Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 72

Netanyahu Defends Gaza City Takeover Amid Global Backlash

Israel’s military has been conducting operations in Gaza for 675 consecutive days since responding to Hamas’ brutal October 7 attack. Yet war fatigue is growing within Israel as international condemnation reached a new high after the security cabinet approved a military takeover of Gaza City.

The plan was approved on Friday. Before that, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had vowed to take over the entire Gaza strip. Nevertheless, the backlash to Friday’s announcement was so intense that by Sunda...

Trying To ‘Notice’ What Is Going On

About eight years from now, after the reelection of President Vance, experts will agree that there was something rotten in the state of Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Always the last to know, the experts will finally “notice” that something has changed in this city on a hill.

Steve Sailer has a book on Noticing. And why not? The most important skill for a human is to notice when things have changed and then to figure out what to do next.

Anyone with half a brain noticed that something had changed ba...

Street Protests Have Already Begun as the Mainstream Media Stirs Up a Backlash to Trump’s D.C. Takeover

The stage is being set for a dramatic showdown on the streets of the largest cities in the United States.  The mainstream media is freaking out about President Trump’s takeover of Washington D.C, and protests have already begun.  Needless to say, Washington D.C. is not friendly territory for Trump.  It has one of the highest concentrations of Democrats of any major city in the nation, and Kamala Harris won 90 percent of the vote in D.C. last November.  So this situation has the potential to get ...

The ‘Economic Power’ Canard

[A selection from Man, Economy and State.]

“Other Forms of Coercion”: Economic Power

A very common criticism of the libertarian position runs as follows: Of course we do not like violence, and libertarians perform a useful service in stressing its dangers. But you are very simpliste because you ignore the other significant forms of coercion exercised in society—private coercive power, apart from the violence wielded by the State or the criminal. The government should stand ready to employ its co...

Trump Extorts Companies To Pay Taxes on Exports

U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs under the false claim that certain trade imbalances with other countries created a national emergency.

This is contested in courts and should have no legal standing. As the U.S. constitution explicitly says:

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, …

Congress has not been asked to and has not consented to the arbitrary tariffs imposed by Trump since he, on April 2, declared his fake ‘Libe...

How the ‘Blood Libel’ Paradox Keeps the West Silent on Israel’s Genocide

The more depraved Israel’s actions, the more antisemitic it is to point out the truth. The painful reality is that, through Israel, the West can dress up boilerplate colonialism as a ‘Jewish’ project

There’s a dangerous paradox that helps to dissuade people, especially public figures, from speaking up even as Israel’s genocide in Gaza grows more horrifying by the day. Let us call it the “blood libel” paradox.

It works like this. In Medieval times, Jews were accused of murdering non-Jews, particu...

Putin-Trump Meeting: What Next Post Alaska, Endgame or PR Event?

Global Research Note 

The proposed location of these negotiations  remains to be confirmed.

Has Putin accepted to enter peace negotiations on American territory rather than in a Third Country?  (M.Ch)

Putin and Trump last week agreed to meet at a location in Alaska. Indications are the meeting will occur as soon as August 15, 2025 or soon after. In other words, in just days. Or perhaps a week or so at most.

If we’re to believe the US media, the meeting is about Trump and Putin negotiating an end...

Money Saving Tips From the Great Depression

The Great Depression was one of the toughest times in United States history. Following a historic collapse of the stock market wages were low, and jobs were tough to find for just about everyone.

However, the saying goes “tough times make tough people”, and the Great Depression was no different. Families, friends, and communities banded together to support one another, and people got savvy with their savings and spending.

To write this article, I spent some time talking with my grandparents who ...

Putin’s Meeting with Trump: The Triumph of Delusion Over Reality

A couple of days ago Trump said it wasn’t worthwhile meeting with Putin, but suddenly ordered his aides to arrange a meeting with Putin in a week. The explanations we have been given for this is that Putin said Trump’s negotiator Witcoff had made an acceptable proposal. Putin’s negotiator Kirill Dmitriev declared “a historic meeting in which dialogue will prevail.”  One dreamer proclaimed that Putin and Trump “may reconfigure the world order.”

These premature declarations of agreement and succes...

Israel Assassinates More Journalists To Hide Its Planned War Crimes

Ahead of a planned Israeli assault on Gaza City which UN officials warn will further exacerbate death and suffering for the Palestinian people, Israel has chosen to assassinate five Al Jazeera journalists who’ve been stationed there. Among those killed was Anas al-Sharif, one of the most high-profile surviving reporters in Gaza.

The IDF is of course claiming that al-Sharif was Hamas, because that’s what they always do. They’ve been murdering a historically unprecedented number of journalists and...