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USAID Falls, Exposing a Giant Network of US-Funded ‘Independent’ Media

USAID Falls, Exposing a Giant Network of US-Funded ‘Independent’ Media

by | Feb 19, 2025 |

The Trump administration’s decision to pause USAID funding has plunged hundreds of so-called “independent media” outlets into crisis, thereby exposing a worldwide network of thousands of journalists, all working to promote U.S. interests in their home countries. In late January, President Trump—along with help from the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk—began implementing sweeping changes to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on the premise...

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‘Listen Carefully it’s Actually Much Darker’: How the Left is Framing Free Speech as a Front for Fascism

‘Listen Carefully it’s Actually Much Darker’: How the Left is Framing Free Speech as a Front for Fascism

by | Feb 19, 2025 |

The defense of free speech by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, Germany, has led to open panic on the left in fighting to maintain European censorship and speech criminalization. The response of the American press and pundits was crushingly familiar. From CBS News to members of Congress, Vance (and anyone who supports his speech) was accused of using Nazi tactics. It is the demonization of dissent. In one of the most bizarre examples,  CBS anchor Margaret Brennan confronted Secretary...

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US ‘Democratic’ Allies Are Becoming Increasingly Authoritarian

US ‘Democratic’ Allies Are Becoming Increasingly Authoritarian

by | Feb 18, 2025 |

U.S. officials have a long history of portraying Washington’s allies and clients as democratic, even when their behavior is blatantly authoritarian.  Such cynical hypocrisy was at its zenith during the Cold War, but it is surging again.  A similar trend is evident with respect to U.S. interference in the internal political affairs of other countries through such mechanisms as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for...

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Secret Terror Blueprints for US NSC to ‘Help Ukraine Resist’ Exposed

Secret Terror Blueprints for US NSC to ‘Help Ukraine Resist’ Exposed

by | Feb 18, 2025 |

Explosive leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how a shady transatlantic collective of academics and military-intelligence operatives conceived schemes which would lead to the US “helping Ukraine resist,” to “prolong” the proxy war “by virtually any means short of American and NATO forces deploying to Ukraine or attacking Russia.” The operatives assembled their war plans immediately in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and delivered them directly to the...

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Can We Really Cut Half of The Military Budget? You Bet!

Can We Really Cut Half of The Military Budget? You Bet!

by | Feb 17, 2025 |

The wailing sound you heard last Thursday was the chorus of the Beltway warmongers shrieking in despair at President Trump’s suggestion that there was no reason for the United States to be spending one trillion dollars on “defense.” “…[O]ne of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China and President Putin of Russia, and I want to say let’s cut our military budget in half. And we can do that, and I think we’ll be able to do that,” the President told reporters. With this...

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Will Donald Trump Punish the UK for its Meddling in Two US Presidential Elections?

Will Donald Trump Punish the UK for its Meddling in Two US Presidential Elections?

by | Feb 17, 2025 |

Ok. Sorry for the lengthy article, but the substance is important. If the Brits are laboring under the fantasy that they enjoy a special relationship with the United States, it is time for my British cousins to wake up. My thesis is simple: Donald Trump and Kash Patel know that British intelligence officers and assets played a key and enthusiastic role in trying to destroy Donald Trump’s campaign for President in 2016 and are likely to hold the UK accountable. In my...

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Netanyahu To Rubio: Let’s ‘Finish the Job’ Against Iran

Netanyahu To Rubio: Let’s ‘Finish the Job’ Against Iran

by | Feb 17, 2025 |

Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Israel where he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, after which they gave a joint address before reporters in Jerusalem. This is Rubio's first Middle East visit since becoming America's top diplomat. He and Bibi called for the total elimination of Hamas and the return of all the remaining hostages, following three being released on Saturday, including an American dual citizen. Importantly, Netanyahu declared that Israel...

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Foreign Aid Isn’t

Foreign Aid Isn’t

by | Feb 14, 2025 |

Here are two personal stories about foreign aid. Some 20 years ago when Slow Food asked me to be part of the U.S. delegation attending the International Slow Food Convivium in Turin, Italy hosted by Carlo Petrini, I went with Michael Pollan. Every time I wasn't speaking, I attended presentations by a delegation from an African country. Every single one started with something like this: "We have plenty of resources. We can feed ourselves. You western countries need to leave us alone. Your cheap...

