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Foreign Aid is unconstitutional and Criminal because there is no Enumerated Power authorizing it in the Supreme Law ofthe Land, our Constitution. Foreign Aid promotes and supports Wars, Bribes, Kickbacks, Revolutions, and generates worldwide hatred of America. The most important fact is that the money required to “help” other nations  is borrowed and stolen from Americans, contributing to crumbling infrastructure and people living in the streets.

Some proponents argue that government has the power to spend for the common good and the general welfare. The Necessary and Proper Clause is also used to support Foreign Aid. I think these contentions are just to justify ignoring the more powerful and specific Enumerated Powers.

The simple truth is that government expenditures exceed income by 50%, and it is downright criminal to spend money on Foreign Aid when it must be borrowed and our own countrymen are in dire need.

In simple terms, Foreign Aid is mostly Evil; a large percentage is for bribes of foreign leaders and kickbacks to our bureaucrats and officials. Let us not forget the profits on goods purchased with Foreign Aid money goes thru corporations to the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC), which in turn pays off Congressmen for their favorable votes. The FBI’s failure to investigate, charge and convict criminals in government is the single most important reason that more than half of Federal Government is an unlawful Criminal Enterprise, while our people suffer.

The American Dream of home ownership on a single income is impossible for averageAmericans, and even two incomes is not possible until later in life. This has reduced the birth rate and moved it to later in life, with all kinds of negative implications for the Economy and living standards for the people.

Foreign Aid is not only a drain on our standard of living, rife with all manner of criminality, but it makes us enemies all over the world. The DOGE investigation uncovered comprehensive fraud, waste and abuse in USAID, requiring that it be terminated.

Total regular Foreign Aid in 2024 was $63.3 Billion. Israel received $298 Billion between 1946 and 2024. We guarantee Israel $3.3 Billion a year. We also gave Israel $17.9 Billion for war in Gaza. We spent $9.2 Billion on Humanitarian aid to Gaza. We spent $4.86 Billion for our military in the region. We spent a total of $329.96 billion on Israel since its founding in 1948. Let that sink in. What question first comes to your mind

We spent $195 Billion in Ukraine, $20 Billion of which was a loan, never to be repaid. It is a joke in Europe that the only people spending money in Europe are Ukrainians.

Government deliberately and drastically lowered the standard of living of our own people to benefit our Military Industrial Complex of the PSRRC. In the process, we earned the hatred of the people in most countries. Foreign Aid is a lose-lose proposition for the American people.

For example, if you study the history of only Ukraine and Israel, you will learn two things. One, that we were mostly responsible for the Ukraine war, and “news” was mostly lies. Two, that both sides in the  Israel conflict have good reason to hate each other thru eternity, and we have no business being involved.

We should withdraw our military completely from everywhere in the world. We can’t be invaded by anyone, we can only be defeated by weapons of mass destruction or from within by the Communist/Democrat army of 21 million illegals.

No country in the world can assist “Alliances” are defined as “Mutual Assistance”, and we need no such. Our “assistance” is one-way. It is interesting to research “foreign relations” relating to alliances, quasi-alliances, and partnerships to better define the lop-sided relations of the US with Israel, and understand the degree of control that Israel has over the US pocketbook. You will scream “Treason”!

In short, we have no business interfering with other countries; we can’t afford it. Israel is a special case because it is common knowledge that the Jewish lobby controls our government and the media. We have been in almost constant war in the region on behalf of Israel, at great cost in money and lives. We can’t afford allies like this, right or wrong; we must allow them to wage all the wars they want at their own expense.

We must end all foreign aid and bring our troops home so America can prosper. I will say again, there is no logic or reason for sending troops or money overseas. We need all of our military and more, here in America to defend against and deport Democrat/Communist army of 21 million illegals.

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If you thought that Donald Trump had learned the importance of keeping politics out of intelligence in light of how the intelligence community was used as a tool to attack and subvert his Presidency, think again.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of U.S. damage to Iranian nuclear sites angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official.

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the people, who spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. . . .

Kruse’s firing comes two months after details of a preliminary assessment of U.S. airstrikes against Iran leaked to the media. It found that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months by the military effort, contradicting assertions from Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Republican president, who had pronounced the Iranian program “completely and fully obliterated,” rejected the report.

While this is a different kind of interference — i.e., rejecting the judgment of intelligence analysts because they do not parrot the administration line — from that employed by the Biden administration — i.e., fabricating intelligence, such as Russian casualty figures, in order to placate the government policy — both are dangerous.

There was a previous high-profile case… Mike Collins was fired in May 2025 by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard from his position as acting head of the National Intelligence Council (aka NIC). One of the NIC‘s primary duties is the production of National Intelligence Estimates. Collins firing occurred shortly after the NIC published an assessment that contradicted claims made by the Trump administration regarding the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which weakened a justification used by Trump to exercise wartime powers.

It is not clear if the NIE conclusion discounting the connection between Tren de Aragua and Venezuelan President Maduro was the primary reason to dismiss Collins. According to media reports in May, Collins’ firing was part of a move to address what the office of the DNI described as the “weaponization” and politicization of intelligence. Along with Collins, his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, was also dismissed. Gabbard relocated the council from its CIA office to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) facilities, a change aligned with the ostensible aim to prevent politicization of intelligence.

Collins was suspect because of his ties to Michael Morell, a former CIA deputy director, who helped Hillary Clinton cover up the disaster at Benghazi, and who signed the letter from 51 intelligence professionals that questioned the legitimacy of Hunter Biden’s laptop, asserting that it appeared to be Russian disinformation. Collins was also facing whistleblower allegations accusing him of political bias and deliberately undermining the incoming Trump administration.

The US intelligence community, particularly the CIA and the DNI, shares a major portion of the blame for behaving as political partisans rather than as intelligence professionals. Tulsi Gabbard’s release of documents, emails and testimony from whistleblowers surrounding the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, provided irrefutable evidence that partisan politics by the CIA’s Brennan and the DNI’s Clapper took precedence over the facts surrounding the issue of Russian interference.

As was the case with Biden, Trump appears to be engaging in the same sort of partisan pressure on analysts to support his administration’s policies regardless of what the human and signals intelligence shows. In the case of General Kruse, the firing sends a chilling message to the DIA analysts — i.e., even if they have evidence that Iran’s nuclear program was not obliterated, you may be fired if you challenge the President’s opinion. The US intelligence community, in my opinion, no longer has any credibility. It has become a full-time creature of politics.

This article was originally published on Sonar21.

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On Thursday’s episode of the Peter Schiff Show, Peter (joined by a special guest, Schiff Sovereign’s James Hickman) argues that the federal budget is no longer driven by programs so much as by the mounting costs of debt maintenance. The duo covers the headline $37 trillion public debt, how interest has become a mandatory line item that crowds out everything else, and why the Federal Reserve’s interventions risk turning mounting deficits into accelerating inflation — all reasons, they say, to be ever-skeptical of fiat money.

James starts by laying out the raw numbers and why they matter for everyday policy decisions:

Look, I’ve been writing about this for a while. I’ve been talking about this for a while. The United States just recently hit $37 trillion in debt. And that’s just the nominal public debt that doesn’t include the unfunded liabilities and all the other things, the Social Security shortfall, the Medicare shortfall, all the other things—just the gross nominal public debt, $37 trillion. More importantly, the spending, the gross interest cost this fiscal year alone, which is going to end at the end of next month, September 30, 2025, is going to come in at about $1.2 trillion.

He pushes back on the familiar reassurance that “we owe it to ourselves” and explains who actually holds Treasury debt:

Now don’t let people fool you. There’s a Jedi mind trick that people play sometimes with the national debt and they go, “Oh, well, we owe it to ourselves,” which is the biggest BS line ever that somebody could say about the US national debt. What they mean by that, when they say we owe it to ourselves, out of that $37 trillion there’s a lot of that that’s owed to foreign investors, you know, the Chinese and Japanese, and so forth. There’s a lot of that that is owed to US banks, money market funds, some mutual funds, hedge funds, et cetera. And yeah, there is some of that that is owed to military retirement, to the Federal Reserve. Social Security trust funds own a lot of US government debt.

Interest and entitlements now claim nearly all tax revenue, leaving discretionary spending to be financed by new borrowing:

So the bottom line is they’re spending $1.2 trillion this fiscal year that constitutes about 22% of all federal tax revenue. Every dollar they spend, 22 cents of that’s going out the door just to pay interest on the national debt. Then they pay Social Security, then they pay Medicare and the other mandatory entitlement spending; basically the mandatory entitlements like Social Security, Medicare and interest on the debt last year consumed all of tax revenue. So everything else that’s known as discretionary spending, which includes the military, Homeland Security, national parks, the light bill at the White House, all those things had to be funded with more debt.

In light of a bizarre recent Fed resignation and investigations into FOMC members, Peter speculates this is a politically-motivated attempt to pressure the Fed into easier money policy:

Obviously if they found that this voting Fed member– the FOMC– committed mortgage fraud– it was because they were investigating the people on the FOMC trying to find dirt on them! … The two that voted to cut rates last time are probably fine. They’re not looking at those guys. So all the Fed officials that didn’t vote to cut rates– I bet the IRS is looking over all their tax returns, you know, you’ve got FHA looking over all their mortgage applications. … How do I get off of the naughty list on to the nice list? I’m voting in September for a rate cut.

Peter concludes that the goal here, as always, is to unleash the money printer for political purposes:

The counterbalance to aggressive deficit spending is, well, interest rates could go up and undermine what I’m trying to do. But if you know that, “No I don’t have to worry about these big deficits pushing up interest rates because we control the central bank, and we’re just going to print money and buy up all the bonds we’re selling,” now you’ve basically turned over the press to the government, and now they’re going to just use it, just like in Zimbabwe.

This article was originally published on SchiffGold.com.

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FBI Raids Home of Trump’s First Term National Security Adviser John Bolton. Bolton was not detained, but is expected to be charged

Generally speaking, democracies die from corruption. The United States is no exception.  America has always suffered from corrupt government at every level.  Liberals who put unwarranted trust in government, especially at the federal level, have long been in denial about this fact.  Liberals tend to see corruption in state and local governments, especially Southern ones.  They see federal government intervention as the correction.

Liberals know, or once did, of the corruption of President Grant’s government.  They know of President Lincoln’s disregard of the US constitution.  But liberals still see the federal government as a corrective force.

The federal government is no more safe from being hijacked by interest groups than state and local governments.  Essentially, governments are agencies that influential private interests use to feather their own nest at the expense of others.  The reason is that the President, and the members of the House and Senate obtain office courtesy of those private interests that provide their campaign funds.  Therefore, it is the monied interests that government serves.

