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Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

Newly-confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio is facing his first real foreign policy challenge: how to get his own Department to obey President Trump’s 90-day halt on foreign development assistance. Will he be able to stand up to “the resistance” in his own shop? Also today, Trump’s shocking position on displaced Palestinians.

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

Minutes before the start of the Bills-Chiefs AFC championship game on Sunday, viewers were subjected to a risible 30 second ad paid for by a shadowy dark money PAC called National Interest [sic] Action. The ad serves as a kind of scare-mongering open letter to President Trump. A voiceover informs the President (and by extension, the millions who were tuning in to the highly anticipated AFC Championship game) in oh-so-grave tones that, he, Trump…

…has an opportunity to make America bold, prosperous and free…

Make us proud of the Red White and Blue…

Our allies and partners should trust us and know that we have their backs…

The axis of aggressors should fear us…

Our strength creates peace…

And peace leads to prosperity for all.

Not bad, if your target audience is made up entirely of Fourth Graders. The reaction from my better half was “What was that?”

Continue reading “James Carden on Scaremongering on Sunday”

On COI #750, Kyle Anzalone discusses Trump’s remarks on Gaza.

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As expected, Trump has started the process for redesignating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and he is also going after USAID support for U.N. and humanitarian aid groups working in Yemen:

It also directs the US Agency for International Development to end its relationship with United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations and contractors “that have made payments to the Houthis, or which have opposed international efforts to counter the Houthis while turning a blind eye towards the Houthis’ terrorism and abuses.”

The Biden administration removed the Houthis from the FTO list for a very good reason, and it is a terrible mistake to put them back on. The Houthis are the de facto government of the part of Yemen where most of its people live. Labeling them as terrorists will do tremendous harm to the population. The sanctions that come with this designation threaten to cripple the economy, block remittances, and prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid. That is why humanitarian aid groups condemned the designation the first time, and it is why they are condemning it again now.

Continue reading “Trump’s Malevolent Yemen Policy”

I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war.

On a rainy Saturday afternoon in the Catskill Mountains where New Yorkers went for the summer to escape the city heat,  Alice Slater’s mother took her to go see a movie in town.  It was late summer in 1945, and the second World War had just ended. Alice remembers parading around the Catskills town a few weeks earlier as everyone celebrated the end of the war. When I asked her when she first became aware of nuclear weapons, the first thing she thought to tell me was about her trip to the theater with her mom. Instead of trailers before the movies they used to show news reels. The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima projected across the screen and Alice asked her mom, “What is that?”

“That’s a wonderful new weapon and now all the boys would come home,” her mom answered.

Continue reading “Maybe Doom Isn’t Scary Enough”