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Some Pinocchios are Criticizing President Trump for Saying ‘Shylock’

Some Pinocchios are Criticizing President Trump for Saying ‘Shylock’

by | Oct 21, 2026 |

The name of Shylock, a character in William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice has long been embraced in the English language as a means of referring to charging high interest for loans or engaging in business ruthlessly. That second meaning also applies to the name Scrooge from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carrol. “Scrooge” may refer as well to disliking people or their pursuit or attainment of happiness. These are two examples of names from fiction and religious texts that have...

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The ‘War of Grand Design’ Transforms to More Narrowly Bolster US Hegemony

The ‘War of Grand Design’ Transforms to More Narrowly Bolster US Hegemony

by | Oct 21, 2026 |

The paradigm shifts. The networked supra-national stratum that long has pursued its global “grand design” through manufacturing public consent for wars of imposed compliance has, at last, run up against the limits to power. We are, indeed, at an “emperor has no clothes” moment. All can see it. Its traditional tools — the US military, the dollar system, the credit trap, the Bretton Woods structures, shock economic therapy and currency wars — are failing to preserve the US élite weltanschauung...

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Will Trump Take Millions of Hostages Like Me for Big Pharma?

Will Trump Take Millions of Hostages Like Me for Big Pharma?

by | Oct 21, 2026 |

President Trump loves protectionism but he gives Americans the same "protection” that the wolf gave to the lamb.  On January 20, the Food and Drug Administration and Customs and Border Protection will effectively ban almost all personal prescription imports, bushwhacking millions of Americans who rely on Canadian pharmacies.   Trump often brags that the U.S. has the world’s lowest drug prices. He also brags that he has lowered drug prices by 500% so he starts out with a helluva...

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Higher Oil Prices Are Likely To Stay

Higher Oil Prices Are Likely To Stay

by | Oct 21, 2026 |

Last months the Trump administration was loudly claiming that Iran had lost control of the Strait of Hormuz. Some ‘experts’ even claimed that the flow of oil was back at a pre-war level. Both of those claims were not true but short term blimps within volatile data. Attacks on ships passing through the Strait have increased. The flow of crude oil continues to be below the pre-war level. The draw down of nearly empty reserves is ongoing. The price of oil continues to rise: Brent crude futures...

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JD Vance Is Not Our Guy

JD Vance Is Not Our Guy

by | Oct 20, 2026 |

JD Vance drew anger this week after a CBS News town hall in which he appeared to brush off the Iran War’s operational failures in front of the grieving husband of a soldier killed in March. “Though the Iranian drone was the weapon that killed my wife, there were a lot of mistakes and a lot of fundamental failures that led up to that,” Joey Amor, whose wife, Sgt. First Class Nicole Amor, was killed in the strike, told Vance. Amor was referring to a CBS News report that military leadership...

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Much Ado About Russia

Much Ado About Russia

by | Oct 20, 2026 |

Right-wing and left-wing interventionists and interventionist mainstream-press commentators are up in arms over President Trump’s decision to ease economic sanctions against Russia in connection with the Russian government’s agreement to supply diesel fuel to the United States. The notion is that nothing — not even the midterms — must be permitted to interfere with the Cold War II racket that holds that Russia is an aggressor nation that is hell-bent on conquering the world and, therefore,...

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Europe’s Diesel Winter Is Coming, and Washington Is About to Make It Worse

Europe’s Diesel Winter Is Coming, and Washington Is About to Make It Worse

by | Oct 19, 2026 |

Saudi Arabia went looking for allies against Ansar Allah, and so far it has gotten statements of support. Egypt has declared its readiness to back the Kingdom, but its statement does not commit to any military involvement. Pakistan and Turkey have pledged troops under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement signed in August, but both governments say their forces will play “a supportive rather than active combat role” against the Houthis. I have watched coalition pledges like these for decades. Cairo...

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The US Government’s Really Big Debt Problem

The US Government’s Really Big Debt Problem

by | Oct 19, 2026 |

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), recently warned about the danger from the United States government’s high debt level. She also criticized some government officials, such as US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, for believing that economic growth can make the debt problem disappear. The idea that tax cuts, deregulation, and a slightly less destructive monetary policy can produce enough economic growth to eliminate deficits has been an article of...

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Tucker Carlson—A Really Courageous Journalist

Tucker Carlson—A Really Courageous Journalist

by | Oct 19, 2026 |

Tucker Carlson is the most courageous journalist on the national scene in this Country today. He has marched to the beat of a different drum on Covid, the January 6th protests, genocide in Gaza, immigration, the wars in Iraq, Iran and Ukraine and lately has taken on the President of the United States, and has been right in every instance. In the process, the has become a hero to the overwhelming majority of Republicans and conservatives under 50 and even a significant number of older...