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The Cost of Freedom: Confronting Military-Industrial Profiteering and Restoring Fiscal Integrity to Preserve Our Republic

The Cost of Freedom: Confronting Military-Industrial Profiteering and Restoring Fiscal Integrity to Preserve Our Republic

by | Feb 14, 2025 |

Our government is drowning in multi-trillion-dollar financial corruption and debt while a fear-peddling national security state has reached deeply into the personal lives of each and every American, justifying its existence through endless wars cooked up by a deep state which has become the most corrupt marching band and chowder society in American history. That deep state of permanent governance, entrenched media, think tanks, NGOs, and multi-billion-dollar government contractors,...

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The Myth of Emergency Powers

The Myth of Emergency Powers

by | Feb 13, 2025 |

“The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.”-- Ex Parte Milligan, Supreme Court of the United States, 1866. Last week, President Donald Trump in one...

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Biden Finally Did Something Right

Biden Finally Did Something Right

by | Feb 13, 2025 |

Come see Rep. Duncan speak at the Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference! Many years ago, during a hearing on a request for some new federal courthouses, Rep. (later Senator) Jim Inhofe whispered to me: “You could shoot a gun down the hall of almost any federal courthouse at 3:00 on any weekday and never hit anyone.” I don’t know why he said that, but it is even more true today. Jury trials have almost become a thing of the past in both federal and state courts. I thought of this when President...

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The Era of ‘Standing’ With Foreign Nations Must End

The Era of ‘Standing’ With Foreign Nations Must End

by | Feb 13, 2025 |

America’s Founders were very explicit on how our relationships with foreign nations should be conducted. George Washington: “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world…” Thomas Jefferson: “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none." John Quincy Adams: “America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.” We’re all familiar...

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Gaza on the Riviera Going Nowhere

Gaza on the Riviera Going Nowhere

by | Feb 12, 2025 |

Well, I was wrong again. I thought that Donald Trump’s scheme to take control of Gaza and send the Palestinians to some great, new homes in Egypt and Jordan was just a negotiating ploy. Nope. He is serious about it and persists insisting that it is a great idea and has the backing of Arab nations in the region. Nope. That dog won’t hunt. Trump met today with Jordan’s King Abdullah and reiterated his pitch at a lengthy impromptu press conference in the Oval Office. King Abdullah sat...

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Crimson Tide: Only One-Third of Harvard Students Feel Comfortable Speaking About Controversial Subjects

Crimson Tide: Only One-Third of Harvard Students Feel Comfortable Speaking About Controversial Subjects

by | Feb 12, 2025 |

Harvard has long been accused of fostering an anti-free speech environment and quelching viewpoint diversity. That was the subject of my recent debate with Law Professor Randall Kennedy at Harvard. A new report confirms many of the objections raised in that debate, including a chilling environment where only a third of Harvard’s most recent graduating class expressed comfort in discussing controversial subjects. Some 89 percent of the graduating class responded to the...

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From Oversight to Overlooked: The Government’s Failure to Control Trillions in Misspent Funds

From Oversight to Overlooked: The Government’s Failure to Control Trillions in Misspent Funds

by | Feb 12, 2025 |

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), created more than a century ago to assist Congress in its constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities, issued a report just last year which estimated that in a span of 20 years, including 2023, that the US Government made $2.7 TRILLION dollars in improper expenditures resulting from overpayments, inaccurate record keeping, and fraud. In fiscal year 2023 alone, GAO determined the federal government improperly dispensed $269...

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Putin Dumps Bucket of Reality-Cold Water on Trump

Putin Dumps Bucket of Reality-Cold Water on Trump

by | Feb 11, 2025 |

The diplomatic tango between Washington and Moscow is underway, but Trump’s promise to bring a quick end to the war in Ukraine on Trump’s terms appears more unlikely with each passing day. Prior to the conversation between the two leaders during the last four days, diplomats representing Moscow and Washington in their respective embassies did the detail work of arranging the phone diplomacy. But, according to Borizzkman, there were two, not one, conversations (this is Borizzkman’s concise...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Foreign Policy Illiterate

by | Oct 16, 2024

It is often said foreign policy is rarely top of mind in American presidential elections. For the most part this is true, but not in this election. We have witnessed the...

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Julian Assange Speaks

by | Oct 3, 2024

It was wonderful news to many people last week when word came that Julian Assange would speak publicly this week. For a long time it seemed that such a day would never come as...

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J.D. Vance, Israel Firster

J.D. Vance, Israel Firster

by | Oct 2, 2024

Donald Trump likes to talk about how he puts America first. Last night, Trump’s presidential race running mate J.D. Vance made it clear that Vance has other priorities. In answer...

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