Somehow the notion of a “public interest” has survived the many decades of contrary evidence.

Over the course of my life I have noticed a quantitative/qualitative change in the power of private interests.  Formerly they used the law to get what they want.  Today they weaponize law in order to remove those in their way.

The use of law as a weapon to control policy perhaps dates from the Nixon era.  President Nixon was making arms control agreements with the Soviets and opened to China.  The military/security interests did not want to lose the communist enemy that enhanced their profits, and they went to work on Nixon.  Growing suspicions about the assassination of President Kennedy foreclosed the physical assassination of Nixon, so they assassinated him politically with the Watergate orchestration.  The bullet that hit President Reagan did not kill him, and the official narrative was accepted.  Nevertheless, the CIA was opposed to Reagan’s idea of negotiating the end of the Cold War with the Kremlin.  I know, because I was on a secret presidential committee to investigate the validity of the CIA’s opposition.

Whenever its origin, weaponized law in the US has been manifested in the 21st century.  George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the neoconservatives gave us 9/11 and a quarter century of war in the Middle East resulting in the destruction of 6 countries and millions of displaced persons who fled to the West and destabilized European countries and the UK.

To facilitate the profits, budgets, and influence of the military/security complex, American civil liberties protected by the Constitution were erased by laws deemed necessary in order to protect us from an alleged “terrorism,” which was itself an orchestration.  

But all of this was foreplay.  Democrat opposition to Trump’s election in 2016, and Trump’s intention to “normalize relations with Russia,” weaponized not only the Democrats and whore media against him, but also the CIA, Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the FBI.  US intelligence agencies falsified documents, lied to the FISA court and to Congress, and loaded the presstitutes with anti-Trump propaganda in order to hamstring, if not remove, a president deemed dangerous to the enormous profits that flowed from America having the Russian enemy.

The “Russian Enemy” is very important to many pocketbooks.  Trump is trying, or so it seems, to get rid of the Russian enemy for us, by passing the task of the Ukrainian conflict on to Europe which will purchase US weapons to continue the conflict. This way we are free of the conflict, but the profit interests of the military-security complex are not threatened,

Now for John Bolton.  Bolton is a neoconservative.  Perhaps he just wants, as do other Americans, for the US to be the unquestioned power in the world.  Perhaps he thinks that we are really threatened by the enemies we chose to make.  Perhaps he takes bribes in behalf of Greater Israel and/or the military/security complex .  I don’t know.

What I do know is that when a former National Security Adviser’s home and office are raided by the FBI who carry off his files, whether or not the raids are justified, the image of the United States suffers, just as eight years of false charges against Trump and the FBI raid on Trump’s home damaged the image of the United States.  Once law is weaponized, the prospect is created of weaponized law becoming institutionalized.  Additionally, the authority of high government positions is undermined by the positions being tainted with impropriety.  If the CIA director dispenses with presidents and the FBI chief lies to Congress, trust in the agencies disappears.

The Biden regime persecuted not only Trump but also his attorneys, appointees, and those who presented evidence of election theft.  Trump, a former president, faced four criminal indictments in weaponized courts with weaponized charges presented by weaponized attorney generals, one of whom, a George Soros protege,  currently faces indictment on the same charge she framed Trump with.

Once law is weaponized, it is a life and death matter who controls the government.  A government in such turmoil can never serve the public’s interest.

What goes around comes around.  John Bolton brought it on himself.  Bolton, Brennan, Comey, Clapper, and Merrick Garland are likely guilty of crimes, whereas Trump, his attorneys and supporters are likely not guilty. But whatever Bolton and the others suffer, so does the image of the United States.  The use of high office for personal agendas separates the interests of government from the interest of the people and kills democracy. The image portrayed is one of a government  serving foreign, material, and ideological interests, not the interests of the voters who elected the government.

Everywhere in the Western World democracy is in crisis and collapse. Democracy has become so dysfunctional that executive authority is superseding it.  

When democracy fails, the choice becomes revolution or a Caesar.

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Thanks, David Martin.

Common Dreams

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Writes Tim McGraw:

I looked up what -40C is in Fahrenheit. It’s -40F, the same. I’ve been in -37F temps in South Dakota. There was no wind that sunny day. The sky was so blue, it looked black. I could almost see outer space. My toes are still numb.

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Dear Lew, 

As you know, the Gaza crisis is intensifying, and many LRC readers may want to press their elected represenatives to end their support for Israel’s wars and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

I am reforwarding to you below and in the attachment a sample letter or email that LRC readers could send to President Trump and VP Vance and/or their US Senators and Representatives asking them to end US support for Israel.

Thank you very much for considering publishing this sample letter on LRC. 

With much appreciation for all you do.

MO

SAMPLE LETTER TO TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS

Re: Please stop supporting Israel’s wars and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

Dear [President Trump and Vice President Vance] [Senator___] [Representative___],

We are [Republicans] [independent voters] [Democrats] who support much of your agenda. But you are increasingly losing us by placing Israel’s interests over US interests.

We strongly object to sending US money and arms to Israel for its endless wars. US priorities should instead highlight US interests such as advancing peace and free trade, ending foreign aid, cutting defense spending, and cutting inflation and consumer costs.

Israel’s government has long pursued controversial ultra-Zionist policies asserting that Jews have the ethnic privilege to violently cleanse “Greater Israel” of Muslims and Christians who have lived there for centuries. It is not “anti-semitic” to question Israel’s government or its policies. Many Israelis and US Jews strongly disagree with Zionism.

Ultra-Zionist leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu have long manipulated the US to support ill-advised wars for Israel including in Iraq, Yemen, and Syria. In June 2025, Israel attacked Iran to sabotage US peace talks, and demanded that the US bomb Iran.

Most alarmingly, since 2024, Israel has bombed, shot, and starved to death over 62,000 civilians in Palestinian-occupied Gaza, including over 18,500 children killed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/israel-gaza-war-children-death-toll/ Israel is launching a new assault to attack Gaza City and more Palestinians.

Many countries have condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza. 170 nations just voted to support Palestinian self-determination, with only six opposed including, sadly, the US. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/the-right-of-the-palestinian-people-to-self-determination-08nov24/

Over 60% of Americans now disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza; only 32% approve. https://news.gallup.com/poll/692948/u.s.-back-israel-military-action-gaza-new-low.aspx

Israel is “losing Republican support by the day” as young conservatives, non-interventionists, Christians, and other MAGA human rights supporters call out Israel’s atrocities. https://www.timesofisrael.com/losing-republicans-by-the-day-support-for-israel-slipping-among-trumps-base/

Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has said that Israel “is committing genocide” in Gaza, and that American officials should “support only American interests.”

Where do you stand on this issue? It is not sufficient to shrug it off, recite mantras for looking the other way such as ”Israel has the right to defend itself,” and vote to send money and arms to kill civilians while collecting AIPAC donations for reelection funds.

We don’t support Israel’s violence, and can’t support you if you put Israel first. Please [tell your colleagues and President Trump to] demand that Israel end its wars on Palestinians now. If it balks, please cut off all US grants of money and weapons to Israel.

Thank you.

Email and postal adresses for Trump administration and Congress are available at:  

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ 

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative 

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Historical verisimilitude does not seem to concern Hollywood writers these days. Not that it ever did. Blatant misrepresentations in the movies are far too many to list here. The bloodthirsty George Custer was portrayed by an almost angelic-looking Errol Flynn in They Died With Their Boots On, while the desperate and homely Dutch hooker Mata Hari—guillotined by the cowardly French as a German spy—was embodied by Greta Garbo in all the thespian’s magnificence.

Never mind. Movies are supposed to take us into a dreamworld, or a nightmare one, hence the historical falsifications. I no longer go to movie houses because of the ill-mannered audiences. People talk, eat loudly, smoke pot, pass wind, and act as if they’re at home. In my home I do not watch films that deal with science fiction, aliens, horror, or African-Americans being mistreated by white Southerners. I only watch old black-and-white films with intelligent plots, witty dialogue, and actors who speak proper English and do not mumble. Again, there are too many of the above to list here, starting with The Best Years of Our Lives; John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, and William Holden films; not to mention the great Gone With the Wind.

“California and Hollywood are proof that very bad things can happen unless one is vigilant.”

There, now you have it. Recently, however, a friend pointed out that modern Hollywood now casts black actors in period dramas of past centuries. In other words—and I’m making this up because I have not seen such trash—you can see, for example, Mark Antony as a black man addressing the Romans in the “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” funeral oration. Or you may now watch a black Henry V exhorting his troops at Agincourt against the French knights. Finally, I think a black Rhett Butler and an even blacker Scarlett O’Hara would draw applause, especially when she shoots that dirty white Yankee would-be rapist in the face. (Butterfly McQueen would be magnificent as played by Lindsay Lohan, and Big Tom by Arnold Schwarzenegger.)

Again, never mind. What Hollywood types have to be careful about is not historical accuracy but TV antennas, solar panels, double-parking lines, and such while shooting historical epics. What these modern Shylocks wish to tell us is that blacks are far more likely to watch their trash, and all-white period dramas should soon be extinct. And they now can take all the liberties their greedy souls wish. This is no Austen-land; anything goes. Just imagine, you can now see the great Benedict Arnold landing in Saratoga in a Chinook chopper, or better yet the heroic Nathan Hale loosening his Brooks Brothers shirt before the noose. Last but not least, the great George Washington crossing the Delaware in a cigarette fast boat with a Bertram V8 hull. What joy, and how the moola will roll in from the ads for the mod technology that helped us win our independence. And don’t forget, as historical verisimilitude no longer matters, you can always cast Eddie Murphy as Robert E. Lee, finally ridiculing the greatest of all Americans. Our modern Cecil B. DeMilles’ message is exhortatory: No matter how famous and great a historical fact, character, or novel, they can change it to suit today’s minorities.

But let’s face it: The real problem in America is California, because one of California’s main products dominates American culture. Yes, you guessed it, it’s Hollywood, and Silicon Valley doesn’t even come close as far as influencing how Americans see themselves, their lives, and their country. Once upon a time, before young, left-wing, bald whippersnappers who can read a balance sheet backwards took over, ugly, bald, uneducated Jewish refugees from Europe made wonderful pro-American movies that made the masses proud. The whippersnappers have since managed to turn the industry into one that shows America at its worst with every picture Tinseltown produces.

