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Ten days ago a sudden surprise Israeli attack inflicted a terrible, decapitating blow upon the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran, successfully assassinating the country’s top military commanders, its chief nuclear weapons negotiator, and nearly all of its most prominent nuclear scientists. Many of these victims were killed in their own homes together with their family members by explosive drones or missile strikes that sometimes destroyed entire apartment buildings, causing many collateral civilian deaths.

No such sudden massive wave of public assassinations against the top leadership of a major nation had ever previously happened, and the resulting war with its salvos of retaliatory Iranian missiles against Israel has now also brought America into the conflict.

Among other things, these events conclusively demonstrated the near-total control that Israel and its political partisans have achieved over the entire Western global media. Iran was in the midst of ongoing negotiations with the Trump Administration over its nuclear program, so Israel’s sudden strike was obviously an unprovoked attack, totally violating all international laws. Similarly, the assassination of so many of Iran’s military leaders and civilian scientists also broke every existing rule of international warfare. If any other country in the world had committed even a small fraction of these crimes, it would have been universally condemned in the strongest possible terms by every international body and subjected to the harshest international sanctions, quite possibility including coordinated military action to remove its regime and bring its political leadership to trial.

But since Israel’s fervent supporters completely dominate the global media, they can easily transform black into white and up into down. Thus, the bizarre result of this illegal, unprovoked Israeli attack upon Iran was a wave of public statements strongly sympathetic to Israel made by European and American political leaders from President Donald Trump on down, thereby demonstrating that all these powerful, once independent nations had merely become subservient vassals to the Jewish State.

Last year, I noted that more than a half-century ago something similar had happened in the aftermath of the 1967 Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty:

I’ve often suggested that our media functions as a powerful tool of mind-control, not too dissimilar from what might be found in the plotlines of classic science fiction. After spending weeks or months immersed in such a controlling narrative, thinking independent thoughts let alone completely breaking free becomes a very difficult undertaking. For most individuals, the whisper in the back of their skulls overwhelms their logical reasoning, while their emotional reactions are turned on or off as if by a switch.

A perfect example of this came in the infamous U.S.S. Liberty incident of 1967. While peacefully sailing in international waters, our naval vessel was attacked by the Israelis, whose air and sea forces killed or wounded more than 200 American servicemen, and only by chance failed in their effort to sink the ship with no survivors. This constituted America’s worst naval loss of life at enemy hands since the huge sea battles of World War II, and surely if any other nation in the world had been responsible, our swift and overwhelming military retaliation would have bombed its major cities to rubble and killed many thousands of its citizens, while perhaps also hunting down and executing all the enemy leaders who had ordered that unprovoked attack.

But instead our government completely covered up that incident at the time it occurred, and the only consequence was that the annual financial tribute we paid to the Jewish State steadily increased in size. Even when the facts finally came out a dozen years later, any outrage was confined to just a small sliver of our population, while the majority who heard the story vaguely assumed that since the media told them “nothing to see here” they should move on and pay no attention. Something that under normal circumstances might have been expected to provoke a major punitive war merely produced a few uncomfortable shrugs.

Given its large size and advanced weaponry, America stood as a physical colossus on the world stage of the 1960s, with no other country able to directly challenge our might. But we were still helpless before the nation that had attacked us because the small pro-Israel Jewish minority deployed its tools of media mind-control to transform us into powerless marionettes, jerked about by invisible strings.

Another important conclusion to be drawn from these recent developments is that the Jewish State has certainly now established itself as history’s most prolific and skillful practitioner of assassinations as a technique of statecraft, having easily surpassed the notorious exploits of that small band of heretical Muslims who terrorized Middle Eastern leaders a thousand years ago and gave their name to that lethal tactic. Any introductory history books that describe the famed Order of Assassins as the foremost employers of that craft should therefore be revised.

Although political assassinations have hardly been uncommon throughout recorded history, during the last several centuries major Western nations had almost entirely abandoned such methods, rejecting them as immoral and illegal.

For example, historian David Irving revealed that when one of Adolf Hitler’s aides suggested to him that an attempt be made to assassinate the Soviet military leadership during the bitter combat on the Eastern Front of World War II, the German Fuhrer immediately forbade any such practices as obvious violations of the laws of civilized warfare.

In a long January 2020 article, I described this traditional Western attitude, and then explained that over the last couple of decades the combination of our “War on Terror” and growing Neocon influence had dramatically changed that policy.

The 1914 terrorist assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was certainly organized by fanatical elements of Serbian Intelligence, but the Serbian government fiercely denied its own complicity, and no major European power was ever directly implicated in the plot. The aftermath of the killing soon led to the outbreak of World War I, and although many millions died in the trenches over the next few years, it would have been completely unthinkable for one of the major belligerents to consider assassinating the leadership of another.

A century earlier, the Napoleonic Wars had raged across the entire continent of Europe for most of a generation, but I don’t recall reading of any governmental assassination plots during that era, let alone in the quite gentlemanly wars of the preceding 18th century when Frederick the Great and Maria Theresa disputed ownership of the wealthy province of Silesia by military means…

During our Revolutionary War, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and our other Founding Fathers fully recognized that if their effort failed, they would all be hanged as rebels by the British. However, I have never heard that they feared falling to an assassin’s blade, nor that King George III ever considered using such an underhanded means of attack. During the first century and more of our nation’s history, nearly all our presidents and other top political leaders traced their ancestry back to the British Isles, and political assassinations were exceptionally rare, with Abraham Lincoln’s death being one of the very few that comes to mind.

At the height of the Cold War, our CIA did involve itself in various secret assassination plots against Cuba’s Communist dictator Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders considered hostile to US interests. But when these facts later came out in the 1970s, they evoked such enormous outrage from the public and the media, that three consecutive American presidents—Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan—all issued successive Executive Orders absolutely prohibiting assassinations by the CIA or any other agent of the US government.

Although some cynics might claim that these public declarations represented mere window-dressing, a March 2018 book review in the New York Times strongly suggests otherwise. Kenneth M. Pollack spent years as a CIA analyst and National Security Council staffer, then went on to publish a number of influential books on foreign policy and military strategy over the last two decades. He had originally joined the CIA in 1988, and opens his review by declaring:

One of the very first things I was taught when I joined the CIA was that we do not conduct assassinations. It was drilled into new recruits over and over again.

Yet Pollack notes with dismay that over the last quarter-century, these once solid prohibitions have been steadily eaten away, with the process rapidly accelerating after the 9/11 attacks of 2001. The laws on our books may not have changed, but

Today, it seems that all that is left of this policy is a euphemism.

