Reprinted from John's Substack: Below is an interview I recently did with the South China Morning Post, which is based in Hong Kong, and is one of the most important newspapers in East Asia. Josephine Ma conducted the “Open Questions” interview for the SCMP. We...
A president on camera says only his own morality can stop him. That single line sets the tone for a high-stakes hour where we track real-time war signals around Iran, interrogate the Greenland fantasy, and examine how power bends rules when no one close is willing to...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump has threatened several European countries - NATO allies - with tariffs of as much as 25 percent by June if Greenland is not handed over to the United States. What will Europe do? Also - a new study shows that tariffs...
Each MLK Day, supporters of Israel invoke the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. to draw a false parallel between the civil rights movement and Zionism. While MLK did sympathize with the state of Israel, he consistently supported nonviolence. During the Six-Day War, MLK...
The sermon which I am preaching this morning in a sense is not the usual kind of sermon, but it is a sermon and an important subject, nevertheless, because the issue that I will be discussing today is one of the most controversial issues confronting our nation. I’m...
Richmond, California is across the bay from San Francisco. It is a working class city, most famous for the shipyards which produced the Liberty ships in World War 2. Under the leadership of Mayor Eduardo Martinez, in late October 2023, Richmond California became the...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists featured a fiction contest: “Write Before Midnight.” I sent in an entry, which, sad to say, didn’t win. (The winners can be found here.) But that’s OK: I enjoyed...
The impression you get listening to US politicians talk about Iran is that Iranians overwhelmingly oppose the regime. Mike Waltz says, “The people of Iran want freedom.” Ted Cruz says, “the people of Iran want to stand with America” and “they want to stand with...
Missed signals are costly; misplaced confidence is worse. We open by unpacking the concrete indicators that war planners watch—carrier deployments, airspace changes, and last‑minute strike deliberations—and what they tell us about the real likelihood of a U.S. hit on...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 15 January 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge about a variety of topics, but most importantly on the evolving situation in Iran. I laid out my thinking on 1) what the US and Israel were trying to do in Iran —...
