Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 367

Electing the Next Dictator: Ugly Truths You Won’t Hear from Trump or Biden

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell

No matter what carefully crafted sound bites and political spin get trotted out by Joe Biden and Donald Trump in advance of the 2024 presidential election, you can rest assured that none of the problems that continue to undermine our freedoms will be addressed in any credible, helpful way by either candidate, despite the dire state of our nation.

Certainly not if doing so might jeop...

Is Ukraine Aid Good for America?

Before the most recent vote in Congress for more U.S. aid to Ukraine, Marisa Herman, a Newsmax senior reporter, argued her case for more aid in “10 Reasons Ukraine Aid Is Good for America.”

Here are her “10 key reasons experts say U.S. support for Ukraine should be continued”:

Putin’s aggression must be stopped.Putin’s atrocities need a response.Russia is targeting evangelical Christians for persecution.Ukraine wants only to regain its sovereign territory.Russia has not “won” the war.Russi...

Sticks and Stones and Verbal Drones

We all know that political discourse in this collapsing country has sunk to an all time low. When Donald Trump addressed the “rumors” about his small hands indicating that something else was small, during a presidential debate, you knew it was over. And the subject was brought up by “Little” Marco Rubio, his possible running mate.

Trump specializes in devising juvenile names for his enemies. “Crooked Hillary.” You know, the Deep State queen that his justice department refused to prosecute. “Lyin...

The Ever Widening War

I have learned from Gilbert Doctorow that there is discussion in Russia about inviting North Korean troops to enter the conflict in Ukraine in the event NATO troops are sent. The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership recently signed by Russia and North Korea allows for this.

This would further widen the conflict. Would Chinese troops be next?

I do not believe American and European soldiers would fare well against Russians and North Koreans or Chinese. What would the Americans and Europeans be figh...

IDF Calls War With Lebanon – Pentagon Sends Ukraine Patriot Systems

President Trump continues to attempt to plug the hole that AIPAC and Israel created in the Zion Dyke.   To no avail.  His latest comment was to tell us we just need to be friends and let go of any misunderstandings…  “Republicans’ Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton just want to wipe Palestinians off the face of the earth.   The progressive Democrats are siding with the AIPAC Republicans and the liberal Democrats are siding with Libertarians.  A Farking MESS!

With two solid AIPAC candidates running for Pres...

Gallup Global Survey Finds 77% Disengaged From Their Work, 58% Struggling, and 41% Stressed

On June 12th, Gallup published its 2024 edition of their “State of the Global Workplace: The Voice of the World’s Employees.”

Headlining “5. What Is the Landscape of the World’s Workplace?” their more than 140-nation-surveys report that, to the question “Did you experience the following feelings A LOT OF THE DAY yesterday? How about stress?”, 41% of respondents said Yes.

Gallup’s figures for “Struggling” and for “Engaged in their work” were each calculated from the respondent’s answers to a grou...

What’s the Government Hiding From the Public

Human society is on track for a collapse in the next two decades if there isn’t a serious shift in global priorities, according to a new reassessment of a 1970s report, Vice reported

It sounds like something out of a Cold War era movie. Boxes of medical supplies stacked high in government warehouses to help citizens in the event of a public health emergency.

However, this huge stockpile is very real. It is called the Strategic National Stockpile, and “Once Federal and local authorities agree tha...

Here It Comes

“Leftism might actually be noble if their concern for the marginalized wasn’t simply an incidental externality to their seething hatred of the normal and the good.” —David Pivtorak on “X”

Did you entertain feelings of doom during last week’s brain-withering heat-wave? The sheer anxious waiting and wishing for it to end was a nice analog to the stifling psycho-political miasma oppressing this nation — alternately known as the republic (for which we stand) and “our democracy,” as “Joe Biden” likes...

Putin’s ‘War’ To Re-Shape the American Zeitgeist

It is only by understanding and taking the Russian nuclear warnings seriously that we may exclude the risk of nuclear weapons coming into play.

The G7 and the subsequent Swiss ‘Bürgenstock Conference’ can – in retrospect – be understood as preparation for a prolonged Ukraine war. The three centrepiece announcements emerging from the G7 – the 10 year Ukraine security pact; the $50 ‘billion Ukraine loan’; and the seizing of interest on Russian frozen funds – make the point. The war is about to esc...

JFK, LBJ, and Our Great National Shame

Back in 2019 a prominent public figure—whose name is widely known—came to Palo Alto to have a private dinner with me. Apparently he’d become aware of my controversial writings the previous year on the JFK Assassination and in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein revelations, he’d concluded I was probably correct that Israel and its Mossad had likely been heavily responsible for the death of our 35th president. As we discussed the issue that evening, I endorsed elements of his reasoning and explained ...