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The Benefit of the Drug War to Donald Trump

The Benefit of the Drug War to Donald Trump

by | Sep 11, 2025 |

From the standpoint of many US officials, one can easily see why they find the drug war advantageous. Like the drug lords and drug cartels, there is a huge drug-war federal bureaucracy that has grown dependent on the drug war. There are, for example, generous salaries for federal judges (plus lifetime appointments), federal prosecutors, DEA agents, court clerks and secretaries, law clerks, and others, all of which would dry up if the drug war were ended and drugs were legalized. Just like the...

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Unaccountable Israel

Unaccountable Israel

by | Sep 11, 2025 |

The Criminal State of Israel continues to initiate acts of war against states that are not at war with Israel.  The most recent was an Israeli attack on a residential building in Qatar.  Qatar’s Foreign Ministry accused Israel of “state terrorism.” A residential building is a place where people reside.  Israel’s criminal action managed to kill six Qatari citizens, but not the Hamas leaders Israel allegedly was targeting.  Israel’s ambassador to Washington,...

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Taking the Constitution Seriously

Taking the Constitution Seriously

by | Sep 11, 2025 |

Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S. Afterward he said he did so because he believed that they were members of a “narco-terrorist gang" and were delivering illegal drugs to America. He also did so, he said, as a "message" to other drug dealers who should fear a similar fate. The boat had no ability to reach the US According...

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The Fear-Mongering Rackets of the US National-Security State

The Fear-Mongering Rackets of the US National-Security State

by | Sep 10, 2025 |

The end of the Cold War in 1989 provided a fantastic opportunity for a major reset in relations between the American people and the people of Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and other nations that US officials had long designated as official enemies of the United States. For almost 45 years following the end of World War II, US officials had inculcated a mindset of deep fear among the American people — fear that the Russians, Chinese, and other communist nations were coming to get...

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Trump’s Economic Team Pursues the Chimera of Collapsing the Russian Economy

Trump’s Economic Team Pursues the Chimera of Collapsing the Russian Economy

by | Sep 9, 2025 |

I don’t know US Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Scott Bessent, but I am told by people who worked with him on Wall Street that he is a really smart guy. But based on his most recent claim over the weekend that he believes a new round of sanctions — which includes shutting off the flow of Russian oil and natural gas to China and India — will collapse the Russian economy. Bessent’s statement tells me he understands nothing about the resilience of the Russian economy, nothing about the nature of...

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Can Trump re-adjust in the post-Tianjin SCO moment? Was the timing of China ‘throwing down the SCO gauntlet’ entirely fortuitous?

Can Trump re-adjust in the post-Tianjin SCO moment? Was the timing of China ‘throwing down the SCO gauntlet’ entirely fortuitous?

by | Sep 9, 2025 |

The gloves are off. The SCO Summit was a clear demonstration of the reality of power starkly coalescing, on the one hand, and one of power visibly ebbing, on the other. The amazing military parade was the summit counterpart – it spoke loudly: You want to take us on? “We are ready.” China has thrown down the gauntlet with precision timing. (You’d almost think they had planned it that way …). “History is being written – in Russian and Chinese ink,” observed one Russian commentator. Western...

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Is Too Late to Establish a Department of Peace?

Is Too Late to Establish a Department of Peace?

by | Sep 8, 2025 |

Our waning and wanton superpower wields the world’s most expensive military, with the most expensive armaments. Washington, DC’s privilege, emerging technology, and newly assumed mantle of global mightiness fused like a bad weld in the 1947 National Security Act, producing a unleashable CIA and an unbounded and unhinged Department of Defense. It is right and proper that this permanent military bureaucracy be known as the Department of War. Everyone on the planet recognizes that it has not...

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Making Corporatism Great Again

Making Corporatism Great Again

by | Sep 8, 2025 |

President Trump has recently endorsed a policy that is arguably as socialist as anything proposed by New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani or Sen. Bernie Sanders — partial government ownership of private corporations. Earlier this year, as a condition of approving Nippon Steel’s purchase of US Steel, President Trump demanded Nippon give the US government a “golden share” in US Steel. This golden share allows the US government to overrule Nippon’s management if the government determines...

