Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 29

The Roman Emperor/American President Game

Okay, the colonials may have started it, but the Brits already viewed Americans as unruly, ungrateful, and in need of a caning. Even a moderate soul such as Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame denounced them as a “race of convicts, who ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.”

Wow, Brits are known for hypocrisy, understatement, even insincerity, but this was out of character. What really happened was as follows: 2.5 million Americans were doubling in numbers every 25 years...

Orange Keeevvvv

President Trump has just decided to support the little dictator/proxy who runs Ukraine on behalf of America’s “defense” industry and other such interests in the war Trump said he would end if elected.

Of course that was when he was campaigning to get elected. Of a piece – pattern recognition! – with read my lips, no new taxes – for those who recall that one.

Here’s one for the ages:

After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing t...

Whether Charlie Kirk’s Death Could Be America’s Franz Ferdinand Moment

International Man: The official story surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassination has been eclipsed by the flurry of information that something bigger and more nefarious could be at play.

Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and journalist Max Blumenthal have made serious claims about powerful donors who were displeased with Kirk in the days before his death.

What do you make of all this?

Doug Casey: First, let me say that I was only marginally familiar with Charlie before this. I wasn’t his market, and ...

China, As I’ve Seen It

I have been visiting China for the last sixteen years, often multiple times a year, sometimes for extended stays. I’ve traveled through big cities, small towns, and remote villages. Over time, I’ve come to see China not through ideology or media narratives, but through direct experience—what I’ve seen, heard, and felt.

Much of what people in the West believe about China is simply untrue. Here is the China I’ve seen: safer than advertised, brutally efficient, less corrupt than it was, and far mor...

A Nature Above Nature

Symbols are vehicles of understanding, are messengers of meaning, unfold its creativity and beauty. Language and culture incorporate symbols whole and living, or falsified, hollow and dead. A symbol has life insofar as it participates with, gives focus to, the life which stands prior, which breathes into and is ever making whole the creation and commons shared between. While not itself a person such nature stands as a reflection which rightly focused serves to witness relations and intentions, h...

America at the Edge of Awakening: Faith, Disorder, and the Forgiveness That Could Save a Republic

I am writing thousands of miles above the earth, somewhere between Phoenix and home. The hum of the engines is constant, but what reverberates within me is not the altitude, not the passage over desert and plain. What reverberates within me is the quake in America’s soul I witnessed on Sunday. I was there, at the memorial for Charlie Kirk, slain only weeks ago, and it felt less like a service than a convulsion of history.

Over 200,000 people packed into an arena and the surrounding streets—a foo...

The Criminalization of Justice

Michel Chossudovsky of GlobalResearch.ca makes a presentation to the 20 Years Journey in Criminalizing War: What Next? conference in Kuala Lumpur commemorating the 20th anniversary of the signing of the 2005 Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalize War.

He reflects on the lack of progress toward the vision of the criminalization of war and the unfortunate move toward the criminalization of justice that has instead taken place over the last two decades.

Our thanks to James Corbett of The Corbett R...

The Power of Forgiveness

The most powerful public statement of my lifetime—a statement so revolutionary it could transform our society and culture in ways we can’t foresee—was uttered by a grieving widow this past Sunday.

“That young man…I forgive him.”

The widow, of course, was Erika Kirk, the wife of slain Christian activist Charlie Kirk, and the “young man” was his alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson. At a memorial service full of amazing speeches (Secretary of State and Catholic Marco Rubio explaining the Incarnation a...

Texas Bans Gender-Confused People From Using Opposite-Sex Facilities in Public Schools, Prisons

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation on Monday that will require Texas residents to use public bathrooms and changing facilities according to their sex.

“This is just common sense,” said Abbott upon signing the law, which was passed by the Texas House on a 86-45 vote on August 28. It requires Texans to use restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, and shower rooms corresponding to their sex in government-owned buildings, including public schools.

I signed a law banning m...

Are U.S. Attacks on ‘Drug Boats’ a Precursor to Regime Change in Venezuela?

The Trump administration claims its attacks on civilian boats in the Caribbean Sea are intended to stop drug trafficking. But the amount of firepower the United States has sent to the region suggests something much bigger — possibly even an attempt to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

In the last three weeks, the U.S. military, acting under orders from President Donald Trump, has sunk three civilian boats that were traversing the Caribbean after leaving Venezuela. Trump and other adminis...