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What the Hell Happened with the Rescue of the F-15E WSO in Iran?

What the Hell Happened with the Rescue of the F-15E WSO in Iran?

by | Apr 6, 2026 |

Iran’s air defense system succeeded on Friday, April 3, in downing a US F-15E over Iran. There is some dispute and confusion about the exact location (more about that later). The pilot and the WSO (i.e., Weapons System Officer) both successfully ejected but were separated. The pilot was quickly rescued by the Combat Search and Rescue (i.e., CSAR) and the two Pave Hawk helicopters ferrying him back to safety were hit, but managed to make it to Kuwait — despite trailing visible black smoke. The...

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Trump’s Easter Ultimatum: Open the (Expletive) Strait or Else

Trump’s Easter Ultimatum: Open the (Expletive) Strait or Else

by | Apr 6, 2026 |

It was a few minutes past five in the morning on Easter Sunday, April 5 when President Trump, with all the élan of a drunken sailor suffering from coprolalia, mounted his social media and posted the following: Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP Trump’s outburst is more than a simple...

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Worse than John McCain?

Worse than John McCain?

by | Apr 6, 2026 |

Following President Trump’s address to the nation on Wednesday about the Iran War, stock markets suffered losses while oil prices rose. The decline in stocks and increase in oil prices reflected disappointment over President Trump’s failure to articulate a plan to end the Iran War and the related restraint of shipping through of the Strait of Hormuz. The average gas price in America has risen to over four dollars per gallon since the US and Israel launched their war against Iran at the end of...

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Trump Talks War for Easter Week

Trump Talks War for Easter Week

by | Apr 4, 2026 |

This past week was what many Christians regard as Holy Week, starting with celebration of Jesus Christ’s Last Supper on Holy Thursday; mourning Christ’s crucifixion and death on Good Friday; continuing with prayer and church services on Holy Saturday; and concluding with the glory of Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. Here in Washington things were predictably a bit different, starting with a President Donald Trump speech to the nation on Wednesday night which was a series of...

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Trump and the Phantom Dead of Iran

Trump and the Phantom Dead of Iran

by | Apr 3, 2026 |

Not long ago, Trump and crew claimed the evil mullahs in Iran slaughtered 30,000 of their own citizens. Since that time, there has been a revision. Now Trump insists the number is 45,000. Larger numbers look better when it is the only fabrication that might be used as an excuse for dropping more bombs on Tehran and murdering more innocents in their sleep. Nukes and regime change are no longer applicable. There are several problems with Trump’s preposterous claim. First and foremost, how...

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Are There, or Will There Be, US Negotiations with Iran?

Are There, or Will There Be, US Negotiations with Iran?

by | Apr 2, 2026 |

The short answer is “no.” Trump was confabulating when he said that he was already in negotiations with “important” Iranians. There is a back history to the US’ “negotiations narrative.” In earlier rounds of “negotiations” centred on the Ukraine conflict, Trump regularly would suggest that political negotiations with Russia were ongoing, when in practice, Witkoff and Kushner were simply engaging in a series of endless talks with the Europeans about establishing a ceasefire and the putative...

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Privatize the Private Airport Security Screeners

Privatize the Private Airport Security Screeners

by | Apr 2, 2026 |

I am old enough to remember when your family members could accompany you to the airport and share a meal with you before your flight or wait at the gate with you until you boarded your flight. There is one thing preventing a return to those idyllic times: the TSA. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks as part of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001. It was designed to consolidate all airline security...

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Hope For the Dead

Hope For the Dead

by | Apr 2, 2026 |

“That God, which ever lives and loves,One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine eventTo which the whole creation moves.” -- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, editorials and sermons was not “safety” or “taxes”; it was “freedom.” Yet, two intolerable acts of Parliament so assaulted personal freedom that they broke the bonds with the mother country. The first was the Stamp Act of...

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The War as the Trade

The War as the Trade

by | Apr 1, 2026 |

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 troops to seize Abu Musa island. Dubai wants to mine-sweep for America. The once wannabe neutral hub of the new multipolar order volunteering to be the tip of Netanyahu’s spear. The WSJ piece then pivots to Trump telling aides he’s...

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The Weight on Delcy Rodriguez

The Weight on Delcy Rodriguez

by | Apr 1, 2026 |

As I was leaving the University of the Communes in Tocuyito, after a joyful and uplifting visit, an earnest young Professor came up to me and pulled me aside. Very quietly, he asked me what was going to happen. A number of the students were terrified there would be regime change and they, picked as young socialist leaders in the commune movement, would be imprisoned, tortured and executed. It was a sharp reality check after a great day at this fledgling university. But it is very real. I had...

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War On Iran: It Is Cheaper To Pay For Hormuz Passage Than To Wage War

War On Iran: It Is Cheaper To Pay For Hormuz Passage Than To Wage War

by | Apr 1, 2026 |

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 would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks. He decided that the US should achieve its main goals of hobbling Iran’s navy and its missile stocks and wind down current hostilities while pressuring Tehran...

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Hijacking Religion: How the Pentagon Turned the Sermon on the Mount into a War Manual

Hijacking Religion: How the Pentagon Turned the Sermon on the Mount into a War Manual

by | Apr 1, 2026 |

“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, and dissenters to be silenced. Under the Trump Administration, the language of empire has also been imbued with a religious fervor that recasts Jesus Christ—not as a peacemaker—but as a mascot for power, conquest and control. War...

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The American (and Israeli) Role in Syria exposed

The American (and Israeli) Role in Syria exposed

by | Mar 31, 2026 |

The official narrative constructed by the United States and its allies throughout the war in Syria has consistently sought to conceal a central element of the conflict: the deliberate use of extremist groups as a geopolitical tool. For years, independent analysts have argued that Washington not only tolerated but actively encouraged the actions of radical militias in order to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. Even so, Western media and US authorities have persistently denied any...

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A War No One Can Afford

A War No One Can Afford

by | Mar 31, 2026 |

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 bottom-scraper for the huge oil tankers that use it. What will happen if the Iranians scuttle one or two large tankers in these narrow waters? The Egyptians did so in 1956 in Suez and jammed up world oil traffic for months. Someone in the...

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Worse than John McCain?

Bring The Troops Back. End This War Now!

by | Mar 30, 2026 |

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 to await President Trump’s decision. The President is on the verge of making a serious mistake to add to a series of deadly mistakes that have characterized this terrible war of choice against Iran. A US ground operation against...

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Who Gets a Seat at the Multipolar Table?

Who Gets a Seat at the Multipolar Table?

by | Mar 28, 2026 |

The unipolar club is closed. The United States no longer holds the only key. A new table is being set in global politics, and the question isn’t whether the world is becoming multipolar. It aleady is. The question is: who actually gets a seat? Not who is invited. Not who is hoped for. Who earns it. For decades, there was no table. There was only a throne. The United States sat alone at the head of the global order. Everyone else stood below - either as vassals secured by American protection or...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Keeping DHS Unfunded

Keeping DHS Unfunded

by | Mar 19, 2026

In January, I wrote about Democrats in the United States Senate proposing a group of changes in US immigration enforcement. Listing some of the suggested changes, I summed them...

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Iran Strikes Back!

by | Mar 12, 2026

RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins Col. Doug Macgregor and Clayton and Natali Morris on their Redacted podcast to discuss the latest developments in the US/Israel war on Iran.

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