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Treating Peaceful American Civilians as Enemy Combatants

Treating Peaceful American Civilians as Enemy Combatants

by | Jan 30, 2026 |

The recent killing of Alex Pretti by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents in Minneapolis has generated a new wave of fury on the part of Americans upset about the mounting abuses that federal law enforcement personnel are committing.  The alarm is fully warranted.  ICE, the FBI, and other government entities increasingly both look and behave like ruthless military combat units.  Unfortunately, too many people who are alarmed about the recent...

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American Gestapo/American Psycho

American Gestapo/American Psycho

by | Jan 29, 2026 |

Last week, a half-dozen masked and unidentifiable Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a 37-year-old federal employee, a nurse, by spraying pepper spray into his eyes, pushing him to the ground, stealing his lawfully owned and carried handgun, and then shooting him nine times in the back. The thugs from ICE whom the federal government has sent to Minneapolis have produced murder and mayhem on a scale far more violent, disruptive and disturbing to human life than have the...

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Judge, Jury, Executioner: When the Government Decides Who Lives or Dies

Judge, Jury, Executioner: When the Government Decides Who Lives or Dies

by | Jan 28, 2026 |

What does it say about a political movement that demands absolute reverence for life in the womb yet shrugs when the government kills, cages, or brutalizes the living? What does it say about a government—and a political movement—that claims to value the unborn, but once you are born, that concern evaporates? When life upon birth becomes expendable, subject to force, punishment, neglect, and death so long as it serves “law and order,” “national security,” or political convenience—when you can...

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Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge

Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge

by | Jan 27, 2026 |

On Saturday, federal agents in Minneapolis killed protester Alex Pretti, shooting him in the back 10 times after they had taken away the pistol he legally carried. White House Deputy Chief Stephen Miller quickly settled the issue: “A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.” A few hours after Pretti was killed, I commented on Twitter/X: “How many of the Trump supporters cheering the killing of the...

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The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the US Government

The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the US Government

by | Jan 27, 2026 |

I have long maintained that one of the big obstacles libertarians face in the achievement of a genuinely free society is the fact that most Americans honestly believe they are free. When people are convinced they are free, they have no reason to want to join up with us libertarians in our effort to establish a genuinely free society. Instead, they simply view libertarianism as a “weird” philosophy that purports to achieve what we already have — a free society. One can only hope that the recent...

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Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target

Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target

by | Jan 26, 2026 |

What does the Federal Reserve have in common with Venezuela and Greenland? It has been targeted by President Trump for regime change. The Justice Department recently launched a criminal investigation into whether Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell lied to Congress about the costs of renovating the Federal Reserve’s offices. Many believe this investigation was launched in order to support President Trump’s effort to replace Powell, who he nominated to be Fed chairman in 2017, with a Fed...

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Beware the Precedents You Set

Beware the Precedents You Set

by | Jan 26, 2026 |

For three decades, Washington insisted that internal destabilization was not an act of war when applied abroad. It called it “civil society.” It is now discovering that precedents don’t ask permission to come home — and that shock is already visible on Minnesota’s streets. This is not about Russia orchestrating unrest in the United States. It isn’t. There’s no evidence for that, and pretending otherwise is a distraction. The uncomfortable truth is simpler: the United States is running into the...

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Some Tales from the Darkside

Some Tales from the Darkside

by | Jan 26, 2026 |

The recent demonstrations in Iran that may have killed more than 5,000 civilians and security officers changed from largely peaceful to violent when a number of “agitators” got involved and sought to turn the gatherings focused on the poor economy into a drive to bring about regime change. It has been suggested that the sometimes-armed outsiders who stirred the pot were organized and trained by foreign intelligence services, most specifically the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the...

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US House of Representatives Refuses to Kill the Automobile ‘Kill Switch’ Mandate

US House of Representatives Refuses to Kill the Automobile ‘Kill Switch’ Mandate

by | Jan 24, 2026 |

During consideration Thursday of the Consolidated Appropriations Act (HR 7148), United States House of Representatives members rejected by a vote of 268 to 164 an amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), along with cosponsors Reps. Scott Perry (R-PA) and Chip Roy (R-TX). The amendment would eliminate funding to implement a mandate included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (HR 3684) that President Joe Biden signed into law in 2021. That mandate requires vehicles to be...

