Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 23

Battlefield America: Trump’s War on the Enemy Within—the American People

“The era of the Department of Defense is over… From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting… We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country… You kill people and break things for a living.” — Pete Hegseth

“America is under invasion from within… That’s a war, too. It’s a war from within… We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military… it’s the ene...

American Juncture as Israel’s Eighth Front Ignites

Putin can live with Trump’s ‘Janus schizophrenia’ – as Russian forces advance on all key battle fronts.

The second stage to Trump’s ‘hand-off’ of the Ukraine war to the Europeans was clearly set out in his Truth Social post of 23 September. In the first phase of the hand-over, Trump withdrew from being the primary supplier of armaments to Kiev, and indicated that from now on Europe would have to pay for virtually everything – with weapons purchased from U.S. manufacturers.

Of course, Trump knows...

Fed’s Quiet War Against the Middle Class

International Man: The Federal Reserve recently cut interest rates. What does it signal about the current state of the US economy?

Doug Casey: Let me introduce the subject with a joke.

Einstein dies and goes to heaven. St. Peter greets him effusively and says, “Unfortunately, Mr. Einstein, because we’re a centrally planned economy- for obvious reasons—we have a temporary housing shortage, and have to put you up with three roommates for a while.”

Einstein goes to his new apartment, and the first ...

Generals Gathered in Their Masses…

On Tuesday we observed one of the strangest spectacles of our time. President Trump and his “Secretary of War,” Pete Hegseth, called a mandatory meeting of all the top brass in the US military. Some 800+ general officers, admirals, and the like gathered at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia for a doubleheader talk from Hegseth and Trump.

Because such an event is nearly unprecedented – at least in peacetime – the days leading up to the meeting were increasingly filled with speculation and eve...

The Nick Fuentes Dilemma for Catholics

Nick Fuentes has said things no Catholic should defend. Lines the Church has long drawn, he has crossed. This cannot be excused, and it shouldn’t be erased. But once that is admitted, a harder truth remains: his rise poses questions the faithful can’t shrug away.

At 27, he commands a vast audience. His attachment to Catholic doctrine appears genuine. He defends marriage with conviction, champions family without apology, and pushes back on the cultural war against Christian belief with a bluntnes...

The FBI’s Kirk Investigation Exposes America’s Justice System on the Brink

The ambush murder of Charlie Kirk, the Republican Party’s most charismatic youth influencer, has pushed our divided nation to the brink. In the tragedy’s wake, the picture of what really happened has grown murkier by the day, leaving only one thing clear. The American people cannot trust a compromised FBI to bring this case to justice. Congress must launch an independent investigation immediately.

The FBI’s boast that it captured the suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, in just 33 hours fell flat...

The Trumpanyahu ‘Peace’ Plan

The Trumpanyahu administration is pushing a “peace plan” for Gaza which critics are saying would damn Palestinians to permanent subjugation under the thumb of Israel. The proposed plan would see Gaza supervised by Trump and by war criminal Tony Blair, and Netanyahu is already saying that the deal will allow the IDF to remain in the Palestinian territory indefinitely.

The last time the US brokered a “peace plan” between Israel and Hamas, the US and Israel torched it in a few weeks, laid siege to ...

Ending the War on Warriors

If you missed the Secretary of War’s speech, here it is:

Long overdue.

The Democrats’ DEI policy was designed to destroy the military.  Had Hegseth waited any longer, there would have been no institutional base left for a real military.

My concern is whether the assumption or pretense that we have enemies, such as China and Russia, that need “containing” is cover for the neoconservative policy of American Hegemony in the service of Israel. Are we building a capable war-fighting military for our...

Guns of October

Once again, it feels as if we’re tiptoeing toward an official war between the United States and Russia — as opposed to the proxy war that has endured for three and half years between Russia and NATO-backed Ukraine.

Although President Trump has downplayed the “rare and urgent” meeting of top military commanders from around the world at Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday, the event has generated intense speculation.  The Pentagon says that secretary of War Hegseth merely wants to deliver a speech on t...

Schumpeter Explains the Origins of the Modern Tax State

The extraction of resources from the domestic population has always been a crucial and central function of every state, whether it’s the United States, Russia, or Argentina. In the modern world all states at least attempt to impose a mixture of excise taxes, income taxes, import taxes, or a variety of similar taxes. Most states with a reasonable level of state capacity are able to successfully impose and enforce these taxes.

States that are able to impose taxes in this manner are what Joseph Sch...