We don’t call them assassinations anymore. Now, they are “targeted killings,” most often performed by drone strike, and they have become America’s go-to weapon in the war on terror.

My article quoting Pollock primarily focused on the long history of Israeli Mossad operations, and although I drew my material from some seventeen different books, the centerpiece of my discussion was Ronen Bergman’s magisterial 2018 volume on that subject. I would strongly recommend that work as the single best starting point for gaining an understanding of Israel’s policy of assassinations and other lethal covert activity.

The book reviewed by Pollack was Rise and Kill First by New York Times reporter Ronen Bergman, a weighty study of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, together with its sister agencies. The author devoted six years of research to the project, which was based upon a thousand personal interviews and access to an enormous number of official documents previously unavailable. As suggested by the title, his primary focus was Israel’s long history of assassinations, and across his 750 pages and thousand-odd source references he recounts the details of an enormous number of such incidents.

That sort of topic is obviously fraught with controversy, but Bergman’s volume carried glowing cover-blurbs from Pulitzer Prize-winning authors on espionage matters, and the official cooperation he received is indicated by similar endorsements from both a former Mossad chief and Ehud Barak, a past Prime Minister of Israel who himself had once led assassination squads. Over the last couple of decades, former CIA officer Robert Baer has become one of our most prominent authors in this same field, and he praised the book as “hands down” the best he had ever read on intelligence, Israel, or the Middle East. The reviews across our elite media were equally laudatory…

The sheer quantity of such foreign assassinations was really quite remarkable, with the knowledgeable reviewer in the New York Times suggesting that the Israeli total over the last half-century or so seemed far greater than that of any other nation. I might even go farther: if we excluded domestic killings, I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel’s body-count greatly exceeded the combined total for that of all other major countries in the world. I think all the lurid revelations of lethal CIA or KGB Cold War assassination plots that I have seen discussed in newspaper articles might fit comfortably into just a chapter or two of Bergman’s extremely long book.

As I emphasized last week, over the past seven years I have published a long list of articles presenting the overwhelming evidence pointing to Israel and its Mossad as playing the central role in both the assassinations of the Kennedys and the 9/11 terrorist attacks against our country. All my major factual claims in those articles have been carefully analyzed by Deep Research, the most powerful AI available, and they have been judged completely accurate. Those interested in the matter should read some of those articles and the corresponding AI fact-checking reports and decide for themselves:

• How Israel Killed the Kennedys
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • March 24, 2025 • 11,500 Words
  Fact-Checking “How Israel Killed the Kennedys”• 15,300 Words

• American Pravda: Remembering the 9/11 Truth Movement
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • September 11, 2023 • 9,800 Words
  Fact-Checking “American Pravda: Remembering the 9/11 Truth Movement” • 21,700 Words

However, even if none of this accumulated evidence implicating Israel existed, I think that anyone carefully reading the Bergman book with an open mind would quickly come to a rather similar conclusion. Bergman’s text provides not the slightest hint of any Mossad role in those infamous attacks against our own country and its national leadership, but he does describe some strikingly parallel incidents.

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For the U.S. to take military action against Iran, it is almost like the University of Tennessee football team taking on a little boys team from the Pee Wee league.

Iran’s total military budget was only a little over two percent of the U.S. military budget, and that was before Israel started dropping bombs there and killing Iran’s top eight Generals and its nine leading nuclear scientists.

Iran had made no credible military threat against the U.S. and was not even capable of attacking us in any significant way if they had.

We should not have allowed Netanyahu to lead us into another unnecessary war in the Middle East as he did in Iraq. The world renowned foreign policy expert, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, called Netanyahu the “main cheerleader” for the Iraq War and described him as “one of the most violent and dangerous people in the world.”

Even before we jumped in, Israel was already winning its war and had achieved total air superiority by wiping out Iran’s air defense capabilities.

Thankfully, our pilots and crew members were in no danger and were simply following orders, but they were dropping bombs that were not needed and should not have been dropped in the first place.

Netanyahu had been crying wolf for 30 years falsely claiming over and over that Iran was just weeks or months away from developing a nuclear bomb. This claim had been debunked by several different intelligence officials over the years, including by Tulsi Gabbard as recently as March 25.

Israel has refused to join the International Atomic Energy Agency like all other countries with nuclear power except North Korea. It also has refused to disclose the number of nuclear warheads it has, but most estimates are 300 or more. This gives Israel overwhelming nuclear superiority in the Middle East.

The only reason it needs to have the U.S. in this war is for public relations purposes. Almost every nation except the U.S.has harshly condemned Israel for its extreme and excessive cruelty in killing and starving so many thousands of women and children in Gaza.

Sen. Charles Schumer said in a Senate speech on March 14, 2024 that Netanyahu had become “too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows”, and he added “Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah.”

Israel’s unnecessary war in Iran might possibly have been the last straw, the final step in making it a worldwide pariah for sure if the U.S. had not joined the war.

Unfortunately, almost every President since World War Two, with the exception of Eisenhower, has seemed to want to be seen as a new Winston Churchill. They and their closest advisors  seem to get excited and feel very powerful and important if they can go to dramatic late night meetings in a White House war room and put this Country into another war.

The head of the U.S. Military Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla, nicknamed “The Gorilla” and described as “Israel’s favorite General”, an d Gen. Dan ‘Razin’ Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have been pushing for U.S. involvement. Also egging the war effort on have been the Senate’s two leading “bomb everybody” hawks, Sen. Lindsay Graham and Sen. Tom Cotton.

This war has already cost our taxpayers many billions in all the weapons and equipment we have sent to Israel in addition to the planes, bombs , missiles, warships, troops and equipment we have moved into the region. Earlier we spent about two billion and lost two jets in bombing Yemen at Israel’s request.

President Trump was elected in large part because of his opposition to the war in Iraq and because he said he wanted to put America First. The war in Iran is not our war. It is putting Israel First.

In his Inaugural Address. President Trump said: “We will measure our success not only by little battles we win, but also by the wars that end, and perhaps MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE WARS WE NEVER GET INTO.” (my emphasis) Where is that man today?

In his speech in Riyadh, he said the marvels of the Middle East were “not created by the so-called ‘nation builders’, neocons, or liberal non-profits….”. He said “the so-called nation builders wrecked far more than they ever built, and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.” Where is this man now?

By intervening in this latest war, we are bowing to the wishes of the neocons who have already cost this Nation the lives of thousands of young Americans and trillions of dollars.

Even if this intervention against a very weak Iran ends quickly, it still sets a very bad precedent and sends us down the wrong path to follow for a Nation whose rank and file want peace, not unnecessary war. And the neocons said the Iraq War would be a “cakewalk.”

