Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 35

Poland’s Attempt To Blackmail China Will Hurt Itself Most

Over the last decade China developed the longest railway in the world running more than 8,000 miles from the east coast of China to Spain.

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The line crosses China, Russia, Belarus and Poland before splitting up into various European connections.

Over the last year the railway has carried goods between China and Europe at a value of about $25 billion.

The line is now blocked:

Poland’s decision to close its border with Belarus in response to thequadrennial Zapad-2025 military exercises and ...

Why Is Iran Willing To Make an Agreement With the IAEA?

It looks like Donald Trump, with his European lackeys in tow, is telling Egypt to screw off. After painstaking negotiations, Egypt brokered an agreement between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is now known as the Cairo Agreement. This is a technical accord reached on September 9, 2025, in Cairo between Iran and the IAEA, which allows the IAEA to inspect Iranian nuclear facilities.

Here are the main provisions of the Cairo Agreement:

Resumption of Inspections: Iran ...

Pope Leo on LGBTQ: ‘We Have To Change Attitudes Before We Ever Change Doctrine’

Friends, you are not going to believe this.

In this first extended interview he’s just done with Crux Now, Leo XIV has basically said that the Church’s teaching on sexual morality could change. He actually even went there and implied that he could – in his words – “change the Church’s teaching” on women’s ordination.

Take a listen to what he said first on sexual morality. This is what he says after having been talking about LGBT issues for a while:

People want the Church doctrine to change, want...

Massie Accuses Former Banking CEO of Being an Epstein Client; Hints at 19 Others

The current director of the FBI may be taking more bad guys off the streets, but he’s also taking a lot of heat for doing nothing to help expose the powerful people Jeffrey Epstein probably trafficked minors to.

A small number of legislators are trying to fill the gap and do what FBI Director Kash Patel and other law enforcement agencies won’t. Among the most determined is Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky. On Wednesday, during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the FB...

More Turmoil from Washington

It has been another exciting week in and around Washington. The murder of Charlie Kirk has produced speculation that has resulted in all the loonies and haters coming out from their various hidey-holes. This has inevitably included the chorus of knuckleheads that makes up the Donald Trump cabinet. Since Kirk’s death, Republican conservatives have called for a crackdown on the left, though it is by no means clear that any identifiable left-of-center group was in any way implicated in the killing....

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Expands His Rampage Against Free Speech on College Campuses, Using the Murder of Charlie Kirk as an Excuse

Charlie Kirk became well known and helped build his organization Turning Point USA by coming on to college campuses to present views that some students and, often, the people running the colleges did not want aired. In doing so, he helped advance the exercise of free speech at colleges. It was at one of his campus events at which he was discussing and debating issues that Kirk was murdered last week.

If Texas Governor Greg Abbott wanted to honor Kirk, an appropriate action may be to find ways to...

Guess Who Isn’t Having Babies

My friend Matt Ridley today pointed out an interesting demographic fact, and as it happens a fact that Charlie Kirk commented on just weeks before his death: the decline in birth rates seems to be concentrated primarily among progressives, while self-described conservatives have seen a much less significant decline.

We can speculate on why that should be, and obvious explanations appear to present themselves, but this is a fact.

Even so, conservatives’ birth rates still amount to a decline, and ...

The Eccles Building Inflationistas Strike Yet Again

You can bet the 12 purported geniuses on the FOMC, who today came up with a 25 basis point cut in the essentially phony Fed funds rate, have never looked at the graph below. It shows that for all their wild-ass money printing in recent years, the US index of manufacturing output stands at 101.39, which is nearly 5% below the level reached on the eve of the financial crisis in December 2007.

That’s right. The US manufacturing economy has been shrinking in real physical terms for the past 18 years...

Fire With Fire

Here we are, back in the good old US of A, and nothing has changed, or so it seems at first. The war against Christianity continues; the destruction of the family is encouraged by subversives such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the main networks; and the ripping-apart of national identity is ongoing, as is the violence and the tyrannical wokeism in our universities.

The reasons for these disasters are obvious: More than 90 percent of the media—legacy, network, social, and state—is le...

The Twilight of the White Ethnicities

Why Hasn’t Biden prosecutor Jack Smith Been Arrested and Indicted?  The Answer is that Republicans Are Wimps.  They are scared to actually fight.

The Democrats Tried to Indict and to Destroy the Entire Republican Party.

Will the Wimp Republicans do anything about it?  

Scope of FBI probe into Trump revealed:

The Biden-era investigation into alleged 2020 election interference turned out to have been far wider than originally thought…

At least 92 Republican-linked people and organizations were the...