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Ron Paul says Hey DOGE! End the National Endowment for Democracy!

In a recent American Conservative article. Kelley Vlahos makes a very strong case for putting the National Endowment for Democracy on the DOGE chopping block. The quasi non-government organization (generously funded by the US government) is the Deep State’s “regime change” machine. It harms, not helps, the US reputation overseas. Also today… 100 percent tariffs on BRICS countries?

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

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Conflicts of Interest: White House Tells Ukraine to Send Its Young Men to the Front Lines

On COI #720, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Ukraine and the Middle East.

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How About a Winnable Nuclear Exchange, America?

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

Like too many people, I sometimes make the mistake of talking about nuclear war, when it’s really annihilation and genocide we’re talking about.

Wars have winners and losers. In nuclear “war,” everyone loses. The planet loses. Life loses and death triumphs on a scale we simply can’t imagine.

Language is so important here. I grew up learning about nuclear exchanges. EXCHANGES! The U.S. military talks of nuclear modernization and “investing” in nukes when the only dividend of this “investment” is mass death.

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Conflicts of Interest: Israel’s War on the Children of Gaza

On COI #719, Connor Freeman and Kyle Anzalone discuss the impact of Israel’s onslaught on children.

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Fourth-Graders Singing Military Songs To Celebrate War

After the fourth graders concluded singing the songs of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, they were hailed as “our future heroes.” Fifty-caliber machine guns and other weapons were on display. An invocation was offered for those missing and captured. A bagpiper skirled a haunting benediction of “Amazing Grace” and the school kids returned to close it out with “Thank You, Soldier.”

In between there were speeches by local dignitaries and military officers as 1200 people chowed down on pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage gravy and biscuits, fruit salad, coffee and juice. When the grade schoolers filed out, several saluted, some tried a 10 year-old version of marching in step and nearly all said, “thank you for your service!”

So concluded the 20th annual Veterans Day Breakfast that filled the University of Toledo basketball arena on November 11.

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The Trillion-Dollar Blob

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

In 2018, the Pentagon failed its first audit. In 2024, it failed its seventh audit in a row. The Pentagon has been “punished” for failing seven audits – and losing track of roughly $2 trillion in gear, weapons, and similar “assets” – with more money. Whether under Presidents Trump or Biden, the Pentagon budget has continued to soar toward a trillion dollars. That is the reward for total fiscal incompetence.

Congress says the Pentagon must achieve “a clean audit” by 2028. Imagine telling the IRS that you can’t account for your financials for seven straight years – and probably at least three more – but you hope to have a “clean” tax return after a decade of effort. And the IRS responds by giving you ever higher tax refunds that you haven’t earned. Nonsensical, isn’t it?

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