Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 391

Iran – A Mysterious Helicopter Crash or Martyrdom

First, my sincerest condolences and deeply felt sorrow to Ayatollah Khamenei and the people of Iran, for the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and other political personalities killed in a helicopter “accident” on 19 May 2024.

Both President Raisi and Foreign Minister Amirabdollahian were strong supporters and committed defenders of Palestine and of Palestinian rights.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, immediately appointed Mr. Mohammad Mokhber, Iran’s fir...

Put a Chick in It and Make her Gay. And Lame.

I got sucked into The Morning Show on Apple TV, because sometimes I just like to hate-watch. I don’t watch violence anymore or sex, and if anything starts with someone on a toilet, I’m out. This essentially means I watch nothing, except we had a marvellous time with Ted Lasso which made me remember how much I used to love television. Now it’s a wasteland of lizards in skin suits fighting each other. Or disgusting lizards partying in the most disgusting manner possible.

Or stupid women talking, ...

How Many September 11ths Has The United States Caused In Other Nations Since WWII?

The “U.S. government” is comprised of a wide variety of different people, many of which are good and decent human beings. So this obviously does not represent everyone who works in the government. More importantly, this does not represent U.S. citizens either, so please do not fall into the trap of defending the crimes of your government, because you feel yourself personally under attack. Identify yourself with integrity, humanity and Truth, not a criminal government or group.

After the catastro...

Russia and China Have Had Enough

Something very important happened earlier this week in Astana during the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi went straight to the point: he called for SCO members to “maintain their strategic autonomy”, and “never allow external forces” to turn Eurasia into a “geopolitical arena.”

Wang Yi detailed how “a few countries are pursuing hegemony and power, forming small cliques, establishing hidden rule...

Transforming Health — How to Navigate Reductive Stress and the Metabolic Impact of Dietary Fats

In closing, I have other good news. Shortly, I will be sending out invites to train individuals interested in becoming one of my health coaches. My health coaches will be some of the best trained coaches on the planet because they will understand how biology works and how to correct it to optimize health.

Many will apply but only a few will be accepted. Once they are accepted, they will be allowed to enroll in my nutritional biochemistry course at no charge. This course is based on the concepts...

Bing 22 Down

Keeping your brain on its feet requires mental agility in this age of rhetorical Judo. The same editors bleating about “the weaponization of words” place op-eds on the front page. What is found “fit to print” often wears like an Arnold Schwarzenegger suit on Danny DeVito. Algorithms that dole out hits for internet inquiries can land even further from the mark.

It was back in 2009 that Ben Stein called Ron Paul “anti-Semitic.” The thought-crime was questioning the wisdom of US troop presence in S...

Understanding Reason Is Paramount to Understanding Liberty

Some philosophers, drawing upon Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, have questioned the nature and limits of reason. By contrast, human reason plays a central role in libertarian thought. In the ordinary dictionary sense, human reason means simply “the ability of a healthy mind to think and make judgments, especially based on practical facts.”

In Human Action, Ludwig von Mises depicts reason as a universal quality common to all human beings, emphasizing that reason is “the mark that disting...

A Two-State Solution in Palestine-Israel Does Not Challenge the Forces of Imperialism

A two-state solution (that is, having two separate nations) in Palestine-Israel does not challenge the forces of imperialism, but a one-state solution in Palestine-Israel does challenge and threaten the forces of imperialism. The forces of imperialism would include the imperial nations such as the United States, the military-industrial complex, and organizations like NATO and the European Union.    

The United Nations Partition Plan  was proposed in 1947.  “Part I of the plan stipulated that the...

Campus Kids Could Deliver Gaza From the Great & Little Satan

This is not a Whodunit. The serial killers are known to us, are friends of ours, are supported by us. ~ilana

Speech should be free, unfettered and as wild and as wanton as can be. So long as no violence accompanies such speech or behavior; so long as mitts stop at the next man’s face (or at the next mutt’s fury face, Kristi Noem); it’s all speech. ~ilana

American foreign policy is a museum of horrors in which Gaza 2023/2024 is the main exhibit.

It is my conviction that Gaza is much more than ju...

Socialized Medicine and Death

Rick Rozoff recently sent me a message that helps us understand a basic feature of socialized medicine. It is closely associated with death. Socialists complain that the free market makes medical care “too expensive” for the poor and middle class. Because of this, they propose to provide “free” medical care for everybody. Of course, it isn’t free. It’s either paid for by taxes or inflation, which is itself a cruel tax.

But once the “free” care is offered, there is a problem. At a zero, or very l...