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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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The Imaginary Peace President

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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Trump Has Gone Too Far With Threats Against Our Former Military Personnel

Trump Has Gone Too Far With Threats Against Our Former Military Personnel

by | Nov 28, 2025 |

President Donald Trump threatens to hang military officers who have the audacity to tell their troops not to obey unlawful orders. Trump called them ‘traitors’ and suggested they be locked up. The president just crossed the Rubicon. Formerly his language was amusing TV banter. Now, after these threats, he has gone way too far. Americans should be alarmed. I enlisted in the US Army in 1969 to become an infantry officer and served in Vietnam. At the time, I foolishly thought this colonial war...

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Thanksgiving and the Constitution

Thanksgiving and the Constitution

by | Nov 28, 2025 |

Government requires make-believe. Make believe that the king is divine, make believe that he can do no wrong or make believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the representatives of the people are the people. Make believe that governors are the servants of the people. Make believe that all men are created equal or make believe that they are not. -- Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013) What if the government’s true goal is...

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The DOJ is Prosecuting a Drug Kingpin, Blah, Blah, Blah

The DOJ is Prosecuting a Drug Kingpin, Blah, Blah, Blah

by | Nov 27, 2025 |

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) was patting itself on the back with gusto last week in publicizing it is prosecuting alleged drug kingpin Zhi Dong Zhang upon his extradition from Mexico. The prosecution is a really big deal in the US government’s effort to win the war on drugs according to the assertions of several government employees in the DOJ press release. In reality, the hoopla is just more “blah, blah, blah” in support of a destructive drug war that continues to cause much...

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Ambassador Mike Huckabee Secretly Meets Top Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard

Ambassador Mike Huckabee Secretly Meets Top Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard

by | Nov 26, 2025 |

Given the high visibility of the Israeli genocide being carried out in Gaza, for the first time many among the American general public are beginning to ask why a rich country like Israel should be getting billions of dollars from the United States taxpayer to pay for waging its war when many Americans are struggling. Inevitably, of course, the press coverage of the questions being asked about the cash flow and what is playing out in Gaza have failed to discuss the real magnitude of the “aid,”...

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Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny

Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny

by | Nov 26, 2025 |

“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands…for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”—Daniel Webster We find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms. It’s not an easy undertaking. The contrast between George Washington’s first Thanksgiving...

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Rubio Neo-conned Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan

Rubio Neo-conned Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan

by | Nov 25, 2025 |

Lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas; lie down with neocons, you wake up with wars.-Me So goes President Trump's 28 point peace plan to end the Russia/Ukraine war. Revealed at the end of last week, the plan initially received a cautious but cautiously optimistic reception in Moscow. It was hardly a dramatic tilt toward the Russian position. Many of the plan's points ranged from the implausible to the bizarre. For example the idea that President Trump would be crowned some sort of "peace...

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Progress in the Fight for Educational Freedom

A Real Ukraine Peace Plan

by | Nov 25, 2025 |

Last week’s surprise release of a draft Ukraine war peace plan has raised hopes that the nearly three-year bloody conflict may finally come to an end. Ukraine has suffered horrible losses that may change the demographics of that country for decades to come. If this peace plan can be negotiated in a way that satisfies all sides and the guns finally go silent, I will be the first to cheer. However, the continued failure to understand the nature and origin of the current conflict leaves me...

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Netanyahu’s 2024 Diary Reveals Frequent Meetings and Calls With Sen. Lindsey Graham

Netanyahu’s 2024 Diary Reveals Frequent Meetings and Calls With Sen. Lindsey Graham

by | Nov 25, 2025 |

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2024 diary reveals that he spoke frequently with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who was working at the time to ensure the US continued providing unconditional military aid to Israel to support its genocidal campaign in Gaza. According to Haaretz, the diary, published by the Israeli non-profit Hatzlacha, shows that Netanyahu held seven meetings and nine phone calls with the South Carolina senator in 2024. What was discussed...

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Trump Administration is Letting Europe Kill Its Proposed Russia/Ukrainian Peace Plan

Trump Administration is Letting Europe Kill Its Proposed Russia/Ukrainian Peace Plan

by | Nov 25, 2025 |

Negotiations between the US, Ukraine and Europe over the 28-point proposed framework reportedly has produced agreement on 19-points, which will be presented at sometime in the near future to the Russians. However, despite a ton of positive spin coming out of Geneva (where the talks were held) the actual substance of the supposed agreement is a dumpster fire. The first point of confusion is the authorship of the 28-point plan. The Washington Post reported on Monday that: Rubio...

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War with Venezuela Won’t Solve America’s Economic Woes

War with Venezuela Won’t Solve America’s Economic Woes

by | Nov 24, 2025 |

In April 1939, American unemployment reached 20.7 percent. For Henry Morgenthau Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Treasury, this was bad news. In a private meeting he confessed to two senior congressmen: “We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work… After eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started. And an enormous debt to boot.”  Today, Americans know how the Great Depression ended. It ended with the onset...

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Europe Barks Back: Riposte to Trump Peace Plan is DOA

Europe Barks Back: Riposte to Trump Peace Plan is DOA

by | Nov 23, 2025 |

Europe’s “peace plan” is pure fan fiction: unlimited Ukrainian army, NATO doors wide open, foreign troops invited in, sanctions snapped on and off like Christmas lights — and not one inch of territory ceded. In other words, the exact blueprint that created the war… now repackaged as the path to end it. And still, not a single EU leader has the courage to say this to Trump’s face. The Europeans have finally placed their “rival plan” on the table and it reads like a suicide pact masquerading as...

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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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