By Jon HOFFMAN
This past weekend, the Islamic State (ISIS) killed three Americans in Syria-two US soldiers and one civilian contractor-marking the first US casualties in the country since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
President Donald Trump has vowed to respond with "very serious retaliation." His best course of action is removing the needless and counterproductive US military presence in Syria.
Mohammed ibn Fayçal al-Rachid,
Des tweets xénophobes à la politique d'État: le second mandat du 47e président des États-Unis a été marqué par une guerre totale contre les migrants et les fondements mêmes de l'identité américaine. Les médias occidentaux constatent avec horreur la descente de la superpuissance dans les ténèbres d'une hystérie nationaliste.
publié le 17/12/2025 Par Camille Adam
180 millions d'Américains n'arrivent pas à joindre les deux bouts, 47 millions dépendent des banques alimentaires, l'espérance de vie recule, 35 % des adultes reportent leurs rendez-vous médicaux pour des raisons budgétaires, la population active diminue, les emplois sont pour une large part sous-payés et/ou de faible qualité, et le bouleversant forum Reddit dédié aux personnes en difficultés financières « r/povertyfinance » est passé de 65 000 abonnés en 2018 à 2,4 millions aujourd'hui.
By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org
December 17, 2025
In his Executive Order of January 21, 2025, President Donald Trump fulfilled one of his campaign promises by terminating the Biden administration's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. He announced a new era of what he called merit-based opportunity (MBO). He saw MBO as the best way to enforce civil rights and equal opportunities, reflecting a political philosophy best illustrated by Harry Jaffa's argument that equality is the bedrock of "a just and generous Conservatism." The Executive Order states:
By Ron Unz
The Unz Review
December 17, 2025
Back when I was in college, more years ago than I'd like to consider, one of my majors was Classical History, and I did quite a lot of original research in that field. Then after I graduated and began my doctoral studies in Theoretical Physics, I took a little time to write up some of that work and published several articles in the leading scholarly journals.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
December 17, 2025
For generations, "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" has been treated as a playful reminder to children to be good because someone, somewhere, is watching.
Today, it reads less like a joke and more like a warning.
The Surveillance State is making a naughty list, and we're all on it.
Long before Santa's elves start loading his sleigh with toys for good girls and boys, the government's surveillance apparatus is already at work-logging your movements, monitoring your messages, tracking your purchases, scanning your face, recording your license plate, and feeding it all into algorithmic systems designed to determine whether you belong on a government watchlist.
By Brandon Campbell
Ultimate-Survival
December 17, 2025
Oliver Webb-Carter wants you to believe that holding the SAS accountable for extra-judicial killings represents a perversion of justice. His recent piece on the Clonoe inquest performs a familiar ideological manoeuvre: present state assassination as reluctant necessity, frame legal scrutiny as persecution, position immunity from prosecution as operational requirement rather than political choice.
By Paul Dragu
The New American
December 17, 2025
Americans have repeatedly been told that the days of sending money to Ukraine are over. Well, that's not true.
The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which comes with a total sticker price of just over $900 billion, includes $800 million in aid to Ukraine over the next two years. The money continues funding the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which pays American companies to make weapons for Ukraine's military.
Giacomo Gabellini
La National Security Strategy pubblicata recentissimamente dall'amministrazione Trump trae palesemente ispirazione alla stessa logica che innervava la bozza della National Defense Strategy visionata a settembre da «Politico» e dal «Washington Post».
La National Security Strategy pubblicata recentissimamente dall'amministrazione Trump trae palesemente ispirazione alla stessa logica che innervava la bozza della National Defense Strategy visionata a settembre da «Politico» e dal «Washington Post».
By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute
December 16, 2025
Unless President Trump reverses course, the "Lower Prices Bigger Paychecks" banner that hung behind him at his "affordability" speech this month will be remembered as being to economic policy what President George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" banner was to foreign policy.
According to a Politico poll, many Americans are having difficulty paying for food, housing, transportation, and health care.
