Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2

We Live Under the Rule of Tyrants Now!

I had my last conversation with my MAGA supporting cousin in November of 2020. Until that point, he had led me to believe he cared for my immigrant family enough that he wouldn’t cast a vote for a lying, treasonous xenophobe who had turned a call for violence into a campaign slogan.

But my cousin had been drinking and he let the truth slip out.

His final, slurred admission made me lose interest in anything he had to say. However, until that point, I’d been trying to understand his perspective.

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Power Play in Kiev and Chaos at the Front

The situation in Ukraine is becoming even more complicate.

The war on the frontline is going bad for Ukraine as is the war on infrastructure deep behind the contact line.

A corruption scandal is used to neuter President Zelenski. New power structures are set to evolve to further the execution of the war. President Trump is attempting to impose another peace effort while Europe finds that it lacks the money to finance Ukraine and the war.

There are at least seven cities which are falling or are d...

Why Are Americans Being Placed Under a Speech Tsar?

President Trump’s alliance with Israel is giving us Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun as  Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.  The Special Envoy’s job is to suppress free speech if it involves criticism of any Israeli policy, including the ongoing genocide of Palestine and its remaining people.  Probably it will be considered anti-semitism to criticize the Trump regime for enabling with money, weapons, and diplomatic protection the genocide.

A Special Envoy is said to be needed because of risin...

Capitalism Is the Best It’s Ever Been!

No no everything’s fine. It’s perfectly normal for people to have 80 hour work weeks while billionaires transform into trillionaires and tech plutocrats feed all our drinking water to AI servers as the planet dies. This is the only system that could possibly work.

No no it’s great. If you can’t afford a house it’s because you’re lazy and entitled. Stop eating fancy fruits and vegetables and sleep in your cubicle. One time I saw a homeless person with a phone. Sell your phone and use the money bu...

‘Trump Corridor’ and the Future of Global Power

International Man: Doug, you recently visited Azerbaijan—a country most people have never heard of, let alone could find on a map.

You’ve spent decades exploring some of the world’s least understood regions. What brought you to Azerbaijan, and how does it compare with other obscure countries you’ve visited for potential opportunity?

Doug Casey: I gave up sport traveling years ago. That’s because the world has become quite homogenized. Tons of bucket-listing tourists everywhere, wearing the same ...

Ukraine’s Days Are Numbered

Like a bad Italian opera, the fat lady is singing from a balcony overlooking a city that is ablaze. Zaporhyzhia, Dneipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Sumy… The Russian ground forces are attacking in all of these locations, which represents about 1,000 miles of territory stretching from Sumy in the north to Zaporhyzhia in the south. Russia is inflicting an average of 1,335 casualties a day on the Ukrainian forces, which translates into 456,695 losses in 2025 as of November 17. That is almo...

The Real Enemy of the U.S. and the World Is the U.S. Empire: Not Russia, China, North Korea, or Iran

“The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington’s global attacks. There had never been an International Communist Conspiracy. The enemy was, and remains, any government or movement, or even individual, that stands in the way of the expansion of the American Empire; by whatever name the US gives to the enemy – communist, rogue state, drug trafficker, terrorist.”

~ William Blum

The real enemy of every American citizen (and all others) is the ruling mas...

Jeffrey Epstein and the Pedophocracy

If you haven’t read it, go online and check out the late, great Dave McGowan’s expose of international child sex trafficking, “The Pedophocracy.” It’s shocking, and exposes our corrupt elite as being the worst kind of sexual deviants. There has been a tragic but undeniable market for children as sex objects, since at least Victorian England.

When we talk about the enigmatic sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, however, it’s not really pedophilia that’s involved. Attraction to teenagers is clinically ...

To What is the U.S. Government Dedicated?

I’ve long thought that Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” which he delivered on November 19, 1863, may be the most succinct and elegant speech ever written. I invariably think about it whenever I’m at a wedding or some other formal occasion and hear a windbag droning on for over five minutes with no structure, theme, or resolution.

Lincoln’s speech is a 272-word masterpiece that he delivered in less than two minutes. It reminds me of Churchill’s remark (if I remember it correctly): “If you want me ...

US Coffee Circle of Bishops Meets in Baltimore

The fall general assembly of the USCCB lumbered into session last week at the Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, as they do each November. The ponderous livestream of bishops, all doing their best to be flavorless, was, to say the least, somnolent. There were approximately two minutes of interest on day two, when Bishop Strickland stood up to make an intervention. He was widely ignored, after which the porridge of officialdom moved on like a slow-moving river around a midstream boulder. It felt l...