Six Flotilla Boats Are Still Sailing Toward Gaza; 64 Were Illegally Intercepted
May 19, 2026
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 Flotilla. When initially written, 6 boats were still sailing freely and 64 […]
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Ron Paul on The Real Cost of the Iran War
May 19, 2026
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 every other sector of the consumer economy. The longer […]
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John Mearsheimer on Putin’s Incentive To Escalate
May 19, 2026
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 drone attacks on Moscow and promising even bigger […]
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Senators Propose To Head Off ‘Automatic’ Draft Registration by Repealing Selective Service
May 18, 2026
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 feminists, and civil libertarians. This bipartisan bill to abolish the Selective Service System (SSS) and […]
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Harrison Berger Breaks Down Israel’s New Influence Strategy
May 18, 2026
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 anyone who questions America’s national security consensus. We start with […]
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Ron Paul on Trump, Outside Millions, and Massie: Will Voters Have the Final Say in Kentucky?
May 18, 2026
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 Trump’s presidential bid – for adhering to his pro-liberty, anti-interventionist views. […]
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Flotilla Boats Again Under Attack by Israeli Forces
May 18, 2026
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 commandos are seizing control of one boat after another and detaining its participants in […]
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John Mearsheimer asks Will He or Won’t He?
May 18, 2026
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 94-year old Raul Castro by finally achieving regime change in […]
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Will Trump’s Trip to China Change the Course of the Iran War? w/ Patrick Henningsen
May 18, 2026
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, then ask the blunt question: was this diplomacy, or was it theater […]
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Escalation in Iran Would Be Madness
May 18, 2026
Seth Cropsey makes another deranged appeal for escalation against Iran: Mr. Trump’s objective shouldn’t be to bluff the Iranians out. Instead it should be to demonstrate that if push comes to shove, the U.S. will commit to an overwhelming confrontation that breaks the Iranian state economically and politically. An air campaign approximating the war’s first […]
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