But there is good news. The film industry that is based in Hollywood has been hijacked by Texas, Georgia, Arizona, and other Southern states whose production costs are far lower than the ones in California. Once upon a time California was the closest thing to paradise. Then, however slowly, the Golden State turned into the inferno of today, with the largest homeless population in America, the worst schools, the highest crime, the highest taxes, the largest open-air drug dens, and the largest criminal gang membership. Nine million Californians voted for Kamala, 6 million for The Donald. You do the math. California can be saved only if 9 million dickheads are moved to places unknown: like outer Siberia, although I like those nice Siberian folks, especially the women, and they don’t deserve to be invaded by 9 million jerks from sunny El-Lay.

California and Hollywood are proof that very bad things can happen unless one is vigilant. The state was once a glorious place for sport, love, business, life, everything. It is now a hellhole full of gangs and criminals and untalented greedy Hollywood types. Stay away and keep watching black-and-white flicks.

This article was originally published on Taki’s Magazine.

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Lindsey Graham says God will ‘curse’ US if it stops supporting Israel.

The above is the title of a news article. Here are excerpts:

Prominent US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has denied that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and said that God will curse the US if they pull their support for Tel Aviv.

At a South Carolina Republican Party meeting on Wednesday, Graham said: “If America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us”.

He went on to state: “Israel is not the bad guys. They’re the good guys. The bad guys are the radical Islamists who would kill everybody in this room if they could”.

The comments come amid Israel’s ongoing starvation of Gaza and its indiscriminate war on the territory, which kills scores of people every day.

The 22 month war has caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and soaring malnutrition rates due to Israel preventing the entry of aid.

The war has been determined to be a genocide by leading rights groups, including Amnesty International.

The controversial remarks were met with fierce backlash, particularly by fellow Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene.

She hit out further, writing: “I am also completely amazed that Israel and their aligned groups like AIPAC (who is breaking the law by not registering under FARA) takes Members of Congress, and Conservative social media influencers (like TPUSA) on all expenses paid trips to Israel, and welcomes a steady stream of conservative media outlets in order to keep the funding stream going”.

She further raised awareness on Israel’s ongoing starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, where over 239 people have died as a result of malnutrition.

“Funding and blindly supporting an ally who is starving children is not going to bring God’s favour on America, as a matter of fact, I’ll argue it will instead bring God’s wrath,” Greene wrote.

Congresswoman Greene is 100% correct.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is regurgitating the Christian Zionist mantra that is an egregiously mangled interpretation of Genesis 12:3 that “God will ‘bless’ America if America blesses the State of Israel, and He will curse America if we don’t bless Israel, because all nations are ‘blessed’ by blessing Zionist Israel,” idiotically equating God’s promise to the righteous man Abraham in 2000 BC as a promise to the antichrist Zionist state in 2025 AD.

Graham is one of the most repulsive, disgusting, sickening, hypocritical, duplicitous, inhumane, self-serving charlatans to ever exist. Since when does Lindsey Graham care a tinker’s dam about displeasing God? The man is a moral reprobate, a liar and the con man’s con man. He gets by with his obsession with wars for Israel (or wars of any kind, for that matter) because he lives in a State that undoubtedly has more Christian Zionist pastors and churches per capita than any other State in the Union. As with so many politicians in red states, they regurgitate what their conservative evangelical base wants to hear.

It is truly incredible that Christians have fallen for this “bless Israel” nonsense for so long. But the tide is swiftly turning. Thank God! Suddenly, Christian Zionists and their toadies in Congress are on the defensive, because the voice of truth and reason has gone from a faint whisper to a booming thunder—and the awakening is growing faster than Graham and the rest of the Israel lackeys can keep up.

Any thinking person can easily discern that the America of 2025 is not a nation that is reaping untold “blessings” for blindly supporting the atheist Zionist State of Israel for over 75 years. Just the opposite. America is reeling under the unrelenting judgment of Almighty God.

And why should we be surprised? The Lord God settled the Israel issue once and forever in 70 AD after fulfilling the promise to Abraham in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Galatians 3:16) That God would totally annihilate the remnant of what was left of the Hebrew nations of Israel and Judah in such a visible and violent way showed the world that Israel was not a nation to be associated with, much less favored.

Attempting to restore a nation under such dire judgment as Israel and then expecting to be “blessed” for providing it assistance is tantamount to attempting to restore the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and then expecting God to “bless” those attempting to bless them.

But then I repeat myself, because modern Israel is indeed a restored Sodom and Gomorrah. Jerusalem is even identified in John’s Revelation as Sodom. (Revelation 11:8) And still today, Israel is the sodomite capital of the world—along with the abortion capital of the world and pedophile capital of the world.

One of the first indications that God is judging America and not blessing it is, vermin such as Lindsey Graham are sitting in the U.S. Congress. What the prophet told apostate Israel in the Old Testament is applicable to America today:

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. (Isaiah 3:4)

Take a look around. Where are the “blessings” for providing the apartheid State of Israel with trillions of dollars worth of bombs, missiles, jets—and even nuclear weapons—for the past 75+ years?

Families

Tell me, are America’s families better off now than in 1948, when we helped create this pariah state? Is the divorce rate higher or lower than in 1948? Are our children more well-behaved, polite and respectful now than in 1948? Is the nuclear family stronger now than it was in 1948? Is there more or less child abuse and spousal abuse today than in 1948? Is the overall family environment today better off than it was in 1948? Are more or less children taking behavior modification drugs than in 1948? Are there more or less dysfunctional families now than in 1948?

You know the answers to these questions.

The Economy 

Tell me, is America better off economically than it was in 1948? Is the dollar more sound than it was in 1948? The U.S. debt in 1948 was $252 billion. And that was on the heels of World War II. The national debt today is over $36 trillion. That is not a blessing; it is a curse, a curse that threatens our country’s very survival. In 1948, a typical American household was supported with the income of one breadwinner—usually the father. Today, both parents are working, and many are working multiple jobs just to keep their heads above water. How is that a “blessing”? In 1948 and succeeding years, America’s standard of living rose exponentially. What does the average American’s standard of living look like today? Private debt in the U.S. is over $24 trillion. You call that a “blessing”? Younger adults in this country find it almost impossible to be able to afford to purchase a house. You call that a “blessing”? Most Americans—even those approaching retirement age—have little or no savings. How is that a “blessing”?

You know the answers to these questions.

Culture

Tell me, how does America’s culture compare to 1948? Are there less violent crimes today than in 1948? Less murders? Less assaults? Less rapes? Less gang violence? Less theft? Less property damage? How do our entertainment venues compare to 1948? Are wholesomeness, propriety, manners, politeness, respect for the elderly, respect for the policeman, respect for the pastor and respect for other people’s property greater or less than in 1948? What about rudeness, crudeness, vulgarity, profanity, indecency, debauchery, honesty, fidelity? Greater or less than in 1948? Is there more or less alcoholism and drug addiction now than in 1948? Are there more or less suicides now than in 1948?

Again, you know the answers to these questions.

Education

Tell me, after 75+ years of helping the racial supremacist Ethno-State of Israel to commit mass murders, ethnic cleansings, land thefts, genocides, mass starvations and the wholesale slaughters of millions of innocent people—mostly women and children—how do our educational institutions stack up to 1948? Are our school children learning more or less? Can they read better now than in 1948? Can they spell better now than in 1948? Are their math skills better now than in 1948? What about their knowledge of literature, science and history? Better or worse than in 1948? What about their knowledge of government, our Constitution and Bill of Rights? What about the principles of federalism and freedom? More or less knowledgeable than in 1948? What about class conduct? Are children more or less respectful toward the teacher than in 1948? Are our classrooms a better or worse learning environment than in 1948? Do our teachers have more or less disciplinary control over the classroom today than in 1948? Can our children pray in our schools, as they could do in 1948? Can they read the Bible in school, as they could do in 1948?

Once more, you know the answer to these questions.

Spirituality

Tell me, does our society overall have more or less reverence for God and His Holy Word today than in 1948? Are Christians more or less loving, more or less grounded in sound doctrine, more or less humble or more or less dedicated to practicing their faith than in 1948? Is church attendance growing or declining compared to 1948? Are atheism and agnosticism growing or declining compared to 1948? Does the church have more or less influence on the children of America than in 1948? Does the church have more or less influence on the culture today than it did in 1948? Do the American people generally have more or less regard for the church and spiritual things today than they did in 1948?

Yet again, you know the answers to these questions.

God is not blessing America for supporting Israel; He is cursing America for supporting Israel (and for many other reasons).

In my Israel Package, Set One, Disc 4, Message 5, I delivered a homily entitled I Will Curse Them That Bless Thee that goes into depth explaining this doctrinal truth.

That millions of Americans are awakening to the idiocy of allowing the U.S. government to become a vassal state for Zionist Israel (which is exactly what it is) is undeniable—and I believe unstoppable.

Already, Christian Zionist pastors are in defense mode trying to conjure up arguments to stave off the attacks of truth against their promotion of this insidious and heretical doctrine. It’s not working. The ethnic cleansing, genocide and mass starvation of the people of Gaza have done what nothing else could seem to do: They have shown the world the satanic state that Zionist Israel has always been.

The majority of Americans under 50 are now openly opposed to U.S. support for Israel. This includes the deep-red MAGA states. Drop the age to under 40, and the percentage increases. Drop the age to under 30, and the percentage increases exponentially. The time is fast approaching that to be elected to public office in America will require a rejection of the State of Israel—the billions of dollars from AIPAC notwithstanding.

Even former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Israel’s status in the United States “has never been so bad.” He said Benjamin Netanyahu has turned Israel into “a leper state.”

With the exception of the United States, almost every nation in the world stands in opposition to Israel and in support of an independent Palestinian state. Israel is self-imploding. It has never been weaker internationally, economically or militarily (except for its possession of nuclear weapons).

The military and intelligence experts that I follow are unanimous in their opinion that Israel is going to attack Iran again soon. Perhaps this month. If not, certainly during the month of September. But this time, Iran will not be measured in its military response.

It is unknown (because Israel hides the news—just as it hides the news that over 10,000 Israeli soldiers have been killed or seriously wounded since October 7, 2023), but it is suggested that thousands of Israelis have fled the country since Israel’s first attack in its 12-day war with Iran.

I am convinced that it is inevitable that, with or without U.S. support, the Zionist government in Israel will collapse. I believe God is about to remove this international blight from the world. The only question is, will America allow itself to be taken down with it?

Six months ago, I would have speculated that yes, it would. The subservience of Washington, D.C., to the Israel lobby and the indoctrination of Christian Zionism among America’s evangelical churches were so ensconced that there would be nothing to stop it.

Ah, but today, everything has changed!

