | Jun 19, 2024 |

The EU, NATO, and a number of European capitals are watching France's political turmoil with growing alarm, as President Emmanuel Macron is clearly on the ropes, having called early elections, leaving a path open for the French 'far-right' to triumph.  The foreign policy establishment in both Europe and Washington fears that large-scale joint initiatives like ramped-up military spending and the new push to fund Ukraine's defense for years to come could also be in question, given...

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A Terribly Lopsided, Very Cruel War Continues

A Terribly Lopsided, Very Cruel War Continues

by | Jun 19, 2024 |

As I write this, in the last 15 days, Israel has bombed a tent city and a UN school and has killed 276 Palestinian non-combatants in a mid-day raid to gain the release of four Israelis being held as hostages. Almost 400 people were killed in the three actions, with many hundreds more wounded. In the hostage retrieval, 64 Palestinian children and 57 women were killed. The UN has reported that more than 37,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war in Gaza started, with over 38% (about...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Hybrid War

by | Nov 19, 2021

There is no shortage of growing tensions in eastern Europe. There is the growing EU-Belarus standoff over illegal migration. There are western reports that Russia is amassing...

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No Peace Dividend Again

No Peace Dividend Again

by | Nov 10, 2021

Back when the Soviet Union fell apart, there was much talk of a peace dividend — a big reduction in the United States government’s spending on militarism. The peace dividend did...

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