Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 101

I Love America

We bombed Iran and, despite a temporary cessation of hostilities, it’s likely that President Donald Trump and his counterpart in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, intend to drag the United States into yet another destabilizing effort in the Middle East, perhaps the most dangerous one yet. As an Iranian American, I feel as if my greatest fears are now being realized.

Like many Iranian Americans, I love this country and the many blessings that it’s provided my family — so much so that I...

Evangelical Support for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Includes Its Attack Against the Last Entirely Christian Town in Palestine

The good news is that tons of people—especially under the age of 50—are awakening to the hellish barbarism being committed by the Israelis against the Palestinian people. Count Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon—and even Piers Morgan (can you believe it?)—in the list of the enlightened.

The bad news is that protestant evangelicals remain in a deep state of denial. This is due, of course, to the preponderance of the false prophecy doctrines of Scofield Dispensationalism among most evange...

The Trump-led Republican Party Is Crashing Into a Wall, Which Will Probably End That Party.

The failure of the Republican Party is now so obvious that all intelligent analysts see it as disastrously harming not only the American people but publics throughout the world. The key reasons why I say this have already been stated by others, and here they are; I think they made the case very well:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/07/trump-caves-again-over-tariffs-uncertainty-increases.html

https://archive.ph/P8BmL

July 07, 2025

“Trump Caves Again Over Tariffs – Uncertainty Increases”

On Apr...

Thoughts About the Mass for Care of Creation

The Vatican, on July 3, approved a new votive Mass “for care of creation” which Pope Leo XIV celebrated for the first time on July 9. A follow-on from the Francis pontificate promulgated to mark the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’, the new votive Mass has elicited a variety of contradictory responses. I’ll weigh in: I think it is balanced in the middle, and in medio stat virtus. It’s in the middle because it avoids two extremes: the Scylla of secular environmentalism and the Charybdis of disrega...

President Franklin Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the New Deal

FDR as Our Greatest Twentieth Century President

A few weeks ago I’d published an article on Father Charles Coughlin, the notorious radio priest of the 1930s, and my extensive reading revealed that he had been a far more formidable figure than I’d ever realized.

Although he was relegated to just a sentence or two in my introductory history textbooks, Coughlin had pioneered political commentary in the new medium of radio broadcasting, and partly as a result he had amassed an astonishing audience o...

Why BlackRock Suddenly Gave Up on the Neo-Nazi Junta

When the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict started in 2014, American and multinational conglomerates rushed to ensure they got their “piece of the pie” in the unfortunate country. In around a decade or so, the Kiev regime changed laws and enabled the total or near-total takeover of every remotely valuable asset built by generations in the Soviet Union. While the socialist superstate certainly had its flaws, the legacy it left in former Ukraine has never been matched by any government since th...

Globalism Destroyed American Jobs

For many years I reported monthly on the jobs reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Over the years the new jobs were consistently in health and social assistance, waitresses and bartenders, and government employment.  

Manufacturing jobs making things that could be exported to pay for imports simply were not present.

I emphasized that the jobs offshoring policy associated with globalism was de-industrializing the United States and destroying the middle class and the ladders of upward mob...

Turning a Blind Eye

While New Yorkers are obsessing over the possibility of a socialist Muslim becoming mayor of their town this autumn, I have yet to read or hear anything about the Palestinian woman doctor who is still operating on the wounded and dying while nine—yes, nine—of her children were killed after an Israeli bombing attack. I suppose if I go on I will be accused of anti-Semitism, such is the grip the neocons and the Israeli lobby have on the good old US of A. A recent know-nothing called Hammer, who wor...

When Fate Knocks at the Door, Take It by the Throat

It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged furiously, the lightning, thunder, rain, and wind locking us in and away from the world. No one expected it to be this bad. The dogs howled like wolves.

At most they said it would hinder us, and we, wanting to believe the experts who daily warn of something to fear – overripe bananas, marginal risks of severe weather, squirrel flu, spiders in tight pants, the wrong mascara, fear of fal...

Are Weight Loss Drugs Worth the Costs and Risks?

Helping people with eating disorders is a laudable goal, but there remain unknown health risks associated with a clutch of new weight loss drugs – and significant costs.

Ozempic was developed initially (and FDA-approved in 2005) for the treatment of life-threatening diabetes. Wegovy was approved by the FDA on March 8, 2024, to treat obese or “overweight” patients. Both use the same medication, glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) agonists, but differ in dosage. Medicaid and Medicare are more likely to ...