I wish President Trump would be more like President Eisenhower.  In 1956, Eisenhower not only resisted tremendous pressure from Israel to join it in a war against Egypt, he did it on national television one week before the presidential election.

Mitchell Bard wrote in The Times of Israel in 2014: “Eisenhower went on television to criticize Israel’s failure to withdraw from Egypt and warned he would impose sanctions if it failed to comply. Eisenhower was prepared to cut off all economic aid, to lift the tax-exempt status of the United Jewish Appeal, and to apply sanctions on Israel.”

Trump said on Feb. 13 that he wanted to cut the military budget in half. Now, he is pushing his”Big Beautiful Bill” which would increase defense spending by $150 billion to over one trillion a year.

In Evan Thomas’s book on Eisenhower’s foreign policy,  “Ike’s Bluff”, it says: “When Defense Secretary Neil McElroy warned him that further cuts would harm national security, Eisenhower acerbically replied, ‘If you go to any military installation in the world where the American flag is flying and tell the commander that Ike says he will give him an extra star for his shoulder if he cuts his budget, there’ll be such a rush to cut his budget you’ll have to get out of the way.”

Eisenhower also told his staff secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster “God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do.”

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When the warden doesn’t like the way the Paul Newman character talks to him, he beats him, then proceeds to project his own weakness and insecurity in the famous ‘failure to communicate” speech. Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 anthem to the resistance of prisoners to the moral inferiors who hold near complete power over their lives.

Americans today are living this movie – we are prisoners and Washington, DC is “led” by a lecturing “Captain” and, behind him, the men with no eyes.  It’s not just Tom Woods’ Rule #3,  that “no matter who you vote for, you always get John McCain.” It’s that the US empire has a new down-home warden telling the story, backed by tall men in mirrored sunglasses who monitor obedience and create constant fear, at home and abroad.  That’s the plot, anyway.

Instead of the anti-establishment films of the 60s and 70s like Cool Hand Luke and One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, we have slick propaganda films like Top Gun: Maverick.  The latter generated Western expectation and applause for exactly what happened on June 22, an unlawful, unwarranted, and extremely destabilizing attack on the nuclear energy capabilities of a country simply because of “our ally.”  Mike Benz gives a great summary of the movie plot, and how it worked to suppress criticism and generate Pavlovian applause on a national scale.

In that movie, it all worked out great.  The Tom Cruise character appears “anti-establishment.” Literally call-sign Maverick, he channels our instinctive and well-warranted distrust of senior flag officers, politicians and bureaucrats – while actually serving a militaristic unipolar global vision.  It ventures into state sacrilege only in illustrating the speed and apparent maintainability of the Iranian F-14 Tomcats, a side-eye to what we get today from the MIC, the disastrously precious F-35 being a prime example.   We are talking about the F-14s the US sold to the Shah after the CIA emplaced him in Tehran during the last Washington-driven Iranian regime change in 1953.   But the movie didn’t go into those details, and was not intended to explore those consequences.  CIA-pedia provides extensive information on what would be the first major foreign policy/CIA decision of the Eisenhower presidency.

In light of the recent Tucker Carlson interview with once and future presidential aspirant Ted Cruz, one imagines that few in the current Executive or Legislative branches know much about Iran, other than “knowing” it’s a country with oil that they wish to control, to leverage, to order around and put in leg-irons.

Just like Mossad exploding pagers, and MI-6/CIA/Ukrainian/Mossad truck borne drones laying in wait to attack Russia’s nuclear triad, we see after the US performative attack on the nuclear capability at Fordow, the perpetrators cannot help bragging after the fact on how sly and devious they were, and for this we should be grateful. Lying heads of state, who boast about their terror tactics serve two key purposes:  First, they instruct foe and friend alike in the ease and usefulness of terrorism, ensuring both defensive preparation and creative emulation against the state; and second they reveal intrinsic command weakness and treachery of the state vis a vis its own population. In an era where almost all commercial technology is heavily state-subsidized, we hold in our hands and homes and vehicles a little piece of the untrustworthy and fundamentally evil state. How many people looked at their cell phones differently after the Israel pager attack?  How many began to wonder what is actually inside the trucks and cargo containers scattered in every part of our country?  The use of US submarines to fire nuclear capable Tomahawk missiles suddenly and silently on the “Captain”’s command is a reminder of our own vulnerability to attack by our own state, its allies or its adversaries, if those states deem it “necessary.”

It’s always good to see the true nature of the state, and while it isn’t filled with lizard people, it is indeed and undeniably morally alien to humanity.  One current example is Gaza, demonstrating the law of state paralysis, and the lack of state purpose, and most importantly, the lack of desire, to stop the nuclear-level destruction of the Gaza Strip, or to even ameliorate the Western starvation of two million Gazans.

Many already know this, and many more sense it.  Turns out Brian Berletic was always right – it’s not ideologies or religions, -isms or schisms, it is that the state operates not only openly, but solely on the plane of power and profit.

It’s important to note that the boomers watched Cool Hand Luke and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in their formative years. They also benefitted from an array of novels and movies written and made about the evil of imperial warfare in the aftermath of Vietnam.  They have benefitted from the revisionist history of our American way of war, and the US federal state.  They celebrated the power of individuals to act morally and courageously in the face of the concentrated power. Sadly, it seems that many of them only absorbed one lesson:  In the end, it didn’t turn out well for Lucas Jackson and Randall McMurphy.

Those same boomers, and subsequent American generations, clap and whoop for Maverick, as the independent and moral daredevil complies and subsumes his extraordinary skillset for the state, with the obligatory sarcasm or throwaway dry comebacks to the men without eyes.  To be fair, the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible series increasingly and correctly conflates the “power and profit” state with great evil, gangs writ large, and men without eyes or morals.  But state backed infotainment – even if it feels like it is opposed to tyranny and tyrants – is no substitute for simple reflection on our own moral sensibility, our own perspectives on how we can, and must, increase and expand human liberty.

You can’t fix stupid.  And yet, we don’t have to consume it, cheer it, accept it, tolerate it, obey it, worship it, support it, fund it, or justify it.  We ought only to study it, scientifically and when we do, we may find ourselves in agreement with former Russian President Medvedev, who frequently observes that state leaders – and the states they protect – are fundamentally similar to parasitic worms, blood-sucking ticks, and vermin.  Let there be no failure to communicate this truth, in every way to everyone.  Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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On the 21st of June, a day that will live in infamy, President Trump led the American People to War with Iran. Trump’s message to Americans? Striking Iran’s three nuclear facilities is all that U.S. Forces will do. Unless, of course, the Iranians have the temerity to strike back. In that case Trump promises to destroy Iran. Ridiculous.

