Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 17

What Pete Hegseth Should Have Said About the Military

On the last day of September, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned about 800 generals, admirals, commanders, officers, and senior enlisted leaders of the U.S. military from around the world to a meeting at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.

“Good morning and welcome to the War Department because the era of the Department of Defense is over,” began Hegseth.

I’ve got news for Secretary Hegseth, there never was an era of the Department of Defense. The DOD was formed by the National Secur...

This American Moment: Cowardice Masked by Optimism

The Spectacle of Cowardice

The memorial service for Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, had hit the maximum capacity of its facility after 200k people had turned up. Members of the Trump administration, including President Trump himself, gave speeches dedicated to Charlie Kirk and his life’s mission at Turning Point USA. His wife, Erika Kirk, had given an emotional speech forgiving the killer, saying that her husband always wanted to save young men, young men such as his killer. This is all well...

Is Trump Preparing for the Next Civil War, or Already Fighting It?

The US – that powerful nation standing for peace, self-determination and liberty – as Charles Hugh Smith discusses, is a spectacle, an artifice, a lie.  Smith refers to Guy Debord’s 1967 book, and Debord’s subsequent Comments on the Society of the Spectacle.

Debord seems to have completely anticipated my life as a child of the Cold War and adult participant in the rise of the executive warfare state. What’s more, he explained it:

The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of the integ...

72% of Americans Are Worried About a Recession Happening Within the Next Year

Today, millions of Americans say that they believe that the United States is on the verge of a major economic collapse and will soon be entering another Great Depression. But only a small percentage of those same people are prepared for that to happen. The sad truth is that the vast majority of Americans would last little more than a month on what they have stored up in their homes. Most of us are so used to running out to the supermarket or to Wal-Mart for whatever we need that we never even st...

Inflection Point: US Government Shutdown and Strange Economic Signals

This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group

The US economy has been experiencing what I would call a form of “stasis” for the last year; it’s floating in the deep ocean, waiting for a catalyst. Either it finds dry land soon, or another anchor is added and it sinks into the abyss.

In my article “Trump’s Return: Get Ready For Chaos To Be Unleashed And Blamed On You”, published in July of 2024, I predicted that Biden would step out of the presidential race...

Can War Be Evaded?

Charlie Kirk’s wife says she is going to continue Charlie’s work.  I hope she can.  The trouble is that within a few days of Charlie’s death, Israel had taken over Charlie’s organization.  At the 12:22 mark Nima shows a video of Charlie’s successors: 

Israel is the most likely candidate to be responsible for Kirk’s assassination. Kirk was leading the younger American generation away from the typical American response that everything Israel does is justified.

Kirk was being funded by the Jews, b...

Ukrainian Media About Gaps in the Frontline and Other Failures

The Ukrainian news-outlet Ukrainska Pravda has a new report about the state of the Ukrainian forces at the frontline. The Russian forces are winning the war bit by bit while the Ukrainian army is in constant retreat. The report is discussing several issues which prevent the Ukrainians from holding the line.

While most of UP’s pieces are published in Russian/Ukrainian and English this one has yet to receive a translation. Below   summaries and excerpts of it (edited machine translation):

The hole...

The Netherlands & Belgium Will Play Crucial Roles In Containing Russia

The “race of logistics” between Russia and NATO, which is presently unfolding in the context of their proxy war in Ukraine, will continue even after the conflict ends.

Britain, France, Germany, and Poland are usually the first countries to come to mind among those who discuss NATO’s containment of Russia, but the Netherlands and Belgium are quickly becoming important too. Rotterdam Port’s chief executive told the Financial Times in mid-summer that space will be reserved for ships carrying milita...

America’s Democratic Tyranny

Throughout history, there have been tyrannies that have been imposed on the citizenry through non-democratic means. Monarchies have been one example. Another example have been communist regimes in the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, and Cuba. Still other examples have been U.S.-supported national-security-state coups in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile.

What many Americans fail to realize, however, is that it is entirely possible to have tyranny with a democratically elected system. The common minds...

14 of the World’s 15 Richest Individuals Are Americans.

As-of 6 October 2025, 14 of the world’s richest 15 people are Americans, and, all together, they own $2.844T, which is 94% of the $3.025T that all 15 of the world’s richest own.

This is according to the published figures from Bloomberg, which hide the wealth of the world’s richest individuals. But it does make clear that America is leading the world in the production and/or importation of billionaires. However, neither Bloomberg nor Forbes list the wealth of heads-of-state. At least one of these...