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Reviving the Old Cold War Racket Against Cuba

Reviving the Old Cold War Racket Against Cuba

by | Jul 23, 2026 |

President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are making me feel like I’m smack dab back in the middle of the old Cold War racket — the racket that succeeded in making the US national-security state and its ever-growing army of “defense” contractors a permanent feature of American life. The State Department just issued a report that is straight out of the old Cold War playbook. It states that Cuba’s communist regime is behind the democratic socialist movements and radical leftist groups...

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The American Presidency and Perpetual War

The American Presidency and Perpetual War

by | Jul 23, 2026 |

One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress's constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress -- not the president -- the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages it. Over the past several decades, presidents of both major parties have increasingly treated military intervention as an executive prerogative rather than a congressional requirement. The last six presidents have not reflected...

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DeBasification… A Fancy Word for Booting the US Out of the Middle East

DeBasification… A Fancy Word for Booting the US Out of the Middle East

by | Jul 21, 2026 |

Tehran delivered to Washington via Pakistan in early April, a formalized demand for the withdrawal of US combat forces from military bases across the region. It sat in a package alongside the lifting of all sanctions and UN resolutions, the release of Iranian assets held overseas, reparations, and Iran’s right to nuclear enrichment. Instead of waiting for the US to agree to the demand, Iran has launched targeted attacks during the past two weeks on key US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi...

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How to Honor the Dead US Service Members

How to Honor the Dead US Service Members

by | Jul 20, 2026 |

Over the weekend the Pentagon announced that four more US soldiers have been killed in President Trump’s war on Iran. That brings the total to 17, but many believe the real number of dead US servicemembers is much higher than that. The Pentagon has claimed it has no obligation to reveal how many military personnel have been injured, which suggests that number may be much higher than we are hearing. Many of these injuries will be horrific and life-altering. Back on April 12th, President Trump...

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No Peace In Middle East Until Israel Stops Its Killing Spree

No Peace In Middle East Until Israel Stops Its Killing Spree

by | Jul 20, 2026 |

On July 17, NBC News televised portions of a lengthy investigation proving that Israeli military forces had attacked medics at least 116 times in South Lebanon over the last several months. On that same day, Reuters reported that eight people were killed and 20 others were wounded when Israeli planes carried out an air strike against mourners attending a funeral in Gaza. Most of the military equipment, guns, bullets, planes and tanks used to kill defenseless people over the last several years...

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Rahm Emmanuel’s Israel-Endorsed ‘Opposition’ to Israel

Rahm Emmanuel’s Israel-Endorsed ‘Opposition’ to Israel

by | Jul 18, 2026 |

Hoping to transition from being “Chicago’s Most Connected Banker” to once again holding elected office, the two-term former Mayor of Chicago and former chief of staff to Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, did this month what all savvy political hopefuls do: He traveled to meet some of the largest power brokers in American politics at their homes in Tel Aviv. In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama flew to Israel and declared his “unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security,” and in 2015, Hillary...

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While the Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds the Digital Police State

While the Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds the Digital Police State

by | Jul 18, 2026 |

You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. —George Orwell, 1984 While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward. The government is watching. It watches where...

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Gaming the Clock for Industry

Gaming the Clock for Industry

by | Jul 17, 2026 |

In the 1880s, in a fit of technocratic enthusiasm, the railroad industry hatched an audacious scheme. They would force every town in America to abandon what was called time for all recorded history and instead adopt a new conception. The goal was to make it easier to follow train schedules. The trouble, as they saw it, was that every town had a slightly different time on the clock. You could ride the train for an hour and be at the destination at a time not different or even earlier from one...

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Can Trump Sue Himself?

Can Trump Sue Himself?

by | Jul 16, 2026 |

The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami -- can the president sue an entity in the executive branch of the federal government and benefit from the resolution of that lawsuit? -- seems to beg the question.  How could anyone sue an entity he controls and derive a benefit from the amicable resolution of such a lawsuit at the expense of others who are not parties to the lawsuit?  Here is the backstory.  During President Donald Trump's first term in office, an IRS...

