The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that

January 3, 2026, should be the date to end all discussion:  Trump’s raid on Venezuela should have clarified reality even to the most obtuse:  the US is

Operating expenses for American firms that buy foreign imports subject to tariffs have increased under President Donald J. Trump’s trade policy. It’s all

I’ve been a regular contributor to the Lew Rockwell website for a number of years, because that crowd of libertarians shares my detestation of government,

Americans cannot rely on the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to guarantee that medical devices are safe, and a recent Government Accountability

There is no censorship here in Germany,” according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of speech

As the Senate voted to advance a War Powers Resolution on Venezuela on January 8th, Republican Senator Susan Collins declared that she did not agree with

The Trump administration’s mania about Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, is something to behold.  Its untutored thuggery, its brash

Silent people are not political subjects but followers. They can also be called losers. If war is in the air, losers are going to, well, lose.

The recent protests in Iran began on 28 December 2025, mainly in Tehran, when shopkeepers and bazaar merchants started closing their businesses and

On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis — a city long enriched by immigrants and now under

My education, or rather an initial lack of an education, goes to the heart of what it means to be an educated person. My studies at the bachelor’s level

I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war

Donald Trump started 2026 by announcing a plan to increase annual military spending by $600 billion for next year – meaning that the military budget would

I have written before about my yoga teaching friend, someone with whom I have experienced more altered perceptions and distorted senses of time than with

In a defiant stand that has shaken the corridors of British power, the imprisoned activists of Palestine Action have suspended their grueling hunger

In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical

Now that the current US administration has taken us to a whole new dimension of global chaos—where even a nominal respect for treaties among sovereign

The Islamic Republic of Iran has long been accustomed to challenges, relentless pressure and widely believed misrepresentations about it.   

A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7,

Occam’s Razor: A problem-solving principle stating that, when presented with competing hypotheses, the one with the fewer assumptions or entities (the