par Moon of Alabama
Hier, à 20 h 35 UTC, le président américain Donald Trump a semblé annoncer que les États-Unis assureraient la protection militaire du trafic maritime dans le détroit d'Ormuz :
"Pour le bien de l'Iran, du Moyen-Orient et des États-Unis, nous avons informé ces pays [neutres] que nous guiderons leurs navires en toute sécurité hors de ces voies navigables restreintes, afin qu'ils puissent vaquer librement et efficacement à leurs activités.
par AES Alerte
Les États-Unis achèvent le retrait de l'OMS avec un message final : "NOUS NE SERONS PLUS JAMAIS GÉRÉS PAR EUX".
Le secrétaire du HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a annoncé le retrait complet des États-Unis de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé. Dans un discours historique, il a dénoncé les échecs de l'OMS pendant la crise du COVID et a déclaré que la politique de santé américaine ne répondrait plus aux responsables étrangers non élus.
Bloc-Notes
Trump, l'Amérique et l'Antichrist
• Le destin de l'Amérique, aujourd'hui c'est notre roman-feuilleton et sans fin, - bien qu'il se précipite vers la fin. • La fin de l'Amérique c'est encore le sujet du texte présenté ici, sous le titre inhabituel de "Le nationalisme eschatologique américain". • En effet, avec le 'Fool on the Hill' de la Maison,-Blanche, l'Amérique galope vers la Fin des Temps, entraîné par l'excellent coach Netanyahou.
By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute
May 5, 2026
One of the industries hardest hit by the spike in fuel prices caused by the Iran War is airlines. Jet fuel prices have doubled since the start of the war. Airlines have reacted to the fuel price increase by raising fares and baggage fees, as well as by cutting routes.
Raising prices is not a good option for "budget" airlines since their main appeal to consumers is their low prices.
By Ginny Garner
May 5, 2026
"You are the smartest people. I'm late to the party." - former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to the Ron Paul Spring Conference audience
"You have been right for so long. You have been awake longer than most Americans." - former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent to the Ron Paul Spring Conference audience
The theme of Ron Paul's Spring Conference in Lake Jackson, Texas was "War is Back on the Menu" but participants from all over the US weren't placing any orders.
By Ron Unz
The Unz Review
May 5, 2026
For more than a dozen years, Andrew Anglin's Daily Stormer website had been the most popular Alt-Right publication anywhere on the Internet, probably having more readership than all the others combined.
This remarkable achievement came despite the absolutely unprecedented campaign of harassment, suppression, and deplatforming that he faced. His bitter enemies not only had him banned from virtually all standard Internet services but even arranged for the repeated confiscation of his website domains, something that previously would have seemed unimaginable.
By George F. Smith
May 5, 2026
"He who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death." - Thomas Paine
Teddy Roosevelt would be so pleased if he could see the world today, with a US military presence virtually everywhere on the planet. The current savagery with Iran is only the headline conflict - having displaced the proxy missions in Ukraine and Gaza - but many more are quietly underway or waiting in the wings.
By Gary D. Barnett
GaryDBarnett.com
May 5, 2026
"Imagine if the U.S. invaded a country, conquered it after a savage conflict and gained about half of that nation's territory in the treaty that ended the fighting."
Ric Anderson: August 26th, 2018 article in the Las Vegas Sun
Considering all the complete insanity now happening, this subject would not seem important to most at this time, but it should be a vital part of the education process, instead of being purposely and intentionally eliminated from American history.
By Edward Curtin
EdwardCurtin.com
May 5, 2026
"And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw in the mighty flow of information. We will then be close to knowing almost everything we don't need to know."
- Roberto Calasso, The Unnamable Present, 2017
Onerous it is and more onerous it will be when AI relieves us of the burden of knowing anything except how to ask AI the answers to everything.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
May 5, 2026
I was thinking about myself recently, about whether efforts to inform that are contrarian can be successful. In economics, I am known for my reformulation of our understanding of the Soviet Economy and Soviet economic history and for my statement of supply-side economics that added the second blade of the scissors to macroeconomics and was adopted by President Reagan as the economic policy of his administration.