Washington has launched its own Pearl Harbor operation.  U.S. Air and Naval Power executed rehearsed strikes against a few “critical” Iranian targets. Then, American Forces pulled back, ostensibly waiting for Tehran to capitulate much like the Japanese in December 1941. Trump’s mindset echoes Israel’s thinking when it attacked Iran last week, but Iran did not collapse after Israel’s surprise attack.

And Tehran won’t capitulate to Washington’s opening moves. Initial assessments of the strikes’ effectiveness suggest nothing of consequence was destroyed. The facilities? Devoid of people. Empty of centrifuges and enriched uranium.  But the lack of damage? That’s not yet relevant. It’s a question no one in Washington cares to answer.

The world now waits for Iran’s response. Tehran’s leaders aren’t reckless or impetuous. Their counter-strike will be deliberate and likely decisive. And make no mistake, Iran will strike back. It will do so in ways Washington doesn’t expect.

Why? Tehran controls the political and moral high ground. Israel violated international law. A program of mass murder in Gaza. Backing the murderous ISIS-led regime in Syria. Killing Christians. Killing other minorities. Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran. These are incontrovertible facts.

Escalation is inevitable, but Iran, not Washington, will control it. Remember the Houthis from Yemen and their war with Saudi Arabia? They struck Saudi oil fields. Repeatedly. Now, Iran has far greater reach. Far more ballistic missiles. Desalination plants. Across the Arabian Gulf are within striking distance of the Houthis. They are also within striking range of Iranian missiles. Millions depend on them for water.

Iran’s parliament just voted to close the Strait of Hormuz. Markets won’t react until Monday morning. But they will panic. Inevitably, oil prices will soar. The financial consequences for Americans? Eventually, devastating. Everyday, one out of every five barrels of oil  flows through the Straits of Hormuz.

Washington spent six months bombing the Houthis. Then, Washington threw in the towel. Walking away from war with Iran won’t be so easy.

Russian Prime Minister Medvedev warned that many countries are now willing to transfer nuclear technology to Iran. Simple rule. Countries with nuclear weapons don’t get bombed. Look at North Korea. Countries without them? They get bombed. Iraq. Libya and, now, Iran prove it. This is the universal lesson for the world beyond America’s borders.

Iran’s parliament voted to close the Straits of Hormuz, but Tehran doesn’t need to formally close the Strait of Hormuz. Shipping companies will do it. If the risk of losing tankers is too great, the insurance companies will insist. The world’s oil supply will slow and the impact on industries that depend on petroleum products will be disastrous.

This is the real “battle damage assessment.” The consequences will be felt for decades. Trump just invited war to America. Now, Americans must prepare for it. Tens of millions of foreigners crossed our borders illegally between  2020 and 2025. Washington is foolish to ignore the high probability that Islamist terror sleeper cells are here. No doubt, the Drug Cartels will be happy to cooperate with them against American Law Enforcement.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor who resisted Hitler’s regime and was eventually executed by the Nazis, said evil carries the germ of its own subversion. But against stupidity, Bonhoeffer warned the well-intentioned are always defenseless.

Bonhoeffer explained why: “Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplishes anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.”

Washington’s ruling political class, not just President Trump, decided to unconditionally support Israel in its war against Iran. Going to war when and where Israel dictates and for reasons Israel decrees is stupid. It’s worse than stupid. It’s stupidity on stilts. Israel’s war for Jewish Supremacy in the Middle East will fail and Washington will now fail with it.  The war against Iran will fail because the war is unjust and the world will ensure that it fails.

Reprinted with Author’s permission from X.

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Just a few weeks ago in this space I urged President Trump to accept a deal with Iran allowing it to continue pursuing civilian nuclear power while ensuring that it would not pursue nuclear weapons. Iran signaled it was ready to sign such a deal, yet suddenly Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff changed the US position to demand no civilian nuclear enrichment at all.

The US Administration understood that Iran could not accept such a demand – that it had that right as a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty – but Witkoff shifted the position anyway. Just days before the sixth round of negotiations were to take place, Israel blew up the whole process by launching a surprise attack on Iran and here we are just over a week later staring right into the face of World War III.

Had the “bait and switch” and subsequent Israeli attack not taken place, we likely would be seeing rapidly improving trade relations with Iran and throughout the region that would have enriched all parties. Peace and prosperity. It would have been a “win-win” for everyone.

But the neocons and their leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, couldn’t stand the prospect of peace breaking out in the region so they dusted off their old lies about “weapons of mass destruction” from the lead up to the Iraq war and soon enough the talks were sunk beneath a barrage of Israeli – and as of this past weekend American – bombs and missiles.

President Trump’s decision to spend untold billions of dollars on what appears to be not much more than a “symbolic” bombing of Iran’s already-vacated nuclear facilities was no doubt made with the intention of making himself look tough. Unfortunately for him, it has had the opposite effect.

He has shown the world that he was no more able to resist the demands of the neocons and warmongers than his predecessors, and in abandoning his promises to be the president that ends wars instead of starting new ones he has also abandoned the most enthusiastic part of his base.

What President Trump does not seem to understand is that true strength is not measured in how many missiles you can send to the “Hitler of the month” as designated by the warmongers. True strength comes from standing up for your stated principles in the face of the enormous pressure that will inevitably be placed on you.

Real strength is strength of character. It often comes from the ability to say “no” when everyone around you demands that you give up a little bit of your principles for promises of riches or glory.

As of this writing, we are standing on the precipice of a major war in the Middle East that threatens to bring in much larger actors such as Russia and China. The neocons, filled with unwarranted vainglory, welcome such a clash because they won’t be doing the fighting and dying. They will be the ones reaping the financial and other rewards. As usual.

Unfortunately, President Trump has severely damaged his credibility by embroiling us in a war that is not our war. He would do well to immediately change course, search for off-ramps, make peace with Iran, and once and for all banish all neocons and warmongers from anywhere near his Administration. Otherwise “MAGA” will go down in history as nothing but a cruel joke.

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Select Background Resources on Israel and the Middle East

The study of the construction of pseudo-secular gnostic religions has been one of the principal obsessions of my life since I first heard Gerhart Niemeyer of Notre Dame lecture on it in 1975 at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Western Summer School at Thomas Aquinas College.

Niemeyer was a keen student of world-renown philosopher Eric Voegelin on these matters, as was Murray Rothbard. I believe understanding this 2000 year battle between orthodox Roman Catholic Christianity and Gnosticism is the ultimate key to unlocking the history of the previous two millennia.