By Laurence M. Vance
December 16, 2025
There have now been 22 "lethal, kinetic strikes" by the U.S. military against "narco-terrorists" in international waters who were supposedly transporting drugs to the United States. It recently came to light that the opening salvo of these strikes, on September 2, resulted in two survivors who were killed with a double-tap strike.
Many on the Left, and some on the Right, have denounced the second strike as a war crime, and called for the firing of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
By George F. Smith
December 16, 2025
Accusations of genocide in Gaza are present everywhere except where most people get their news - mainstream media - but is it fair to call the military action in Gaza a genocide ? Is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intentionally trying to kill every Palestinian, women and children included, as part of a territorial expansion program called Greater Israel that might include a Trump Riviera ? According to a UN resolution, "genocide" requires "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
December 16, 2025
Virginia, formerly a proud and distinguished state, is the home of many of the founding fathers of the United States-George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason-has fallen into the hands of people ashamed of Virginia's proud heritage.
The state of Virginia was destroyed by the influx of lobbyists and federal government bureaucrats who serve every interest except the public's.
By Allan Stevo
December 15, 2025
I sat with a theologian who is unwilling to be blinded by distractions in his field of expertise. It is beautiful talking with him about such matters. But when he strays off-target, he is easily deceived.
It takes every person time to realize: "If there is fraud and narrative in virtually everything mainstream culture says about my field of expertise, then perhaps that is the case in every other area of life as well."
By James Bovard
The Future of Freedom Foundation
December 15, 2025
The Trump administration effectively condemned the downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), portraying it as unfit for federal workers. HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced: "It is time to turn the page on the Weaver Building and relocate to a new headquarters that prioritizes the well-being of HUD employees and properly reflects the passion and excellence of our team."
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
December 15, 2025
Social programs, formally called welfare programs, administered in Minnesota under governor Tim Waltz, former Democrat candidate for vice president, indicate that Minnesota social programs are fraught with profits for companies formed in order to scam the welfare system. One scheme billed under the federal child nutrition program for serving meals to thousands of children each day when in fact few if any meals were served.
President Trump promises to be the "affordability president." The problem is that he-like presidents before him-won't address the root cause of rising prices.
By Eric Sammons
Crisis Magazine
December 15, 2025
Donald Trump doesn't want us to believe our own eyes. He wants us to accept that things are getting more affordable, even though we see prices rising all around us. To be fair, he's not the first president to try to play sleight-of-hand on Americans; every president spends his time in office selling Americans on how great the country is doing under his leadership, regardless of the reality on the ground (or in the grocery store).
By Chuck Baldwin
Chuck Baldwin Live
December 15, 2025
There is absolutely no doubt about it: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Admiral Mitch Bradley are war criminals. So is President Donald Trump. The premeditated killings of unarmed, noncombatant civilians in boats off the coast of Venezuela are war crimes under international law and murder under the U.S. Law of War, the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the U.S.
Par M.K. Bhadrakumar - Le 12 décembre 2025 - Source Indian Punchline
La transformation de l'ordre mondial en multipolarité est un travail en cours avec des variables à l'œuvre, mais son issue sera largement déterminée par l'alignement des trois grandes puissances - les États-Unis, la Russie et la Chine. Historiquement, ce « triangle » est apparu lorsque le couvercle s'est détaché du schisme sino-soviétique dans les années 1960 et qu'une féroce acrimonie publique a éclaté entre Moscou et Pékin, ce qui a incité l'administration Nixon à contrecarrer la mission secrète d'Henry Kissinger à Pékin pour rencontrer face à face le Président Mao Zedong et le Premier ministre Zhou En-lai et, espérait-il, trouver un modus vivendi pour contrer conjointement la Russie.
Bloc-Notes
16 décembre 2025 - Décidément, nous le remarquons une fois de plus, le rapport NSS-2025 fait beaucoup de bruit, dépassant largement toutes les polémiques et querelles autour de Donald Trump. Et, au cœur de cette NSS2025, c'est bien la critique furieuse de l'évolution de l'Europe qui tient la vedette. Il s'agit de ce passage et de ces multiples remorque qui dénoncent "l'effondrement civilisationnel" de l'Europe.