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Arctic Craziness

Arctic Craziness

by | Jan 23, 2026 |

What ever happened to the Epstein scandal? Gone. Out of sight. Hey presto, vanished by the wave of a magic wand. It seems that Master Illusionist Donald Trump has dodged this lethal bullet – at least for the time being. Trump’s Invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping its president Maduro, a former bus driver, removed Epstein from the news. Now Trump and his henchmen are beating the drums over his claim to world greatness launched at Davos, Switzerland. This rather ugly alpine resort – which is...

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The American Police State Has Arrived

The American Police State Has Arrived

by | Jan 22, 2026 |

In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked it. Like authoritarians throughout history, it has sought to silence the speech it hates and fears. But most authoritarians did not have a Constitution that was written as an intentional obstacle to them. Last week, Raquel Pacheco posted a Tweet/X calling Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner a hypocrite for supporting the free speech of those who want Israel to take over Gaza, but...

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Nullify the Police State: The People’s Veto to Rein in a Lawless Government

Nullify the Police State: The People’s Veto to Rein in a Lawless Government

by | Jan 21, 2026 |

We are living through a period of open lawlessness at the highest levels of government. Executive orders are issued to sidestep Congress. Federal law enforcement is deployed as a tool of retaliation. Protest is criminalized. Surveillance expands. Due process becomes optional. Courts are packed, ignored, or bypassed. Entire communities are terrorized under the guise of “law and order.” None of this is accidental. And none of it is temporary. At a time when...

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Deciphering Trump’s ‘Externalised Internal Thinking’ on Iran

Deciphering Trump’s ‘Externalised Internal Thinking’ on Iran

by | Jan 20, 2026 |

To understand the background to events in Iran today, we need to retrace what I quoted US commentator & Trump biographer Michael Wolff saying last July about Trump’s thinking in connection with the impending attacks on Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan enrichment facilities: I have been making lots of calls – so I think I have a sense of the arc that got Trump to where we are [with the strikes on Iran]. Calls are one of the main ways I track what he is thinking (I use the word ‘thinking’...

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Revealed: The CIA-Backed NGOs Fueling the Iran Protests

Revealed: The CIA-Backed NGOs Fueling the Iran Protests

by | Jan 20, 2026 |

As waves of deadly demonstrations and counter-demonstrations hit Iran, MintPress examines the CIA-backed NGOs helping to stir the outrage and foment more violence. One of these groups is Human Rights Activists In Iran, frequently referred to as HRA or HRAI in the media. The group, and its media arm, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) have become the go-to group of experts for Western media, and are the source of many of the most inflammatory claims and shockingly high casualty...

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Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target

President Trump: Peace is Popular

by | Jan 19, 2026 |

Over the weekend, as a US carrier strike group made its way toward Iran, President Trump told Politico, “It’s time to look for new leadership in Iran.” This pro “regime change” statement came just days after the US and Israel-led covert operation to overthrow the Iranian government was finally defeated by Iranian authorities. The US President is making it clear he is not giving up on “regime change” for Iran. Late last week the world held its breath expecting a US missile strike on Iran after...

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The Changing Face of Regime Change

The Changing Face of Regime Change

by | Jan 19, 2026 |

Originally published exclusively for RPI Subscribers. The most disturbing lesson from the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine that has been well-learned by the various intelligence agencies in this business is that the application of extreme violence - especially aimed at law enforcement, other state authorities, and civilians - provides an effective template upon which to further the regime change narrative. Everything can be blamed on "the regime" and thus serve the purpose of the operation.We...

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Greenland or Bust

by | Jan 21, 2026

Greenland or bust. Who would have thought Donald Trump’s drive to acquire Greenland would become a defining issue for the Global North and the trans-Atlantic alliance. Who would...

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