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The American Police State Has Arrived

The American Police State Has Arrived

by | Jan 22, 2026 |

In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked it. Like authoritarians throughout history, it has sought to silence the speech it hates and fears. But most authoritarians did not have a Constitution that was written as an intentional obstacle to them. Last week, Raquel Pacheco posted a Tweet/X calling Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner a hypocrite for supporting the free speech of those who want Israel to take over Gaza, but...

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Nullify the Police State: The People’s Veto to Rein in a Lawless Government

Nullify the Police State: The People’s Veto to Rein in a Lawless Government

by | Jan 21, 2026 |

We are living through a period of open lawlessness at the highest levels of government. Executive orders are issued to sidestep Congress. Federal law enforcement is deployed as a tool of retaliation. Protest is criminalized. Surveillance expands. Due process becomes optional. Courts are packed, ignored, or bypassed. Entire communities are terrorized under the guise of “law and order.” None of this is accidental. And none of it is temporary. At a time when...

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Deciphering Trump’s ‘Externalised Internal Thinking’ on Iran

Deciphering Trump’s ‘Externalised Internal Thinking’ on Iran

by | Jan 20, 2026 |

To understand the background to events in Iran today, we need to retrace what I quoted US commentator & Trump biographer Michael Wolff saying last July about Trump’s thinking in connection with the impending attacks on Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan enrichment facilities: I have been making lots of calls – so I think I have a sense of the arc that got Trump to where we are [with the strikes on Iran]. Calls are one of the main ways I track what he is thinking (I use the word ‘thinking’...

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Revealed: The CIA-Backed NGOs Fueling the Iran Protests

Revealed: The CIA-Backed NGOs Fueling the Iran Protests

by | Jan 20, 2026 |

As waves of deadly demonstrations and counter-demonstrations hit Iran, MintPress examines the CIA-backed NGOs helping to stir the outrage and foment more violence. One of these groups is Human Rights Activists In Iran, frequently referred to as HRA or HRAI in the media. The group, and its media arm, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) have become the go-to group of experts for Western media, and are the source of many of the most inflammatory claims and shockingly high casualty...

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President Trump: Peace is Popular

President Trump: Peace is Popular

by | Jan 19, 2026 |

Over the weekend, as a US carrier strike group made its way toward Iran, President Trump told Politico, “It’s time to look for new leadership in Iran.” This pro “regime change” statement came just days after the US and Israel-led covert operation to overthrow the Iranian government was finally defeated by Iranian authorities. The US President is making it clear he is not giving up on “regime change” for Iran. Late last week the world held its breath expecting a US missile strike on Iran after...

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The Changing Face of Regime Change

The Changing Face of Regime Change

by | Jan 19, 2026 |

Originally published exclusively for RPI Subscribers. The most disturbing lesson from the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine that has been well-learned by the various intelligence agencies in this business is that the application of extreme violence - especially aimed at law enforcement, other state authorities, and civilians - provides an effective template upon which to further the regime change narrative. Everything can be blamed on "the regime" and thus serve the purpose of the operation.We...

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Trump Wants $1BN Fee From States Seeking To Join Gaza Peace Board

Trump Wants $1BN Fee From States Seeking To Join Gaza Peace Board

by | Jan 19, 2026 |

According to a Saturday Bloomberg report, the Trump administration is asking nations interested in holding a permanent seat on a proposed Gaza Strip "Board of Peace" to pledge at least $1 billion in funding. Bloomberg described that US allies and regional partners have already been briefed on the concept as part of wider diplomatic efforts to influence and direct Gaza's future after the Israel-Hamas conflict. The intent of the funding threshold is reportedly to ensure that...

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Dark Kiev

Dark Kiev

by | Jan 19, 2026 |

The electricity and heat supply in Ukraine has stopped in large parts of the country. Kiev had already been on scheduled blackouts where groups of consumers received for example four hours of electricity to then be cutoff for eight hours. That scheduling has ended. The blackout has become permanent. Over several weeks Russian attacks had isolated the electricity supply in Kiev from other parts of the country. It then attacked generating stations within the city. There is now less than 10%...

