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Will President Trump Again Put Turkey — Not America — First?

In his 2017 and 2025 inaugural addresses, President Donald Trump pledged to “Put America first.”

His 2017-2021 term, however, put Turkey and Turkish President Erdogan first. And his second term is looking even worse.

In Trump’s Turkish Problem (2022), I cautioned the would-be candidate to “ditch his Turkish investments, Turkish-tainted cronies, and Turkish fixation … in his and America’s best interests.”

Besides being nakedly corrupt and repressive, Turkey’s rogue regime has cozied up to Moscow ...

Towards a WW III Scenario. The Privatization of Nuclear War.

Introductory Note by Michel Chossudovsky 

At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable – a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread in terms of radioactive fallout Worldwide .

All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped. “Offensive” military actions using nuclear warheads are now described as acts of “self-defense”. 

The  Aug...

Does Anyone Remember the North American Union and the NAFTA Superhighway of the Bush Regime Era of Which Ron Paul Warned Us?

With the dramatic, impactful executive orders and policy statements of the newly installed President Donald Trump regarding international trade, tariffs, and defense of American sovereignty as contingent components of an America First foreign policy of peace and diplomacy based upon a non-interventionist foreign policy structured upon a strong national defense of the political and territorial integrity of the United States, coupled with a policy of strategic disengagement in world affairs. Natio...

Billions in Blood Money

The first piece of legislation that President Trump signed into law is the Laken Riley Act. This law mandates the federal detention of illegal immigrants accused of serious crime. The legislation is named after a Georgia nursing student who was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered by a Venezuelan illegal alien who was previously arrested and paroled into the United States during the Biden administration’s “open border” policies.

It is well-documented that illegal immigration is responsible f...

Trump Bites the Hand that Feeds Us

On his Sunday night broadcast, Peter dove into the fallout from President Trump’s tariff policy, which surprised markets on Friday. Peter explores everything from foreign exchange moves to the tariffs’ impacts on everyday American consumers, using analogies to illustrate how these policies could unravel the American economy.

Peter starts by outlining the global reverberations of these actions, focusing especially on financial markets:

Look at the reaction around the world. First of all, the sto...

How You Know the Tide Is Turning

From the Tom Woods Letter:

My dear friend, I am sure you know the name Bill Kristol: he’s spent decades on all the cable news shows, he was the editor of the Weekly Standard before it folded, and he co-founded the neocon Project for a New American Century.

His predictions are always bad; he’s like the political version of Jim Cramer.

And he never saw a war he didn’t love.

Well, things have started to unravel for poor Bill over the past eight to ten years, to the point that he barely knows what h...

‘This is NPR’: America’s Public Media Faces Reckoning on What it is

“This is NPR.” That tagline has long been used for National Public Radio, but what it is remains remarkably in doubt. NPR remains something of a curiosity. It is a state-subsidized media outlet in a country that rejects state media. It is a site that routinely pitches for its sponsors while insisting that it does not have commercials. That confusion may be on the way to a final resolution after the election. NPR is about to have a reckoning with precisely what it is and what it represents.

While...

25 Years Ago, NATO’s War on Yugoslavia: Kosovo “Freedom Fighters” Financed by Organized Crime

Almost Twenty-five  years ago, marks the  beginning of NATO’s aerial bombardment of Yugoslavia (March 24, 1999- June 10, 1999). The bombings which lasted for almost three months, were followed by the military invasion (under a bogus UN mandate) and illegal occupation of  the province of Kosovo.

21 years later on April 24, 2020, the leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)  Hashim Thaci  who in the wake of the NATO-led war had become “Prime Minister” and subsequently “President” of Kosovo was indi...

Honest AI Reads the Mawson Paper on Autism

Executive summary

An honest AI Chatbot read the latest Mawson study, and concluded that the CDC should warn parents that it’s more likely than not that vaccines cause autism.

And the critiques of the paper are seriously flawed.

The critique

The claim that more office visits—> more autism and it’s the visits that are correlated isn’t true. Lyons-Weiler and Blaylock showed it wasn’t the case. Flora simply wasn’t aware of that paper and failed to cite it as disproving her claims.

Secondly, if peopl...

It’s a Big Club and You Ain’t in It

“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. ...