In just a few short months, the veil of Zionist deception has been lifted, along with the Zionist hubris of invincibility. What Netanyahu and the IDF are doing now is purely out of desperation. They realize that along with burying tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian people under the rubble of bombed-out businesses, hospitals, schools, churches, mosques, aid shelters and homes, they have dug their own graves.

If the United States—including evangelical churches within the United States—has any hope of not sharing Israel’s fate, it must once and forever separate itself (politically, economically and most importantly spiritually) from the doomed Zionist state.

For over 75 years, America has supported Israel, and for over 75 years, God has been judging and cursing our country for this unholy union. Now, let’s pray that enough Americans will recognize and resist America’s complicity in this unspeakable evil and demand that our governmental leaders cut the umbilical cord with Israel once and for all.

If we don’t, Israel’s fate will surely be ours.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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Today’s silly and ignorant crop of U.S. politicians seems to walk around with the assumption that the Founding Fathers had quaint, late 18th Century ideas that are no longer relevant to today’s bigger and more complex world. This assumption is false. Technology and weapons become more sophisticated, but human nature never changes.

George Washington was a far wiser man than most of the guys now residing in the city that bears his name could ever dream of being.

American foreign policy wonks and Congressmen such as Lindsey Graham insist on ignoring the sage advice that President Washington gave in his Farewell Address of 1796, printed in Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796.

I have placed passages in bold that strike me as especially relevant to today’s state of affairs.

Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?

America’s interventionist foreign policy wonks do not serve the interests of the American people, but those of defense contractors, bankers, lobbyists, and themselves.

Thinking about this reality, I can’t help wondering about the curious trips that Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Amy Klobuchar and others have made to Ukraine to fraternize with its politicians and soldiers. President Washington made it very clear what he would have thought about such junkets.

The United States has a great ocean on either side of its continental territory and the biggest navy in human history to patrol these oceans.

Europe has continually engaged in “frequent controversies” of the sort it engaged in during the pointless Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815, as well as innumerable other wars during the 19th Century. The U.S. stayed out of all of them.

It was only when bankers, industrialists, and weapons makers acquired undue influence over foreign policy in the 20th Century that the U.S. government started intervening in Europe’s “frequent controversies.”

Washington’s exhortation to “Avoid Political Alliance” was an extension of his reflections on international relations.

In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and in tractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.

Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation prompted by ill will and resentment sometimes impels to war the government contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject. At other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations has been the victim.

So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld; and it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity, gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opin ion, to influence or awe the public councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak toward a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial, else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests.

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.

I will gladly debate any academic or politician in this country who asserts that President Washington’s advice is no longer wise and tenable for our nation.

This article was originally published on Courageous Discourse -Focal Point.

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Most people accept the moral prohibitions on lying, murdering, and stealing in their personal lives as well as in their business affairs.  Why, then, does government, which is run by people, get a pass?  Is ethics irrelevant in government affairs?

The answer is yes, because there is no one to hold government accountable.  By its nature as a state, it is above accountability.  As Rothbard elaborately explained, the state is a criminal gang writ large, an organization not subject to its laws because of its monopoly of violence.  Jefferson’s notion of binding men down by the chains of the Constitution was easily broken by government intrigue.

Blame for the absence of government morals is sometimes laid on a loss of religious faith among citizens and the ones they elect.  But a Pew Research Religious Landscape Study (RLS), conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24, revealed an overwhelming majority of Christians and non-Christians alike regard theft, murder, and lying as violations of honest living.  They may have lost their faith in a higher power, but their professed morals were unshaken.

If no one punished a person for stealing, he might be tempted to try it.  But due perhaps to a nagging conscience most people would still feel the need to justify the theft.  Since most ethical creeds censure actions taken in self-interest while praising actions taken for others, a thief can bathe in ethical sunlight if he can show he acted for someone other than himself.  (Philippians 2:3-4, John 15:13, Luke 6:35, Matthew 5:39-40 (Sermon on the Mount), 1 Corinthians 13:5)  Pushed consistently, the government becomes a welfare state.

The American state, founded inconsistently on laissez-faire, which itself was inconsistent with the prevailing ethics of self-sacrifice (see above), became wealthier than other governments because it presided over a economy that was allowed to flourish to historical highs, but then pulled off a coup in 1913 with the passage of the 16th amendment and the Federal Reserve Act — each a major theft-enabling expansion of power.  The income tax had the “virtue” of soaking the rich, which it did initially with the War Revenue Act of 1917, but later, in combination with the Fed’s confiscatory monetary policy, led to the decline of the middle class and to a seemingly omnipresent government.

Woodrow Wilson, the White House resident during the 1913 coup, expressed dark thoughts about what he had done in his collection of campaign speeches, The New Freedom:

We have restricted credit, we have restricted opportunity, we have controlled development, and we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

Certain small but controlling groups crushed the last remnants of a relatively sound money system, using the economic crisis of the 1930s as an excuse, then through behind-the-scenes activities became a combatant in another foreign war, after the president’s repeated lies about not getting us into it.  Millions of deaths and billions in destruction later, the government, ostensibly led by a piano player from Missouri, amplified its interventionist ways when he signed the National Security Act of 1947.  Since then the government has found threats everywhere it looked, including Cuba, South America, Korea, China, Vietnam, the Middle East, and always, Russia.  Following 9-11, its sights have intensified on the people involuntarily supporting it, right here in the home field, on the premise that terrorists could be lurking anywhere.

What other country has “750 military base ‘sites’ estimated in around 80 foreign countries and colonies/territories”?  Maybe the world wouldn’t seem so threatening if we left it alone.  The US has thereby become a Roman warfare state, with untouchable intelligence and military budgets.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, in his essay “The Libertarian Quest for a Grand Historical Narrative,” points out the blatant contradictions between the personal ethics of most people and the defining “ethics” of government.  Regarding the Ten Commandments, he writes:

In this, the biblical commandments go above and beyond what many libertarians regard as sufficient for the establishment of a peaceful social order: the mere strict adherence to commandments six, eight, and ten. Yet this difference between a strict and rigid libertarianism and the ten biblical commandments does not imply any incompatibility between the two. Both are in complete harmony if only a distinction is made between legal prohibitions on the one hand, expressed in commandments six, eight, and ten, violations of which may be punished by the exercise of physical violence, and extralegal or moral prohibitions on the other hand, expressed in commandments five, seven, and nine, violations of which may be punished only by means below the threshold of physical violence, such as social disapproval, discrimination, exclusion, or ostracism.

He concludes: “Even with the greatest intellectual contortions it is impossible to derive the institution of a state from these commandments.”

Yet the state’s senior denizens bear false witness every hour of the day, with impunity.  As we witnessed during the Covid episode major political donors also escaped accountability for its egregious acts.  Included in the Covid nightmare were prestigious medical institutions, flush with government money, promoting false information about hydroxychloroquine, that continue today as unabashed medical authorities.  To paraphrase Thomas Paine, freedom was hunted throughout the country as well as the rest of the world.  What’s to prevent governments from attempting a Covid II?

The inalienable rights of all men that Jefferson set forth in the Declaration need a strong champion to defend them, and I suggest it takes its form in a competitive free market where security is purchased along with other goods.  Governing by monopoly force is incompatible with human well-being.

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The late columnist, Joe Sobran, diagnosed America’s political malaise with scalpel-like precision:

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.

By this clinical standard, the forgotten American qualifies as a dangerous extremist—and it is high time people like this wear that scarlet letter with pride.

Sobran was one of those extremists. At one time, he was an influential columnist and a prominent voice on the American right, but by the mid-1980s, he started to have second thoughts about U.S. policy in the Middle East. For possessing such pluck, he was summarily banished from the so-called “conservative movement” by his mentor and publisher at National Review, William F. Buckley, Jr.

It must be noted that what masquerades as conservatism today would send Russell Kirk, author of The Conservative Mind, spinning like a Kentucky Derby toteboard. The movement that once defended “an enduring moral order” and championed “prudent restraints upon power” has been colonized by Trotsky’s ideological grandchildren—neoconservative saboteurs who mistake perpetual warfare for patriotic duty.

The linguistic battlefield has also been scorched beyond recognition. The inheritors of Buckley’s drift against Sobran’s extremism—Bill Kristol, David Brooks, and their bow-tied confederates—have transformed a robust intellectual tradition into cocktail-party conservatism: respectable enough for Georgetown dinner parties, toothless enough for progressive approval. Meanwhile, the moderate serpents perform their familiar slithering routine between positions with wind-licking dexterity.

Invade the world? Absolutely, Senator. Tax-and-spend domestically? Without question, Congressman.

They represent the most insidious threat of all—ideological chameleons who stand for nothing except their own advancement up the greasy pole of political ambition.

Jack Callahan, American, puts it more bluntly: “These weasels in Washington would sell their grandmothers for committee assignments and their principles for campaign contributions. At least honest liberals will tell you they’re coming for both your wallet and your freedoms. These moderate frauds smile while picking both pockets simultaneously.”

In this blood-soaked century alone, the neoconservative itch for foreign intervention has drained nearly a generation’s worth of American blood and treasure. Their incessant pruritus, developed from a longing for overseas adventurism, never gets scratched sufficiently to satisfy their imperial appetites.

Iraq. Afghanistan. Syria. Ukraine. The drumbeat continues. Meanwhile, American cities crumble like ancient Rome, with their borders dissolving like sugar in acid rain.

So yes, go ahead and call these non-interventionists “extremists.” They’d be guilty as charged by every current tribunal of acceptable opinion. Nevertheless, the demand is for the rascals in government to keep their grubby hands off both domestic tranquility and the sovereignty of foreign nations.

Today’s extremists understand that both “permanence and change must be recognized and reconciled in a vigorous society.” They also adhere religiously to “custom, convention, and continuity,” because, as that dangerous extremist Edmund Burke observed centuries ago, “the individual is foolish, but the species is wise.”

Furthermore, Barry Goldwater, the 1964 GOP presidential nominee, had the gall to tell progressives and others that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.”

Reflect. Should liberty even serve as a rallying cry in today’s cultural wasteland?

The modern mind has perverted the very concept beyond recognition, confusing liberty with libertinism and freedom with license. When most Americans hear “liberty,” they envision the unconstrained ability to do whatever feels good—a guaranteed recipe for civilizational collapse.

Consider the French revolutionary motto. “Liberté, égalité, fraternité.” Not surprisingly, this also serves as Haiti’s motto. Objections to “liberty,” so-called, were previously noted, but fraternity remains beyond reproach—community bonds matter more than individual whims.

