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Is the Epstein Affair a Watershed Moment?

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/28

Perhaps when we look back on the Epstein Affair, we’ll understand that it broke the back of Americans’ faith in their political and law enforcement institutions. We’re being told the Epstein Affair is old news, nothing to see here, move along–but I’m not so sure. It could be the opposite of old news, a watershed moment in American history. Watershed moments can be sudden, dramatic events that we all experience as “nothing is the same after this,” or

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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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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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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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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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International Law Is Now Completely Dead

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/28

If it is not going to be enforced even now, regarding the extermination (genocide) to eliminate the Gazans (and there is zero indication that it will be), it is dead. If it will be enforced against anything else but not against that, then it will be so outrageously selective so that it reflects the sheer power of some imperialistic “higher power,” as to have no relationship whatsoever to any authentic justice, but ONLY to the ethic of psychopaths: “Might makes right.” But if might makes right, then

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Unlawful Parts of Government Are a Criminal Enterprise!

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/28

I estimate that a majority of the Federal Establishment is a Criminal Enterprise because it is not authorized by the Enumerated Powers in our Constitution. Many, if not most, of these Unconstitutional and Criminal activities were enacted into Unconstitutional Laws by Congress. It is impossible for the United States to long survive with these unconstitutional expenses. Our states are Sovereign Governments, not so the Federal Government. So I label it as the Establishment, not Government. The Federal

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The Future Includes Mass Murder of Undesirables…

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2025/07/28

I occasionally gab about the world with friends and family. Recently, a friend and I were bitching about the rise of “fascism” in America. We soon realized we had different visions of what that meant. About what’s possible in a country like America. America spans about 3.8 million square miles, with many different climates, economies, and ways of life. America’s size and spread-out population shape its politics in important ways. The country’s large area makes local issues and regional differences

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New War Between Syria & Israel Plunges Syria Into...

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

The former leader of the fundamentalist-Sunni ISIS and al-Qaeda forces in Syria, al-Jolani (renamed al-Sharaa) has now suffered his first military defeat at the hands of the fundamentalist-Jewish Israeli Government, which is determined to keep parts of Syria and will now be free to take more of it. This defeat is a shattering blow to al-Sharaa’s followers, whom he increasingly struggles to hold together, while the country that he (backed by support from the U.S., Turkey, Qatar, the Saud family, and

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What’s Going on in the ‘Honeypot?’

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

What goes on in Washington is underappreciated for those of us who like a bit of humor mixed in with our politics. This past week we have been treated to a whole series of malapropisms coming out of the mouth of President Donald Trump, including the questioning of the president of Liberia Joseph Boakai by Trump over how he speaks such excellent English. “Such good English,” Trump said. “Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? In Liberia? That’s very interesting. Where were you educated? Where

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Corruption Is Deep-rooted

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

People often project their values onto others. But cultural frameworks can be profoundly alien. What passes for virtue in one society may be incomprehensible—or nonexistent—in another. Predictably, well-meaning interventions from the outside often fail to achieve their intended goals. Without grasping the moral foundation of a culture, outsider solutions rarely reach the root and usually exacerbate the rot. What looks like righteous indignation in Indians—especially to Western observers shaped by

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Understanding the Causes of Lincoln’s War

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

In most debates over what caused any historical event to occur, the disputants tend to emphasize what they consider to be the most important causal factor, and minimize the influence of factors they consider to be less important. It is not so much that they dispute the relevance of contested factors in understanding the event comprehensively, but more that there is no agreement on the degree of importance that ought to be attached to those factors. Often people will emphasize the factors that fall

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Governmental Self-Preservation: Why We’ll Never See...

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

If there’s one characteristic that defines Donald Trump it’s his habit of switching his positions on a dime – Leaving many a critic looking rather foolish when they establish an argument against him today, only to discover he mostly agrees with them tomorrow. I’ve learned it’s best to wait a little while before commenting on the man’s policy decisions and allow time for the debate to ferment. After months of deflection and now retraction, the Jeffery Epstein controversy has turned especially ripe

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It Will Take More Than Low Interest Rates To Make...

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

On Tuesday, the yield on the 10-year Treasury surged nearly 10 basis points in a few hours, rising above 4.49 percent. The rising yield came after the release of new price-inflation data showing that CPI growth had hit a five-month high and remained well above the Federal Reserve’s two-percent target for price inflation. Rising yields often indicate that bond investors believe price inflation will continue to grow, so it was probably no coincidence that bond yields—especially on longer-term

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Rediscovering Our Roots

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

In a culture where every contour of the public life assists in communicating the message of Jesus Christ, the first citizen of the realm will be the Church, she who is both Bride and Body of Christ, the beloved one whom God Himself has chosen and designated to be Mother of all who have been redeemed in Christ. Followed by the Church is the family which, by hallowed and repeated usage, forms the domestic Church, whose actions are meant to model the life of the Holy Family. And, finally, there is the

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Trump’s Ultimatum to Russia Is Bluster and Bluff To...

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

In 50 days, Trump will have a serious amount of egg on his face when Russia’s defeat of the NATO proxy war becomes more evident. What’s behind Trump’s angry ultimatum to Russia this week? The short answer: failure and frustration. Donald Trump promised American voters that he would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours upon his election in November 2024. Six months into his presidency, Trump has failed to deliver on his boastful promises. This week, Trump flipped his pacemaker image by pledging billions

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The Doomsday Forum

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

[This article was first published by Global Research. You may read it here.] The article below was first published on July 8, 2016. America’s preemptive nuclear doctrine was firmly entrenched prior to Donald Trump’s accession to the White House. The use of nukes against North Korea has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for more than half a century. In June 2016 under the Obama administration, top military brass together with the CEOs of the weapons industry debated the deployment of nuclear

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The Grown Up Tax Bill: Sorry, Grown-Ups Are Out of Stock

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

Dear Martian Central Bank: could you please send us some Grown-Ups? Scott Galloway recently sketched out a common-sense set of tax reforms that would go a long way to reducing the widening federal deficit. There’s just one Catch, Catch-25: it requires Grown-Ups, and Grown-Ups are out of stock, and have been for a long time, as it seems they’re no longer being produced. The Grown Up Tax Bill. I confess that to say this is to admit to being delusional, but Galloway’s suggested tax

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The Total Unaccountability of Israel Demonstrates the...

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

Sometimes I think it’s astonishing how aggressively Israel’s supporters work to stomp out criticism of Israel. Then I remember that these people also support mass murdering children; trying to take away my speech rights is one of their less evil goals. It shouldn’t shock me. I saw someone talking online about how crazy it is that music groups who speak out against Israel’s atrocities are starting to form alliances with each other in an effort to counteract the campaign to silence them and destroy

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The Conspiracy Theory of History

LewRockwell ·

2025/07/21

What is the conspiracy theory of history? Is it true? In this week’s column, I’m going to discuss the great Murray Rothbard’s analysis of the subject. As always, he is our best guide. Then, I’ll give examples of what Murray calls “good” conspiracy theories. Murray begins his analysis by noting that the Establishment attacks the conspiracy theory: “Anytime that a hard-nosed analysis is put forth of who our rulers are, of how their political and economic interests interlock, it is invariably denounced

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