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Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy

Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy

by | Aug 6, 2025 |

When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmire war between Russia and Ukraine.  His instincts–that continued involvement in that conflict was not in America’s best interests—were sound.  Indeed, he signaled throughout the 2024 presidential campaign that he intended to terminate military and financial aid to Kyiv as soon as possible.  Most of his MAGA supporters seemed to...

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Russophrenia: the West’s Favorite Delusion about Russia

Russophrenia: the West’s Favorite Delusion about Russia

by | Aug 6, 2025 |

There’s a peculiar affliction that’s gripped the Western commentariat for decades now. I first diagnosed it in June 2015 and gave it a name: Russophrenia. The tell-tale sign? That deep-set conviction that Russia’s about to keel over economically—then somehow rise from the wreckage to take Brussels by breakfast. In those ten years, the condition’s only become more widespread—like a political variant of Covid, except there’s no PCR tests, and the worst sufferers have column inches....

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The Secondary Sanctions Squeeze

The Secondary Sanctions Squeeze

by | Aug 6, 2025 |

US President Donald Trump is now largely following his predecessors hostile policy towards Russia. If the war in Ukraine continues on its current path Russia will end it with an outright victory. The US and its European vassals are trying to impose a ceasefire to prevent that. It would give time to rebuild the Ukrainian army and to restart the war at a more convenient time. But Russia won't budge until its war aims are met. A hoped for countermeasure is to pressure Russia's oil customers, to...

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A Further US Attack on Iran Would be Pointless Kabuki

A Further US Attack on Iran Would be Pointless Kabuki

by | Aug 5, 2025 |

A US President, beset by the Epstein story that refuses to lie down and die, and under pressure from domestic hawks because of a visibly collapsing Ukraine, has been letting off a blunderbuss of geo-political threats across the board: Firstly, and principally, at Russia; but secondly at Iran: Iran is so nasty, they’re so nasty in their statements. They got hit. We cannot allow them to have nuclear weapons. They are still talking about uranium enrichment. Who talks like that? It’s so stupid. We...

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Cold War 2.0 Heats Up

Cold War 2.0 Heats Up

by | Aug 4, 2025 |

Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the US and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962. Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in Cuba led to the greatest crisis of the Cold War. The United States and its president, John F. Kennedy, could not tolerate such weapons placed by a hostile power on its doorstep and the world only knew years later how close we were to nuclear war. Thankfully both Khrushchev and Kennedy backed down...

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Super PAC Targeting Massie Funded By Three Israel-Backing Billionaires

Super PAC Targeting Massie Funded By Three Israel-Backing Billionaires

by | Aug 4, 2025 |

Though it sports a Kentucky- and MAGA-branded name, the new Super PAC launched solely to support a primary challenge against popular Republican Congressman Thomas Massie is funded entirely by three Israel-backing billionaires from Nevada, New York and Florida, according to disclosure filings posted on Thursday.  The super PAC was launched in June, just days after President Trump threw a social media tantrum over Massie's condemnation of Trump's commitment of US...

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The Betrayal of the Innocents by Ted Cruz Christians

The Betrayal of the Innocents by Ted Cruz Christians

by | Aug 4, 2025 |

The whole world is witnessing the horror of the intentional starvation and killing of innocent children and women in Palestine. These grisly policies are supported by many Zionist Christians such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who claims he is biblically directed to support Israel. On Sunday, another steadfast Israel supporter, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- SC), outlined one of its options: “I think Israel’s come to conclude that they can’t achieve a goal of ending the war with...

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The Happy Penny

The Happy Penny

by | Aug 4, 2025 |

On Saturday, I received three pennies in change at a store. Looking at the pennies in my hand, one jumped out for its unique color. I was happy to see it — the happy penny. Sometimes I have to look at the date on a penny to see if it is one of those increasingly rare to receive in change pre-1982 pennies with a different metal composition than the newer pennies. But, sometimes a special hue shines through the surface giving away the relatively rare coin’s presence. In 1965, silver was replaced...