More importantly, equality has failed spectacularly wherever attempted, from the Reign of Terror to Haiti’s ongoing tragedy. Contra Meat Loaf’s romantic nonsense, two out of three is catastrophically bad.

“The problem with equality,” Callahan observes, “is that God didn’t create equal people. He created unique souls with different gifts, different callings, and different destinies. Trying to force equality is like trying to make every river flow uphill—you can attempt it with enough government force, but you’ll destroy the natural landscape in the process.”

Today’s extremists champion voluntary community over involuntary collectivism. We stand as proud inheritors of ancestral wisdom, not “unburdened by what has been,” despite what 2024’s most prominent philosophizer—with her daily samplings of vapid word salad—tried to force Americans to believe.

The accumulated wisdom of a society’s forebears allows the populace to peer further into the future precisely because it is standing on the shoulders of a previous generation. Extremists don’t dance upon the graves of their ancestors.

Consider. The crisis isn’t about government itself. That’s another argument for another day, if the Republic is still breathing. The immediate problem lies with the current regime’s personnel, those who consistently make everything worse through their ham-fisted interventions.

Whether Pentagon bureaucrats are planning the next overseas adventure or Education Department commissars are targeting first-graders with gender ideology, the pattern remains depressingly consistent. This type of interference breeds chaos like mosquitoes do in stagnant water.

Extremists possess something today’s liberals, moderates, and conservatives conspicuously lack: inherited wisdom. They understand that authentic “conservatism” means conserving what matters—family, faith, community, and country—not some globalist empire masquerading as the world’s policeman in today’s political theater.

Callahan’s final verdict cuts through the fog: “They call us extremists because we remember what America was supposed to be. We believe in borders, babies, and baseball played without pitch clocks. We think fathers should be fathers and mothers should be mothers, that children need both, and that ‘Follow The Science’ usually means ‘ignore common sense.’ If that makes us extreme, then every previous generation of Americans was extreme too.”

The establishment will continue hurling “extremist” like a playground epithet, as if the label stings. Let them.

Extremists—those as Sobran described—will wear the label as a badge of honor, knowing that in an age of manufactured lies, telling simple truths has indeed become an extreme act. In a culture gone certifiably mad, sanity appears radical to the inmates that run the asylum.

The choice will soon crystallize and do so with brutal clarity: embrace extremism or watch civilization finally unravel from the comfortable sidelines of moderate respectability.

Some battles demand that sides be chosen without apology. This is one of them.

The forgotten Americans have spoken. Now let the extremists govern.

This article was originally published on The O’Leary Review.

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International Man: What is the role of a justice system in a society, and what should the State have to do with it?

Doug Casey: In my view, what really holds a society together isn’t the laws enacted by legislatures or dictators, but peer pressure, social opprobrium, and moral approbation. In general, society is pretty self-regulating. It’s why people pay their bills at restaurants even though there’s not a cop at the door. Criminals are the exception, not the rule—although, it must be said, they naturally gravitate towards the government.

When somebody commits a crime, there’s a trial to determine what harm has been done, who should be compensated, and so forth. Courts determine these things. But I would argue that the state is not a necessary part of any of this. Society, like markets, tends to be self-ordering.

With a minimal “night watchman” sort of state like that described by Ayn Rand, the proper role of government is simply to defend you from force and fraud. This implies an army to defend you from force external to your society, a police force to defend you from force within your society, and a court system to allow the adjudication of disputes without resorting to force.

I could live in a society like that—it would be a vast improvement over what we have now. A proper court system, with either arbitrators or judges and juries system, would be part of it. But I’d go on to argue that juries and courts should be privatized.

International Man: What would a privatized justice system look like? Would it have juries?

Doug Casey: There might be either arbitrators, or juries, or both. The jury should be composed of independent thinkers who aren’t easily swayed by rhetoric or pressured by groupthink. Today, however, they’re just random people who aren’t clever enough to avoid jury duty.

In theory, juries can counter the tremendous power of judges. Judges today are either elected or appointed. If elected, they have to campaign like any other politician and are subject to the same perverse incentives any other politician is. If they are appointed, it can be even worse. Appointees are often just collecting political favors. While they’re allegedly more independent, in many ways, they’re even less accountable.

In theory, a jury is a good counterbalance to the power of the judge. You need some way to weigh the facts and decide who’s in the right. But the way juries work in the US today is far from optimal. It used to be that a jury could easily overturn any law. The process was called jury nullification, and it was an effective way for the common people to keep legislators under control. Today, however, it’s really a dead letter.

Today’s juries amount to a form of involuntary servitude. You get your notice for jury duty, and you either have to serve, whether you want to or not or come up with excuses the state will deign to accept.

Most productive people feel that they have more urgent priorities in their lives than helping decide court cases that can go on for months. So the type of people who end up serving on juries these days generally have nothing better to do or for whom the trivial fee they pay is good money. Hardly the kind of person who should decide weighty matters, perhaps even life and death.

In addition, many trials center on highly technical concepts, and forms of evidence, that people rounded up from the highways and byways are simply unqualified to interpret.

Worse, there’s the jury selection process called voir dire. The notion is to give the attorneys of both sides the opportunity to remove a few individuals from the jury who might be biased against their case, thus ensuring a more unbiased jury.

But in practice, it’s an interrogation process by which lawyers try to ensure they get a jury that will believe whatever they tell them. This usually means that anyone exhibiting the least bit of independent thinking or is prone to value justice over law enforcement will get removed and never serve on a jury.

The result is that the quality of juries today is several standard deviations below what it should be. Any intelligent person has opinions, and in this day of the Internet, almost any person’s opinions are easy to find out. No matter which way your opinions line up, one side or the other isn’t going to like them in any case, so you won’t make it past voir dire. Both the prosecution and defense like to see malleable jurors with easily influenced minds. As a result, the typical juror has no opinions other than those on the weather, sports, and American Idol. People who think in concepts are weeded out as troublemakers.

This process makes a shambles of the concept of a “jury of your peers.” The type of people they rope into jury duty wouldn’t likely be the peers of anyone now reading this. If I were facing a trial, I’d much rather be tried by twelve people randomly selected out of a phone book than by the type of people who get selected for jury duty.

If we’re to have juries, they ought to be truly juries of our peers—people who can understand you and the facts pertaining to your case. But we’re far from an ideal system. It’s worse than arbitrary; given that most of those employed by the justice system work for the state, and that it’s the state vs. an individual in so many cases, there’s a huge inherent bias on top of the whole problem with today’s stacked juries.

International Man: What is an ideal justice system in your perspective?

Doug Casey: It would be a more equitable system if judges and jurors were professionals who had to compete with each other on the basis of their proven records of intelligence, fairness, speed, and low cost. The victim and the accused would mutually agree on the judge and jury or arbitrators.

Separating justice and state would help eliminate the state’s ability to prosecute phony, made-up crimes, especially crimes with no victims. There needs to be an actual victim to press charges if the state can’t be party to a case. That alone would eliminate the wasted resources and trashed lives resulting from the US’s various wars against victimless crimes. No one could be criminally prosecuted for having unorthodox sexual preferences, using unpopular drugs, drinking on Sunday, or smoking in a private establishment. Or for evading taxes. It might surprise Americans to know that tax evasion is a civil, not a criminal, matter in most countries.

Most legal actions focus on matters of tort and breach of contract. It’s important to keep the laws simple and few, so ignorance of the law is impossible. Ideally, just two great laws:

1. Do all that you say you’re going to do.
2. Don’t aggress against other people or their property.

The point is that justice has to do with righting actual wrongs that have been done to people, not enforcing laws and exacting arbitrary punishments. Today justice means enforcing the will of politicians and bureaucrats. A proper system of justice would focus on making the victim whole, not arbitrarily punishing the aggressor.

With privatized justice, someone would accuse another, both sides would choose an arbitrator (professional or otherwise), and those two arbitrators would agree on a third to make sure there were no tied votes. They would look at all the facts—not just the arbitrary subset of facts allowed by legal precedent and state machinations. That decision would not be about punishing anyone but about making the harmed party whole again.

The key concepts are justice and restitution, not punishment. Punishment, if you actually think about it, rarely serves any useful purpose; it just gives vent to base and reactive emotions. It may set a “good example” to deter future miscreants, but it definitely sets a bad example for society as a whole by institutionalizing and justifying cruelty.

International Man: Is there any hope for the current justice system?

Doug Casey: The whole system is highly politicized, which is only natural for something run by the state. Unfortunately, as the country increasingly looks to government as a solution—your only choice being to choose between so-called “right” and “left” politics. That’s going to make the current legal system even more dysfunctional in every way I can think of.

International Man: What are the implications of this for investors and businesses?

Doug Casey: I see people being convicted under ridiculous applications of the securities laws, tax laws, and more. The only area where things are becoming more rational and freer is the area of drug laws. It’s becoming clear to even the dimmest legislators and jurists that they’re as stupid and destructive as were those against alcohol during Prohibition.

In fact, almost all the administrative laws of the myriad of three- and four-letter agencies—ATF, FTC, EPA, SEC, FDA, etc., etc.—create bogus and even nonsensical “crimes.” Even if you aren’t convicted, if you’re targeted, it can cost you hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in legal fees, plus time, lost business, and damaged reputation. The system has become rapacious and Kafkaesque. And as the state grabs more and more power with each passing crisis, the risk of attention from state operatives increases, even for innocent and honest­ people. The trend is accelerating in a negative direction. If history is any guide, things will get worse until we reach a genuine crisis. That’s bad news for anyone with any wealth, especially if they have unpopular political views.

That has very serious implications. Not just for people in business and investors, but society itself. This is one reason I’m so bearish on the prospects of the current world order; not only are there decades-long distortions in the economy that have to be liquidated, but the whole legal system is rotten to the core. It needs to be scrapped—someone needs to push the reset button and restore justice as its guiding principle—and that, too, is a distortion that can’t be corrected easily or painlessly.

Unfortunately, it seems as if it’s the very worst people who have their fingers on “The Great Reset” button.

Reprinted with permission from International Man.

