Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 84

The Istanbul Kabuki – Decoded

The endgame is clear: the US losing the entire Eurasian land mass. Ukraine, under these immense geopolitical imperatives, is only a sovereign-deprived pawn in the (Great) Game.

Did President Putin really change the game by proposing the resumption of negotiations on the proxy war in Ukraine in Istanbul – over three years after the first ones were scotched by NATO?

It’s complicated. And depends on which “game” we’re talking about.

What the Russian move instantly accomplished was to throw into tot...

Abolitionist Hypocrisies

Lysander Spooner is well known as an abolitionist who argued that slavery was a violation of natural law. In his 1858 pamphlet, “A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, and To the Non-Slaveholders of the South,” Spooner set out what he considered to be the relevant “principles of justice and humanity,” arguing that “so long as the governments, under which they live, refuse to give them liberty or compensation, [slaves] have the right to take it by stratagem or force.” Spooner argued that property o...

Trump Says Goodbye to ‘Greater Israel’

All Things are NOT Going-Well for Netanyahu.

Washington’s unspoken intent is to eventually scrap “The Greater Israel” project, while  retaining the rhetoric. 

Confrontation between Netanyahu and Trump is currently unfolding, sofar behind closed doors. 

President Trump has confirmed his intent is to transform Gaza into an “American Territory” . It’s a neo-colonial project

US. Foreign Policy will eventually overshadow the so-called “Greater Israel” project.

The original source of this article is G...

‘For Posterity’s Sake’: Why the Biden-Hur Tapes Is a Virtual Racketeering Indictment

“For posterity’s sake.” Those words from President Joe Biden sum up the crushing impact of the leaked audiotapes from the interview between then-President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur. Not only did they remove any serious doubt over Biden committing the federal crimes charged against President Donald Trump, but they also constituted what is akin to a political racketeering indictment against much of the Washington establishment.

The interview from Oct. 8-9, 2023, has long been sought...

The Evil Woodrow Wilson

Why did America abandon its traditional foreign policy of non-involvement in European power politics? With some exceptions, that was America’s foreign policy from the founding of our Republic to the end of the nineteenth century. when America’s pursuit of Empire began. The traditional policy was encapsulated in John Quincy Adams’s famous declaration in his Independence Day Oration of July 4, 1821 that “America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedo...

How To Make Your Mind Harder for the Propagandists To Manipulate

The worst mistake you can make when reading the news is to assume there’s a good reason why the mass media report on something in the way that they do. That there’s a good reason why Israel-Palestine gets framed as a complex and morally ambiguous issue with no clear path forward, even though it all looks pretty self-evident to you. That there must be a valid and legitimate reason why one story gets more coverage than a seemingly far more important story, like how the release of one Israeli-Ameri...

While Trump Speaks of Ukraine Peace, Washington Opens a Second Front Against Putin

The US House of Representatives Has Passed the MEGOBARI Act (HR 36) that places Georgia, now an independent country and once a province of the Soviet Union, under American protection.  Washington has to protect free and fair elections in Georgia from Russia and protect Georgia’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity from further Russian aggression.”

There has been NO Russian aggression against Georgia.  With the collapse of the Soviet Union caused by the Politburo’s house arrest of Russian Pres...

The Great Simmering in the West

People all over the world are worried about the future.  While regional wars continue to fester, the prospect of global war weighs heavily on many.  However, likely belligerents are not all foreign aggressors.  Nearly a century of globalization has erected a web of clunky international institutions that wield tremendous power while disregarding sovereign borders.  Concomitantly, mass immigration has transformed once-homogenous national populations into stews of many competing cultures and religi...

Kennedy Faces Insufferable Congressmen

I think the following image from yesterday’s hearing of the House Appropriations Committee—where HHS Secretary Kennedy was questioned about his budget cuts— is worth a thousand words.

It’s long been observed that “clothes make the man” (or woman) in the sense that one’s choices for producing an outward appearance are an expression of one’s judgement about what is fitting and appropriate.

I know that New Haven isn’t exactly a fashionable place, but her outfit and coiffure are suitable for a 13-ye...

Is Christian Nationalism the Solution to the Frailty of Liberalism?

Conservative movements are often depicted as unyielding and uncompromising; dangerously incapable of adaptation when new ideas come to light. This image of the political right is rooted in a number of misconceptions. In reality, modern conservatives are often far too compromising – Far too willing to go along to get along. None of us wants to be seen as a dictator.

Perhaps the most important and defining characteristic of conservatives (at least in the US) is a regard for freedom, but ONLY freed...