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JD Vance Is Not Our Guy

Vice President J.D. Vance’s Deceptive ‘Antiwar’ Campaign Speech

by | Oct 17, 2026 |

J.D. Vance is approaching the halfway point of his term as vice president in an administration that has committed the United States to wars in locations from Ukraine to Venezuela to Somalia to Iran and beyond. All the while, the administration has threatened sending the military into other places across the world including Mexico, Greenland, and Cuba. In short, this presidential administration is fully committed to a warmongering agenda. Over his 14 years as a United States House of...

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The Politics of Denial: When Americans Stop Seeing the Warning Signs

The Politics of Denial: When Americans Stop Seeing the Warning Signs

by | Oct 17, 2026 |

The spectacle of public executions. Deadly military strikes on foreign countries. Innocent civilian lives lost to war. Aggressive ICE raids. Government officials accused of using their powers to intimidate political opponents. Public office increasingly entangled with private financial interests.  Government leaders who glorify violence, spew hatred, stir up racial prejudice, provoke civil unrest, and stoke discontent. This is what it looks like when a nation loses its way. When cruelty...

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A Culture of Death

A Culture of Death

by | Oct 15, 2026 |

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."--Voltaire (1694-1778) A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has made a startling claim about the nature of political power. It claims not merely the authority to protect the innocent from violence, but the authority to inflict violence when no immediate threat exists. It...

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Are the United States and Israel in Decline-and-Fall Mode?

Are the United States and Israel in Decline-and-Fall Mode?

by | Oct 15, 2026 |

Speculation is growing over the sustainability of the United States’ model of global dominance which emerged as Washington ended the Second World War as plausibly the sole superpower. That role was first tested in the Korean War, which produced something of a stalemate in a confrontation that included China, and led to a Ceasefire Agreement which is still in place to this day. More recently the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, even given the disastrous and pointless war in Vietnam,...

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In 2006, Republicans Lost Big in the Midterm Election. The Situation Looks Similar Now.

In 2006, Republicans Lost Big in the Midterm Election. The Situation Looks Similar Now.

by | Oct 15, 2026 |

The midterm election coming up in November is looking bad for Republicans. This is supported by polling. It also is supported by similarities between the situation in America now and the situation twenty years ago. Merrill Matthews described in a Wednesday USA Today editorial parallels between now and then that portend trouble for Republican candidates: A Republican president is facing his second midterm elections. His popularity is in the tank, in part because he took the country into a...

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Mohammed bin Salman is more at risk internally than from AnsarAllah attacks

Mohammed bin Salman is more at risk internally than from AnsarAllah attacks

by | Oct 14, 2026 |

As part of its “blockade-for-blockade,” “airport-for-airport” strategy, Ansarallah carried out a third attack on Riyadh International Airport on Saturday — 12 people (mostly civilians) were killed and more than 300 injured. This, in tandem with Iran’s escalating attacks on tankers, and expanding its maritime operations, immediately increases the pressures on President Trump to respond — at the precise moment when midterm elections loom. As the military conflict between Yemen and Saudi Arabia...

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War Against Yemen Endangers Saudi Crown Prince’s Position

War Against Yemen Endangers Saudi Crown Prince’s Position

by | Oct 13, 2026 |

In the 1930s, during the formation of Saudi Arabia, three provinces were taken from Yemen. The Yemeni have always wanted them back. They are now in a position where they may eventually achieve that aim. The western parts of Yemen are unlike the deserts of Saudi Arabia. The area is mountainous and gets a decent amount of precipitation. Some 80 percent of the 33 million Yemeni live in there. Agricultural production in the mountains is however difficult and Yemen has long been dependent on trade...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Phantom Trump Checks

Phantom Trump Checks

by | Oct 5, 2026

President Donald Trump’s promise to send 5,000 dollars to each adult American citizen after the November election has one big contingency explicitly built in — that Republicans...

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Trump’s Pump and Dumps

by | Oct 5, 2026

In the Wednesday episode of his Peter Schiff Show, economics and current affairs commentator Peter Schiff focused in on two situations in which he argued United States President...

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Thank You for Your Coup

Thank You for Your Coup

by | Sep 25, 2026

For argument’s sake, let’s assume that Donald Trump is the worst United States president in history. Still, is he so bad that you would like to see him overthrown via a military...

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