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‘Incubator Babies’ Are Back, With Iran In Crosshairs

‘Incubator Babies’ Are Back, With Iran In Crosshairs

by | Feb 21, 2026 |

Tehran is once again pointing the finger at "terrorists" for last month’s bloodshed, rejecting outside estimates and doubling down after President Trump just issued his own high estimate. Trump told reporters Friday that 32,000 people were killed in the unrest, declaring that "the people of Iran have lived in hell" under the ruling clerical regime of the Ayatollah. That figure is one of the highest offered so far, even significantly beyond some Iranian opposition...

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Here Goes Washington To War Again…Because It’s Still Empire First

Here Goes Washington To War Again…Because It’s Still Empire First

by | Feb 20, 2026 |

Here they go again—the war drums on the Potomac are beating so loudly for war against Iran that the CIA stenographers at the NYT have now confidently announced that the next attack will commence this weekend. And yet and yet. Why? The overwhelming fact of life in the year 2026 is that Iran is not remotely a military threat to the liberty and security of Americans. Not in Washington DC or Podunk Iowa or anywhere else from sea-to-shinning-sea. Period. Full stop. Yet real, credible threat of...

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With Shaky Reasoning, Trump Weighs Limited Initial Strike On Iran To Force A Deal

With Shaky Reasoning, Trump Weighs Limited Initial Strike On Iran To Force A Deal

by | Feb 20, 2026 |

Having amassed the heaviest US air power in the Middle East since the disastrous 2003 Iraq invasion, President Trump is now considering an initial, limited strike on Iran to force it to bow to the maximalist demands of Israel and the United States. The idea is based on two deeply questionable premises: that air strikes alone will compel Iran to give up its defensive ballistic missile capabilities, and halt all nuclear enrichment  that Iran won't retaliate for an American...

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One Minute to Midnight

One Minute to Midnight

by | Feb 19, 2026 |

Notwithstanding some of the positive words that came out following the talks in Geneva on Tuesday between the United States and Iran, the die is cast… The United States is going to attack Iran in an attempt to create enough social disorder and chaos in Iran that the Shia Muslim clerics will be forced to disband the Islamic Republic. All of the US military pieces for this action are in place or shortly will be. The one wild card is Donald Trump. He has issued the Deployment Order and the US...

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Liberty Without Strings

Liberty Without Strings

by | Feb 19, 2026 |

“Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war.” -- James Madison (1751-1836) Last week, the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, ruled that the problem of undocumented immigrants in the US is so acute and vast and the Fourth Amendment so burdensome and time-consuming that it should cut some constitutional corners. The federal...

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Peeling Back the US Information Operation in Iran

Peeling Back the US Information Operation in Iran

by | Feb 18, 2026 |

As part of the US campaign to engineer a regime change in Iran, the US military and intelligence community are using Operational Preparation of the Environmnet aka OPE. OPE is defined in joint publications (e.g., JP 3-05 Special Operations) as non-intelligence activities conducted prior to or in preparation for potential military operations to set conditions for success. It encompasses shaping the operational environment through intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, information...

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Duplicate Propaganda For War On Iran

Duplicate Propaganda For War On Iran

by | Feb 18, 2026 |

Propaganda usually works in a drip-drip-drip fashion. Small stories are launched each other day spreading the similar talking points over and over again But today, due to some mix up, two of the major propaganda outlets, the New York Times and the Washington Post, launched very similar propaganda stories on the very same day. Rage. Grief. Anxiety. The New Mood in Iran. – NY TimesPopular anger burns in Iran after crackdown, as Trump turns up...

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Trump Kabuki Theatre in Ukraine: Nothing of Substance Gets Resolved

Trump Kabuki Theatre in Ukraine: Nothing of Substance Gets Resolved

by | Feb 17, 2026 |

It is not a glitch (that nothing gets resolved). It’s a feature. For it opens rather, a path for “Business” to be done – for “stakeholder” deals to be cut, and for billions to be shared out in payoffs. This is Trump’s geo-political transactional model: Business displaces traditional negotiation (at least while the money flows); Money is the politics. Trump, Witkoff and Kushner are said to be confident that they can construct a financial reward system for western debt-holders, investors and...

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Russia Is No Superpower? Then What The Hell Does That Make Europe?

