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Welfare for the Rich

Welfare for the Rich

by | Feb 14, 2024 |

(This article first appeared as an exclusive update to RPI subscribers. Subscribe for free here.) Why does the US military budget keep skyrocketing? The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2024 passed in December came in at a whopping $841.1 billion, and that's just part of the total amount that will be spent on military-related issues this year. Just this weekend, for example, the Senate cleared the way for a nearly $100 billion in additional spending to boost the military...

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The World’s Gyre

The World’s Gyre

by | Feb 13, 2024 |

The US is edging closer to war with Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, a state security agency composed of armed groups, some of which are close to Iran, but which for the main are Iraqi nationalists. The US carried out a drone strike in Baghdad, Wednesday that killed three members of the Kataeb Hizbullah forces, including a senior commander. One of the assassinated, al-Saadi, is the most senior figure to have been assassinated in Iraq since the 2020 drone strike that killed senior...

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Tucker Slayed the Mainstream Media Dragon

Tucker Slayed the Mainstream Media Dragon

by | Feb 12, 2024 |

There has been much written and said about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. As of this writing the video on Twitter alone has been viewed nearly 200 million times, making it likely the most-viewed news event in history. Many millions of viewers who may not have had access to the other side of the story were informed that the Russia/Ukraine military conflict did not begin in 2022, as the mainstream media continuously reports, but in fact began eight...

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‘That is Not the Judgment of the Press’: The White House Calls the Media to Heel With Disinformation Campaign

‘That is Not the Judgment of the Press’: The White House Calls the Media to Heel With Disinformation Campaign

by | Feb 10, 2024 |

“That is not the judgment of the press.” Those words from President Joe Biden were a telling moment after a reporter noted that there is widespread concern that he is mentally diminished. Biden’s cranky response was overshadowed by his confusion on other points during the press conference, including mixing up the presidents of Egypt and Mexico. However, it captured the sense of license and expectation of the Biden White House that the press is supposed to toe the line, as it has for three...

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The real propagandists are those who dismiss Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview

The real propagandists are those who dismiss Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview

by | Feb 10, 2024 |

American establishment media spent the days in the run-up to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin pre-judging it as propaganda, and soliciting the opinions of establishment figures, like former US secretary of state, first lady, and presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, who dismissed Carlson a “useful idiot.”  All this before they even had the slightest notion of the interview’s content. All they knew was that Putin would have an...

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The Greatest Trick Big Brother Ever Pulled

The Greatest Trick Big Brother Ever Pulled

by | Feb 9, 2024 |

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist” is a quote generally attributed to Charles Baudelaire – or possibly Keyser Söze depending on who you ask on the internet. Something similar can be said about Big Brother. When you think about what our emerging surveillance state will look like, you think 1984. You imagine East Germany powered by Google and Amazon. You recall your favorite dystopian sci-fi film – or maybe horror stories of China’s social...

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Carlson Interview With Putin Could Topple Western Elites, End Ukraine War

Carlson Interview With Putin Could Topple Western Elites, End Ukraine War

by | Feb 8, 2024 |

In the seventies, when the cold war was at its peak, Donald Rumsfeld was convinced that the Atlantic Ocean, off the U.S. coast, was teaming with Russian submarines. The U.S. navy couldn’t detect them because, he was convinced, the Soviets had a new ‘acoustic technology’ which made them effectively invisible. Rumsfeld went ahead and ploughed billions of dollars into developing a new technology which could detect the non-acoustic subs. But that failed and is still costing the U.S. taxpayer...

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Taking Free Speech Seriously

Taking Free Speech Seriously

by | Feb 8, 2024 |

Can the government prevent Big Tech from censoring political and cultural voices on their platforms? Can the government regulate these platforms to compel speech the government wants to hear and to prevent speech it believes may harm innocents? If you believe -- as I do -- in natural rights, minimal government and that owners of private property can use it as they see fit, the short answers to both questions is NO. These questions arise from a vicious Senate inquisition last week, during which...

