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‘No Enrichment Means No Deal’

We have one very, very clear red line, and that is enrichment. We cannot allow even 1% of an enrichment capability,” Steve Witkoff, U.S. Special Envoy, ABC’s “This Week”

“Demanding zero uranium enrichment means NO DEAL”, Sayed Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s Foreign Minister

You could have spotted this from a mile away.

President Trump—who sabotaged the most stringent and comprehensive nuclear agreement in history (The JCPOA)—ordered his special envoy to make a surprise announcement that crosses all of I...

Neocons and Their Push for the Next Big War

International Man: Who exactly are the neoconservatives—where did this movement originate, what do they fundamentally believe, and why does their ideology seem so relentlessly focused on promoting war and global intervention?

Doug Casey: Most of the neocons have a background as socialists or hardcore leftists. But the neocons are smarter than the average statist in that they could see that socialism was a failure—it wasn’t working anywhere. So what they did was adopt conservative-seeming economi...

Israeli Hatred for Children in Gaza Is Shocking

The hatred of some in Israel for the people of Gaza – even for little children – is just astounding. If they have even a tiny bit of belief in God, they should pray for forgiveness.

Unfortunately, NPR reported last Thursday (May 15) on “deadly airstrikes, killing more than 150 people in the past day, including dozens of children.”

On May 9 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and many other publications reported on a meeting of a subcommittee of Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

The heari...

Navy Admiral Corrupt? How Utterly Disturbing!

Former Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Robert Burke is preparing for a new kind of retirement.  Burke was convicted of “conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery. …[and] performing acts affecting a personal financial interest and concealing material facts from the United States.”

He is the highest ranking military officer held to account for his quite understandable actions to get a “good-paying job” after retirement to supplement his approximately $18,000 a month pension.  Seriously, who ...

Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act Between Overt Genocide and Maintaining Western Support

One of the talking points Israel apologists like to regurgitate is that Israel can’t possibly be acting with genocidal intent in Gaza, because if they had wanted to exterminate the Palestinians they could have easily done so in a matter of days.

As luck would have it, leaders from the Israeli government have just helpfully come out and debunked that talking point with a few shockingly frank public admissions.

Explaining the decision to allow a minuscule amount of aid into Gaza after months of de...

Gold/Silver Ratio Signaling Rapid Reversal & Recession Coming

Dr. Mark Thornton ‪@misesmedia‬ discusses the economic implications of the historically high gold-silver ratio, suggesting it may signal an impending recession. He explains that central bank gold purchases are driving its price higher relative to silver, reflecting deeper market imbalances. Dr. Thornton emphasizes the importance of historical data and Austrian economic principles in forecasting and understanding crises. He warns that the U.S. national debt and current monetary policies could lea...

How America Is Being Made Great Again

Perhaps Putin should tell the Russian people and the Russian Army that his interest in resolving the conflict in Ukraine with peace negotiations lies in the possibility that the negotiations could be used to achieve a Great Power Agreement like what he and Lavrov tried to achieve with the West during the winter of 2021-2022 prior to Russia’s forced intervention in Ukraine. A New Yalta in effect.  

Russian foreign affairs commentators have been speaking for some time about the need for a new Yalt...

Liberalism in the Pews

Traditional, orthodox Roman Catholic believers ought to be extremely grateful that American Catholics do not vote on Catholic doctrine, moral teaching, and ecclesiology. Because if they did, and if they got their way, much of the historic Roman Catholic Church would be swept away into the dustbin of history. This conclusion screams from the pages of a recent Pew Research Center survey report, “Most U.S. Catholics Say They Want the Church To Be ‘More Inclusive.’” Pew conducted the survey from Feb...

They’re Coming for Your Birthright: Citizenship as Spectacle, Transaction, or Privilege

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear… If the Bill of Rights were to be broken down, all groups, even the most conservative, would be in danger from the arbitrary power of government.”—President Harry S. Truman (August 8, 1950)

Let us be very clear.

The ...

Gaza ‘Worse Than a Crime, a Mistake’

PARIS – The UN’s Under-Secretary-General just warned that 14,000 Palestinians children risk starving to death in the coming hours due to the total Israeli blockade of food, medicines and water.  Thousands of other adults will also die due to famine or Israeli bombing in coming days.

No amount of running old documentaries on Auschwitz or threatening pro-Palestinian protestors will cover up what the UN calls a `war crime.’  Nor will threatening financial hardship on those who protest Israel’s sava...