Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 421

72 Types of Americans That Are Considered ‘Potential Terrorists’ in Official Government Documents

Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner?  Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order?  Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times”?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are a “potential terrorist” according to official U.S. government documents.

At one time, the term “terrorist” was used very narrowly. The official definition of terrorism ...

Scurvy, Underneath Your Radar Screen

Scurvy is a rather unattractive word. Only the term went away, but this deficiency disease remains today as the most prevalent entry point for a host of chronic conditions. The British Navy “solved” acute scurvy by supplying limes and citrus fruits to sailors whose teeth fell out and otherwise died in agony during long voyages. Other antiscorbutic fruits and vegetables were found and utilized as time went on.  Not learning from the history of earlier remedies, pharmaceutical medicine disavows th...

Austrian Economics and the 19th Century

“The fact is, despite the fact that his standard of living has been slipping over the past 50 years, the average American today lives much better and longer than a king during pre-industrial times.” – Doug Casey.

The Austrian school says a lot about the greatness of the 19th century, but I think its scholars have not written the economic history of it.  I could be wrong and maybe one has and I don’t know it – a book just describing the development of America in the 19th century (how it could hap...

Speaker Johnson’s Ignominious Betrayal

Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely aford, and which actually provide zero beneft to the homeland security of America. And we do mean zero, as in nothing, nichts, nada, nyet and nugatory, as we amplify below.

What Johnson’s impending Waterloo means, therefore, is not merely the prospect of another wild and wooly ...

Israeli/Iranian Military Kabuki

Israel and Iran are staging a Japanese kabuki-style confrontation that borders on the absurd.  So far, it’s been mostly harmless (not counting Gaza of course) but behind the posturing by both sides lies the deadly threat of a possibly nuclear confrontation.

Iran has shown itself to be a military paper tiger.  Tehran launched 300 odd missiles and drones against Israel in retaliation for Israel’s assassination of two senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard generals in Damascus – a clear act of war.

The...

Word of the Day: Performative

The western media are, above all, phraseologists.  Managing massive vertically integrated “states” requires the controlled and targeted use of repetitive government approved language, propaganda, jingoism, repeated phrases to channel thought and energy.

We’ve seen a lot of “performative” progressivism in recent years – Black Lives Matter and reparations from the Civil War, incessant genderology above the fold, Trump Derangement Syndrome, tomato soup weilding environmental activism, and DEI depar...

The Evil of War

On April I, Israel launched an attack on an annex to the Iranian embassy in Damascus. The attack killed a leading Iranian general. In retaliation, Iran launched a missile attack on Israel the following Saturday night, going into Sunday morning. Although the US and Israel shot down most of the missiles, there is reason to think that the attack did more damage than has been reported in the mainstream press. If Israel answers back with another attack, especially a nuclear attack, this could lead to...

How Iran’s ‘Strategic Patience’ Switched to Serious Deterrence

A little over 48 hours before Iran’s aerial message to Israel across the skies of West Asia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov confirmed, on the record, what so far had been, at best, hush-hush diplomatic talk:

The Russian side keeps in contact with Iranian partners on the situation in the Middle East after the Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria.

Ryabkov added, “We stay in constant touch [with Iran]. New in-depth discussions on the whole range of issues related to the ...

Batshit Crazy America

“Look at what all these white patriarchs built. Without pay. In their spare time. Anonymously” — Jordan Peterson on “X”

Before the saints come marching in, the human archetypes strut down the avenue in their revealing regalia. Do you know why the archetypal batshit crazy women of the Democratic Party adore “Joe Biden?” I’ll tell you: because he represents perfectly and exactly the “patriarchy” they revile in his floridly comic senescence. “Joe Biden” is the patriarchy disabled, feeble, feckless,...

The US Doesn’t Support a Two-State Solution, It Just Supports Saying It Does

The US doesn’t support a two-state solution, the US only supports saying the US supports a two-state solution. We know this because the US just vetoed Palestine’s bid to become a full UN member state, after lobbying other countries to vote against the resolution — despite continually saying it supports the foundation of a Palestinian state. Washington’s words say one thing, but its actions say the opposite.

This is because if the US admitted its actual position, it would greatly damage its reput...