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It must be Good News Week judging by the stories generated by the Trump regime and its supporting cast of neocons, with good old best friend and ally Israel up to its usual tricks and Ukraine, Russia and the Europeans vying to see who can flatter and cajole the mentally challenged American president most effectively. With much of the focus on Ukraine and the visit of Vladimir Putin to Alaska, Israel was free to continue to slaughter Palestinians as part of the plan to create an “Eretz” or Greater Israel running from the Euphrates to the Nile and also incorporating much of Lebanon and Syria. The process involves the removal of the indigenous population to be replaced by Jewish settlers. The latest plan for Gaza is to ship those inhabitants who are not summarily executed to some shithole like Sudan where they will be allowed to expire without any press coverage. Bezalel Smotrich, an Israeli settler-extremist who Minister of Finance summed it up this way: “We conquer, cleanse, and stay… On the way, we annihilate everything that still remains.….We’re breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble, total unprecedented destruction.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gloated how his policies over twenty-five years in government have now enabled him to guarantee that there will never be any such entity as a Palestinian state sharing space with the Chosen people of Zion. That is accomplished by killing or deporting all the remaining Palestinians, which Bibi, who embraces a greater Israel, refers to as giving them a “choice.”

Donald J. Trump on @realDonaldTrump, appears to agree with those assessments, focusing on fewer that fifty hostages and ignoring the scores of unarmed Palestinians seeking food who are slaughtered each day. On August 19th in a radio interview with total Zionist stooge Mark Levin Trump, who dodged the draft during America’s Vietnam war, praised Netanyahu saying “He’s a good man. He’s in there fighting…He’s a war hero, because we worked together. He’s a war hero. I guess I am too.” He tweeted characteristically and hubristically, and also inaccurately, boasting how “We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be. Remember I was the one who negotiated and got hundreds of hostages freed and released into Israel (and America!). I was the one who ended 6 wars, in just 6 months. I was the one who OBLITERATED Iran’s Nuclear facilities. Play to WIN or don’t play at all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.”

And the United States knows how to express its gratitude for all that Israel and America’s Zionists have done to support a White House that Netanyahu regards correctly as the most friendly towards the Jewish state ever, even outdoing the crawling on his belly servitude exhibited by Genocide Joe Biden. The Department of Homeland Security has just released $110 million dollars in funding to Jewish and other religious organizations and groups to provide security for their facilities and members. Most of the money has gone to Jewish institutions and it follows on $100 million that went to 500 Jewish groups only in June. The beneficiaries include some entities that were instrumental in raising the $1 billion plus that went to elect Trump to guarantee the almost complete corruption of America’s political system. The billion also guaranteed that many billions more would go in a steady flow to Israel, together with weapons and political cover to permit the carrying out of genocide. So if it seems to the average American that Jewish groups just might be able to afford to pay for their own security, one should not necessarily be surprised to notice that there is a backlash developing which is conveniently being labeled as “antisemitism” by the government and the Chosen themselves to suppress any popular uprising by criminalizing any and all free speech that is critical of Israel.

America’s thanks to Israel also apparently extends to letting lawbreaking senior Israeli government officials flee to Israel, which routinely does not extradite Jews who have committed crimes in foreign countries. The recent case of one Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a senior Israeli government cyber expert, illustrates how the judicial system can operate to benefit Israelis, a precedent established when Israeli “movers” spies were arrested in the wake of 9/11 for apparent complicity in the terrorist act but were soon released by the federal government after being questioned.

Tom Alexandrovich, a senior department head in Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, was taken into custody in Las Vegas two weeks ago along with seven others as part of a wide-ranging police operation targeting suspected online sexual predators. Alexandrovich was reportedly in Las Vegas to meet with counterpart NSA and FBI officials. As an electronic spying expert Tom should have known better than to use his cellphone to hook up with a 15-year-old. Tom then hurried to meet his date via Uber, which left another electronic trail. He was then caught by police in what was a sting operation and arrested on sex with minors pedophilia charges on August 6th. He is now back in Israel and is not expected to show up for his court date on August 27th.

Tom allegedly used computer technology to lure the child, who suffered from mental disabilities, for sexual purposes, according to the arrest records. The alleged crime is a felony that carries up to 10 years in jail in the case of a conviction. Police said he was booked into Henderson Detention Center and later released on $10,000 bail awaiting trial after appearing before a judge. Interestingly, Alexandrovich, though obviously a major flight risk, was given his passport back, allowing him to flee the country, and there is considerable suspicion that the pressure to do so came from the Department of Justice in Washington in response to Israeli government demands. And the involvement of Sigal Chattah, an Israeli-born American attorney and politician who is currently serving as the interim United States Attorney for the District of Nevada and was appointed by Donald Trump certainly begs for a more serious inquiry into what took place. Inevitably, Washington’s possible role in Alexandrovich’s release has been denied by Attorney General Pam Bondi and head of the FBI Kash Patel, both of whom are well established liars.

But the most horrific story to come out of last week is the fate of a number of Gazan children who were badly injured or wounded by the Israelis and who had the good fortune to fall into the hands of a US-based charity called HEAL PALESTINE that was able to get them out of the Strip for medical treatment in the United States and elsewhere. The children were in need of major surgery and other complicated treatment and were accompanied by at least one of their parents in most cases as they were unable to function independently. A number of other countries in addition to the US have accepted the injured Gazan children for intensive care without there being any problems or issues with the families involved, it must be noted.

Inevitably, the Zionist cheering section discovered the arrival of the sixty or so children in the US and immediately declared them to be “terrorists” a view that was clearly shared by the US State Department, which blocked the issuance of any more visas and is now engaged in a “full and thorough investigation” into how the travel was approved and arranged in the first place. Rabid and radical Trump ultra-loyalist and far-right Zionist activist Laura Loomer, who is both physically hideous and of course Jewish, is now claiming credit for the prompt State Department decision to freeze visitor visas for Gazans. Loomer is a so-called “influencer” who has a large following that is deeply loyal to MAGA and Trump. While she is not actually a government employee, Loomer’s lobbying has reportedly influenced a number of the Trump administration’s policy and personnel decisions. She has been credited with the removal of at least 16 staffers, including six on Trump’s National Security Council as well as National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Deputy National Security Adviser Alex Wong. President Donald Trump has described Loomer as “a fantastic woman, a true patriot,” yet another indication that the president is delusional and possibly demented while also unable to separate right from wrong.

Loomer took action against the Gazan children when she reposted a video showing injured children being brought to the United States for medical care. “I have obtained video footage of Palestinians who claim to be refugees from Gaza coming into the United States via San Francisco and Houston, Texas this month,” Loomer’s post on X claimed, calling the arrival of the children a “national security threat.” She asked “Why are any Islamic invaders coming into the US under the Trump admin? Who signed off on these visas? They should be fired.”

Loomer, who reportedly has full access to the White House and to President Donald Trump and to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, both of whom go to her for advice, took credit for the State Department’s reversal. She wrote “Today, I saved so many American citizens from being killed by pro-HAMAS jihadis. God only knows how many lives I personally saved today by blowing the whistle on rogue actors at State Department giving visas to Gazan families. It’s amazing how fast we can get results from the Trump administration.”

It has been reported that, in this case, Loomer spoke directly with Rubio about what she described as “the threat of Islamic invasion via the humanitarian visa program.” Speaking on Sunday’s Face the Nation, Rubio defended his decision, claiming that “numerous” congressional offices had shown him evidence that groups “bragging about” acquiring the medical visas to the United States have “strong links to terrorist groups like Hamas.” He explained how “We are not going to be in partnership with groups that are friendly with Hamas. There was just a small number of them issued to children, but they come with adults accompanying them obviously. And we are going to pause this program and re-evaluate how those visas are being vetted and and what relationship, if any, has there been by these organizations to the to the process of acquiring those visas. We’re not going to be in partnership with groups that have links or sympathies towards Hamas.”

Australian journalist Caitlin Johnston, as is so often the case, nails the reality of the Federal Government’s policies as they play out on the ground, writing succinctly that “Things are so fucked up that the only way to get wounded Palestinian children in and out of the United States for medical treatment these days would be to disguise them as Israeli pedophiles.” Indeed, Rubio’s assessment comes from a man who has been standing by and watching those very Gazan children being slaughtered and maimed by a totalitarian country that he and his boss have opted to support unconditionally no matter what atrocities it commits. This is not the America I and many others grew up in and I wonder what rocks he and Trump were hiding under when the humanitarian virtues of life in the United States were actually on display.

Reprinted with permission from Unz Review.

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Israel apologists always attack anti-Zionists by saying “Zionism just means self-determination for Jews! If you hate Zionism then you hate Jews!”

No, that’s not what Zionism means. Zionism means exactly what we see before us today. Genocide. Ethnic cleansing. Apartheid. Nonstop violence and abuse. That’s what Zionism means. And anti-Zionism means opposing these things.

There is simply no argument to the contrary. This is indisputably what Zionism looks like. There is no other alternate reality iteration of Zionism you can point to where genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and nonstop violence and abuse are not happening. This is the only way Zionism looks. The Zionist experiment has been run, and these are the results.

Trying to argue that Zionism doesn’t mean genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and nonstop violence and abuse is exactly the same as trying to argue that Nazism doesn’t mean all the things that happened when the Nazism experiment was run. Nazism means all the things that happened under Nazism. You can’t legitimately tell me “No, actually, Nazism just means a safe and prosperous homeland for the German people.” We’ve seen what Nazism looks like, and we’ve seen what Zionism looks like. To argue otherwise is to argue with reality.

It’s just so obnoxious how Israel supporters are like “Zionism means these nice things and nice words, so if you’re against Zionism you’re against the nice things and nice words!” No, asshole, that’s not how it works. You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own reality.

Israel is what it does. Zionism is what it does. You can’t separate them from their actions. The debate about the true nature of these things has been settled by the reality of what is happening.

It doesn’t matter if you believe Israel just wants to live in peace. It doesn’t matter if you believe Zionism is just the idea that Jews deserve self-determination. Reality says you’re wrong. Reality says Israel and Zionism mean nonstop violence and abuse. Reality says Israel and Zionism necessarily entail genocide, apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Because that’s the reality on the ground.

Them’s the facts. If you disagree with them, you are objectively wrong.

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I saw a clip of ABC host Patricia Karvelas raking Netanyahu policy advisor Ophir Falk over the coals for his denialism of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, and the thought occurred to me that Israel really has lost the normies. All the mainstream western empire loyalists who dutifully toe the imperial line under normal circumstances are dropping away, one by one.

Patricia Karvelas roasts Netanyahu policy advisor Ophir Falk after he refuses to admit starvation in Gaza & that Israel is not letting journos in.
OF “there’s plenty of journalists”
PK “Nope, there’s not plenty”
“You constantly contest facts, why not let journalists come in…? pic.twitter.com/WbPj0UADL3

— stranger (@strangerous10) August 20, 2025

The fact that Israel has managed to alienate western liberals is so funny, because they’d be Israel’s biggest cheerleaders if they were given the tiniest bit of justification for that position.

