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The Bogus Blockade Claim of the US Department of War

The Bogus Blockade Claim of the US Department of War

by | May 1, 2026 |

Pete Hegseth is lying about the US blockade of Iranian ports. On April 12, after JD Vance announced that talks with Iran had failed, Trump declared a naval blockade of Iranian ports and coastal areas. CENTCOM clarified that the blockade would be enforced against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports, but would not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports. Now, after more than two weeks, Pete Hegseth...

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The Mechanistic Fallacy — Why the West So Often Fails at Geopolitics

The Mechanistic Fallacy — Why the West So Often Fails at Geopolitics

by | Apr 30, 2026 |

Some fifteen years ago I wrote that western reliance on its lens of secular rationality was no longer adequate as a means to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was becoming obvious — even then — that the future of the region would be one of wars increasingly defined by religious symbols: i.e. Al-Aqsa versus the Third Temple. Since then, things have moved on: In Israel, national elections in November 2022 brought a new leadership committed to founding Israel on the “Land of...

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The Trump Surveillance State

The Trump Surveillance State

by | Apr 30, 2026 |

The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and specifically describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.  Last week, for the first time in the modern era, the government argued to the Supreme Court of the United States that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution did not outlaw general warrants....

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No More Bombs for Iran, Economic War Instead?

No More Bombs for Iran, Economic War Instead?

by | Apr 29, 2026 |

Trump assembled his national security team in Washington on Monday afternoon to figure out how to respond to Iran’s latest missive delivered via Pakistan — i.e., end the blockade and then we’ll talk about other issues. The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump opted for economic warfare against Iran as it carried less risk, instead of resuming bombing or trying to exit the conflict. That’s the good news. However, President Trump also instructed White House aides to prepare for an extended...

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Hope for America

Hope for America

by | Apr 28, 2026 |

Last weekend my Institute for Peace and Prosperity hosted another conference here on the Texas Gulf Coast. Not only did we have a full house attending the conference – which is in a way the most important thing – but in this era of profound disappointment and disillusionment, we struck a note of optimism thankfully due to our wonderful line-up of speakers. The main topic of the conference, titled “War is Back on the Menu,” was of course the disastrous decision by the Trump Administration to...

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Trump Is Putting Americans into Digital Prison

Trump Is Putting Americans into Digital Prison

by | Apr 28, 2026 |

The Trump regime has shown that its true agenda is to dump Americans into captivity. Trump and his Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, a George Soros lackey, are using undocumented aliens as an excuse to force American citizens into total digital surveillance. The Burning Platform explains: In a move that exposes the true agenda behind the 'America First' rhetoric, the Trump administration is barreling forward with an executive order that will force every American to hand over their biometric...

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Trump Reposts the Homicidal Fantasy of a Bush Neocon

Trump Reposts the Homicidal Fantasy of a Bush Neocon

by | Apr 26, 2026 |

On Thursday, the mentally compromised president of the United States reposted Marc Thiessen’s suggestion for ending the war with Iran. “If there are two factions in Iran, one that wants a deal and one that doesn’t, let’s kill the ones who don’t want a deal,” Thiessen wrote. This “solution” to the war against Iran started by Trump and Bibi Netanyahu is to murder more people, Thiessen told Fox News. The neocon wants to murder only certain Iranian leaders, while Trump earlier posted his...

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Donald Trump Goes to War

Donald Trump Goes to War

by | Apr 26, 2026 |

Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army the big developing story was the Roman Republic’s impending Civil War pitting Caesar against the country’s Senate and Pompey the Great, but the Rubicon was particularly revealing in that it indicated that Caesar was willing to defy the Senate’s political control in pursuit of his own ambitions. Caesar...

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US Spies on the Vatican

US Spies on the Vatican

by | Apr 24, 2026 |

When Trump declared Pope Leo “terrible for foreign policy,” the US intelligence community took the president’s remarks as a directive to prioritize spying on the Vatican. It has for years, sources tell me. The CIA has human spies working inside the Holy See bureaucracy. The NSA and CIA seek to intercept telecommunications, emails, and texts. The FBI investigates crimes committed against and by the Vatican. The State Department closely follows the ins and outs of Papal diplomacy and politics....