Moon of Alabama
May 5, 2026
Yesterday, at 20:35 UTC, U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to announce U.S. military protection for traffic through the Strait of Hormuz:
.. For the good of Iran, the Middle East, and the United States, we have told these [neutral] Countries that we will guide their Ships safely out of these restricted Waterways, so that they can freely and ably get on with their business.
By Patrick LAWRENCE
The U.S. president has lost the war he started with Iran - or at the very least he has no chance of winning it - but accepting defeat and repairing the damage of the error is simply beyond his reach.
You have to hand it to Sara Jacobs, the California Democrat and the youngest member of the Golden State's House delegation.
She has an O.K.-plus voting record - at least by Capitol Hill standards - as a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees, but this is not why you have to hand it to Sara Jacobs.
By Stephanie SY
At a moment when there's a lot of political attention around questions of affordability, rising health care costs are a growing concern for many Americans. That's especially true for those who are worried about being able to afford insurance premiums after an expansion of subsidies for the Affordable Care Act expired. But they're not the only ones struggling with this.
Un journaliste norvégien se demande si tout le "cirque", les mensonges et revirements de Trump, n'ont pas pour objectif d'épuiser la population, de la rendre apathique, et de l'amener à renoncer à s'intéresser à la politique. En tout cas, commente-t-il, "Trump s'est allié à un maniaque génocidaire pour déclencher une guerre qui coûtera non seulement des milliers de vies, mais qui fera aussi s'effondrer toute l'économie mondiale."
Par Larry Johnson, le 4 mai 2026
À moins que le président TACO [Trump Always Chickens Out :Trump finit toujours pas se dégonfler] Trump ne bluffe, les États-Unis semblent prêts à lancer une nouvelle série d'attaques contre l'Iran en prenant comme prétexte le détroit d'Ormuz. Dimanche après-midi, le président Donald Trump a publié sur Truth Social que les États-Unis commenceront dès lundi à escorter les navires étrangers hors du détroit d'Ormuz dans le cadre du "Projet Liberté", qualifiant cette initiative de geste humanitaire en faveur des navires neutres bloqués par le conflit.
par Hachem Al
Le despote qui préside les États-Unis, ancien animateur de télévision et magnat de l'immobilier fait encore étalage de son animosité à l'égard de l'Iran. Le niveau intellectuel et moral est déplorable.
Après avoir doublement violé la Constitution et le Droit international (rien que cela en matière de viol ?) par l'agression d'un pays qui selon de nombreux experts états-uniens en la matière ne présentait aucun danger ni immédiat, ni futur pour les États-Unis, il se livre à des tweets aussi fallacieux les uns que les autres.
par Institut Beacon
Ce à quoi nous assistons n'est pas une escalade de la stratégie diplomatique. C'est une dégradation complète de l'art de la communication internationale.
Un échange diplomatique sur les réseaux sociaux a offert au public international un fascinant contraste entre deux approches diplomatiques. D'un côté : un diplomate chinois imperturbable démasquant les mensonges avec la sagesse d'une fable.
par J. Matson Heininger
J'avais vingt ans quand j'ai compris au plus profond de moi que l'Amérique était un cauchemar.
J'avais senti que le pays était pourri quand Kennedy a été assassiné. Mais en 1964, je collais des autocollants de LBJ sur les voitures à Arborland, à Ann Arbor.
La "Grande Société" criait... "Vive les droits civiques !"
Puis, en 1968, j'ai vu Bobby, le frère de John Kennedy, se faire assassiner en direct à la télévision, en noir et blanc.
By Karen Kwiatkowski
May 4, 2026
The Iran war, like every US war, is a banker's war. Smedley Butler knew.
"Negotiating" with real estate con-men and private equity bros is an obvious indicator. Another is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's public and unrestrained strategy to kill trade, hyper-inflate Iranian currency, and create poverty and starvation in Iran. We've been weaponizing the dollar for decades to force other countries to submit to US mandates and demands.
By Andrew Wallace
May 4, 2026
Apostates, Heretics, and Traitors are three words that accurately and completely describe most of our Government Bureaucrats. The result is therefore mostly a Criminal Enterprise, not a Constitutional Republic.
As is my wont, this paper is as succinct as I could make it for the benefit of readers.
Apostates renounce or abandon Religious Faith, Constitutional Principles, Solemn Oaths, Integrity, Loyalty, Courage, and dedication to defend the Constitution.