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The Department of Education Lives On

The Department of Education Lives On

by | Feb 7, 2026 |

Last week, I wrote about the United States House of Representatives approving funding for the Department of Education for fiscal year 2026 at about the same level as each of the previous two years. This action, I suggested, was at odds with President Donald Trump, who is from the same party as the House and Senate majorities, having promoted during his 2024 presidential campaign and since his desire to drastically reduce and even eliminate this Cabinet department. Here is an update. On...

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Bottom of the Barrel

Bottom of the Barrel

by | Feb 6, 2026 |

I have, on multiple occasions, derided the Center for Strategic and International Studies #EmpirePropaganda mill. But, lo and behold, I have come upon something commendable published by them: an early December 2025 analysis of the acutely depleted United States air defense missile inventories, authored by Wes Rumbaugh. In his report, Rumbaugh touches upon all four of the US missile defense interceptors: PAC-3, THAAD, SM-3, and SM-6. But for the purposes of this article, we shall...

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The EU is Trying to Steal Hungary’s Elections

The EU is Trying to Steal Hungary’s Elections

by | Feb 6, 2026 |

An NGO bankrolled 47 percent by the German federal government and 26 percent by the EU is now suing X for “access” to Hungary’s election data. They dress it up as transparency. It’s nothing of the sort. This is institutionalized surveillance masquerading as democracy promotion — the same Brussels–Berlin complex that lectures nations about sovereignty while quietly trying to override it. When a foreign-funded NGO like Democracy Reporting International demands privileged access to a sovereign...

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Iran Adamantly Rejects US Attempt to Control Upcoming Negotiations Over Iran’s Nuclear Program

Iran Adamantly Rejects US Attempt to Control Upcoming Negotiations Over Iran’s Nuclear Program

by | Feb 5, 2026 |

What a day!! Lots of negotiation and non-negotiation action on the Iranian front. In the span of two hours, starting at 1 pm and ending around 3 pm eastern time, the world was whipped sawed with news that the bilateral negotiations between Iran and the US was cancelled — that was the 1 pm news — and then, at 3 pm, the talks were back on. The initial reports that the meeting in Oman would not take place cited Iran’s reaction to a US demand that Iranian ballistic missiles and Iran’s support for...

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Another Question That Only Libertarians Are Asking

Another Question That Only Libertarians Are Asking

by | Feb 5, 2026 |

The newest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dietary Guidelines for Americans turns the iconic food pyramid upside down. It recommends that Americans eat the right amount of food, prioritize protein at every meal, consume full-fat dairy with no added sugars, eat vegetables and fruits throughout the day, incorporate healthy fats, prioritize fiber-rich whole grains, and avoid highly processed packaged, prepared, ready-to-eat, or other foods that are salty or sweet. But the guidelines don’t...

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Does the US Still Have a Constitution?

Does the US Still Have a Constitution?

by | Feb 5, 2026 |

Legal scholars have many lenses through which to examine the Constitution. Lawyers need to master about 150 Supreme Court decisions in order to have a sufficient understanding of the government. But most of what lawyers have studied is theory -- how the Constitution is supposed to work, as opposed to how it actually does work. This “supposed to” versus “actually does” conundrum is often called the formal versus the functional. Formally, the United States still has a Constitution. We still have...

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Gaza Reconstruction; Ukraine Reconstruction – ‘It’s All Business’

Gaza Reconstruction; Ukraine Reconstruction – ‘It’s All Business’

by | Feb 4, 2026 |

Over the past two weeks, two important messages were conveyed to Iran, both of which were rejected. One came from the US and the other from Israel. The former was: “We [the US] will carry out a limited attack and you should accept it; or at least, give only a symbolic response.” Tehran rejected this request, saying that it would consider any attack to mark the beginning of a full-scale war. Israel’s message, delivered through one of the various mediators, was: “We will not participate in the...

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Showdown

Showdown

by | Feb 4, 2026 |

For several years now I have been making the argument that, because American military power is so widely dispersed and diluted across the planet, the only way the United States could concentrate sufficient forces to prosecute a war against one of its three major power adversaries (Russia, China, and Iran) would be to significantly deplete its force posture relative to the other two. That is precisely what has been happening over the course of the past few weeks in relation to the military...

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Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op

Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op

by , | Feb 3, 2026 |

The claim of “30,000 killed” during two days of protests and rioting across Iran appears to be based largely on a single anonymous source, who admitted extrapolating that figure by assuming without evidence that “officially registered deaths related to the crackdown likely represent less than 10% of the real number of fatalities.” That quote was attributed by The Guardian to an alleged doctor whose real name the newspaper refused to publish, but whose identity it claimed to have...

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Israel Surrenders To The Truth: Admits 70,000 Killed In Gaza

Israel Surrenders To The Truth: Admits 70,000 Killed In Gaza

by | Feb 3, 2026 |

Throughout the Israel Defense Forces rampage across Gaza, the State of Israel and its collaborators and sympathizers around the world have ridiculed the alarming death toll maintained by Palestinian health authorities, dismissing the count as a gross exaggeration aimed at maliciously demonizing Israel. Now, after more than two years of casting doubts, the IDF has finally admitted its own estimates match the Gaza Health Ministry’s accounting of some 70,000 confirmed dead. It’s a grand example...

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Will He, or Won’t He?

Will He, or Won’t He?

by | Feb 2, 2026 |

For the past month, Americans have been wondering whether President Trump will attack Iran, or whether the massive military build-up in the Middle East is just another bluff. President Trump claims that the decision is his alone to make. Thus far, President Trump has made little effort to explain to the American people – or to Congress – why launching a war against Iran is in our national interest. Instead, he wanders from one reason to another, hoping something will stick. First it was a...

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‘Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??’

‘Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??’

by | Feb 2, 2026 |

Any time things heat up with an empire-targeted government I always get people demanding to know why I’m not critical of that government. “Why don’t you criticize Iran? You spend all your time criticizing the west and Israel; you’re a hypocrite if you don’t criticize Iran.” It flabbergasts them that I’m not saying harsh things about the latest Official Bad Guy of the Day. Everyone on TV is criticizing Iran. Both mainstream political parties are criticizing Iran. Their favorite mainstream...

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Cuban Crisis 2.0. What if ‘Gerans’ flew from Cuba?

Cuban Crisis 2.0. What if ‘Gerans’ flew from Cuba?

by | Jan 31, 2026 |

History doesn’t quite repeat itself, but it does upgrade its hardware. As Washington’s posture toward Havana hardens once again, the real question is no longer whether pressure escalates, but how and when. Cuba has lived under American coercion for over six decades. That reality is baked in. What’s changed is the battlefield and the tools available to smaller states that refuse to fold. So let’s run a strictly hypothetical scenario: if Cuba were forced to defend itself in a new confrontation,...

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Senate Democrats Offer Promising Ideas for Changing Immigration Enforcement

Senate Democrats Offer Promising Ideas for Changing Immigration Enforcement

by | Jan 31, 2026 |

It is good to be cautious when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) proclaims he is promoting “common sense” ideas. But, looking at a listing of some of what he on Wednesday called “common-sense reforms, ones that Americans know and expect from law enforcement,” that Senate Democrats want imposed for the United States government’s immigration enforcement efforts, it seems that Schumer and his party caucus are putting forward some promising ideas. The Senate Democrats’ proposal largely...

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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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Peace & Prosperity Blog

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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