Within the convoluted matrix of this arcane historical wilderness is the search for the ancient origin stories of peoples such as the “Aryans,” “Palestinians” and “the Jews.” Much of this “history” or pseudo-history is very controversial yet intriguing and concerns the ideological roots/origins of Marxism, Fascism, Zionism, National Socialism, Anti-Semitism, Christian Zionism, Palestinian nationalism, Arab Nationalism, and Ba’athism, which continue to impact the geopolitics of the Middle East today.

The Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish Question — Book by Theodor Herzl

The Invention of the Jewish People — Book by Shlomo Sand;

Khazars -Wikipedia

Chazars — The Jewish Encyclopedia

The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage, Book by Arthur Koestler

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East — Book by David Fromkin;

Israel – Birth of a Nation — Documentary

Modern Middle East History in Ten Minutes: Origins of Israel – Palestinian Conflict — Documentary

Alison Weir, Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used To Create Israel;

Ralph Schoenman, The Hidden History of Zionism;

Alfred M. Lilienthal, The Zionist Connection II: What Price Peace?;

Edwin Black, The Transfer Agreement — 25th Anniversary Edition: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine;

Saddam and Third Reich –– Documentary (10 parts)

Lenni Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators;

Lenni Brenner, The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir;

Lenni Brenner, 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With the Nazis;

“Ancient History”: U.S. Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly of Intervention — Sheldon L. Richman article

and John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People.

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Tim McGraw wrote:

California politicians and bureaucrats don’t have the business acumen to run a lemonade stand.

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Tim McGraw wrote:

The US government won’t have to contract out its dungeons and torture chambers to other countries anymore (like Tora Prison in Egypt). The US will have its own dungeons and torture (interrogation) rooms in the new Beirut Embassy. The US government is an evil institution full of evil men and women.

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Just months into his second term, “Peace President” Donald Trump has launched missiles into an Iran that has neither attacked nor threatened to attack the United States. And he has done so with virtually no input from the US Congress. What comes next? Former US diplomat and senior US Senate foreign policy analyst Jim Jatras joins today’s Liberty Report.

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Tim McGraw wrote:

The politicians, bureaucrats, spies, and military inside the Washington, D.C., Beltway live in a Fantasyland. The price of oil and doing business is going up.

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David Martin wrote:

Yep.  Our days of “Dulce et Decorum Est…” are thankfully in the rearview mirror, and we’re getting pretty damned tired of our “Bombs and Propaganda” foreign policy generally.

Brilliant analysis.
Israel is kinda fucked. Last year I said it wouldn’t exist in 10 years. Now I think it won’t be here in 5 years. pic.twitter.com/5DG2t9J1g1

— Kerry Burgess (@KerryBurgess) June 22, 2025

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Thanks, John Frahm. 

Activist Post.

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David Krall wrote:

that Trump is starting to suffer from dementia?  And no one has taken that into consideration?

I knew someone with dementia and it starts out slowly where the person is rational almost all the time,  but slowly the symptoms (such as Trump displays?) start to accumulate.

Just a thought.

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I uploaded this video to X just 2 hours before Trump announced they had just bombed the Fordrow nuclear enrichment facility in Iran

btw yes I realized halfway thru recording this that Top Gun used fighter jets to deliver the bomb rather than stealth bombers but it felt kinda silly to re-record everything at that point… according to the plot the whole point of using the planes they did was to bomb the target stealthily, so… kinda still a stealth bomber if ya think about it…

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In 1998 Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of an aspirin factory in Susan that he lied about calling it a terrorist training camp. He was in the middle of his grand jury testimony regarding the Monica Lewinsky affair. The whole world now knows that he lied.

Last week Netanyahoo went on trial in his corruption and bribery case that is reported to last for about a year. Wag the Dog 2.0?

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da The Epoch Times

(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/non-esiste-il-libero-scambio)

Da quando esiste il commercio dazi, tasse, imposte e quote sono stati applicati in ogni forma e dimensione sulle merci che entravano in un Paese. Alcuni continuano a promuovere l'idea che il libero scambio esista, ma in realtà non è mai esistito.

Un commercio libero ed equo potrebbe essere una visione ideale per cui vale la pena lavorare, ma è risaputo che le nazioni agiscono nel proprio interesse e spesso violano gli accordi commerciali.

Fino agli anni '40 gli Stati Uniti utilizzarono una serie di dazi per accaparrarsi una quota importante del commercio mondiale.

Per decenni gli Stati Uniti hanno contribuito a sovvenzionare gran parte del mondo, sia economicamente sia attraverso il loro ampio sistema di sicurezza.

Questo rientrava in un tentativo di stringere più alleanze globali e di contribuire allo sviluppo economico. Tuttavia molte nazioni finirono per dipendere dalla fortuna americana, pur proteggendo i propri mercati attraverso dazi e altre barriere alle imprese straniere che desideravano competere nei loro mercati. Questo squilibrio è diventato insostenibile.

La minaccia del presidente Donald Trump di imporre dazi su una serie di nazioni è stata attuata per una serie di ragioni.

Trump sta prendendo di mira i più grandi trasgressori delle barriere commerciali, la maggior parte dei quali si trova in Asia. Questi Paesi godono di surplus commerciali grazie ai dazi elevati applicati alle merci importate dall'estero, alla manipolazione monetaria, alle industrie sovvenzionate dallo stato e al dumping di prodotti a basso costo all'estero. Queste azioni distorcono le forze di un mercato libero ed equo.

Al fine di ricalibrare gli scambi e ridurre il nostro deficit commerciale, i dazi reciproci saranno sospesi per 90 giorni per le nazioni che si oppongono al libero scambio ma sono disposte a cambiare rotta. I periodi di incertezza creano oscillazioni di mercato, ma il mercato azionario è spesso guidato da eventi, dal sentiment degli investitori e dalla speculazione. Rappresenta solo aspetti parziali dell'economia complessiva, mentre le piccole imprese costituiscono una parte importante dell'economia.

La finta indignazione che si diffonde da molte capitali per le tattiche “da bullo” americane è ironica, perché per decenni nemici e “amici” hanno già preso di mira i prodotti statunitensi con tasse e sussidi. Alcuni Paesi, come la Cina, vi hanno anche applicato l'imposta sul valore aggiunto (IVA), mentre le loro merci attraversano diversi Paesi prima di arrivare a destinazione. La Cina ha per decenni reso vittime sia i suoi avversari che i suoi alleati di pratiche commerciali sleali.