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2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

by | Feb 7, 2024 |

2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. Fueled by a melding of government and corporate power—the rise of the security industrial complex—this watershed moment sounds a death knell for our privacy rights. An unofficial fourth branch of government, the Surveillance State came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, and...

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US Sanctions Bring Russian Air Travelers Closer to Death

US Sanctions Bring Russian Air Travelers Closer to Death

by | Feb 7, 2024 |

US officials were undoubtedly disappointed over the recent emergency landing of a Russian civilian airliner on a farm in southern Russia. Experiencing a hydraulics problem that was causing the plane to rapidly lose fuel, the pilots were not able to make it to the nearest airport. So, why did this emergency landing undoubtedly disappoint US officials? Because the plane didn’t crash and kill the 165 Russian people aboard. That’s the whole point of sanctions — to impoverish or kill foreign...

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Why Burn Books When You Can Bury Them? The White House Pressured Amazon to Target Dissenting Books

Why Burn Books When You Can Bury Them? The White House Pressured Amazon to Target Dissenting Books

by | Feb 7, 2024 |

The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Monday revealed yet another facet of the Biden Administration’s sprawling censorship system that targeted dissenting books. It appears that, as with social media companies, it succeeded in getting the company not to promote disfavored books. Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan revealed on X that the White House was directly involved in the censorship campaign. That includes a 2021 email...

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The Three Strands to the ‘Swarming of Biden’

The Three Strands to the ‘Swarming of Biden’

by | Feb 6, 2024 |

“The Iranians have a strategy, and we don’t,” a former senior U.S. Defence Department official told Al-Monitor: “We’re getting bogged down in tactical weeds – of whom to target and how – and nobody’s thinking strategically.” The former Indian diplomat MK Bhadrakumar has coined the term “swarming” to describe this process of non-state actors miring the U.S. in the tactical attrition – from the Levant to the Persian Gulf. “Swarming” has been associated more recently with a...

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In The Middle East The US Has Reached The End Of Its Abilities

In The Middle East The US Has Reached The End Of Its Abilities

by | Feb 6, 2024 |

The Biden administration is trying everything to better the situation for the Israeli government except by withdrawing its financial and munition support which are the only two measures that could bring Israel to its senses. There are now several small wars in the Middle East which may soon accumulate into a big one. Israel is fighting Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in Gaza. It is fighting a silent resistance in the West Bank. On its norther borders it is involved in daily clashes with Hizbullah...

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Nuland leaves sense of foreboding in Kiev

Nuland leaves sense of foreboding in Kiev

by | Feb 5, 2024 |

The commencement of political upheavals in world affairs sometimes lies with a seemingly obscure event. This is not to say that the shooting down of a Russian Ilyushin-76 military transport plane carrying dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war over the territory of Belgorod Region by two missiles fired from the area of Liptsy, in Kharkov Region (Ukraine) on January 24 is anything like the spark that set off World War I when a Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the city...

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Tucker Slayed the Mainstream Media Dragon

Dr. Fauci Helped Homeschooling Grow

by | Feb 5, 2024 |

A rare instance of an unexpected consequence of a bad policy advancing liberty is the growth in private schools enrollment and homeschooling that occurred as a result of the covid lockdowns. An October 2023 study by Eloise Burtis and Sofoklis Goulas of the Brookings Institution found that 79 percent of American school-age children were enrolled in government schools in the 2021-2022 school year, down from 84 percent enrolled in government schools in 2019-2020. The decline in children attending...

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Ending The US Presence In Middle East

Ending The US Presence In Middle East

by | Feb 3, 2024 |

The Biden administration, in its utter stupidity, is launching a(nother) full fledged war throughout the Middle East. U.S. launches retaliatory strikes after deadly attack on Jordan base - Washington Post - Feb 3, 2024The operation, targeting numerous sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian forces and its affiliates, followed the killing of American troops last weekend U.S. forces launched a broad attack against Iran’s powerful military wing and affiliated militias in Iraq and...

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