The history of the welfare state is the history of the state’s savage war of aggrandizement and seizure of authority against civil society. Whether in Germany, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in Canada, in Scandinavia, or in the United States, the coercive state systematically destroyed the “voluntary sector” of civil society and those intermediary […]
In his seminal speech at the recently concluded Munich Security Conference, US Vice President JD Vance said the following: “[T]he threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of […]
Should we be distracted, or merely appalled, by Trump’s abrupt proposal to clear the remaining 1.9 million Palestinians from Gaza, with a new demand that Arab neighbors absorb them? US intelligence, software, bombs, guns, tanks, aircraft, fuel and bulldozers all found a small resting point in the form of the Trump-demanded ceasefire in Gaza. Yes, US taxpayers […]
Our new president’s policies for the Middle East, are, I’m sorry to say, a disaster for those of us who support a non-interventionist foreign policy. A war between Israel and Hamas has been going on for over a year. A fragile truce is in place as I write, but who knows how long it will […]
With the global economy hanging on by one rusty and wobbling wheel to the triple loop roller-coaster rails we are on; paper money is no longer a wise investment. For those who see the writing on the wall and even the less pessimistic, holding precious metals in the form of Gold and Silver are a […]
By Karen Kwiatkowski LewRockwell.com Trump learned Washington is filled with personal and organizational enemies. Rather than understanding that people may hate him and institutions may fear him, he lumps them together. Personalizing his individual and institutional enemies as demonic, he fails to focus on their various systemic weaknesses, and how to exploit those weaknesses. If MAGA […]