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They Plan On Repeating 'Putin's Price Hike' Until People Believe It

They Plan On Repeating 'Putin's Price Hike' Until People Believe It

President Biden used the phrase "Putin's price hike" again in a reaction to Friday's Consumer Price Index report revealing continued high inflation, showing once again that the US government believes Americans are idiots. “Make no mistake about it: I understand inflation is a real challenge to American families. Today’s inflation report confirms what Americans already know: Putin’s Price Hike is hitting America hard,” Biden said in a statement. “My administration is going to continue to do...

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Washington’s Failed Push For Anti-Russian Global Consensus

Washington’s Failed Push For Anti-Russian Global Consensus

Biden administration officials treat Russia as an international pariah and push the global community to unite behind Washington’s leadership to compel the Kremlin to withdraw its forces from Ukraine. The administration’s strategy has been just partially successful. Criticisms of Russia’s actions are relatively easy to find among foreign leaders, but when it comes to outright condemnations—much less endorsements of NATO’s position that the war was unprovoked and entirely Moscow’s...

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Creating Cold War Conditions in Asia Isn’t Easy

Creating Cold War Conditions in Asia Isn’t Easy

Only three weeks remain for the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Madrid, which is expected to unveil a new Strategic Concept aimed at redefining “the security challenges facing the Alliance and outline the political and military tasks that NATO will carry out to address them.” The NATO and the European Union are in unison that the world has fundamentally changed in the past decade and strategic competition is rising, and security threats in Europe and Asia are...

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Imagine…No Foreign Policy

Imagine a US without a "foreign policy," asks RPI Director Daniel McAdams in a recent speech to the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party at the LP national convention. But who would save us from the Chicoms? Putin would send missiles! McAdams stresses that the US foreign policy establishment does nothing to benefit average Americans, instead leveraging the weight of the US government to benefit connected elites:

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Everything Is a Weapon: The US Government Is Waging Psychological Warfare on the Nation

Everything Is a Weapon: The US Government Is Waging Psychological Warfare on the Nation

“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings? … Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.”— US Army Psychological Operations recruitment video The US government is waging psychological warfare on the American people. No, this is not a conspiracy theory. For years now, the government has been bombarding the citizenry with propaganda campaigns and psychological operations aimed at keeping us compliant,...

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Will Punch-Drunk Biden Take America Down with Him?

Will Punch-Drunk Biden Take America Down with Him?

President Biden often looks like a punch-drunk old fighter sent into the ring once too often. At this point, the only thing lower than Biden’s approval numbers is his energy level. Is Uncle Joe too old to rebound? At this point, Biden is running on little more than fumes and righteousness. In his televised antigun speech Thursday night, Biden proclaimed that he expected most people “to turn your outrage into making this issue [assault weapons] central to your vote.” Biden’s histrionic spiel...

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What If the US Had Invaded Ukraine?

What If the US Had Invaded Ukraine?

Let’s engage in a thought experiment. Suppose that Ukraine was headed by a pro-Russia regime. After repeated failed attempts at assassination by the CIA, the Pentagon finally decides to invade Ukraine for the purpose of bringing about regime change — i.e., ousting the pro-Russia regime from power and replacing it with a pro-US regime. What then would be the response of American statists, especially those within the US mainstream press? There is no doubt about the answer. Everything would be...

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Biden Rocks the Middle East

Biden Rocks the Middle East

That dwindling band of observers that continues to express concern over the catastrophe that constitutes United States foreign policy under President Joe Biden have come to realize how the Ukraine situation is being used as cover for interventions and other similar mischief in other parts of the world. Recent reporting, for example, reveals that the Biden Administration has decided “to reestablish a persistent US military presence in Somalia to enable a more effective fight against al-Shabaab”...

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What Happened After Masks Disappeared From Planes?

What Happened After Masks Disappeared From Planes?