Per molti anni l'America ha permesso alle nazioni straniere di rovinarci, proteggendo i propri mercati e applicando dazi esorbitanti su specifici prodotti americani. Tuttavia, mentre gli Stati Uniti hanno permesso l'importazione di una serie di prodotti più economici, molte nazioni rendono quasi impossibile alle nostre aziende di penetrare nelle loro economie.

Ciò ha avuto un impatto negativo sui lavoratori americani, nonché sul debito pubblico e dei consumatori. Inoltre molti prodotti provenienti dai Paesi in via di sviluppo non rispettano gli standard di lavoro e i meccanismi di controllo qualità che vengono dati per scontati in Occidente.

Tuttavia potrebbero esserci delle buone notizie all'orizzonte.

Abbiamo un'amministrazione che finalmente è intervenuta per mettere al primo posto l'interesse nazionale, invece di accomodarsi con le nazioni che praticano un commercio predatorio attraverso barriere e livelli osceni di tasse sui prodotti americani.

Minacciare dazi reciproci sui Paesi con dazi elevati può avere una serie di effetti.

• In primo luogo, le nazioni più flessibili saranno ansiose di negoziare per eliminare le proprie barriere commerciali o ridurle, in modo che le catene di approvvigionamento con gli Stati Uniti possano proseguire. Questi eventi stanno iniziando a concretizzarsi, con oltre 70 nazioni disposte a sedersi al tavolo delle trattative.

• In secondo luogo, alcuni Paesi sviluppati saranno aperti alla contrattazione, mentre altri potrebbero reagire con barriere mirate a beni e investimenti americani. La Cina, insieme a diverse nazioni dell'Unione Europea, è la principale responsabile del protezionismo commerciale, pur sostenendo di praticare il libero scambio. Il team di Trump potrebbe costringere gli alleati asiatici ed europei più restii ad abbassare le barriere, altrimenti la nostra presenza militare in termini di sicurezza verrebbe ridotta e loro dovrebbero difendersi da soli dagli avversari.

• In terzo luogo, l'applicazione di dazi doganali elevati alla Cina è probabilmente il primo passo verso un eventuale distacco commerciale dal Paese, con ripercussioni sulla nostra sicurezza nazionale. Gli Stati Uniti hanno bisogno di una leva contro una nazione che corrompe, imbroglia e inganna nell'economia globale. La Cina non ha mai veramente mantenuto le promesse fatte in qualità di beneficiaria del nostro status di “nazione più favorita” e nell'ambito degli accordi dell'Organizzazione mondiale del commercio (OMC).

Le nazioni che rispettano le regole commerciali dell'OMC possono anche iniziare a prendere le distanze dagli scambi con la Cina a favore di mercati più amichevoli e forse raggiungere una maggiore autosufficienza nel settore manifatturiero. Se alcune nazioni tagliassero o eliminassero i dazi e le barriere commerciali, gli Stati Uniti potrebbero sospendere l'applicazione dei dazi nei prossimi mesi. Ciò potrebbe innescare una vera concorrenza, senza distorsioni del mercato. Tuttavia devono essere messi in atto protocolli di “fidarsi ma verificare” per garantire che eventuali barriere e scappatoie non risorgano come una fenice. Di conseguenza, a lungo termine, potrebbe verificarsi un commercio più equo e libero.

Secondo Trump, che spesso cambia idea all'improvviso, gli accordi sono sempre possibili anche con le nazioni recalcitranti.

Se i dazi doganali venissero abbassati in generale e le principali attività manifatturiere potessero ripartire in patria, una prosperità reale diventerebbe molto probabile.

Combinando tutto questo con la deregolamentazione interna, la riduzione del personale pubblico e i tagli fiscali a lungo termine, la crescita economica accelererà. Questo, a sua volta, può aumentare il gettito fiscale, contribuendo a contrastare il debito pubblico e i deficit annuali, e dando inizio alla proverbiale età dell'oro.

[*] traduzione di Francesco Simoncelli: https://www.francescosimoncelli.com/

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Dear All…

Before you dive into this dispatch, let me offer a further moment of candor from the edge of the fireline…

The article that follows isn’t casual commentary.

It’s a spiritual detonation, a mythic decoding, and—for those who can feel it—a field signal from a Sovereign timeline pushing back against deception that has ruled this Earth for far too long.

But make no mistake—this piece will sort you.

You’ll likely fall into one of three categories:

1. Those Who Resonate Instantly

You don’t need convincing.

You’ve seen the cracks, felt the falsehoods, and sensed the dark fingerprints behind major world systems.

To you I say: Welcome, fellow witness.

2. Those Who Feel Something—But Aren’t Sure

You sense a pattern in the madness, but you’re cautious.

To you I say: Perfect. Stay curious.

I urge you: do your own research. Feel into the layers. Look beyond the headlines.

Don’t take my word for it—test the field for yourself.

3. Those Who Think I’m Full of Shit

And that’s fine too.

To you I say: Treat this as a spiritual sci-fi briefing—a high-concept exposé that may read as fiction today… but might prove devastatingly accurate tomorrow.

All I ask, regardless of where you land, is this:

Save this post.

Archive it.

Put it somewhere accessible.

Because IF the wheel turns the way it’s already leaning,

you may want to revisit these warnings.

And when you do, I’ll still be here—standing where I’ve always stood: at the edge of the lie, sounding the alarm.

With clarity, fire, and respect for your discernment,

—Omega-Sam-2 Tier-11 Witness

Uncancellable. Unbought. Unburned.

HIGH-LEVEL TRANSMISSION MEMO

From the Archives of the High Thrones — Tier XI Protocol
Prepared for: Omega-Sam-2
Timestamp: 2025:06:15 :: Epoch Theta

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”
— Jeremiah 17:9

This transmission is a clarion call to sovereigns, sentinels, and seekers alike.

The forces working to fracture humanity’s collective soul are legion — both seen and unseen.
Some walk in flesh; others dwell in shadow realms.
Some wield political power; others animate fear as a spectral contagion.

They are the Architects of Collapse — a constellation of parasitic influences coalescing to rewrite Earth’s operating code.

You are here to unmask, name, and disarm these forces.

DUTCH UNCLE NARRATIVE: Reality’s War is Neither Fair Nor Gentle

Listen well: This is not paranoia. This is not conspiracy theory fodder.
This is spiritual and material warfare playing out on multiple levels.

The world is being pulled toward entropy by design.
The architects want you confused, isolated, and disempowered.

They use distraction, deception, and division as their crowbars.

But here’s the truth that no gatekeeper wants you to see:

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
— James A. Garfield

Your task: Stay miserable long enough to see clearly.

