By James Bovard

The Libertarian Institute

December 6, 2025

The Trump administration's killings of scores of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, "We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists." Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama.

In his 2017 farewell address, Obama boasted, "We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists." Drone strikes increased tenfold under Obama, helping fuel anti-U.S.

By Karen Kwiatkowski

December 6, 2025

The American contract, a combination of Constitution and myth, is unraveling like the marriage of an unimaginative yet loyal wife who wakes up to find the money gone, eviction imminent, and he loves another. Further, in a battle for the kids, or any remaining resources, our lying spendthrift plays cards with the judge and drinks with the sheriff, while we are friendless.

par Philip Giraldi

Beaucoup d'autopromotion en vue.

Il y a toujours quelque chose de nouveau et d'excitant qui sort de Washington. La grande nouvelle de la semaine dernière concernait la prétendue prérogative de l'État américain de tuer des personnes partout dans le monde sans avoir à justifier légalement ou moralement qu'elles méritaient la mort. Inévitablement, cette impulsion provient du sommet du système gouvernemental, le président Donald J.

By Jose NINO

In March 2014, the late Senator John McCain of Arizona stood on the Senate floor and declared that "Russia is now a gas station masquerading as a country."

He repeated this characterization the following year on CNN's State of the Union, elaborating that Russia was merely "a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy." Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) echoed this sentiment, calling Russia "an oil and gas company masquerading as a country." In time, public intellectuals would commonly describe Russia as "gas station with nukes" as a way to dismiss it as an economically hollow petrostate propped up only by natural resources and inherited Soviet nuclear weapons.

George Samuelson

The 47^th POTUS is the oldest person ever elected to the White House, so now may be a good time to question his increasingly erratic behavior.

The 47^th POTUS is the oldest person ever elected to the White House, so now may be a good time to question his increasingly erratic behavior.

Nobody will ever accuse the American president of being a linear thinker and talker.

By Laurence M. Vance

December 5, 2025

When I first wrote ("Murderers for Trump") about President Trump ordering air strikes against "narco-terrorists" on boats in international waters in the Caribbean Sea, there had been three "lethal kinetic strikes." The last time I checked, there have now been 21 such air strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, with 83 people killed.

The Pentagon has not acknowledged what aircraft the military is using to conduct the strikes, but it is supposed to include MQ-9 Reaper drones armed with Hellfire missiles, AC-130J gunships, and F-35 fighter jets.

By Adam Dick
The Ron Paul Institute

December 5, 2025

Back in March of 2014, I wrote about how the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operates an extortion racket-style scheme via its PreCheck program that gives travelers who pay a fee and jump through a bunch of hoops including submitting to fingerprinting and a background check a chance, though no guarantee, that they can evade some harassment from the TSA itself.

By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute

December 5, 2025

Every military servicemember's oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

It is not an oath to a politician. It is not an oath to a party. And it is not an oath to the police state.

Yet what happens when those same men and women are being told-by their own government-that obedience to power and loyalty to a political leader come before allegiance to the Constitution they swore to uphold?

Moon of Alabama

December 5, 2025

The knives are out for the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The leaks from the Pentagon about him will continue until Hegseth is gone.

The officers do not want a boss who is giving illegal orders while scapegoating the generals and soldiers who follow them:

Bradly gets pushed forward to take the beating while Hegseth and Trump claim innocence:

Adm. Bradley had the poor choice of following an illegal order or getting fired.

By Fiona Melton
Crisis Magazine

December 5, 2025

On January 16, 2019, 130 acres of rural North Carolina land near Raleigh were purchased by Carolina Murugan Temple (CMT). A month prior, their plans to build the largest Hindu statue in North America were approved by the county. Under construction now, CMT plans to build a 155-foot-tall statue, which will sit on a 35-foot pedestal. It will be taller than the Statue of Liberty, which stands at 151 feet, not including the pedestal.

Joaquin Flores

Whatever comes next will not be quiet, and it will not be unseen, because this is the art of theater in American politics.