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The Danger of Loyalty Tests in US Foreign Policy

The Danger of Loyalty Tests in US Foreign Policy

by | Sep 6, 2025 |

Shahed Ghoreishi was a career‑level press officer who drafted a single, straightforward line for the State Department press office: “We do not support forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.” A short time later his proposed language was cut, and days after that he was fired — an action colleagues told reporters sent a “chilling message” through the building that veering from the administration’s framing could threaten a person’s job. That is far more than a personnel dispute. It...

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Partisan Democrats Even Oppose Efforts To End War In Ukraine

Partisan Democrats Even Oppose Efforts To End War In Ukraine

by | Sep 6, 2025 |

The Democrats are so partisan now and so eager to criticize President Trump on anything he does that they are even attacking him for entering into peace negotiations with Vladimir Putin. They are so desperate that they are even attacking him on things they used to favor, such as being tough on trade and trying to bring more jobs back to the U.S. The war between Russia and Ukraine never would have happened and could have easily been avoided if we had stuck by previous commitments by President...

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The Sword Swings Over Soros

The Sword Swings Over Soros

by | Sep 6, 2025 |

Last week, US President Donald Trump wrote on his social media page that George Soros and his "radical leftist son," Alexander Soros, should be indicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) because they support organizations that incite violent protests and riots through the Open Society Foundations (OSF) in the United States. The American president said, “Soros and his group of psychopaths have caused enormous damage ” to the...

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The Big Con

The Big Con

by | Sep 5, 2025 |

According to a report by the estimable Kelley Vlahos, this year’s National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC came replete with fireworks—of the figurative variety. In a debate moderated by Modern Age editor Dan McCarthy, American Conservative editor Curt Mills faced off with Northeastern University scholar Max Abrahms over Israel. Abrahms touted the alleged success of the US attacks on Iran and deemed those whom he called “MAGA isolationists realists” as “insane.” Mills parried by...

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Making Palestinians Go Away

Making Palestinians Go Away

by | Sep 5, 2025 |

Donald Trump, recently sporting his red ballcap modestly featuring the words “Trump Was Right About Everything,” is apparently in regular contact with Israel’s genocidal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Per Netanyahu, the most recent telephonic exchange had Trump expressing full support for the establishment of control over all of Gaza and the West Bank by the Israeli Army. Trump observed that Israel has been losing the “PR” (Public Relations) war over the carnage and must push...

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Trump’s Drug-War Murders in the Caribbean

Trump’s Drug-War Murders in the Caribbean

by | Sep 5, 2025 |

Apparently taking a page out of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug-war playbook, President Trump is taking credit for the intentional military killings of eleven people in international waters near Venezuela. Duterte is on trial right now before the International Criminal Court for allegedly ordering his drug-war goons to kill accused drug-war offenders on sight — that is, without arrest, prosecution, trial, and due process of law. That’s what Trump just did. He ordered his...

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Major conservative split over Israel spills out into the open at NatCon

Major conservative split over Israel spills out into the open at NatCon

by | Sep 4, 2025 |

Don’t look now but the foreign policy divisions among the conservatives gathered at the annual National Conservatism conference are no longer contained. Today they finally spilled out, like gushing hot lava or whatever metaphor is best, all over Breakout Session B. Fascinatingly it wasn’t over the Ukraine War, or China, but over Israel. For many realists and restrainers who include themselves in this annual event — dominated by New Right conservatives who are a bit...

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The Feds Defend Their Tortures Again

The Feds Defend Their Tortures Again

by | Sep 4, 2025 |

While the public’s attention this summer has been drawn to masked ICE agents arresting folks without warrants, presidentially imposed sales taxes on goods emanating from foreign countries that have been invalidated by three federal courts, and the fruitless Kabuki dance between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, last month, the federal government continues its slow assault on the Constitution at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Gun Rights Are People’s Rights

Gun Rights Are People’s Rights

by | Sep 9, 2025

“Take the guns first; go through due process second,” recommended Donald Trump in a meeting with Congress members during his first term as president. Through this comment offered...

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Good for Woody Allen

Good for Woody Allen

by | Aug 25, 2025

As the United States and Russia governments have over the last decade-plus drifted into relations that bring to mind the cold war and that have brought forward the prospect of...

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