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France All Dressed up and Nowhere to Go

France All Dressed up and Nowhere to Go

by | Mar 15, 2024 |

Ever since its ignominious defeat in the Napoleonic wars, France is entrapped in the predicament of countries that get sandwiched between great powers. Following the World War II, France addressed this predicament by forging an axis with Germany in Europe.  Caught up in a similar predicament, Britain adapted itself to a subaltern role tapping into the American power globally but France never gave up its quest to regain glory as a global power. And it continues to be a work in...

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No Emergency Powers in the Constitution

No Emergency Powers in the Constitution

by | Mar 15, 2024 |

It has become an article of faith that under our system of government, federal officials can declare an emergency, which then purportedly authorizes federal officials to exercise emergency powers. However, it just ain’t so. There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to declare an emergency or to exercise emergency powers. Keep in mind that when the Constitution called the federal government into existence, it did not vest the government with the inherent...

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My Dinner With the Pope

My Dinner With the Pope

by | Mar 14, 2024 |

I spent last week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, or PASS. PASS is an organization of scholars that explores ideas of interest to the Vatican. Last week, PASS addressed the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, since March 8, 2024, was the 750th anniversary of his death. This is not an esoteric subject. Aquinas taught that all rational persons are capable of discerning right from wrong and good from evil by the exercise of free...

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French Defense Reports Acknowledge Ukraine Is Done With

French Defense Reports Acknowledge Ukraine Is Done With

by | Mar 13, 2024 |

The French president Macron has recently pushed for an engagement of foreign troops in Ukraine. The idea was immediately rejected by every country that would be able to send a reasonable number. The question is why Macron suddenly came out with this. A series of recent reports from the French defense establishment might have caused his irritation. The French magazine Marianne got access to "several confidential defense reports" from the French army on the situation in Ukraine. Guerre...

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Eight Senators Urge President Biden to End Offensive Military Aid to Israel if Israel Keeps Blocking US Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

Eight Senators Urge President Biden to End Offensive Military Aid to Israel if Israel Keeps Blocking US Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

by | Mar 12, 2024 |

We are five months into Israel’s devastating attacks on Gaza that President Joe Biden’s administration has continuously supported with the provision of weapons and intelligence essential to the war effort despite Congress not appropriating money for such. All the while, Biden and his executive branch cohorts have ridiculously claimed they support restraint in Israel’s pursuit of the war though that restraint never materializes. They have also extolled their virtue for providing aid to Gazans...

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Is the Drug War Finally Over?

Is the Drug War Finally Over?

by | Mar 12, 2024 |

The U.S. government just convicted Juan Orlando Hernandez of a drug offense. Who’s he? He’s the former president of Honduras. U.S. officials charged him with conspiracy to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. Last Friday, a federal jury in New York found him guilty. Yay! The drug war is now over, right? Well, not exactly. In fact, if truth be told, the conviction means nothing in terms of winning the war on drugs. Notwithstanding this conviction, all previous drug-war...

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‘Out of Touch With Reality’ – White House Fails to Navigate the Israeli Re-calibration

‘Out of Touch With Reality’ – White House Fails to Navigate the Israeli Re-calibration

by | Mar 12, 2024 |

Alon Pinkas, a former senior Israeli diplomat, well-plugged into Washington, tells us that a frustrated White House finally has “had enough.” The rupture with Netanyahu is complete: The Prime Minister does not comport himself as “an U.S. ally” should; he severely criticises Biden’s Middle East policies, and now the United States has come to understand this fact. Biden cannot afford any further Israel-affects to jeopardise his electoral campaign, and so – as his State of the...

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Biden’s ‘Nighttime in America’ State of the Union

Biden’s ‘Nighttime in America’ State of the Union

by | Mar 11, 2024 |

Last week President Biden delivered a dark and angry speech meant to convince the low percentage of Americans who still feel positive about his presidency that everything is fine and will only get better if he is re-elected for a second term. Unfortunately we have come a long way from the optimism of a Ronald Reagan, who won a second term partially on the popularity of his “Morning in America” campaign commercials. Reagan was far from a perfect president, but it was that sense of optimism in...

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Sen. Rand Paul Legislation Could Uncover Regulatory Corruption

Sen. Rand Paul Legislation Could Uncover Regulatory Corruption

by | Mar 10, 2024 |

Regulatory capture is a phrase used to describe when a government agency charged with placing limits on businesses becomes influenced or directed by some of the very businesses it is tasked with restraining. As a result, the businesses that do the capturing can obtain increased profits through the government bureaucracy taking actions such as providing them with favorable treatment and imposing barriers to competitors. One mechanism aiding regulatory capture is the “revolving door.” Regulators...

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Germany and NATO Caught Red-Handed in War Planning

Germany and NATO Caught Red-Handed in War Planning

by | Mar 9, 2024 |

German military leaders may have bungled foolishly over their private discussions regarding operational plans against Russia. However, the security of their incompetent communication – while laughable – does not lessen the seriousness of what was being discussed. Lt. General Ingo Gerhartz and his aides were earnestly weighing up the technical and propaganda means by which to strike Russia with long-range ballistic missiles. In short, a NATO member was caught red-handed hatching an act of war...

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Did ‘Toria’ Jump…Or Was She Pushed?

Did ‘Toria’ Jump…Or Was She Pushed?

by | Mar 8, 2024 |

(This was first published as an update exclusive for Ron Paul Institute subscribers. Subscribe for free here.) The sudden retirement announcement by State Department Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria "Toria" Nuland earlier this week left many US foreign policy watchers - your author included - trying to read the tea leaves to see what was actually going on. There are plenty of theories and speculations as to what motivated someone like Nuland - whose entire professional career...

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The End of the End of Ideology

The End of the End of Ideology

by | Mar 7, 2024 |

In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time to put aside all our ridiculous arguments of the past – socialism, fascism, liberalism, anarchism, technocracy, etc. – and just recognize that elites like him have it all under control. They had already established the building blocks of the administrative state so that real experts could be in charge and rule society with a steady hand.  The rest of us need just to work hard, pay...

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Taking Rights Seriously

Taking Rights Seriously

by | Mar 7, 2024 |

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,Mankind would be no more justifiedIn silencing that one person,Than he, if he had the power,Would be justified in silencing mankind.”  -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world is filled with self-evident truths -- truisms -- that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proven. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Two plus two equals four. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. These examples, of...

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Is Ground Beneath Biden’s Russia Policy Shifting?

Is Ground Beneath Biden’s Russia Policy Shifting?

by | Mar 6, 2024 |

The resignation of the US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, the third highest ranking diplomat in the Biden administration, came as a bolt out of the blue on Monday.  An easy explanation could be that it rankles that she was overlooked for promotion as Deputy Secretary, a job she coveted in 2021 as the Biden presidency began, and instead Kurt Campbell, President Biden’s key advisor on China, recently moved in.   The effusive praise Secretary of...

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Ukraine Has Received Mega-Billions From US, Other Countries

Ukraine Has Received Mega-Billions From US, Other Countries

by | Mar 6, 2024 |

As of mid-January, global aid to Ukraine has reached what the Kiel Institute for the World Economy described as the “staggering” amount of $278 billion. This means that Ukraine has actually had more money than Russia has been able to spend on this war. Russia’s total GDP of $1.8 trillion is just slightly over California’s GDP and only about eight percent of the total U.S. GDP of over $23 trillion. The Congress has previously committed $114 billion to the Ukrainian war effort, and far too many...

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