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Russia No Longer Acknowledges Acts of War

LewRockwell ·

2025/10/17

Putin initiated the Russian policy of not acknowledging acts of war when he defined the attack on Russia’s strategic bomber force as an “act of terrorism” in order to evade his responsibility to respond. Anticipating Washington’s delivery of nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, the Kremlin has defined their use against Russia as “terrorist attacks aimed at escalating the conflict.” In other words, Putin has cancelled his warning that the use of Tomahawks against Russia means the supplier

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America Is at War Against Itself Over Illegal...

LewRockwell ·

2025/10/17

The colorful fabric of the United States is beginning to tear apart as Democrats and Republicans attempt to address the immigration crisis in their own separate and very different ways. Los Angeles has declared an emergency in response to federal immigration raids, a move traditionally reserved for natural disasters or other circumstances beyond the control of local authorities. The legislation stated that the tactics used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other entities have

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‘Prepare For War’: B-52s Circle Near Venezuela, Trump...

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2025/10/17

When hundreds of America’s admirals and generals gathered at a military base in Virginia on September 30th, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth instructed them to “prepare for war”. Unfortunately, he was not exaggerating. We are on the brink of war with Venezuela, President Trump is threatening to take military action if Hamas does not disarm, our relations with China are rapidly deteriorating, and if we give Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine that will put us just one step away from a nuclear war

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Two Foreign Guys Walk Into a Barber Shop in Xinjiang…

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2025/10/17

The future of the former “Western Regions”: an energy-rich, multi-cultural, multi-religious, geostrategic New Silk Road hub of “moderately prosperous” China. YUTIAN, ON THE SOUTHERN SILK ROAD – We are on the road in southern Xinjiang, after a harrowing back-and-forth in the Taklamakan, across the sand dunes, to visit the “lost tribe” cum village of Daliyabuyi, right in the middle of the desert, then back to our drop-dead modern hotel in the oasis of Yutian. It’s midnight, we just finished the

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The Masks Have Come Off

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2025/10/17

If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President” – you are deluded beyond hope. Halloween may be coming, but you don’t need a frightening mask to realize the horrors that confront us. Trump is the culmination of a long developing horror story. Unlike his predecessors who prepared the way for him and who generally wore traditionally allaying masks to hide their evil actions, he is the greatest blatant fraud to ever occupy the White House. He is a

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Wars and Rumors of Wars

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2025/10/17

The older I get, the more suspiciously I look at the causes of war. This is natural. Young people — especially young men — are incapable of properly evaluating risk. Though they are rebellious, they also follow orders from authority figures. There is a reason why eighteen-year-olds are sent over embankments to cross open fields on the frontlines: They can be convinced to pursue success and ignore mortality. Courageous young men look right past danger. Only years later do they ask themselves,

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The Onus Is on Israel and Its Allies To End the...

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2025/10/17

It’s actually never legitimate to withhold aid from starving civilians. It was never legitimate at any time. That’s one of the annoying things about having to discuss Israel’s ridiculous claim that Hamas is hoarding hostage corpses in order to achieve some kind of goal, and therefore justifies reducing aid into Gaza as punishment: the conversation skates right over the fact that it has never been legitimate for Israel to withhold humanitarian aid into Gaza. Debating whether Israel is right or wrong

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‘The Degeneracy of Manners and Morals’

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2025/10/17

Because the U.S. government is apparently addicted to war, I often ponder a profound and eloquent reflection written by James Madison, author of the U.S. Constitution. Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the

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German Intelligence Pushes ‘Russian Threat’ Narrative...

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2025/10/17

Western authorities continue to spread anti-Russian rumors to justify their illegitimate war plans. Now, German intelligence claims that a Russian attack on Europe could happen at any moment, thus spreading panic among the local population to support the narrative that it is “necessary” to prepare the country and the EU for a direct armed conflict with Moscow. As a result, tensions on the European continent are likely to escalate even further, with no prospect of diplomatic dialogue

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The Two-Headed Monster

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2025/10/17

Political violence and political revenge have been around as long as…politics have. I grew up with it in Greece. As a 5-year-old, looking down across the street of a chic Athenian neighborhood, I remember seeing a chauffeur-driven car’s open door and a bald man bending down in order to enter it, then hearing one, two, three, and four shots, with dark red round holes forming on his scalp. The screams that followed were from his daughter watching his departure from a balcony above. The name of the

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Why Does Trump Always Talk about Killing People?