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Donald Trump, A Responsibility to Protect President

Donald Trump, A Responsibility to Protect President

by | Jan 16, 2026 |

Publicly denouncing war and liberals was a regular part of Donald Trump’s communication in his 2024 presidential campaign. Yet, as president, Trump has been relying on the responsibility to protect idea associated with liberals he would normally ridicule as a basis for the US engaging in wars abroad. In October of 2016, the month before Donald Trump won the race to succeed Barack Obama as president, David Stockman wrote about an example of the terrible damage the US following a responsibility...

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Militant Zionist Group Ceasing Operations In New York Following Settlement with Attorney General

Militant Zionist Group Ceasing Operations In New York Following Settlement with Attorney General

by | Jan 15, 2026 |

By virtue of its standing as the global center of the Jewish diaspora, New York City emerged as the main battleground in the United States for the fight between American Zionists and their opponents amid the deterioration of public support for Israel accelerated by its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. While critics of the State of Israel participating in widespread protests across the city have been branded as Jihadists by their opponents for protesting against the slaughter of innocent...

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An Assault on the Republic

An Assault on the Republic

by | Jan 15, 2026 |

In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law. The attorney general says he’d cut down all the laws in England to get to the Devil. More reminds him that the laws were written to protect us from those who’d cut them down, because, More asks, when the Devil turns round and seeks you, where would you hide, the laws having been flattened? Answer: nowhere. The recent...

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This Is What Tyranny Looks Like Now: No Crowns. No Coups. Just Unchecked Power.

This Is What Tyranny Looks Like Now: No Crowns. No Coups. Just Unchecked Power.

by | Jan 14, 2026 |

In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ruler who believed power flowed from his own will rather than the consent of the governed. Paine’s warning was not theoretical. Two hundred and fifty years later, we find ourselves confronting the same dilemma—this time from inside the White House. When asked by the New York Times what might restrain his power...

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Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs

Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs

by , | Jan 14, 2026 |

Western media has ignored a growing trove of video evidence showing terrorist tactics deployed across Iran by protesters described by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as “largely peaceful.” Recent videos published both by Iranian state media and anti-government forces reveal public lynchings of unarmed guards, the torching of mosques, arson attacks on municipal buildings, marketplaces and fire stations, and mobs of armed gunmen opening fire in the heart of Iranian cities....

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The Rubicon crossed – Team Trump’s nihilistic anti-values paradigm

The Rubicon crossed – Team Trump’s nihilistic anti-values paradigm

by | Jan 13, 2026 |

So, finally an act of unvarnished predatory action by Trump and his team – the abduction of President Maduro in a lightning night-time military strike – has launched 2026 into a pivotal moment. A pivotal moment not just for Latin America, but for global politics. The "Venezuela method" is aligned with Trump’s "business first" approach which is rooted in constructing a "financial reward system," whereby diverse stakeholders to a conflict are offered financial benefits that permit the US to...

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US Cargo Planes Have Flooded the Persian Gulf Since the First of December

US Cargo Planes Have Flooded the Persian Gulf Since the First of December

by | Jan 13, 2026 |

In December 2025 and January 2026 (through early/mid-January), open-source intelligence (OSINT) and flight-tracking data indicate a significant surge in US military transport aircraft (primarily heavy lifters like C-17 Globemaster III and C-5M Galaxy) flying to or toward US bases in the Persian Gulf, such as Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, with reports consistently describing “dozens” of such movements. Al Udeid Air Base (also known as Abu Nakhlah Airport) is the largest U.S. military installation...

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From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders

From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders

by | Jan 13, 2026 |

While it has undoubtedly shocked the world, the Trump administration’s abduction of President Nicolás Maduro fits into a long history of United States kidnapping of foreign leaders. On January 3, U.S. Special Forces entered Venezuela by air, captured Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, killing around 80 people in the process. They were flown to the United States, where Maduro was put on trial on spurious drug trafficking and possession of firearms charges. Despite President Trump...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Greenland or Bust

by | Jan 21, 2026

Greenland or bust. Who would have thought Donald Trump’s drive to acquire Greenland would become a defining issue for the Global North and the trans-Atlantic alliance. Who would...

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The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

by | Dec 25, 2025

On March 26, 2022, then United States President Joe Biden boasted in a speech in Poland that “unprecedented sanctions” targeting Russia that had been put in place over the last...

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