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Unmasking CDC Corruption: RFK’s Battle To Reform...

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/30

Since RFK Jr. became H.H.S. Secretary, my contacts have shared that the CDC (one branch of the H.H.S.) has been the primary government agency sabotaging attempts to Make America Healthy Again. In July, I thus wrote an article on the CDC’s pervasive corruption that highlighted the CDC’s scientific misconduct at a recent ACIP meeting to help create support for controversial changes RFK Jr. would need to enact at the CDC. Yesterday, that all came to a head as the CDC’s director was fired a month into

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Unaudited Power: The U.S. Military Budget Nobody...

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/30

The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion annually, second only to Social Security in the federal budget. The military outlay is also close to $1 trillion, consuming nearly half of the discretionary budget. As a sovereign nation, the United States could avoid debt altogether by simply paying for the budget deficit with Treasury-issued “Greenbacks,” as Abraham Lincoln’s government did. But I

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Western Civilization Is Not Worth Saving

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/30

Western civilization is not worth saving. I think that’s been pretty well established by now. That’s one of the silliest things about the way rightists are always babbling about how we need to protect our way of life from immigrants or Islam or “the trans agenda” or whatever. They’re beginning with the assumption that this train wreck of a society is worth saving at all. I am not saying that westerners should die. I am not saying that all the ideals and values that westerners purport to hold are

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Ron Paul Talks With Mike Adams About Trump Tariffs,...

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/30

Comments open on Brighteon The post Ron Paul Talks With Mike Adams About Trump Tariffs, Currency Printing, Flag Burning and Wars appeared first on LewRockwell.

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Open Letter to Israel Foreign Minister Sa’ar

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/18

H.E. Gideon Sa’ar Foreign Minister Government of Israel August 9, 2025 Dear Mr. Minister, I write to you following your speech at the United Nations Security Council on August 5. I attended the session but did not have the chance to speak with you following the session. I want to share my reflections on your speech. In your speech your failed to recognize why almost the entire world, including many Jews such as myself, are aghast at your government’s behavior. In the view of most of the world, with

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Report From ‘Blueprint for Peace’

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/18

Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity’s 9 annual conference, “Blueprint for Peace” was held Saturday, a day after a possibly promising new start to the end of the US-NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, at a time where the world remains seconds away from nuclear destruction, due to accident or imperial malpractice. August 16th featured lively and passionate set of speakers, to a room literally packed with great minds intent on tackling the great and urgent problems that Americans face now. You can

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The Butker Principle: Is America Better Off Without...

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2025/08/18

Some readers might recall a year ago the internet was in an uproar about a commencement speech given by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker at Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts school in Kansas. The speech went viral due to his denouncement of abortion, Pride Month, COVID-19 lockdowns and the tyranny of diversity, equity and inclusion. However, it was his comments on women in the workforce that really put a twist in the panties of the leftist media: “I want to speak directly

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The Reason for the Trump-Putin Summit’s Puzzling End

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/18

There is much confusion about why the August 15th Trump-Putin ended the way it did. Here is a typical example: The reason why I was expecting this outcome will be explained here. On 4 December 2024, when Trump hired General Keith Kellogg to be his negotiator on the Ukraine war, I headlined “Reuters reports Trump is set to continue Biden’s policies on Ukraine.” and opened: On December 4th, Reuters headlined [misleadingly in its ‘off the table’] “Trump’s plan for Ukraine comes into focus:

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Shadow Banks Have Grown in the Form of Hedge Funds...

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2025/08/18

According to- abcnews.go.com: Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds and money market funds. They’re outside the reach of conventional financial regulation, prompting authorities to plan introducing new rules to prevent the obscure sector from triggering a new financial crisis. But in doing so they risk drying up an important source of funding to banks and firms. In the financial world, there is a narrow divide between heaven and

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Russia Seeks To Comprehend Fully the Various...

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/18

If Moscow previously relied on treaties and ‘playing normal’, now it relies on unpredictability, interconnected fronts, and a balance of threats. Another round of negotiations between Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and the Russian leadership? A meeting between Witkoff and President Putin is now imminent. At the same time, General Keith Kellogg has been in Kiev. This comes as Trump’s so-called ‘ultimatum’ is set to expire – although Trump himself casts doubt whether the sanctions that may follow might

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Why the Drug War?