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How Ron Paul took a battering ram to GOP foreign policy

How Ron Paul took a battering ram to GOP foreign policy

by | Aug 2, 2025 |

Ron Paul is turning 90 on August 20. At 72, he was a revolutionary. Today, there is a raucous foreign policy debate within the Republican Party. Populist, realist and libertarian “America First” Republicans argue against endless wars and for fiscal responsibility, while holdover hawks continue to insist on a robust U.S. hand and military presence anywhere they can get it, no matter the cost. In 2008, there was no debate. While broad public opinion had soured on the Iraq War and President...

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Our Unhinged Government

Our Unhinged Government

by | Aug 2, 2025 |

Some months ago, I pointed out that Preacher Johnnie Moore’s taxpayer-funded defense firm, the Orwellian labeled Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, had one benefit and one benefit only.  It would allow its American employees, former soldiers in many cases, to be on the ground in Gaza seeing what the US is faithfully funding, and what Israel has done and is doing. Israel, with the active support and blessing of over 80 percent of Israelis since late 2023, has been violently destroying Gazan...

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The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent

The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent

by | Aug 1, 2025 |

The government’s war on homelessness—much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on illegal immigration, and its war on COVID-19—is yet another Trojan Horse. First, President Trump issues an executive order empowering federal agencies to clear out homeless encampments and lock up the homeless in mental institutions using involuntary civil commitment laws intended for dealing with individuals experiencing mental health crises. Days later, a gunman allegedly suffering...

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Israel, Listen to Rabbi Berger

Israel, Listen to Rabbi Berger

by | Aug 1, 2025 |

"Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance." So wrote Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leading Jewish thinker of the 50’s and 60’s, who opposed what he called Israeli-style "Jewish nationalism." Another renowned Jewish thinker, Arthur Koestler, warned that Israel was becoming "a nasty little Sparta." This past week, much of the rest of the world, sickened by the mass slaughter and destruction in Gaza wrought by...

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Can the President Impose Taxes?

Can the President Impose Taxes?

by | Jul 31, 2025 |

This week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- which sits right below the Supreme Court -- is hearing a case of profound constitutional importance. It is the government’s appeal of a ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade, which found that President Donald Trump’s unilateral imposition of tariffs on certain goods entering the United States from certain foreign countries is unconstitutional. The lower court recognized that the Constitution established the...

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Freedom in a Post-Covid World

Freedom in a Post-Covid World

by | Jul 31, 2025 |

The Covid era cut through traditional ideological paradigms like knives on tissue. Nothing behaved as we might have expected. The civil libertarians were nowhere in sight. The courts did not work. Big business and media fully cooperated. The major religions caved. The national security state thrived, while both parties let it all happen. The population was mercilessly propagandized and pillaged with no resistance from the commanding heights.  Seemingly out of nowhere, pharmaceutical...

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Pediatricians Organization Says Eliminate Almost All Vaccine Exemptions for Children

Pediatricians Organization Says Eliminate Almost All Vaccine Exemptions for Children

by | Jul 30, 2025 |

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) distinguished itself as an obsessive shots pusher and freedom theatener during the coronavirus crackdown. It was admonishing that children — who were at very minimal risk from coronavirus — be subjected to the quack practices of masking and social distancing to protect them until they became “fully vaccinated” with experimental coronavirus “vaccine” shots. The AAP was also calling on pediatricians to evangelize for giving these dangerous and ineffective...

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Why is US Intelligence Providing Bogus Numbers of Dead Russian Soldiers?

Why is US Intelligence Providing Bogus Numbers of Dead Russian Soldiers?

by | Jul 30, 2025 |

I am sort of surprised that no one has done what I am going to do… Provide a realistic calculation of the actual number of Russian casualties since the start of the Special Military Operation in February 2022. This includes Killed in Action (KIA) and Wounded in Action (WIA). Sy Hersh, in one of his recent posts, was fed a line of bullshit by a US military or US intelligence source. I don’t blame Sy… He simply reported what he was told. He wrote the following about the current Russian...

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A DOGE Switcheroo

A DOGE Switcheroo

by | Apr 4, 2025

Many actions associated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been met with support from advocates of reducing the size and power of the United States...

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