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Trump Voices the ULTIMATE BETRAYAL of an American First Foreign Policy

The Legacy of Carroll Quigley

The Professor and the President

“As a teenager I heard John Kennedy’s summons to citizenship. And as a student at Georgetown, I heard the call clarified by a professor I had named Carroll Quigley, who said America was the greatest country in the history of the world because our people have always believed in two great ideas: first, that tomorrow can be better than today, and second, that each of us has a personal moral responsibility to make it so.”

When Bill Clint...

The Demonization of Shakespeare Is Part of the Demonization of the West

In the United States my generation began reading Shakespeare’s plays in high school.  In universities you encountered Shakespeare in the core curriculum.  When core curriculums were abolished, English majors got further into Shakespeare and studied his sonnets.  It was the work that was admired and studied, not who Shakespeare might really have been. His use of language was studied and what his plays taught about the human condition.  Today if he is studied at all, it is likely to be his alleged...

If We Want Trump To Matter We Need To Do Likewise, If We Want Ron Paul To Matter We Need To Do Likewise

It was 2005-ish when a loved one had me read an article from a man he called “The Honorable Ron Paul.” I had never heard of him. Though I had been involved in local politics, I did not care for politicians at the federal level.

Within three years, I helped organize local groups in support of Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential run, helped organize what was chronologically the first Tea Party gathering of the contemporary Tea Party movement, and then later even moved quite a ways away and upended my lif...

Trump Seeks Russian Support for War on Iran

The readouts from the U.S. and Russian side about yesterday’s phone call between President Trump and President Putin has me concerned about the potential of another war in the Middle East.

The Russian readout has 674 words. It is quite specific about Ukraine issues. There is a two sentences paragraph about the Middle East:

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump also addressed some other international issues, including the situation in the Middle East and in the Red Sea region. Joint efforts will be mad...

Unmasking the Great Avian Influenza Scam

Almost every year, it seems a pandemic is hyped up. I would argue that’s because:

•They give federal agencies (e.g., the CDC) a way to justify their necessity and get Congressional funding.

•The media thrives off of hooking the public through fear and appeasing its sponsors (e.g., the pharmaceutical industry).

•It sustains a biodefense industry that uses fear to get a lot of money (e.g., 27.7 billion dollars in 2023) to “prevent” pandemics.

•Tackling many of the real health issues facing our cou...

2008 Set the Stage for 2025

Last week Peter joined Tom Clougherty, Executive Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, to discuss his unwavering view of free-market economics, the enduring threats from misguided government policies, and the urgent need for economic reform. Throughout the conversation, Peter and Tom highlight the consequences of central bank intervention, the artificial distortion of markets, and the serious risks posed by escalating reliance on speculative assets like cryptocurrencies.

Peter starts b...

Judgepocalypse Now

Impeachment would be too mild for the claque of Woke-activist federal judges attempting to nullify the executive branch with hectoring writs against any and all sorts of executive actions. If simply bounced off their benches, they could just take up new careers as NPR legal commentators or transsexual pole-dancers. Rather, what you’ve got here is an obvious seditious conspiracy, plain for all to see, orchestrated by the same legal Nosferatus as RussiaGate, the 2020 election, and the J-6 witch hu...

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – From the West Down to the East

In this incandescent juncture, what matters is off the record.

Let’s start with that phone call. The Kremlin readout is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage of talking and talking about several interconnected dossiers.

President Putin gave absolutely nothing away. The agreed-upon pause on attacks on energy infrastructure – not energy and (italics mine) infrastr...

Commercial Real Estate Is in Serious Trouble

While the financial press is attempting to cover Trump’s frenetic bipolar tariff policy, the ponderous commercial real estate market continues to deteriorate. Bisnow.com reports, citing CoStar, “US banks reported delinquencies hit 1.57 percent at the end of last year, a rate not seen since the fourth quarter of 2014.”

Putting a number to the percentage, “The 1.57 percent delinquency percentage means more than $47.1B of loans would have been delinquent at the end of the year,” writes Billy Wadsac...

Political Conspiracies and the French Revolution

A few weeks ago I published a long article on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, reviewing the available evidence on that notorious document of the very early twentieth century and attempting to evaluate its credibility and provenance.

My ultimate verdict was rather hum-drum. I concluded that the work was likely fictional, but probably reflected a widespread quiet understanding of the enormous hidden influence of Jewish groups across Europe, whether as bankers, political advisors, or revolutio...