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The CIA’s Man in Syria

The CIA’s Man in Syria

by | Dec 5, 2025 |

When Judge Andrew Napolitano asked me on his show how Syria ended up with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as its “president,” I could almost hear the cognitive dissonance on the other side of the screen. How does a man who was once the emir of al-Qaeda in Syria, a co-founder of ISIS by any reasonable historical reading of his trajectory, become Washington’s chosen man in Damascus? For me, the answer is not a mystery. It is the logical end of a dirty war that began not with Syrian protesters in 2011,...

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The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders

The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders

by | Dec 5, 2025 |

Every military servicemember’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is not an oath to a politician. It is not an oath to a party. And it is not an oath to the police state. Yet what happens when those same men and women are being told—by their own government—that obedience to power and loyalty to a political leader come before allegiance to the Constitution they swore to uphold? That question isn’t hypothetical. It is the moral line now...

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POLITICO’s Delusion Cracks: Belgium Isn’t Helping Russia — It’s Trying to Save Europe From Itself

POLITICO’s Delusion Cracks: Belgium Isn’t Helping Russia — It’s Trying to Save Europe From Itself

by | Dec 5, 2025 |

The great farce of late-imperial Europe is that every time Brussels stumbles into another historic blunder of its own making, it immediately searches for a foreign hand to blame. And so the EU’s court chronicler, Politico, delivers its latest fever dream: that Belgium, the most indecisive, over-medicated country in the bloc, has somehow transformed into “Russia’s most valuable asset.” In reality, the only asset Russia needed was the EU’s own arrogance. Belgium merely did the unthinkable, it...

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Stealth Bombers and Bunker Busters

Stealth Bombers and Bunker Busters

by | Dec 4, 2025 |

A retrospective analysis of the so-called 12-Day War, and the triumphantly celebrated Operation Midnight Hammer. The GBU-57 is a big fat gravity bomb with fins. To achieve effective precision, a B-2 bomber must drop it on its intended target from no further than about five nautical miles — essentially right on top of the target. Its penetration depth is claimed to be 200 feet. But that capability has NEVER been tested against a seriously hardened deep-underground target encased in...

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Murder for Christmas?

Murder for Christmas?

by | Dec 4, 2025 |

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle, the amiable child’s cartoon character, in a helicopter using a military weapon to kill people in a small boat below him, and captioned it “For your Christmas wish list,” it understandably caused an uproar. Should the secretary of defense be mocking the people his troops have killed? Should he engage a child’s cartoon character to produce this mockery? Should anyone in his right mind, who professes to understand...

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Summarily Murdering Venezuelan ‘Narco-Terrorists’ is Profoundly Un-American

Summarily Murdering Venezuelan ‘Narco-Terrorists’ is Profoundly Un-American

by | Dec 4, 2025 |

President Trump said on Tuesday that in addition to the airstrikes on Venezuelan boats suspected of trafficking drugs to the United States, the U.S. military would begin hitting targets on land. Not only are all these strikes unconstitutional by any construction, but they are also unprovoked acts of war against a country that poses no threat to the United States. Since September, the administration has carried out at least twenty-one attacks on civilian vessels in the Caribbean,...

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TSA’s New Confirm.ID Tax

TSA’s New Confirm.ID Tax

by | Dec 3, 2025 |

Back in March of 2014, I wrote about how the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operates an extortion racket-style scheme via its PreCheck program that gives travelers who pay a fee and jump through a bunch of hoops including submitting to fingerprinting and a background check a chance, though no guarantee, that they can evade some harassment from the TSA itself. In the same vein, starting in February, TSA is planning to roll out a new tax and other demands, termed Confirm.ID, that...

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NATO Thinks Of ‘Pre-emptive Strikes’ Against Russia To ‘Defend’ Against Something That Did Not Happen

NATO Thinks Of ‘Pre-emptive Strikes’ Against Russia To ‘Defend’ Against Something That Did Not Happen

by | Dec 3, 2025 |

As it is becoming obvious that Ukraine is losing in the proxy war against Russia, the ideas European governments are are throwing around are getting more crazy. Some are now eager to ‘pre-emptively’ attack Russia in ‘retaliation’ for alleged ‘hybrid attacks’ against European countries. Those ‘hybrid attacks’ are mostly pure fantasies. Politico was first to report this nonsense: Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia – Politico, Nov 27 2025Countries are looking...

