I am very sad at the news that Thomas Massie has been defeated by Donald Trump and AIPAC in the most expensive Congressional primary in US history. Estimates are that between $40-45 million dollars was spent. Massie's speech was gracious, funny, and encouraging. I...
This post, finally edited at 6:03 pm EDT on May 19, was initially written during the final hours of the flotilla campaign while Israeli gunmen were illegally seizing and boarding one sailboat after another of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and the Global Sumud...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: According to a new study by Brown University, President Trump's war on Iran has cost the American consumer $40 billion in increased fuel costs. But it does not end at higher fuel prices. That price increase also fuels inflation in...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 18 May 2026, I was on Glenn Diesen’s podcast talking with him mainly about the prospects for escalation in the Ukraine war, but also the Iran war. Regarding Ukraine, it is clear that Ukraine, with help from Europe, is ramping up its...
On May 14th, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) reintroduced the Selective Service Repeal Act, S. 4537). This bill already has the endorsement of dozens of peace and antiwar groups, draft resisters, religious organizations, antiwar...
A president calling reporters “treasonous” isn’t just a hot take, it’s a warning sign. Harrison Berger joins me to break down how that rhetoric is being used to police debate around the Iran war, and why it echoes years of reckless “traitor” accusations aimed at...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: It is the highest spending US House race in history, with more than $10 million pouring into Thomas Massie's House re-election bid from outside oligarchs. Massie has angered a group of billionaires – the same group that bankrolled...
At this moment Israeli military forces are illegally attacking and boarding the sailboats of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) in international waters east of Cyprus. As this article is being written, the heavily armed Israeli...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 17 May 2026, I was on “Switzerland” talking with Tom Switzer about a number of different subjects including the state of the war in Ukraine, the results of Trump’s trip to China, and the US obsession with settling scores with...
Trump comes back from Beijing claiming he got a major concession from Xi on Iran, but what happens when the key details are private, unverifiable, and packaged for headlines? We walk through the public messaging, the contradictions, and the incentives on both sides,...
