Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog

Is Too Late to Establish a Department of Peace?

Our waning and wanton superpower wields the world’s most expensive military, with the most expensive armaments. Washington, DC’s privilege, emerging technology, and newly assumed mantle of global mightiness fused like a bad weld in the 1947 National Security Act, producing a unleashable CIA and an unbounded and unhinged Department of Defense.

It is right and proper that this permanent military bureaucracy be known as the Department of War. Everyone on the planet recognizes that it has not conduc...

Partisan Democrats Even Oppose Efforts To End War in Ukraine

The Democrats are so partisan now and so eager to criticize President Trump on anything he does that they are even attacking him for entering into peace negotiations with Vladimir Putin.

They are so desperate that they are even attacking him on things they used to favor, such as being tough on trade and trying to bring more jobs back to the U.S.

The war between Russia and Ukraine never would have happened and could have easily been avoided if we had stuck by previous commitments by President Tru...

On Applying the First Principle

The Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), who was praised by Pope John Paul II for establishing “a fruitful relationship between philosophy and the word of God” and who, in his epic work Russia and the Universal Church displayed an unequivocal profession of faith in the Catholic doctrine of the Roman primacy, said:

Christianity, if we really accept it as an absolute truth, must be put into practice in all affairs and relationships of life. There cannot be two supreme principles of l...

Avoiding the Privacy Apocalypse

Most of the preppers were thinking they finally are getting a leg up on being ready for the imminent concerns with our dangerously fragile economy, and everything else. But the incredibly grim news is that all the preparation will mean nothing if the government does not allow you to reap the benefits of all your hard work and sacrifice.

The beginning of the end of one of our most precious liberties–the right to our physical privacy, and all that goes with it–is set to go into effect throughout t...

Semantics vs. Slavery

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” –Philip K. Dick

“Oregon discovered that Harley, a drug sniffing pot-bellied pig, was very effective both at finding drugs and at getting school children to pay attention to anti-drug messages. But when they tried to get funds from a federal program to train drug sniffing dogs to train other pigs and share their success, the bur...

Bring Back Asylums

It was the senseless wicked shooting at the Minneapolis church the other day that finally made me decide that mental illness had become such a malevolent and pernicious evil  in American society that vast new unprecedented measures had to be taken at once to build up a mental health system as pervasive and powerful as the one for physical health.

Mental illness lies behind school  shootings, domestic violence,  opioid addictions, homeless camps, most suicides (especially among youths), Covid-tri...

The Banking Elites Are Preparing to Introduction of a Single “World Currency”

The idea the world would be better served with a single “World Currency” has been growing and looms as a real possibility in the near future. Many people see this as a major part of the “endgame” or something that will constitute a needed reset to a global economy and financial system that has gone off track. Throughout history, before an economic collapse, the masses and society tend to believe things are financially stable. Only after the economy goes over the edge of an abyss and is in free-f...

Donald Trump Is a Putz!

“Putz —A jerk, or a self-made fool, but this word literally means penis.”

One of Claude Monet’s most famous paintings is called Impressionism, Sunrise (1872), depicting the port of Le Harve. Perhaps it is enigmatic to declare that this painting reminds me of the US Congress. I will explain. The lines between water, land, sky, people and boats are all blurred. There is very little to distinguish the various blobs. Only the sun rising above the horizon is clearly visible and is distinguished by i...

RFK Needs Your Help and America Needs Your Help

One year ago, Robert Kennedy, a left-leaning, life-long Democrat, gave the most important political speech of the decade. He put his pride aside, he put his own presidential campaign aside, and he said he would support Donald Trump as the 47th President. Kennedy is an alpha male. Trump is an alpha male. It was a shock for me to see Kennedy give the speech he did, because it meant that he would be tying his future to the, at times difficult-to-work-with, Donald Trump.

Would a long-term relationsh...

Why the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Is Fundamental

As libertarians, we believe that people have the right of self-ownership and property. If we have these rights, it’s obvious that we have the right to defend these rights by using force against attempts to take them away from us. As the great Murray Rothbard says in The Ethics of Liberty: “If, as libertarians believe, every individual has the right to own his person and property, it then follows that he has the right to employ violence to defend himself against the violence of criminal aggressor...