“We used them for a couple of years and trained them to think nothing at all of killing or of being killed.” That overlooked sentence from Smedley Butler’s exposé – “War Is a Racket” – hints at the racket’s components, for every successful racket must have...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 6 January 2025, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft hosted a panel discussion dealing with the Trump administration’s irresponsible statecraft in Venezuela. I participated along with Curt Mills of The American...
Reprinted from The Realist Review: When it comes to fictional depictions of a post-nuclear future, Nevil Shute’s 1957 classic novel On the Beach arguably popularized the trend. The story showed the extinction of the human race from a globally omnipresent and ever...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Trump/Vance was presented as "the peace ticket," and was voted in with the expectation of focusing on America instead of the rest of the world. But alas, the addiction to Empire has proven to be too strong once again. The Trump...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In Venezuela, one might say President Trump said “You’re fired!” to Maduro without any firm plan of succession and without any authority to fire Maduro in the first place other than the authority of guns....
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 6 January 2025, I spoke at length with Glenn Diesen on his popular podcast about ongoing events in Venezuela coupled with the US threat to conquer Greenland. We spent considerable time talking about how US policy on these two issues...
A president is kidnapped, the government remains, and we’re told it isn’t regime change. We pull back the curtain on what our guest calls “regime changeover,” a strategy that uses spectacle and lawfare to force leverage without admitting occupation. From sanctions...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The US Coast Guard has boarded and seized a Russian-flagged tanker in the north Atlantic, claiming the right to interdict any shipping contrary to US sanctions. Will Russia respond? Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace...
As leaders in Europe respond to once-unimaginable threats by the United States to take territory from a NATO ally, one US senator on Monday proposed legislation banning funding for any Trump administration military action against Greenland. Sen. Ruben Gallego...
In the early days of January 2026, as the world looked forward to a move toward stability after years of friction, the roar of more than 150 warplanes and bombers over Caracas and the images of Nicolás Maduro’s arrest by U.S. Special Forces sent a massive shockwave...