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Iran No Longer Bound by MoU, Adjusts Tactics

Iran No Longer Bound by MoU, Adjusts Tactics

by | Jul 15, 2026 |

Iran’s announcement declaring the MoU dead was quickly followed by a definitive change in Iran’s military tactics. On Tuesday, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi: ‘The U.S. has not merely ‘violated’ the Memorandum of Understanding. With tonight’s action (naval blockade) the MoU has been completely dismantled. Iran is no longer bound by the MoU. Until today Iran scrupulously adhered to the MoU… It did not attack US targets until it was first attacked. In other words, Iran...

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The House Speaker’s Refashioned Red Scare

The House Speaker’s Refashioned Red Scare

by | Jul 15, 2026 |

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson finalized the Republican plank for the upcoming midterm election. It will not be about affordability, inflation, and the economy. It will not be about Trump’s undeclared war. The position going forward will be about communism. “The election will be over whether we’re gonna maintain our freedom in a constitutional republic,” said Johnson at a recent press conference, “that is the question on the ballot this fall.” Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon, he added, needs an...

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Iran War 3.0

Iran War 3.0

by | Jul 14, 2026 |

When the US Navy, in co-ordination with Qatar and Oman, tried to slip a convoy of four vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, via Omani waters, on Tuesday night – rather than pass via Iran’s officially approved route – Trump may have imagined (or been told) that with the massive funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei under way, that Iran would not react as the US Navy attempted to force open an American corridor. Trump however, misread the Iranian jibe – Hormuz is its “atomic weapon.”...

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A Delusional Trump Has Another Exciting Week

A Delusional Trump Has Another Exciting Week

by | Jul 13, 2026 |

There is a good thing about having Donald J Trump as president and that is how during a normal week he will say or do a number of incredibly stupid things that make one want to smile or even laugh outright. Unfortunately, however, the fun stops shortly after that point when one recalls that the outright insanity is not only destroying the White House and much of the District of Columbia. It also means engaging in wars against otherwise non-threatening adversaries that waste trillions in...

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How to Honor the Dead US Service Members

Congressional Ratification of President Trump’s Corporatism

by | Jul 13, 2026 |

Despite regularly denouncing the rising socialist menace, President Trump has been pursuing a policy arguably just as, if not more, dangerous to liberty and prosperity as anything proposed by Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders: using government funds to purchase partial ownership of private companies. The Trump administration has obtained ownership interests of approximately 27 billion dollars in 30 companies since January of 2025. While President Trump and his defenders claim making these...

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The End of Lindsey Graham

The End of Lindsey Graham

by | Jul 13, 2026 |

I am about to speak ill of the dead. Sen. Graham embodies everything wrong and sick about the American political class. And about American foreign policy. A childless and unmarried member of the "boomer" generation, he has advocated over his four decades as a politician in favor of every war and foreign conflict that has been backed by his foreign interlocutors and their paid agitators inside the Beltway. Whence the money flows. Graham is the epitome of who the great Nassim Nicholas Taleb...

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Trump’s 1,000 Missiles Locked and Loaded

Trump’s 1,000 Missiles Locked and Loaded

by | Jul 11, 2026 |

If the Art of the Deal fails, threaten them with total destruction. That’s what Trump did Friday night with another irrational post to his Truth Social. 1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Naturally, ME...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Rejecting Corporatism

Rejecting Corporatism

by | Jul 20, 2026

In his column last week, Ron Paul discussed the threat in America from corporatism, “where power remains nominally in private hands but the government gains significant control.”...

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What Agreement?

by | Jul 1, 2026

Not surprisingly the Memorandum of Understanding ending the US-Israel war on Iran means different things to different people. Since its signing, the Trump administration has...

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Waiting for Kei Truck Freedom

Waiting for Kei Truck Freedom

by | Jun 30, 2026

In April of 2024, I wrote about the Texas government opening up roads in the state to mini vehicles often referred to as kei trucks or kei cars. Then, in December of last year,...

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The Especially Unpopular Iran War

The Especially Unpopular Iran War

by | Jun 29, 2026

According to analysis by Stephen Semler in a Friday Responsible Statecraft article, Americans’ opposition to the Iran War exceeds Americans’ previous polling-indicated opposition...

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