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Negotiating in Moscow on the Negotiations

Negotiating in Moscow on the Negotiations

by | Dec 3, 2025 |

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow. The approximately five-hour session focused on a revised U.S. peace proposal aimed at ending Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine. This marked Witkoff’s sixth meeting with Putin in 2025 and Kushner’s first in-person involvement in these talks. The U.S. delegation arrived directly from recent negotiations with Ukrainian...

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Ah, Good Old War Propaganda

Ah, Good Old War Propaganda

by | Dec 2, 2025 |

Just as the news breaks that Trump has issued Maduro an ultimatum to leave Venezuela immediately if he wants to escape with his life, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has published an amazingly brazen war propaganda piece titled “How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine.” “Venezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa, where jihadists are helping traffic it to Europe in record quantities,” the article...

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Europe just made Russia’s case for Odessa.

Europe just made Russia’s case for Odessa.

by | Dec 2, 2025 |

When you authorize naval-drone terrorism against Russian civilian oil tankers in the Black Sea, don’t whine when Moscow redraws the coastline. You wanted escalation? Fine. Now watch your proxy lose Odessa, and with it access to the Black Sea. Washington is hunting for a face-saving imperfect peace after admitting Russia can’t be beaten. But London, and the EU — delusional, hysterical, and terrified of the coming reckoning from their own populations - keeps pushing the kind of escalation that...

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Progress in the Fight for Educational Freedom

Progress in the Fight for Educational Freedom

by | Dec 1, 2025 |

The government shutdown “proved an argument that conservatives have been making for 45 years: The U.S. Department of Education is mostly a pass-through for funds that are best managed by the states.” The most significant thing about this statement in a November 16 USA Today editorial is not its substance. As the editorial’s author points out, the argument presented is not new. The most significant thing about the statement is that its author is Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Unlike many in...

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A Looming Mexican Coup?

A Looming Mexican Coup?

by | Dec 1, 2025 |

On November 15th, incendiary protests engulfed over 50 cities across Mexico. The Western media has universally adopted the narrative disaffected local “Gen Z” sought to vent their righteous rage against the government, over corruption, and the administration’s purported ties to drug cartels. Footage of law enforcement clashing with demonstrators spread like wildfire, and many outlets widely emphasised how the upheaval injured at least 120 people. Few acknowledged...

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Trump Pardons Drug Smuggler, Threatens Venezuela

Trump Pardons Drug Smuggler, Threatens Venezuela

by | Dec 1, 2025 |

Trump’s South America policy is getting more ridiculous by the day. Yesterday he announced a pardon for the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for partnering with drug traffickers who had allegedly shipped 400 tons of cocaine to the United States. He also endorsed a right wing candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura for Sunday’s election in Honduras. Asfura belongs to the same party as Hernández. This is unlikely (archived) to have...

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Venezuela Could be the Neocons’ Ticket Back to Power

Venezuela Could be the Neocons’ Ticket Back to Power

by | Nov 29, 2025 |

MAGA is riding high these days, convinced they've finally exorcised the neoconservatives who controlled the Republican Party for decades. Supposedly gone are the days of endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the trillion-dollar boondoggles sold as "spreading democracy"? Trump promised to drain that swamp, and his base believes he's done it—putting America First and mocking the old guard like John McCain and Liz Cheney. I hate to burst that bubble, but the neocons are far from dead. At best...

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Summarily Murdering Venezuelan ‘Narco-Terrorists’ is Profoundly Un-American

The Imaginary Peace President

by | Nov 29, 2025 |

One of the most common claims about the Trump 45 administration is that “He didn’t start any new wars.” This is demonstrably FALSE. During his first term, Trump became the ultimate causal agent for every one of the current conflicts with Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela. He not only maintained the trajectory of these conflicts as established by previous US administrations, but he dramatically raised the stakes and quickened the pace of the march to war. Ukraine In Ukraine, between 2017 and...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

War and Peace w/ Daniel McAdams

by | Nov 21, 2025

RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins the popular geopolitical podcast The Duran to discuss the latest Russia/Ukraine peace deal, Venezuela, US politics and Congress, and more...

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