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/18

The ostensible purpose of the U.S. war on drugs is to prevent Americans from getting their hands on illicit drugs and ingesting them. Think about that for a moment: The entire drug-war apparatus and the massive militarized drug-war police state exist for the purpose of preventing Americans from possessing and ingesting unapproved substances that they wish to possess and ingest. I consider that amazing. Let’s divide American drug consumers into two broad categories: those who are addicted to drugs

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Stop Giving Israeli Officials a Media Platform To...

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2025/08/18

Australia’s state broadcaster the ABC gave extensive airtime to Israeli deputy foreign affairs minister Sharren Haskel on Friday, allowing her to voice her objections to Australian demonstrations against the very genocide that she and her government are presently committing in Gaza. Haskel’s statements were then picked up and printed in outlets like The Guardian, quoting at length her lies denying Israel’s deliberate starvation of Palestinians and her assertion that anti-genocide protesters are

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The Last Thing We Need Right Now Is a Fed Rate Cut

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2025/08/18

Pressure on Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve continues to mount as both Wall Street and the White House demand more easy money to keep asset price inflation accelerating ever upward. These inflationists also hope that easy money-policy will somehow reverse the current stagnating trend in employment. In recent months, both President Trump and the usual Wall Street outlets have insisted that the Fed reduce the target policy interest rate to ensure that stock prices and real estate prices continue

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Ron Paul at 90

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2025/08/18

Many people wish they could have met a great figure in history. What would it be like to talk to Newton, to Tesla, to Shakespeare? Those of us lucky enough to know Dr. Ron Paul don’t have to speculate. We know one of the truly great figures in American history, the best Congressman we have ever had. I have known him for decades, and I’d like to tell you something about him as a person and about his achievements. I had the rare honor of serving as Ron Paul’s congressional chief of staff and observed

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The Big Moment Has Arrived

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/18

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are about to make decisions that could radically alter the trajectory of human history. When they meet in Alaska on Friday, the stakes will be incredibly high. If they are able to agree to some sort of a deal, the world will rejoice. But if the meeting goes badly, there will be immense pressure on western leaders to militarily intervene in Ukraine in order to prevent Russia from taking as much territory as it wants. At the moment, Russian forces are moving forward

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The Putin-Trump Meeting

LewRockwell ·

2025/08/18

What do we make of it? A good result came of it. Trump moved away from his demand for a ceasefire and said that it was more important to work toward a permanent peace than a ceasefire which is seldom kept. This would seem to commit Trump to addressing the root cause of the conflict, which is Russia’s insecurity with NATO all over her borders. Putin said that the meeting marked the transition from confrontation and threats to dialogue. This prospect alone made the meeting worthwhile. These are

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Taiwan’s Voters Reject Anti-Chinese Recall Plot

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2025/07/28

In January 2024 Taiwan’s current President Lai Ching-te won the election against two other candidates. (Taiwan has no run off elections.) His Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) though, which supports Taiwan’s independence from China, failed to get a majority in parliament. The opposition was thus, by controlling the budget, able to prevent Lai Ching-te from furthering a split from the Chinese homeland. Like many recent election winners in so called democracies Lai Ching-te set out to

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Kiev Kleptocracy… Stench of Corruption Fouls NATO...

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/28

The sewer gates are opening as the endgame approaches. It’s not just the Kiev cabal that will be swept away. Previously, any observer who had pointed out the rampant corruption that is endemic in the Kiev regime was automatically denounced by Western governments and media as a peddler of Russian disinformation. Hilariously, though, this week, the Kiev kleptocracy burst open in such a spectacular way that even the American and European apologists for the regime could no longer maintain the worst-kept

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The Epstein Saga: What It Is Really About

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/28

We have to decide whether the Epstein story is child rape or Mossad blackmail. If “child” is defined as under the statutory age of female sexual consent, in the US depending on the state, a child is a female under 16 years of age, under 17 years of age, or under 18 years of age. In New York the age of female consent is 17. In Hawaii it is 16. Hawaii has a “close-in-age” exception that allows 14 year olds to consent with those up to 21 years in age. In Hawaii the goal seems to be not to prevent

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Peter Hotez: Disheveled Defender of the Vaccine Faith

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/28

The Vigilant Fox just reported a live radio exchange between vaccine advocate, Peter Hotez, and a woman who called in to the studio to tell of her ordeal after receiving a COVID-19 mRNA booster. Infamous vaccine pusher Dr. Peter Hotez recently had an uncomfortable moment during what started as a softball radio interview on Hello Houston. Everything was going his way. The hosts praised Hotez for battling “disinformation” and hung on to his every word as if it were gospel. But then, things went off

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