Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 241

For a Libertarian Cancel Culture

On December 1, 2024, Elon Musk decreed: “Cancel culture has been canceled.” Musk had his reasons for saying this. After all the mainstream media, the Deep State, and the Big Tech had tried to cancel Trump in every way, he had just won a landslide victory in the presidential election. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also a target of massive cancellation for years, helped in this Trump victory and was nominated as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Musk himself was also instrumental ...

I’m Gonna MAGA You, Baby

No wonder Trump had to come up with a seductive, but still fraught with danger, larger than life psy op to imperatively change the narrative.

It’s the greatest show on earth – unleashing a double bill of New Paradigm and Manifest Destiny on crack. We are the greatest. We will rock you – in every sense. We will crush you. We will take whatever we want because we can.

And if you wanna walk away from the U.S. dollar, we will destroy you. BRICS, we’re coming to get ya.

Trump 2.0 – a mix of professio...

Trump, Iran and the Obama Strategic Blueprint

In acts of wanton destruction, Netanyahu destroyed the prevailing status quo, which he saw as an American straitjacket

Like a smashed antique clock – with its elaborate cogs, ratchet wheels and innards splayed out from the casing – so the mechanics of the Middle East lie similarly exposed and broken. All the region is in play – Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and Iran.

The original Obama strategic blueprint for containing and balancing the potentially violent energies of West Asia was subse...

Freedom, Creation, and Wildfire…

Resolved: Freedom is prerequisite to the acts of creation and resurrection…

As the first mass medium, print promoted linear thought, reason, individual liberty, freedom, and democracy.

By contrast, electronic mass media promote distraction, limbic reaction, mass conformity (anti-freedom), and state-centric socioeconomic models like fascism, socialism, and communism.

That’s not to say that some people can’t find some measure of individual liberty and reason in digital media. Merely that the inher...

The Trump Regime Is Being Defeated Before It Takes Office

As I have emphasized in the past two days, “the Trump regime will be tamed before it takes office.” 

In the Western World You Become Respectable by Selling Out the People

Trump Regime Already Backing Off on Pardons for January 6 Supporters of Trump

 Now it is Tulsi Gabbard who is finding respectability in order to be confirmed.

“Tulsi Gabbard Says She Now Supports Controversial Surveillance Law.  Gabbard had previously criticized Section 702 as enabling the government to ’trample’ upon civil lib...

Sanctions – Trump’s Only Old/New Iran Policies

I had missed this Friday news item on Iran:

Trump’s Ukraine envoy says world must reinstate ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran

PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) – The world must return to a policy of ‘maximum pressure’ against Iran to turn it into a more democratic country, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg told an Iranian opposition event in Paris on Saturday.

Trump has vowed to return to the policy he pursued in his previous term that sought to wreck Iran’s economy to forc...

The Denouement About the Assad Family

It turns out that both the mainstream and the alternative-news portrayals of the Assad family were wrong. Whereas the mainstream portrayal was lies (such as this and this and this), the alt-news portrayal whited-out the very real evidence (and this, of course, does NOT include any of those U.S.-and-allied faked ‘evidences’) against the Assads.

An example of this white-out is here:

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transcript:

https://www.memri.org/tv/fmr-british-mp-george-galloway-arabs-lost-cause-syrian-girl

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My Cuban Vacation

Cuba was once a famous vacation destination for Americans. Although we can now travel to Cuba, most Americans have been deprived of various forms of trading with the Cuban people. Likewise, Cubans have been deprived of trading with Americans and visiting their American relatives. Does anyone think this situation is good for Americans? Does anyone think this impasse is good for Cubans?

Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.

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California Has Passed Peak Progressivism

As someone who lives in the Los Angeles area, the past few days have been nothing but mind-numbing yet shocking. I can gratefully report that everyone in my family is safe and have not been threatened by the wildfires that have ravaged Pacific Palisades and Altadena.

These wildfires have been called the perfect storm. If one expands the scope beyond the fires themselves and include the luxury beliefs and criminal negligence built into state and local law, policy, and culture that have taken plac...

Leftist German Word Police Announce That a Standard Colloquialism for ‘Ethnic German’ Is Racist, Exclusionary and Antidemocratic

In Germany, we suffer under an annual media ritual in which a “jury” consisting of four linguists and a journalist select an “Unwort des Jahres” – an “Unword of the year” – to condemn as politically incorrect. The entire German press then reprint excerpts of the press release issued by these self-appointed language police, and the Gutmenschen can either pat themselves on the back for never having used that evil word in the first place, or strive like hell to keep it from their lips in the future...