The People’s Choice: Why DOGE Needs Ron Paul
Reprinted from The American Conservative with the author's permission. he Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a brainchild of our newly inaugurated President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, stands as a beacon of hope for those of us who have long clamored for a...
The Great March of Hope: Gaza’s Defiance Against Erasure
The return of one million Palestinians from southern Gaza to the north on January 27 felt as if history was choreographing one of its most earth-shattering events in recent memory. Hundreds of thousands of people marched along a single street, the coastal Rashid...
Is Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Underway?
At the end of January, reports appeared that a leaked document outlining U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the war in Ukraine had been passed to Ukraine and was being actively discussed by European and Ukrainian diplomats and officials. The document was not...
Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock
This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock forward by one second, from 90 seconds up to 89 seconds to midnight, which...
Tariffs and the Constitution
The taxing power in the federal government resides in the Congress. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts" of the federal government. Indeed, in order to emphasize the location of...
Slashing Foreign Aid Redux
Hot damn! Not only has Elon Musk brought the hammer down on the entirety of the Deep State’s foreign aid boondoggles, but his sleuths have apparently also uncovered one of the Swamp’s most pernicious artifices. To wit, numerous Federal agencies, including USAID,...
Bet You Never Thought You’d Miss the Rules-Based Order
Once upon a time, there was something called international law. It was a set of codified laws that had the United Nations as its firm foundation and that applied universally and impartially to all nations. Then, at some point, international law was replaced by the...
Ethnic Cleansing for ‘Gaza’s Riviera’?
During a press conference with PM Netanyahu on Tuesday evening, President Trump said the United States “will take over” the Gaza Strip. Around the world, observers were shocked. But the statement didn’t come out of the blue. “The US will take over the Gaza Strip and...
Thirty Years of Middle East Lies Just Keep Coming Back To Bite US
The story: Did you believe it 30 years ago when they told you that the Oslo Accords would bring peace to the Middle East? That Israel would finally withdraw from the Palestinian territories it had illegally occupied for decades, end its brutal repression of the...