Russia Is No Superpower? Then What The Hell Does That Make Europe?

by | Feb 17, 2026 |

Kaja Kallas stood at the 62nd Munich Security Conference, at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof where the Atlantic Empire had assembled not to project power but to perform its own autopsy while the patient was still breathing — and delivered what she imagined was a prosecutor’s closing argument against Russian weakness. Let’s pause here because this matters: Kallas. Kaja Kallas. The woman who in March 2022 announced Russia’s economy would collapse within months from sanctions. Who predicted Ukraine...

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The Big Lie About Iran’s Support for Terrorism

The Big Lie About Iran’s Support for Terrorism

by | Feb 17, 2026 |

US policymakers, particularly under the current Trump administration (as of February 2026), consistently describe Iran as the world’s leading or foremost state sponsor of terrorism. This characterization has been a cornerstone of US policy toward Iran for decades, with Iran designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the US State Department since January 19, 1984—the longest-standing designation on the current list (which also includes Cuba, North Korea, and Syria). But what does the data...

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Media Freedom…if We Can Keep it!

Media Freedom…if We Can Keep it!

by | Feb 16, 2026 |

Last week I had the pleasure to again appear on Tucker Carlson’s popular broadcast. Although the program appears on several different platforms, on X alone the episode has been seen by more than two and a half million people. That does not include the various clips and shorts that people made and posted themselves. It is incredible how the reach and influence of the independent media has grown over the past decade or so. As I have often said, while there are many evil things out there on the...

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Amid Saber-Rattling, Iran Touts Economic Benefits To West If Nuclear Deal Reached

Amid Saber-Rattling, Iran Touts Economic Benefits To West If Nuclear Deal Reached

by | Feb 16, 2026 |

Days ahead of another round of talks with US negotiators -- and on the heels of more saber-rattling by the Trump administration -- Iran is touting the potential mutual economic benefits of a deal that would terminate the West's long-running sanctions regime against the second-largest and second-most-populous country in the Middle East.   "For the sake of an agreement's durability, it is essential that the U.S. also benefits in areas with high and quick economic...

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Will Cuba Return to US Colonial Rule?

Will Cuba Return to US Colonial Rule?

by | Feb 14, 2026 |

As the White House threatens war against Cuba, I am reminded of the charming evenings my parents and I spent at Havana’s venerable ‘Floridita Bar, sipping a newly invented cocktail, the Margarita, with the renowned writer, Ernest Hemingway. `Papa’ Hemingway, who then lived in Cuba, loved this island with a great passion and wrote about it often. I feel the same way. I’ve been visiting Cuba since before Castro took over and feel at home in this socialist nation, no matter how threadbare or...

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Munich, 2007: The Day the West Was Told No

Munich, 2007: The Day the West Was Told No

by | Feb 14, 2026 |

They like to pretend it came out of nowhere. They like the bedtime story: Europe was peacefully humming along in its post-history spa — open borders, cheap energy, NATO as a charity, Russia as a gas station with a flag… and then, one day, the barbarian kicked the door in for no reason at all. That story is not just dishonest. It’s operational. It’s the propaganda you tell yourself so you can keep the addiction going without ever admitting how self-destructive it is. Because the truth is uglier...

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Why ARE the US and Israel Obsessed With Eliminating Iran’s Ballistic Missiles?

Why ARE the US and Israel Obsessed With Eliminating Iran’s Ballistic Missiles?

by | Feb 13, 2026 |

It appears the main topic of discussion at Wednesday’s meeting between Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu was Iran’s ballistic missile program. It really was not a discussion… Instead it was Bibi, with his advisers, trying to sell Trump and his team on the necessity of ending Iran’s ballistic missile capability. Why the emphasis on those missiles when, until recently, the big concern was whether Iran could build a nuclear bomb? The US and Israeli narrative about Iran’s missile and drone strikes...

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The Coming Constitutional Ice Age

The Coming Constitutional Ice Age

by | Feb 12, 2026 |

Last fall during the opening of the United Nations in New York City, I recognized the face of a federal officer from his days working in law enforcement in New Jersey and mine as a trial judge. We chatted and I asked him what he was doing. He told me he worked for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE. I asked what ICE has to do with the U.N., and he told me that soon ICE will be everywhere. When I asked if ICE has become a paramilitary force, answerable to the White House, he just smiled,...

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