On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump has pledged to use force against the Iranian government if he decides that too many protesters in that country have been killed. Is it a realistic threat? Will he launch yet another regime change operation in just...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 8 January 2025, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge mainly about Venezuela and how it fits into Trumpian foreign policy. I made the argument that this is not a case of regime change — as all the US did was remove the...
Anthony Aguilar is presented with this year’s Sam Adams Associates for Integrity Award for notifying the world of the deliberate killing of starving Gazans as they arrived for supposed U.S.-Israel food aid. The ceremony took place in Raleigh, North Carolina on Jan. 7,...
“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...
