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Trump Threatens To Bomb Iran to Smithereens for ‘Playing by the Rules’

“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.” President Donald Trump, NBC News Interview, March 30, 2025

President Donald Trump is threatening to launch air strikes on Iran for activities that are approved under the terms of Iran’s treaty obligations. This is not a matter on which there should be any debate. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) explicitly grants all parties, including Iran, the “inal...

Democracy Is the Ideal Distraction

In the days of yore, there were kings. Everybody could agree to hate the king because he was rich and well-fed, when most of his minions were not.

Then, a more effective system was invented: democracy. Its originators had in mind a system whereby the populace could choose their leader from amongst themselves – thereby gaining a leader who understood them and represented them.

In short order, those amongst the populace who wished to rule found a way to game the new system in a way that would allo...

How Marxists Erase Human Will and Agency

As the language of Marxism becomes increasingly disguised in moralistic slogans such as “social justice” and “inclusiveness,” many people fail to recognize Marxist theories when they encounter them. They expect theories derived from Marxism to be littered with red flag phrases like “dialectical materialism” or “class conflict,” which would be the dead giveaway that they are dealing with Marxist interpretations. In the absence of such phrases, they deny that social justice theories are Marxist at...

Whatever Happened to the Holy Ghost?

Translation is a tricky thing, especially if you’re translating a word that has a seemingly direct equivalent in English. Sometimes the equivalent translation fits, sometimes it doesn’t. Often, it’s a mixed bag. That brings me to the Third Person of the Trinity.

I don’t know when and why the Latin phrase Sanctus Spiritus switched from being translated as “Holy Ghost” to “Holy Spirit.” I can understand the translation of “spirit.” You can see it in the word spiritus, and it is sensible to modern ...

Donald Trump Decouples the United States From the European Union

Contrary to what we thought in 1991, the fall of the “American Empire” will not resemble that of the USSR. Washington’s Western European allies intend to perpetuate it, with or without their leader. It follows that President Donald Trump will abandon them in the cold.
After decoupling the United States from the “revisionist Zionists” in power in Israel, President Trump is decoupling it from NATO and the European Union: he no longer wants his country to have anything to do with the “American Empir...

Can Trump and Musk Make Up?

Last week’s dramatic blowout between President Trump and his one-time top collaborator Elon Musk was shocking yet predictable. According to media reports, a cold war had been brewing between Musk’s people and Trump’s appointees and it was bound to break out into the open. It was only a matter of time.

On the campaign trail, Musk provided much energy and helped ramp up enthusiasm for Donald Trump. His support for Trump made him a lightning rod for Trump-haters and he saw his personal wealth take ...

The Camp of the Saints

I have never understood why rioters, protestors, whatever you want to call them, burn people’s cars.  Insurance seldom covers  such events.  Violent protests harm innocents.

I also don’t understand why the National Guard is called out as they are not permitted to use their weapons.  Try to imagine the National Guard using deadly force to break up looting and burning of property.  In America the defense of property and livelihood plays second fiddle to the lives of criminals.  Property can be pro...

The Truth About Salt

In this article, I will focus on one my major frustrations with the medical system—the war against salt.

Note: the war against salt began in 1977 when a Senate Committee published dietary guidelines arguing for reduced sodium consumption despite the existing evidence not supporting this. Since then, like many other bad policies, it has developed an nearly unstoppable inertia of its own.

Is Salt Bad For You?

Many people you ask, particularly those in the medical field will tell you salt is bad, a...

Globalists Go Radio Silent as NATO Flirts With World War III

Where have all the globalists gone? Yes, unfortunately they’re still out there free when they should be rotting in a frozen gulag or fertilizing an unmarked field somewhere.  I get that.  However, if you’ve been tracking the elitist cabal as long as I have you might have noticed a sudden and abrupt shift in public activity among the most prominent globalist institutions.

From at least 2019 onward the mask had come completely off. The elites were flooding western media with woke propaganda throug...

The Silence of the Bears

The silence of the bears will soon be ended and we will know more about Russian resolve.

Russia’s leadership is in ‘conclave’ determining its riposte.

Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days, Ukraine and its facilitators attempted a massive attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber-force; succeeded in collapsing two bridges onto civilian trains heading to Moscow; attacking the Kerch Bridge; and assassinating a Russian general via explosive body bomb.

As Clausewitz n...