THE 12 MAJOR CATEGORIES OF DARK INFLUENCE AND THEIR SIGNPOSTS

1. Egregores: The Thought-Forms of Collective Shadow

What They Are:
Autonomous psychic constructs fueled by collective fear, belief, and trauma — often worshiped unwittingly. They gain power through repeated emotional investment.

Signposts:

• Repetitive cultural narratives that breed despair or compliance
• Viral social contagions of fear or frenzy
• Secret societies that channel collective energy into control agendas

Countermeasures:

• Conscious disengagement from mass emotional contagions
• Group rituals to cleanse and reorient psychic energy
• Intentional seeding of hope and sovereignty into shared cultural space

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…”
— Romans 12:2

2. Nephilim: The Ancient Hybrids and Their Legacy

What They Are:
Genetic and spiritual hybrids said to be offspring of “fallen angels” and humans — archetypally linked to war, domination, and spiritual oppression.

Signposts:

• Bloodline aristocracies with occulted power
• Occult symbolism in elite rituals and architecture
• Military-industrial complexes with shadow agendas

Countermeasures:

• Bloodline healing work and energetic severing rituals
• Exposure of hidden dynasties and their influence
• Sovereign embodiment practices to break inherited curses

“There were giants in the earth in those days…”
— Genesis 6:4

3. Architects: The Shadow Planners of Global Control

What They Are:
Human or trans-human elites orchestrating societal collapse via technology, finance, and culture — often hiding behind corporate and political facades.

Signposts:

• Overlapping memberships in secretive globalist bodies (WEF, Aspen Institute, Bilderberg)
• Coordinated media narratives and engineered crises
• Accelerated roll-outs of surveillance and social credit systems

Countermeasures:

• Public disclosure campaigns and whistleblower amplification
• Sovereign technological countermeasures (privacy tools, encryption)
• Grassroots rebuilding of resilient, autonomous communities

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”
— Mark 8:36

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Updated Man of La Mancha lyrics could read: “To dream the impossible dream of clean, green, net-zero electricity, to fight the unbeatable foe of manmade climate cataclysms, we must run where the brave dare not go.”

Don Quixote saw windmills as malevolent and dangerous dragons. Spain’s governing classes view them from the Chinese perspective: benevolent and magical dragons.

They’ve erected over 22,000 gigantic windmills, to harness the wind and generate electricity. Portugal has nearly 3,000. Together, when conditions are perfect, they can generate almost 38 gigawatts.

Like Cervantes’ hero, the elites also want “to reach the unreachable star” – or at least capture the energy from one star: the sun. Spain and Portugal together also have 38 GW of photovoltaic solar panels.

However, the Iberian Peninsula neighbors have long ignored the dark sides of the forces they seek to commandeer.

Those wind turbines, solar panels and transmission lines sprawl across some 2,000,000 acres of Spanish and Portuguese vistas, habitats and croplands. That’s equal to Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

They kill eagles, bustards, vultures, and other raptors and birds. Building them requires mining, pollution and child labor on historically unprecedented scales. Solar panels are easily destroyed by storms.

Worst, they provide intermittent, weather-dependent electricity – necessitating expensive backup power and making the electrical grid unstable. Just how unstable was demonstrated recently, and dramatically.

On April 16, for the first time, for a few minutes, Spain generated 100% of its electricity with wind, solar and hydro power.

A fortnight later, on April 28, a prolonged blackout sent Iberia into chaos. Lights, televisions, refrigerators, cell phones and traffic lights went dark. Trains, subways and elevators trapped passengers. Airports canceled flights. Hospital backup power provided only basic and emergency services.

The outage even struck parts of France and Belgium. It was Europe’s biggest blackout ever. If France hadn’t shut off its connection to Spain’s cascading problems, all of Europe could have shut down.

Just a week later, another blackout hit Spain’s Canary Islands.

Power outages are nothing new. But the Spain-Portugal blackouts underscore fundamental problems with the supposedly “inevitable transition” from coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear electricity to wind, solar and battery power.

They show that the only inevitability will be more frequent and severe blackouts – because of our soaring reliance on electricity … political decisions to mothball or destroy reliable generating systems … and ideological commitments to “green” energy.

We’re effectively being told: You’ll have electricity when it’s available – not necessarily when you need it. In this modern technological era, that is absurd, outrageous, intolerable and dangerous.

One fundamental reality must override all other considerations: Modern industrialized societies require enormous quantities of steady, synchronous alternating current, 24/7 – at the precise frequency of 50 Hertz in Europe and 60 Hz in the United States. Without it, life shuts down, societies descend into chaos, and people die.

Frequencies outside 0.2 Hz above or below that frequency can trigger major emergencies. A mere ±0.5 Hz deviation can cause system-wide cascading blackouts.

In Spain’s case, with 80% of its power now coming from renewable sources, the country simply did not have enough reliable, dispatchable, instantly accessible power on hand to keep its grid from collapsing when a power generation glitch happened.

Rice University’s Baker Institute explained how a malfunction at two Spanish solar power plants triggered the widespread chaos.

“At approximately 12:30 pm local time in Spain – just minutes before the grid collapsed – renewable sources accounted for 78% of electricity generation in the Iberian system, with solar alone contributing nearly 60%. By contrast, conventional technologies, such as gas-fired and nuclear power plants, comprised only around 15% of the total generation mix….

“[Then] two consecutive generation loss events occurred in southwestern Spain, likely involving large solar installations…. Given the limited availability of conventional generation, these unexpected losses, combined with reduced support from neighboring systems – the instability triggered a disconnection from the French system – created a “perfect storm” for a massive power outage.

“In just five seconds, Spain lost approximately 15 GW of capacity, equivalent to 60% of its national electricity demand. The remaining generation was insufficient to meet demand, thus triggering a cascading failure across the entire grid. Various generating units were automatically disconnected to protect infrastructure, and nuclear plants were shut down in accordance with safety protocols.”

That’s all it took. In the blink of an eye, the Iberian Peninsula and beyond had a massive blackout.

Unless America’s Net Zero politicians and utility companies wake up to reality, multiple US states – and entire regions – face similar preventable (indeed virtually inevitable) disasters. The same nightmarish realities confront other countries worldwide.

First, because federal, state and local governments have pressured or ordered utility companies to shut down coal, gas, nuclear and even hydro power plants that still have years or decades of operational life. Other utilities have done so voluntarily, to showcase their climate and green energy bona fides.

Second, because the same governments also provide subsidies, loan guarantees, tax breaks, rapid permitting, and exemptions from endangered species and other environmental rules – to incentivize utilities to build more and more wind, solar and battery installations, instead of traditional power plants.

