John Mearsheimer asks What Nuclear Taboo?
June 13, 2026
Reprinted from John’s Substack: We discussed his view that the West does not respect Russian red lines and feels that it can use Ukraine as a proxy to attack the Russian homeland and not have to worry about Russia striking back at the West. He believes that the time has come for Russia to reestablish […]
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Trump’s Iran War Slowing Global Economic Growth to Lowest Level Since Pandemic: World Bank
June 13, 2026
The World Bank on Thursday lowered its global growth forecast for the remainder of 2026 as the illegal US-Israeli war of choice on Iran drives up energy prices, inflation, and the cost of debt. “The global economy is facing another major shock,” the World Bank’s latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report states. “The conflict in […]
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The New Documentary An Ordinary Insanity
June 12, 2026
Only when such sanity becomes ordinary will we have a chance of surviving the nuclear era. This film presents a synthesis of my father’s book The Doomsday Machine. His book depicts the evil murderousness of nuclear war plans, and the particular dangers posed by ICBMS, with their first strike capability, intended to be launched on warning. […]
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Trump Once Again Claims a Deal Is Imminent. Is the 39th Time the Charm?
June 12, 2026
Donald Trump has developed a habit throughout this war of claiming that a deal with Iran is “imminent,” only for the conflict to devolve back into chaos just days later. Similarly, he has routinely made maximalist threats against Iran — “A whole civilization will die tonight,” — only to repeatedly back away and pursue diplomacy […]
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$3 Trillion a Year for US Military Spending
June 12, 2026
Reprinted from World BEYOND War: Recently the least popular person alive said, “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Already unpopular with kind and decent people, Trump may have — with that comment — tanked his popularity with every weapons company public relations hack on Earth. […]
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The War Against Iran Continues
June 11, 2026
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility It is unclear if the U.S. intentionally struck the facility or knew what it was. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. ***** America’s leaders are always boasting of precision weaponry. […]
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Ron Paul on Trump: ‘I Will Attack Iran Every Night Until They Make a Deal!’
June 11, 2026
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: While supposedly Iran is “begging to make a deal,” Trump has resumed large-scale bombing on the country because it has not yet made a deal. This is not the only openly contradictory and bizarre statement from President Trump in the past 24 hours. We will have a few more […]
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Response to Sam Harris’s Refusal To Debate Critics of Israel
June 10, 2026
At the outset of his recent article, Sam Harris explains that he considers “Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, the IRGC” to be “worse than Nazis.” This is noteworthy. Over the last 25 years, these groups have killed a total of maybe several hundred thousand people. By contrast, the Nazis killed 30 million people during […]
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Ron Paul says Not Again! Senate Moves To Force Intel Sharing With Israel!
June 10, 2026
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Just days after news broke that the National Defense Authorization Act for next year would virtually merge the US and Israeli militaries, we now are hearing that the Intelligence Authorization Act is doing the same thing with the US Intelligence Community! Introduced by Sen Tom Cotton, the provision would […]
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Gareth Porter Gets Into the Primordial Ooze of Iran Nuclear Scare
June 10, 2026
I’m lucky that veteran investigative journalist Gareth Porter decided to take a break from his latest project on the Cold War to talk about how his 2014 book, Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iranian Nuclear Scare has come full circle, unfortunately, in Donald Trump’s war on Iran today. Trump talks incessantly about Iran’s […]
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