We all remember Anthony Fauci’s response to the striking down of the transportation (and especially airplane) mask mandate: only “public health” authorities may make these decisions. So what do we do if the geniuses who run our public health establishment do something stupid, or overstep their (imagined) authority? No answer. You will be ruled by public health bureaucrats, and you will like it. Last week Fauci even went so far as to say that the battle over the airplane mask mandate has less...

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The Specific 'Why' Behind Russiagate

The Specific 'Why' Behind Russiagate

Show of hands? How many still believe Trump and Russia colluded? That Trump is somehow beholden to Russia? That Hillary Clinton had nothing to do with “Russiagate?” Anyone? In the back, Bueller? And we’ll get to the large group chanting “it doesn’t matter” and “but Trump did, too…” in a moment, so stick around. Hillary Clinton lied about Russiagate. The latest information shows Hillary paid experts to create two data sets, one purportedly showing Russian cellphones accessing Trump WiFi...

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Respect the Fed? No, End the Fed

Respect the Fed? No, End the Fed

President Joe Biden has unveiled a three-part plan to fight inflation — or at least make people think he is fighting inflation. One part of the plan involves having government agencies “fix” the supply chain problems that have led to shortages of numerous products. Of course, any attempt by the government to solve the supply chain problems (which were caused by prior government interventions such as shutting down the economy for over a year) will not just fail to solve the supply shortages but...

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Guarding Democracy From News

Guarding Democracy From News

The past month has seen blows against freedom of speech for independent news outlets and, indeed, for all Americans. I’m not being hyperbolic here. There are real threats to our freedom of speech against which we ought to mobilize.  First, the Biden administration named something called a “Disinformation Governance Board,” housed in the Department of Homeland Security, whose job will supposedly be to “standardize the treatment of disinformation by the agencies it oversees.” That means that the...

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How Russia Can (And Will?) De-NATO-ize Europe

How Russia Can (And Will?) De-NATO-ize Europe

In a video published yesterday Gonzalo Lire, currently under house arrest in Karkov, is asking a very interesting question: What Happens To Europe When Russia Wins? (vid) Lira states, and I agree with him, that Russia will win the war in the Ukraine, take the south and east to likely create a new country and leave the rest of the cadaver for Poland, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania and others to feast on. But then what? The US controlled NATO will still be there. It is practically guaranteed that...

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As Sanctions Fail to Work and Russia's Advance Continues, Western Media Changes its Tune on Ukraine

As Sanctions Fail to Work and Russia's Advance Continues, Western Media Changes its Tune on Ukraine

Even as the collective West continues to insist – against all observable reality – that the conflict in Ukraine is going well for Kiev, major media outlets are becoming increasingly uneasy with the situation on the economic front. More and more observers are admitting that the embargoes imposed by the US and its allies aren’t crushing the Russian economy, as originally intended, but rather their own.  Meanwhile, some major publications have begun to report on the actual situation on the...

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Pressure Mounts on Pentagon Over Lack of Oversight for Ukraine Military Aid

Pressure Mounts on Pentagon Over Lack of Oversight for Ukraine Military Aid

Some members of Congress are putting pressure on the Pentagon over the lack of oversight for the billions in US weapons that are being pumped into Ukraine. Politico reported Thursday that there are lawmakers who have warned the Biden administration that the overwhelming congressional support for Ukraine aid could wane if the issue is not addressed. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tried to add a provision to the $40 billion Ukraine aid that would create a new inspector general for oversight, but his...

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Biden Tweaks Ukraine Narrative

Biden Tweaks Ukraine Narrative

Yars ICBM launchers participated in drills of Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, Ivanovo region, northeast of Moscow, June 1, 2022  The US President Joe Biden’s op-Ed in the New York Times on Tuesday on the Ukraine war starts with a bluff. He says President Vladimir Putin had thought Russia’s special operation would only last days. How Biden arrived at such an estimation is unclear. Like the US narrative on the war, it is largely presumptive.  Russians are rooted — and well-founded — in their...

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