LewRockwell ·

2025/10/16

President Trump said today that if Hamas doesn’t stop killing people in the Gaza Strip, then the United States would have no other choice but to “go in and kill them.” Trump is always talking about killing people, and apparently likes ordering Americans to kill for him. Is any boat in the Atlantic safe? The post Why Does Trump Always Talk about Killing People? appeared first on LewRockwell.

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Here’s Proof that the World has gone Mad

LewRockwell ·

2025/10/05

Writes Patrick Foy: I came to the conclusion that the world had gone mad decades ago. What else is new? I guess it is only now becoming apparent to the average observer. BTW, President “America First” Trump has turned over TikTok to Billionare Israel First influencers. In the meantime, Israel continues its campaign of genocide in Gaza and on the West Bank, as Europe and America stand by and watch. Everything will become clear, as Netanyahu predicted years ago. How clearer could it get that the U.S

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The Two Greatest Movies on Urban Machine Politics...

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2025/09/29

An urban political machine is a party organization led by a powerful “boss” or a small group that commands enough votes to maintain political control of a city, county, or state. During their peak in the Gilded Age (1870s–1900s), machines exploited rapid urbanization and large immigrant populations by providing essential services in exchange for political loyalty and votes. Though the classic version has declined, some aspects have persisted in modern forms. Characteristics Centralized

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Silent Shepherds, Forsaken Lambs

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2025/09/29

For faithful Catholics, the news that yet another pro-abortion politician is being celebrated by the liberal-leaning ecclesial authorities of their own Church is discouraging. Their sorrow is not just because Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich has decided to grant a “Lifetime Achievement Award” to 80-year-old Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)—a Catholic politician who has devoted his career to championing abortion access at every turn. It is also because of the deafening silence from nearly all of the bishops

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Killer Bureaucracy

LewRockwell ·

2025/09/29

The need to limit the discretion of subordinates is present in every organization. — Ludwig Von Mises. Bureaucracy “General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.” — Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove “Well, I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.” — Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson, Dr. Strangelove The Doomsday Clock,

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How Power Elites Facilitate ‘Lone Gunman’...

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2025/09/29

There is a current clash of explanatory stories in the media about whether the public slaughter of right-wing youth political activist Charlie Kirk was a professional hit conspired by power elites or the act of a lone gunman. Note, I term Kirk’s murder an assassination because his Turning Point USA organization has a massive IRS 501-C-3 tax exempt Political Action Committee (PAC) reportedly funded with $40 million to influence elections. Moreover, the suspected gunman’s own text included an

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The Century of Forgotten Vaccine Hot Lot Disasters

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2025/09/29

During the COVID-19 rollout, patients gradually began to realize that some of the COVID-19 vaccines were more dangerous than others. Initially this was written off as a conspiracy theory. However, as time moved forward, and more evidence emerged to support the “hot lot” hypothesis there was an increasing acceptance of this theory. At the time, the most common theory I heard raised to account for this was that a large global experiment was being done to assess the effects of various mRNA doses (e.g.,

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Recognition of Palestine Is a Repeat of the West’s...

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2025/09/29

Britain’s Keir Starmer is already pulling the rug from under his own grudging declaration. The only hope of change is of the unintended consequences variety Middle East Eye – 26 September 2025 The reluctant recognition of Palestinian statehood by Britain, France, Australia, Canada this week is a con – it is the same switch and bait that has been blocking the creation of a Palestinian state for three decades now. Imagine that these four leading western countries had recognised Palestine not in late

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The Principle of Proportionality

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2025/09/29

Social justice warriors often suppose that since they are advancing “justice” they are entitled to do whatever they deem necessary to defend their cause. Any atrocity they commit should be viewed sympathetically because, after all, they are on the side of the angels. In the public discourse on crime and punishment, they argue that if the criminal is a victim of “systemic racism” this means he should always be understood primarily as a victim of injustice who deserves compassion. As reported in a

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Constitutionalists’ Workflow Is Freedom

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2025/09/29

“173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1787 Ten-year budget negotiations misdirect politicians, commentators, and voters. Politicians talk about saving in the future while they act to spend and inflate now. Projecting spending is executive power. Even so, congressmen and presidents claim that it’s legal that they require that projections be made by a congressional budget office. Any spending projections need to foretell politicians’ future actions as closely as

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