So much about Israel fits in perfectly with western liberal mythology. A US-aligned capitalist democracy run by a plucky religious minority who survived horrific persecution, which embraces secular progressive values and reinforces the dominant western narratives about the wonderful things the US-led order has been able to accomplish since its triumphant glorious victory in the second world war. All Israel had to do was give them something, anything, and they’d still think Israel is the greatest thing in the world. They just needed an excuse — even a very meager one.

But Israel couldn’t even give them that. Genocide, racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and expansionism were just too important to its driving ideology. The Zionist project simply could not continue without going mask-off at some point, so now they’ve lost all the mainstream moderate liberals and pretty much everyone besides the “killing Muslims is good” far right extremists and the “we have to support Israel because God commands it” Christian Zionists.

Eventually all the contradictions had to come out into the light.

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The Israeli press are pushing the narrative that if people in Gaza are suffering so bad they should leave, which is precisely the narrative I said we’d soon be hearing from Israel in facilitation of its longstanding ethnic cleansing agenda.

Last month I wrote the following in an article titled “They’re Starving Civilians To Steal A Palestinian Territory, And They’re Lying About It”:

“Western governments are beginning to speak out against the mass atrocity in Gaza, far too little and far too late. We can expect Israel and the United States to respond to this outcry by saying that Palestinians need to be evacuated out of Gaza as quickly as possible in order to rescue them from this deliberately manufactured humanitarian crisis. We can expect them to denounce anyone who opposes this ethnic cleansing operation as evil monsters who want to starve the poor Palestinians.”

The Jerusalem Post has just published an opinion piece titled “Gaza humanitarian crisis should expedite Trump’s relocation plan,” subtitled “Now that there is public awareness of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, it should be leveraged to garner support for Trump’s Gaza relocation proposal.”

The article’s author, Gol Kalev, complains that “the Gazans” are being “denied the basic human right to flee a war” by the mean, nasty Europeans who just want to accuse Israel of war crimes and atrocities.

“They are needed under the rubble in Gaza — not just by Hamas, who uses them as human shields, but also by Europe and its proxies, who use them as pawns in their age-old opposition to the Jewish state, and as a proxy assault on America,” Kalev writes, arguing that public frustration “should not be directed at Israel, but at those standing in the way of Trump’s relocation plan, including European leaders.”

“Now that there is public awareness of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, it should be leveraged to garner support for Trump’s Gaza relocation proposal — which could lead to safety and prosperity for Gazans, and peace for the entire region,” writes Kalev. “The public message must be clear: Let the Gazans be free — let them flee.”

Just as I said they would do, they’re disguising a naked ethnic cleansing operation as humanitarianism and denouncing anyone who wants to provide Palestinians with a massive relief effort in their historic homeland as an uncaring monster. We can expect to see more of this messaging going forward.

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Anyone who tells you they support Israel for religious reasons is telling you to stop trying to reason with them. They’re saying their position is not based on facts, evidence, logic or morality, but their blind faith in a collection of made up stories. So there’s nothing you could possibly say to them that would change their mind or convince them that they are wrong.

Trying to debate or reason with such a person would be the same as trying to convince someone that there is no God. It’s an entirely unfalsifiable position about which no argument can be made using facts and evidence.

Someone like Mike Huckabee is never telling the truth or saying what he really thinks is going on when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, he’s just making whatever mouth noises he needs to make to help fulfill a Biblical prophecy and secure his eternal reward. Such people have no place in the conversation. They should be completely excluded from the debate, because they are not actually participating in it. They’re just lying and manipulating for reasons that have nothing to do with truth or morality.

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People who carefully track the machinations of globalist institutions might have noticed a disturbing atmosphere of silence since the 2024 elections. I discussed this trend a few months ago in my article “Globalists Go Radio Silent As NATO Flirts With World War III”, specifically the dramatic shift that has taken place since the pandemic when organizations like the World Economic Forum ripped the mask off completely and admitted their true authoritarian intentions.

By the end of 2021, most of the world was under maniacal technocratic control and the globalists seemed to think they had western civilization by the balls. The elites were constantly in the media openly touting their plans, from perpetual covid lockdowns, to vaccine passports, to climate lockdowns, to cashless digital monetary systems where all economic liberty is lost, to the “sharing economy” where private property is abolished, to the Fourth Industrial Revolution in which AI runs everything, to the “Great Reset” which would completely undermine the free market system and herald a socialist dystopia.

In my 20 years as an economist, writer and analyst in the liberty movement I have never seen the globalists reveal their true intentions so brazenly. The pandemic exposed an incredible number of people to the underlying reality of the “New World Order” and in that span of around three years the awakening skyrocketed. The number of patriots born during covid was unprecedented.

People realized it wasn’t a mere conspiracy theory. World events were not simply random products of chance and chaos. There was indeed a smoky god-damn room filled with nefarious plotting parasites. The march towards global governance was real and now everyone except the dumbest of the dumb knows it.

The powers-that-be were so confident in the success of their endeavor that they essentially proclaimed global government by bureaucrats and corporations in the very midst of covid. Calling it the “Council for Inclusive Capitalism” working in collusion with the Vatican.

Within the occult methodology the natural solution would be to adopt new organizations and new names but maintain the same goals. I’ve noticed that this happens often with the globalists. At one point the majority of their planning was done within the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group. Then it was the Club Of Rome and the UN. Then it was the IMF. Then the focus switched to Davos and the WEF.

They used the term “New World Order”, then switched to “Multipolar World Order”, then to “the Great Reset” and the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. This makes it very difficult for researchers to track the most current mechanisms of the conspiracy.

I have found that, in the last year, “Stakeholder Capitalism” has become the fresh code for much of their renewed efforts. It’s not a new term, but it is being used more often by the elites to draw less attention. Some use the phrase “stakeholder capitalism 3.0” or “third phase stakeholder capitalism”.

The original idea being that corporations can no longer make profits a priority. Rather, they must produce equal outcomes (not just equal opportunities) in order to participate in the interdependent international economy. In order to get access to the system, companies must promote approved narratives on climate and social justice, as well as partner with governments and NGOs to make DEI equity a reality.

The companies that don’t participate will face pressure from government officials and will not be able to compete with companies that comply. The problem is, this requires that meritocracy be erased and that producers be forced to subsidize feeders on a planetary scale. That is to say, stakeholder capitalism is global communism cloaked in the humanist costume of corporate responsibility.

The World Economic Forum seems to be doubling down on ESG and stakeholder capitalism with Blackrock CEO Larry Fink at the helm, despite growing public opposition.  Though, Blackrock has removed a majority of ESG and DEI related language from their corporate reports.

I recently came across an article published at the end of July from the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance which outlines the more discreet evolution of ESG (and DEI) in 2025. It reiterates similar observations made by globalists over the past year, that ESG must be rebranded but not abandoned.

It argues that the old political virtue signaling and compliance checklists of the last decade must be set aside (for now) and that stakeholder capitalism should be presented as a “win-win” for the companies and communities involved. It is, in a way, an attempt to sell conservatives on the idea of ESG.

One argument is that companies that engage in ESG-like policies “make more money” and gain more share value. Limited data is produced to support this claim, and I would point out that stock markets overall have been on a frightening bull run since the election.

Companies that are NOT engaging in ESG are doing just as well as those that are, at least…in the US. Harvard notes that outflows from ESG funds are prevalent in America, but in the EU they are becoming more successful. I’m seeing similar trends in Canada and Australia – Anywhere that governments are working with globalists to enforce DEI standards on companies, ESG funds are obviously going to outperform.

It’s a cartel, remember, and western political leaders are the enforcers. The US is the only place where ESG is in retreat. This could change in the near term as Europeans grow increasingly rebellious against the multicultural coup, but it does illustrate the fact that woke capitalism (stakeholder capitalism) cannot survive without government intervention.

This is not to say that progress in the fight against globalism has not been made. I grow tired of blackpilled mouth-breathers that act as if there have been no victories and that everything is going “according to the globalist plan”. If this was true then they would have proudly and publicly moved forward with their Great Reset instead of running back into the shadows.

That said, vigilance requires temperance. Behind the scenes many corporations are still introducing woke policies and they are even advancing the globalist takeover in Europe. The fight must focus on these specific companies and their NGO partners; it is not the job of corporations (or leftist politicians and NGOs) to enact social engineering. They are not qualified to determine the greater good because they are not good people. They are driven by the desire for power, not morality or reason.

The globalists have lost the information war, but they keep coming back because they have yet to face real world consequences for their hubris. The only way to end the nightmare permanently is to dissolve the structures that give them their influence, or, remove them from the equation entirely.

Reprinted with permission from Alt-Market.us.

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In an unsurprising development, Russia and the West are gridlocked on the part of the working peace deal centered on postwar security provisions for Ukraine, even as U.S. President Donald Trump relentlessly pushes for agreement between the two warring nations. There are also new signs that Trump may once again be growing frustrated with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

Ukrainian security was the most repeated issue during Monday’s meeting fest at the White House between Trump and several European leaders. “Security guarantees” was the phrase of the day. When a reporter asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky if he wants guarantees to include U.S. troops, intelligence, or equipment, he replied, “everything.”

Zelensky has maintained for as long as the war has been raging that his country is the only thing stopping Russia from rolling through the rest of Europe, a theory parroted by some European leaders yet considered fantastical by many people. The prospect of Russian westward expansion has become more unlikely over time, as the war has prompted many European countries to ramp up military capabilities and spending, including Russia’s neighbor Poland as well as Germany and a slew of Nordic countries that have forged a defense coalition. Moreover, Russia has suffered enormous casualties (there is no reliable information on this front, but an aggregate of estimates suggests at least 100,000). And the invasion has weakened the Russian economy. Thousands of additional sanctions were leveled on Russia after the attack began.

Russia’s Stance

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a statement Thursday indicating that whatever deal the West is cooking up on the security front, it is likely not to the Kremlin’s liking. He said:

When now, following the Russia-US summit in Alaska, where significant progress was made along the path of defining the contours and specific parameters of the settlement, European countries followed Mr. Vladimir Zelensky to Washington and there tried to advance their own agenda, which is aimed at ensuring that security guarantees that follow the logic of isolating Russia, uniting the Western world with Ukraine in order to continue an aggressive confrontational policy, containing Russia, meaning, of course, further attempts to inflict a strategic defeat on us, of course, this cannot evoke any feelings other than complete rejection.