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Washington Is Undermining International Institutions With Power Politics

Washington Is Undermining International Institutions With Power Politics

by | Apr 24, 2026 |

President Donald Trump, in his first and second administrations, broke with American tradition and rejected International Law and institutions. Washington’s foreign policy is fully militarized and is characterized by power politics. The present long-planned war against Iran is a war of aggression and is contrary to International Law. U.S. once supported international law and institutions In the past, from its founding as a representative, constitutional, and federal Republic, the United States...

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Easier to Die, Harder to Vote: The Rigged Architecture of the Warfare State

Easier to Die, Harder to Vote: The Rigged Architecture of the Warfare State

by | Apr 23, 2026 |

Reports of food shortages on naval ships deployed to the Middle East. Video footage of disabled military veterans—some in wheelchairs, others leaning on canes—being zip-tied and dragged out of the Capitol Rotunda for staging a peaceful, anti-war protest. Sixty-six veterans were arrested while conducting a flag-folding ceremony in recognition of the 13 military servicemembers who have died so far in Trump’s war with Iran. A growing number of active-duty military service...

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A Secret Act of Judicial Tyranny

A Secret Act of Judicial Tyranny

by | Apr 23, 2026 |

In a famous Supreme Court one-liner, reminding the legal community of the finality of the court’s rulings, the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. is reputed to have said that the Constitution means whatever any five of us say it means. This reflects the basic math that five is a majority of nine. It also reflects the theory of realism in constitutional jurisprudence. Realism, in this context, is the view that the Constitution is stagnant and unenforceable of its own existence. Realism teaches...

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Palantir CEO Calls for Draft to Fight the Empire’s Wars

Palantir CEO Calls for Draft to Fight the Empire’s Wars

by | Apr 22, 2026 |

In 2025, Alex Karp, the CEO of government and military tech contractor Palantir, published The New York Times best-seller, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. The Wall Street Journal praised the book as a cri de coeur, a passionate appeal “that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies,” while Wired praised the book as a “readable polemic that skewers Silicon Valley for...

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Lebanon’s Recurring Nightmare

Lebanon’s Recurring Nightmare

by | Apr 22, 2026 |

Once upon a time there was a magical little country named Lebanon. It was created by French imperialists out of the post-World War 1 wreckage of the Ottoman Empire as a mountainous stronghold for Levantine Maronite and Orthodox Christians. Imperial Russia sought to assert its influence as defender of Lebanon’s Christians. The British and French thwarted Russia’s efforts and created two new states, Syria and Jordan. After the war, Israel was created by Britain. Some 750,000 Arabs who had been...

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Markets Prematurely May Celebrate, But the Next Phase Likely Will be More, Bigger War

Markets Prematurely May Celebrate, But the Next Phase Likely Will be More, Bigger War

by | Apr 21, 2026 |

We are entering upon a new stage to this war on Iran. It may not be what many expect (especially in financial markets). Yesterday Trump said inter alia that Hormuz was open and that Iran had agreed never to close Hormuz again; that Iran, with the help of the US, has removed, or is removing, all sea mines, and that US and Iran would work together to extract Iran’s highly enriched uranium (HEU). Trump wrote: “We’re going to get ⁠it together. We’re going to go in with Iran, at a nice leisurely...

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Is Trump Going for Armageddon?

Is Trump Going for Armageddon?

by | Apr 21, 2026 |

Pakistan is trying desperately to hold a new round of talks in Islamabad between the US and Iran. After conflicting statements from the Trump administration, it appears that JD Vance, accompanied by his Zionist watchers — Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — are headed back to Islamabad. As of 22:20 hours eastern, Iran’s lead negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said there will be no negotiations while the US blockade of Iranian ports remains in effect, stating that they are prepared to...

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Governor Thomas Massie?

Governor Thomas Massie?

by | Apr 10, 2026

A run for governor may be in the future for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), but only if he first wins his May 19 Republican primary contest — the next step in his race for reelection...

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