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The War as the Trade
WSJ: UAE preparing to formally enter the war, the first Gulf state to become a combatant lobbying for a UN Security Council resolution authorising force to open the Strait of Hormuz. Emirati diplomats racing across Washington, Brussels and Tokyo. Abu Dhabi wants US...
War On Iran: It Is Cheaper To Pay For Hormuz Passage Than To Wage War
US President Donald Trump is reportedly ready to give up on the Persian Gulf passage: Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz (archived) – WSJ In recent days, Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint...
Hijacking Religion: How the Pentagon Turned the Sermon on the Mount into a War Manual
“We negotiate with bombs.”— Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary for the Trump Administration The language of modern government is the language of empire. It is the language of domination, retaliation, conquest and control—of enemies to be crushed, nations to be subdued,...
A War No One Can Afford
Speaking as a former harbor master, operator of cargo ships, and a military specialist on the Mideast, the current war in Iran is a fool’s errand. The much-ballyhooed Strait of Hormuz is only 33 odd kilometers wide and averages only 220 meters deep. It’s a...
Bring The Troops Back. End This War Now!
As we begin a new week, the media is filled with reports that President Trump is ready to approve a US ground operation against Iran, either to seize Iran’s uranium or to attack an island off the country’s coast. Thousands of US troops have sped to the conflict area...
Increasing the National Debt to Pay for the Iran War
Death and destruction continue to mount in the Middle East due to the Iran War that the United States and Israel governments initiated at the end of February. While Americans an ocean away have been spared the costs imposed directly by missile strikes and other...
War and Morality
War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting...
Boots on the Ground as Israel Sabotages Trump’s 15 Point Peace Plan
Former Army lieutenant general Keith Kellogg thinks all the US need do to turn the tide in Iran is take Kharg Island. “We don’t necessarily have to send troops into Iran, but we need to capture Kharg Island. We need to do it the way the Romans did. We need to put...
War Abroad and Authoritarianism at Home
“War is the health of the state.” That phrase, coined by Randolph Bourne, explains why opposition to war is a priority of many libertarians. War allows governments to increase spending, taxes, and regulations in order to feed the war machine. Wars can justify measures...
Join The US Military – Kill And Die For Israel
(Note: Brian will be a featured speaker at RPI's upcoming "War is Back on the Menu" Conference. Get your tickets here.) President Trump’s decision to join Israel in launching a regime-change war on Iran has so far cost the lives of at least 13 American service...
There Is No GOP ‘Civil War’ Over Iran…
The reaction to Joe Kent’s principled, patriotic resignation from the Office of National Intelligence—and the numerous MAGA obituaries that appeared shortly thereafter—seem to share in common the idea that Donald Trump’s decision to go to war on behalf of Israel is...
Trump & Netanyahu: Who’s the boss? Maybe we’ll find out
‘Empire Of Lies,’ With Guest Charles Goyette
Peter Schiff Discusses Harm to the American Economy from the War on Iran
Economist and investor Peter Schiff, speaking in the Wednesday episode of his Peter Schiff Show, gave an insightful rundown of some of the economic damage coming to America because President Donald Trump “decided that he was going to go to war with Iran” despite there...
Trump On Iran: ‘We’re Winning!’ US Intel: ‘No, You’re Not.’
Gangster Foreign Policy
Once again, we are embroiled in a new foreign war—not surprisingly at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu. The Trump administration chose to enter this illegal war without the required congressional approval, as it did the illegal war against Venezuela. The...
The Madness of King Trump: War Games, War Crimes and a Wrecking Ball Presidency
Dysfunction, decadence, depravity and a death cult: that, in a nutshell, sums up the mindset now at the heart of the Trump administration. Troubling reports have surfaced that apocalyptic Christian rhetoric is being used to justify the Trump administration’s...
As Iran War Escalates, Congress Passes Automatic Involuntary Draft Registration
‘We’ve Obliterated Their Missiles’
On March 3rd, Israel’s Channel 12, the IDF, Trump were all singing from the same hymn sheet: Iran’s launchers are virtually all destroyed, missile fire is collapsing, they’re running out. Trump from his golf resort: “We’ve wiped every single force in Iran out, very...
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