Nothing is like American politics with its over the top drama, drawing in the world's attention, for how could it not, because love it or hate it, it is the gleaming star-spangled unfolding story of the collapse of globalism, and the country's great reorientation carries all the shades of theater, every human story of betrayal and destruction.

By Mary Prenon
The Epoch Times

December 4, 2025

With a changing economy, artificial intelligence (AI) replacing many jobs, and widespread unpreparedness for the job market, the time-honored tradition of tossing their caps in the air to celebrate earning their degrees and starting exciting new careers has turned into disappointment for many college graduates.

Statistics released by the Department of Labor on Nov.

Par Nate Bear, le 3 décembre 2025

Une entreprise étroitement liée aux services de renseignement israéliens supervise la cybersécurité de plus de soixante-dix agences gouvernementales américaines, dont les ministères de la Défense et de la Sécurité intérieure.

Axonius a été fondée par d'anciens espions de l'unité 8200 de l'armée israélienne. Sa plateforme logicielle confère aux opérateurs une visibilité et un contrôle absolus sur tous les types et tous dispositifs, collectant et analysant les données numériques de millions d'employés fédéraux américains.

Par Patrick Lawrence, le 1er décembre 2025

En parcourant les médias pendant le week-end de Thanksgiving...

J'ai lu samedi que le président Trump a annoncé son intention d'accorder une grâce totale à Juan Orlando Hernández, qui purgeait une peine de 45 ans dans une prison fédérale de Virginie-Occidentale pour avoir dirigé, pendant son mandat de président du Honduras, un immense trafic de cocaïne pendant des décennies, en collusion avec certains des cartels de la drogue les plus notoires d'Amérique latine.

© Chip Somodevilla Source: Gettyimages.ru

Le président des États-Unis, Donald Trump, lors d'un cabinet de Défense, ce 2 décembre à la Maison Blanche.

3 déc. 2025, 00:02

Lors d'une conférence de presse ce 2 décembre, à l'issue d'un conseil de sécurité à Washington, Donald Trump a déclaré que le matériel fourni par les États-Unis à l'Ukraine était payé «à 100%» par les Européens.

By Gary D. Barnett

GaryDBarnett.com

December 3, 2025

"Various"wars on drugs"throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration, mass surveillance, ethnic cleansing, population control."

~ Kool A.D.

There cannot be a war on drugs, a war on terrorism, a war on crime, a war on poverty, a war on racism, a war on guns, a war on obesity, border wars, and on and on.

By William J. Astore
TomDispatch.com

December 3, 2025

It's been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America's nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General Kenneth Wilsbach, the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF).

By Ron Unz

The Unz Review

December 3, 2025

For years Donald Trump had no more committed a MAGA supporter than Rep. Margaret Taylor Greene of Georgia.

As a private citizen, she had been fervently loyal to Trump during all the troubles and setbacks of his first term.

Greene was then elected to Congress in 2020 and upon taking office fully endorsed Trump's claims of a stolen election and his efforts to have it overturned.

By Charles Hugh Smith

OfTwoMinds.com

December 3, 2025

If each of these is not a part of any 'reform,' than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way.

Unbeknownst to those of us with little inside knowledge of the complex financial plumbing of the US healthcare system, healthcare is in a death spiral that will surprise everyone but insiders who grasp the system's unsustainability.

Journal dde.crisis de Philippe Grasset  

2 décembre 2025 (17H30) – Ce texte aurait du figurer dans la rubrique ‘RapSit-USA2025', comme c'est d'ailleurs suggéré dans le titre, mais j'aurais été mal à mon aise pour m'exprimer d'une façon directe comme je fais dans mon ‘Journal-dde.crisis'. Or, cette intervention directe me paraît assez nécessaire pour indiquer la perplexité où me plonge le texte ci-dessous, de James Howard Kunstler, sans que je parvienne à trancher et affirmer qui a plutôt raison et qui est plutôt dans la voie de l'erreur.