Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 25

Learning From Ants

“If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen. However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other. The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. This is exactly what’s happening in society today. The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who...

Murderers for Trump

President Trump has said on several occasions that he supports the death penalty for drug dealers. His recent actions show that the death penalty he seeks is not the result of an arrest, prosecution, trial, conviction, and sentencing. He prefers the death penalty by extrajudicial murder.

Back in 2018, Trump said during a phone call with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte: “I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem. Many countries have t...

The Way Home

How do you find your way home when you’re lost and far away? Where do you start? In wilderness survival training, it’s “head downhill.” That will bring you to water, and water will bring you to civilization.

Let’s look at the last two weeks:

Charlie Kirk’s assassination.Bombing alleged fentanyl boats heading to the US.Copycat (from Kirk’s assassin, bullet writing) shootings at ICE.Acetaminophen (in some 500 brands, most prominently Tylenol) links to autism.National Guard deployed to cities ...

The Normalization of Assassination

The news has been filled with reports of assassinations, attempted assassinations, and shootings targeted against law enforcement. The spate of political violence has seriously eroded America’s legitimacy as a moral and decent state. How did we get here?

U.S. state violence on the world stage may help explain the rise of political violence here at home.

The idea of political assassination gained traction with the U.S. intelligence services during World War II, which was viewed (somewhat understa...

Trump to Europe: ‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’

On 25 September 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly. At one point he warned Germany about its plans for Nord Stream 2, which he said would make the country “totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) and Permanent U.N. Representative Christoph Heusgen laughed in his face.

These clowns thought they had it all figured out back then. We would build a lot o...

Presidents Have Little Control Over Their Governments

The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a wake-up call for President John F. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.  Both leaders realized that the military competition between the two nuclear powers could end in the annihilation of both countries.

The table was set for ending the dangerous and unpredictable Cold War.  The Soviet Communist Party and the Russian people had had enough of a government in which not ev...

The Single Dumbest Conspiracy Theory in the Entire World

The single dumbest conspiracy theory in the entire world is that every major humanitarian institution on earth is conspiring to falsely frame Israel for the crime of genocide.

And yet believing this bat shit insane conspiracy theory is the only way to think it’s not a genocide. There is no other way to claim that there is no genocide happening in Gaza without treating this self-evidently ridiculous theory as true.

In order to believe that there is no genocide in Gaza, you need to accept it as a ...

Moldova’s Pro-EU Party Wins Vote Due To Manipulation and EU Interference

Sunday election in Moldova was probably the most manipulated one I have ever seen. And no, that is not because of the alleged Russian interference the BBC is sputtering about:

Moldova’s pro-EU party wins vote mired in claims of Russian interference

The pro-European party of Moldovan President Maia Sandu has claimed victory and a new majority in parliament in Sunday’s elections seen as critical for her country’s future path to the EU.

Sandu had warned of “massive Russian interference” after votin...

Can This Nation Be Saved?

How does America survive when its citizens belong to two divided camps that believe fundamentally incompatible things?

Over the last century, there has been a trend to establish “truth and reconciliation commissions” in countries emerging from periods of political terrorism, totalitarianism, or civil war.  The idea is to acknowledge the crimes and atrocities that past governments officially sanctioned and to recognize the harms inflicted upon their victims.  As is often the case when governments...

Charlie Kirk: Curiouser and Curiouser

I don’t know how long this Charlie Kirk thing will last. It’s already been two weeks, which is a very long time in the short attention span of America 2.0. The event itself has been ignored by professional “journalists.” Maybe the Right will succeed in getting a school named after him. But the many anomalies will never be explained.

As always, the official narrative of the incident doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Any scrutiny at all. This is why there is so little focus on the actual shooting. Thes...