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The Russia–Iran–China Search for a New Global Security Order

The Hegemon has no idea what awaits the Exceptionalist mindset: China has started to decisively stir the civilizational cauldron without bothering about an inevitable array of sanctions coming by early 2025 and/or a possible collapse of the international financial system.

Last week, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his list of delusional US demands was welcomed in Beijing by Foreign Minister Wang Yi and President Xi Jinping as little more than an annoying gnat. Wang, on the record, stre...

Response to Harvard President Garber’s Orders That Protesting Students Be Placed on “Involuntary Leave”

May 7, 2024

Alan M. Garber

Interim President

Harvard University

Dear President Garber,

I wish to respond to the letter that you sent out to all students, faculty, and staff concerning the encampment organized by students in Harvard Yard in protest against the genocide campaign being carried out in Gaza.

As your demands of the students far exceed the authority invested in you as the President of Harvard, and because you focused exclusively on the minor infractions of regulations by the protesters...

America First or Israel First? Ask Trump

The Unitary Executive Theory.  US Constitution, Article 2.   Executive Power shall be vested in the President.   Vested with this authority, the President may execute any federal law by himself.  As long as no part of the Constitution is breached.  Trump would surround himself with a different breed than his first run.   But who are they?   Are they the punishers?   Are the actions of Mike Johnson indicative of what Trump now stands for = pro-Ukraine, pro-Israel, pro-Taiwan?  Will these stances ...

You Don’t Need To Reinvent the Wheel With Gold

On Friday, Peter participated in an exhilarating debate over the merits of gold and Bitcoin. Professor of economics Nouriel Rabini joined Peter to debate Erik Voorhees and Anthony Scaramucci, two proponents of Bitcoin. They cover a lot of ground in their 2+ hour debate, so be sure to watch the full video on Peter’s youtube channel.

Peter and Rabini actually start the debate with a disagreement on “Team Gold.” Rabini is optimistic for the U.S. economy, but Peter explains that we certainly are not...

Ignorance, Its Uses and Nurture

Democracy may not be the silliest idea concocted by man, but for anything larger than a small town, it is crackpot. It consists in the idea that a public, on average knowing almost nothing, can choose leaders in popularity contests among provincial lawyers who know little more and are required to know nothing except how to get elected.

In a democracy, this ignorance is both a protected quality, like motherhood, and a valued resource. By common consent, the ruled do not look too closely at the me...

Opposing Every War But The Current One

In remarks defending the brutal suppression of university demonstrations protesting his genocide in Gaza, President Biden argued that protesting is allowed in the United States so long as it’s polite and doesn’t disrupt anything or upset anybody.

“We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent,” said Biden. “The American people are heard. In fact, peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues.”

“But,” the president contin...

The Beast of Ideology Lifts the Lid on Transformation

The Transformation is accelerating. The harsh, often violent, police repression of student protests across the U.S. and Europe, in wake of the continuing Palestinian massacres, exposes sheer intolerance towards those voicing condemnation against the violence in Gaza.

The category of ‘hate speech’ enacted into law has become so ubiquitous and fluid that criticism of the conduct of Israel’s behaviour in Gaza and the West Bank is now treated as a category of extremism and as a threat to the state. ...

Secession Only for Socialists?

An article published in a local New York news site lays out the result from a recent study which implies that secession for Staten Island is unfeasible because it cannot provide an effective socialist government for it’s residents.

What would seceding from New York City mean for Staten Island? Copious litigation, yawning budget deficits and a scramble to make up for lost economies of scale – building up its own municipal workforce, possibly creating new health care, education and corrections fac...

Antiracists Denounce the Radical Right

Antiracists believe that government should be as big and powerful as possible – how else will it “root out hate” and equalize everyone? Nancy MacLean’s 2017 book Democracy in Chains attempted to take down the1986 Nobel laureate economist James M. Buchanan because she saw his public choice theory as a threat to her conviction that an ever bigger state is the only path to progress.

Statists who place no value on liberty do not accept that anybody else truly values liberty. They see liberty as cove...

Will Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Cost Joe Biden the White House?

Student protests across the United States point to growing disgust among young Americans toward the Biden administration’s “ironclad” support for Israel amid the worst genocide in modern times.

Daniel Lazare is a historian of the U.S. Constitution and politics. He discusses the impact that the relentless violence in the Middle East is having on US politics and the forthcoming presidential election in November. In particular, how the complicity of the U.S. under Biden in the genocide perpetrated...