Third, because those same entities demand and often subsidize a steady conversion to electricity from gasoline and natural gas. Vehicles, home and apartment building heating systems, stoves and ovens, water heaters, lawn mowers, leaf blowers and more must be powered by electricity – to save the planet from manmade climate change – even as electricity generation and reliability dwindle.

This shortsighted, ideological, virtue-signaling government intrusion into what should be market-driven, reality-based, reliable-electricity-focused decisions puts our grid, our society and our lives at risk.

Abundant, reliable, affordable electricity is the lifeblood of twenty-first century civilization. Modern industrialized societies simply cannot function, or even survive, if they are forced to rely on land-hungry, expensive, insufficient, intermittent electricity.

And yet, largely because of misplaced climate fears (about human-induced droughts and a “thirstier atmosphere,” for example), $9 trillion has been spent globally over the past decade on wind and solar power, electric vehicles, energy storage, electrified heating and power grid adjustments.

Congress, state governors and legislatures, the Trump Administration, our courts and utility companies need to act quickly and decisively to end this wasteful spending and fix our fragile electricity generating system and grid. The news media and academia must stop parroting “climate crisis” and “renewable energy” talking points, and start presenting the complexities and realities of these issues.

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When Donald Trump ran for president, he made a number of statements that suggested he wanted to curtail our neocon interventionist policy.  But since his election, he has continued to send military aid to the Middle East and to Ukraine, He threatened to drop a “bunker buster” bomb on Iran and called for the citizens of Teheran to evacuate their city. He has also called for the residents of Gaza to move elsewhere. Regardless of your view of these conflicts, one fact is indisputable.  President Trump’s actions violate our traditional non-interventionist foreign policy. Under that policy, America was to remain neutral in all conflicts, except for direct threats to our country. The great historian Ralph Raico explained our traditional foreign policy with unmatched clarity and eloquence in a speech, “The Case for an America First Foreign Policy,” that he delivered at the Future of Freedom Foundation at their conference in Virginia in June 2007. Rather than continue in my own words, here is a substantial part of that speech:

“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. . .My view is that our cause should be anchored in the traditional American policy that served us so well in the first 100 years of our life as a nation, a policy that I will be calling America First. The record is laid out in a schoolbook by the great historian Charles Beard, published in 1940, A Foreign Policy for America. Charles Beard was a professor at Columbia and president of the American Historical Association, considered the dean of American Historians until he concluded and documented that Franklin Roosevelt was not really all that sincere when he told the American people, before Pearl Harbor, that he was working night and day to keep us out of war, whereupon Beard was suddenly demonized by the profession and dismissed as a hopeless nutcase.

This was Beard’s thesis in that small book: In our dealings abroad we should basically follow the guidelines laid out by George Washington in his farewell address to the American people. The great rule of conduct in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, we should have with them as little political connection as possible. This statement by Washington, which we may hear maybe once or twice during this seminar, involves three basic points. First, we should engage in mutually beneficial peaceful commerce with the rest of the world, but forcing nothing, as Washington was careful to add. Second, while trading with them, we should avoid entanglements in the political affairs of other countries and in their quarrels with other nations. Finally, we should always remain strong enough to defend ourselves from attack.

This system was endorsed by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the other Founders. That was no accident. Nonintervention was the natural counterpart to the form of government, the Republic, which they had instituted. The monarchies of Europe were all massive war machines, systematically exploiting the people to finance the never-ending conflicts and to support the military and civilian bureaucracy that those conflicts necessitated. The old monarchies were dedicated to the pomp and glory and power of the state. America would be different: Novus Ordo Seclorum, as you will find still on the back of dollar bills, the new order of the ages.

Here, the rights of the people, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, of all things the pursuit of happiness, that was our mainstay. Government power was to be strictly limited, mainly exercised by the localities and the states. Hence the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which still reads, for all the good it does us, ‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.’ Taxes would be low, and the public debt would soon be liquidated, ensuring that the citizens, citizens not subjects, would not be routinely plundered as was the European and monarchial way.

In order to forestall high taxes, debt, and the centralization of power, there was a crucial precondition, however; we had to steer clear of war. Here is the considered opinion of James Madison: ‘Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instrument for bringing the many into the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive, that is the President and his minions, is extended. No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.’

So the advice of the Founders was this: If you want to preserve the system we had established, keep out of war, except when war is required to defend the United States; avoid political entanglements overseas, since these are likely to lead us into war. And, as Washington also warned in his farewell address, we should treat all foreign nations fairly and equitably, not showing favoritism to any, because, he said, ‘The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.’ You can call this the policy of America First. First it was reiterated by James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, and others throughout the 19th century.

America First in no way meant isolation from the rest of the world. This term ‘isolationism’ has turned into a one-word slam dunk in the hands of the proponents of global meddling. It’s the only thing that most college students, for instance, remember about American diplomatic history, if they remember anything—that in the bad old days we used to be isolationists. But no one was more of a cosmopolitan than Thomas Jefferson. America following Washington, Jefferson, and the others welcomed trade and cultural exchanges with all nations while rejecting political connections. As we abstained from overseas meddling, American civilization flourished, and America became the world’s economic powerhouse.

This noninterventionist America devoted to solving our own problems, and nurturing our own distinctive civilization, soon became Stupor mundi, the Latin phrase ‘wonder of the world.’ Everywhere people struggling for their freedom looked for inspiration and hope to the Great Republic of the West. America served the cause of freedom in the lands across the seas not by sending troops or bombers or foreign aid, but by being, in the words of Henry Clay, ‘a light to all nations,’ a shining example of a happy and prosperous people enjoying their God-given rights and peace. When the French decided to send us a birthday present for our country’s 100th birthday, the statue was named ‘Liberty Enlightening the World.’ That’s the reason that the statue in New York Harbor is carrying a torch. Traditional American policy thought it was none of our business to make any distinction between foreign nations as to their morality, ideology, or provenance. If a regime had the attributes of a state, we could recognize it and deal with it. . .”

That concludes the part of Ralph’s speech that I’m reprinting. I agree entirely with him. Murray Rothbard agreed with him too. We need to return to our traditional foreign policy and abandon power politics. President Trump wants to “Make America Great Again” but we can achieve this goal only through the pursuit of liberty and peace. The Tenth Amendment, which Ralph Raico mentioned, shows that America was originally intended to be a loose confederation of states, with limited power to the federal government. Abraham Lincoln overthrew the Constitution by his invasion of the South, in an effort to turn America in a Great Power, a goal antithetical to our Founding Fathers. Let’s do everything we can to get President Trump to abandon interventionism and to return to our traditional foreign policy.

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