A group of European leaders who’ve formed a “coalition of the willing” want a security agreement that includes stationing troops from various NATO nations in Ukraine to prevent future Russian aggression. (Although Germany recently showed its weak cards in this respect when Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul publicly admitted his country is stretched too thin to help out with troops in Ukraine.) The idea of soldiers from NATO nations in Ukraine is a non-starter for the Russians. Their primary stated reason for the invasion in the first place was Ukraine’s pursuance of NATO membership, which would render a hostile military alliance on their doorstep. (By this line of thinking, that has already happened: several other NATO nations already border Russia, including Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Poland.)

The Istanbul Draft

In Thursday’s statement, Lavrov also said the basis for Ukrainian security should be the Istanbul agreement drafted in 2022, which he dubbed “natural and relevant today.” The Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C.-based foreign-policy think tank with several CIA agents on its board of directors, characterized the Istanbul draft as “a blueprint for the destruction of Ukraine.” The terms of the treaty include Ukraine permanently remaining a neutral country, meaning it couldn’t join any military alliances (like NATO) or allow foreign bases within its borders.

The draft also included a security guarantee from a group of nations including the United Kingdom, China, the United States, France, and Russia. A summary of the draft says that other suggested guarantor nations included Belarus and Turkey. A criticism of this provision was that, unlike NATO’s Article 5, the Istanbul treaty “provided no binding mechanisms to ensure a swift and unified response. This reliance on consultations left Ukraine’s security dependent on the alignment of interests among the Guarantor States.” The draft treaty also didn’t specify if unanimous consent among the Guarantor States was necessary to providing military assistance.

The Istanbul draft also included demands that sanctions against Russia be lifted and that Ukraine recognize Russian as an official language. According to some sources, 30 percent of Ukrainians speak Russian.

Security Guarantees

After his meeting with Putin in Alaska, Trump claimed Putin agreed to accept security guarantees for Ukraine — a curious claim from the outset — saying:

I’m optimistic that we can collectively reach an agreement to deter any future aggression against Ukraine, and actually I think there won’t be. I think that’s even overrated — largely overrated. But we’re going to find out.

Noting the ambiguity of Trump and Putin’s security conversation, a lot of Americans wanted to know if the president was considering, as part of the working security agreement, putting U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine. On Tuesday, Trump put those concerns to bed. During a call-in to Fox & Friends, when asked to provide assurance that Americans won’t end up defending Ukraine’s border, he said, “Well, you have my assurance, and I’m president.” However, that didn’t mean he was suggesting complete U.S. nonintervention. He also said, “When it comes to security, they are willing to put people on the ground. We’re willing to help them with things, especially, probably, if you talk about by air because nobody has stuff we have.”

Getting Tough With Putin?

On Thursday, almost a week after Trump held his chummy rendezvous with Putin, the president published a post causing many to wonder if his view toward Putin and Russia is once again hardening:

It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia. Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out? Regardless, this is a war that would have NEVER happened if I were President — ZERO CHANCE. Interesting times ahead!!! President DJT

And not long afterward, he posted the photos below.

Donald J. Trump Truth Social 08.21.25 09:45 AM EST pic.twitter.com/HVcvfDOcEp

— Fan Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) August 21, 2025

Is Trump signaling that he’s about to get tough with Putin? Are the posts Trump’s attempt to combat media criticism that Putin outsmarted him like a fox negotiating with a hen in a barnyard deal?

This latest development reinforces how difficult it is to get these parties to agree on peace terms. The Russians want a Ukraine that poses no military threat. Ukraine, however, wants the ability to protect itself against future attacks from its neighbor — which would by nature render it a military threat.

In a statement to The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, a White House official said the president will continue to work toward bringing peace to Eastern Europe. “President Trump and his national security team continue to engage with Russian and Ukrainian officials towards a bilateral meeting to stop the killing and end the war. It is not in the national interest to further negotiate these issues publicly,” the statement said.

Still Pointing Fingers

Meanwhile, the fighting continues. Recent reports says Russia fired 574 drones and 40 ballistic and cruise missiles into Ukraine overnight. According to Trump, thousands of soldiers are dying every week as these two bitter enemies, once attached at the hip, kill each other. Russia blames Ukraine for the war’s continuance. It sees its demands — no NATO admittance for Ukraine, no foreign troops in the country, and the forfeit of eastern territory including the Donbas — as reasonable. Ukraine points the finger right back, although it made a step toward Russian demands recently when it signaled it would consider territorial concessions along the line of contact. Until the two informally agree on these issues, it sounds like a meeting between Putin and Zelensky is off the table.

This article was originally published on The New American.

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Robert F. Kennedy. Jr. called out the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for recommending vaccines – including the dangerous COVID shots – created by its top corporate supporters without disclosing its conflicts of interest.

The AAP recently made headlines for releasing its own recommended childhood vaccine schedule independent of the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which was recently overhauled by Kennedy, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The notable difference between the two schedules is that the AAP is recommending COVID shots for healthy children, whereas the CDC is no longer recommending these experimental mRNA shots for healthy children and pregnant women.

Kennedy shared on Tuesday a screenshot from the AAP’s webpage showing some of its top donors are Merck, Moderna, Pfizer, and Sanofi, major vaccine manufacturers. Other vaccine makers, like GlaxoSmithKline, make considerable donations to the AAP as well.

This is a screenshot from American Academy of Pediatrics’ webpage, thanking the organization’s top corporate donors. These four companies make virtually every vaccine on the CDC recommended childhood vaccine schedule. AAP is angry that CDC has eliminated corporate influence in… pic.twitter.com/WtWe6vnUrw

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 19, 2025

The four first companies listed, Kennedy noted, “make virtually every vaccine on the CDC recommended childhood vaccine schedule.”

While he acknowledged that the AAP is free to make its own recommendations, he called for it to “follow the lead of HHS and disclose conflicts of interest” so that Americans may consider whether the AAP is serving the “public health interest” or the “commercial ambitions of AAP’s Big Pharma benefactors.”

Kennedy accused the AAP of anger against the CDC for eradicating “corporate influence in decisions over vaccine recommendations.” He referenced his dismissal of all 17 previous members of the CDC’s top vaccine advisory panel due to the finding that they were routinely advising on products from pharmaceutical firms with which they had financial ties and had been issued conflict-of-interest waivers from the CDC.

While the CDC vaccine schedule so far remains mostly the same since the appointment of eight new members to the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), its June 25 meeting has launched new workgroups to study these approved vaccines and the cumulative effect of the child and teen vaccine schedule.

Among other recommendations, the June ACIP meeting advised the removal of thimerosal, a neurotoxic, mercury-containing preservative currently used in flu shots.

In Kennedy’s Tuesday X post, he also urged the AAP to clarify that “recommendations that diverge from the CDC’s official list are not shielded from liability under the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act.”

Kennedy has frequently stressed the importance of ridding U.S. health regulatory agencies of “corporate capture,” a term he uses to describe the common phenomenon whereby these regulatory agencies receive significant funding from pharmaceutical companies and subsequently rubber-stamp their products without meaningful review.

This article was originally published on Lifesite News.

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We’re humoring our self-delusion.

How do great powers come undone? We can start with a destructive force without equal: self-delusion.

Emperor Norton comes to mind in this context. In 1859, in the Gold Rush-enriched city of San Francisco, Joshua Norton, a bankrupt businessman, declared himself “Emperor of these United States” in a proclamation that he signed “Norton I, Emperor of the United States.”

This grandiosity played well in the rough and tumble “get rich quick, then lose it all” zeitgeist of San Francisco, and rather than be abused or disabused, Norton was “treated deferentially in San Francisco and elsewhere in California, and currency issued in his name was honored in some of the establishments he frequented.”

In other words, his self-delusion was humored. On a grand scale, the same can be said of Great Powers: they humor their own self-delusion.

The progression of a Great Power from self-delusion to collapse was insightfully traced out by Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik in the late 1960s, when Amalrik predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, the lone voice to make such a bold prediction at the apex of Soviet power.

Amalrik’s analysis was nuanced, drawing upon the human weaknesses that blind us to our own self-deception and rosy assumptions. Chief among these is the comforting belief that “it will all work out because it’s always worked out before,” an assumption that blinds us to the extraordinary nature of the crisis and the decay that we avoid recognizing beneath the surface of normal life.

Amalrik noted that the primary motivation of the various classes and interest groups was self-preservation, seeking to maintain whatever each faction currently held in terms of wealth and power. The misguided assumption made by all was that the system was so stable and powerful that they didn’t need to concern themselves with anything beyond securing their position in the system.

As the system destabilizes, nobody notices because they’re focused solely on the infighting borne of self-preservation.

He was also alert to the government’s role in mediating the forces seeking to suppress reforms as dangers to the status quo and those seeking to force reforms on a sclerotic systems, and how seemingly small policy decisions can grease the skids to rapidly unfolding crises few imagined were even possible.

One of Amalrik’s analytic techniques is both novel and insightful. This excerpt from How a Great Power Falls Apart: Decline Is Invisible From the Inside explains the concept of working backward from whatever outcome seems unlikely or even impossible:

Amalrik also provided a kind of blueprint for analytic alienation. It is actually possible, he suggested, to think your way through the end of days. The method is to practice living with the most unlikely outcome you can fathom and then to work backward, systematically and carefully, from the what-if to the ‘here’s-why.’ The point isn’t to pick one’s evidence to fit a particular conclusion. It is rather to jolt oneself out of the assumption of linear change–to consider, for a moment, how some future historian might recast implausible concerns as inevitable ones.”

Catastrophic outcomes are considered impossible because the status quo views itself as already having the means to handle any crisis. There’s nothing to be learned from others and no reason to even ponder unlikely outcomes, and this creates a toxic blend of hubris and blindness.

“Society was becoming more complicated, more riven with difference, more demanding of the state but less convinced that the state could deliver. What was left was a political system far weaker than anyone–even those committed to its renewal–was able to recognize.”

Those in power reckon they have the means to deal with any problem. Suppress dissent, buy off a troublesome constituency, print more money, etc. This confidence reflects the dominant political mythologies of the Great Power and its people. Reformers believe the status quo is capable of systemic reform, those resisting reform believe the system will endure without any reforms, and both are disconnected from reality: the status quo is no longer capable of real reforms, and left on autopilot, it is heading off a cliff.

“Amalrik offered a technique for suspending one’s deepest political mythologies and posing questions that might seem, here and now, to lie at the frontier of crankery.

The powerful aren’t accustomed to thinking this way. But in the lesser places, among the dissidents and the displaced, people have had to be skilled in the art of self-inquiry. How much longer should we stay? What do we put in the suitcase? Here or there, how can I be of use? In life, as in politics, the antidote to hopelessness isn’t hope. It’s planning.”

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