By Andrew P. Napolitano
May 21, 2026
This week, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to give away tax dollars without congressional or judicial authorization to his friends and allies whom he believes were mistreated by the Biden administration. Can he legally do that?
Here is the backstory.
During the last year of his first term in office, Trump's tax returns were stolen along with those of 425,000 others by an IRS employee who leaked Trump's to media outlets.
By James Bovard
The Future of Freedom Foundation
May 21, 2026
In early 2022, I predicted in the New York Post that inflation would politically bankrupt President Joe Biden. Will the affordability issue similarly bankrupt President Donald Trump?
Trump constantly blusters as if he deserves the Nobel Prize for Economic Triumphs, just like he supposedly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. In a January speech in Iowa, he doubled down on his triumphs by referring to himself in the third person: "Just after one year of President Trump, our economy is booming....
By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21
May 21, 2026
The lad who inspired Aesop to write, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (also known as "The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf"), has grown up and is now President of the United States. Since February 28, 2026, Donald Trump has released 11 statements suggesting the war with Iran was over or that a negotiated deal is close, only it turns out to be a hoax.
What emerges across nearly three months is a remarkably consistent cycle: Trump declares victory or proximity to a deal → Iran denies it or the facts on the ground contradict it → Trump escalates rhetoric → a new round of claimed breakthroughs begins.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
May 21, 2026
As far as I can tell, Donald Trump is the first American president in my lifetime to be actively engaged in business while serving as President of the United States. I have no memory of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or George W. Bush starting and running businesses while occupying the Oval Office. It is true that Lincoln was a known agent of the railroads and that Grant's administration was corrupt, as other 19th-century administrations might have been when the creation of a new nation offered so much to plunder to those with power.
By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack
May 21, 2026
The U.S. Government's plan for World War Three (WW3) is what it has been since the U.S. empire and its "Cold War" began in order to take control over the entire world - that started on 25 July 1945. However, because the U.S. has for decades now been spending over 50% of the world's military expenses (reaching "65% OF TOTAL ANNUAL WORLD MILITARY EXPENDITURES" in 2024) in order to maintain around 900 foreign military bases to police the world for the benefit of America's billionaires who control most of the world's major international corporations, the domestic U.S.
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
May 21, 2026
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By Eric Peters
Eric Peters Autos
May 21, 2026
History often repeats, hence the saying.
About 50 years ago, gas became scarce and expensive. Average people found - very suddenly - they could no longer afford to drive the huge, V8-powered cars that were once the typical car driven by average Americans. If you weren't there to see it, you might not believe it. Try to imagine a world in which owning a car larger - much larger - than a current Mercedes S-Class that had a V8 much larger than the little six the current S-Class comes standard with - was not just possible for working class Americans but also common.
Journal dde.crisis de Philippe Grasset
Les forces israélo-américanistes (dans cet ordre) ont eu la peau du candidat à la désignation républicaine pour la Chambre (Krntucky) Thomas Massie, populiste libertarien de droite et vedette des MAGA antiTrump. Malgré l'extraordinaire puissance de l'offensive ($32 millions pour une primaire, un record), Massie a réussi à obtenir 48% des voix contre le candidat israélo-américaniste avec 54% (plusieurs candidats, le total des voix exprimées dépasse 100%).
By W. James ANTLE III
Lindsey Graham and company say toppling Iran is worth a political bloodbath. Is it?
President Donald Trump clearly wants the Iran War to be over, if the Iranians will give him a face-saving way out. He is not yet ready to give any kind of face-saving way out to the Iranians.
Should that basic dynamic change, allowing Trump to declare victory and come home, he will quickly learn that the people who cheerled him into this war will turn on him once he wants to end it.
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Le Sénat américain a avancé une résolution contestant l'engagement militaire contre l'Iran. Quatre républicains ont rejoint les démocrates, signe de fractures autour de Donald Trump. Une guerre impopulaire qui pourrait peser sur les élections de mi-mandat de 2026.
Le Sénat américain a franchi le 19 mai une étape symboliquement forte en faisant avancer une résolution visant à exiger le retrait des forces américaines engagées dans la guerre contre l'Iran.
par Ron Unz
Le jeune garçon qui a inspiré à Ésope son conte "Le garçon qui criait au loup" (également connu sous le nom de "Le jeune berger et le loup") a grandi et est aujourd'hui président des États-Unis. Depuis le 28 février 2026, Donald Trump a publié 11 déclarations suggérant que la guerre contre l'Iran était terminée ou qu'un accord négocié était proche, mais il s'avère que ce n'était qu'un canular.
By Laurence M. Vance
May 20, 2026
Review of Paul D. Miller, Ethics of War: A Short Companion (B&H Academic, 2025), xiv + 194 pgs.
This book is part of the Essentials in Christian Ethics series. This is a series "made up of short, introductory volumes spanning metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics" (p. xi). It is "designed to model for readers how the biblical ethic applies to every area of life both as a distinct theological and philosophical discipline in the context of the Christian moral tradition from a robust Protestant viewpoint" (p.
By Scott Ritter and Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
May 20, 2026
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By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
May 20, 2026
In Sheffield, England, a group of schools under the organization of Notre Dame High School, designated as a British national teaching school to lead the training of teachers, has developed an "anti-racism" curriculum for seven year old kids that teaches that blacks cannot be racist towards white people, because racism can only be expressed by whites who hold cultural power over black people.
By Adam Dick
The Ron Paul Institute
May 20, 2026
National Public Radio (NPR) show All Things Considered aired a report Monday concerning how NPR is doing after the elimination of United Sates government funding. The overall assessment came in roughly as "Things are going alright."
David Folkenflik reported in the segment that NPR is suffering from an eight million dollars shortfall, amounting to a little under three percent of its annual budget.
We love to mind each other's business. And, unlike our benighted ancestors of a hundred years ago, we have just the tool to do it. I'm holding it in my hand, and most of you have it in yours.
By JD Breen
Pretium Insights
May 20, 2026
Has any century started worse than this one?
It's a question typical of our short-sighted, self-centered, attention-deprived age. The answer seems obvious, and can be sought by looking a hundred years into the rearview mirror.
Le Sénat américain a fait progresser mardi une résolution sur les pouvoirs de guerre visant à exiger l'autorisation du Congrès pour toute poursuite de l'agression militaire américaine contre l'Iran.
La Chambre haute a voté mardi par 50 voix contre 47 pour aller de l'avant avec la mesure présentée par le sénateur démocrate Tim Kaine.
Les sénateurs républicains Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski et Rand Paul ont voté en faveur de l'avancement de la résolution.
Les mesures hostiles de Trump à l'encontre des réfugiés touchent désormais les Afghans bloqués au Qatar depuis le retrait américain de 2021.
Source : Mike Ludwig, Truthout
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
Selon des anciens combattants et des défenseurs des réfugiés, l'administration Trump s'apprête à renvoyer de force les Afghans qui ont collaboré avec l'armée américaine soit dans ce pays déchiré par la guerre, soit en République démocratique du Congo (RDC).
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Le véhicule des deux tireurs, aux abords de la mosquée de San Diego, en Californie, le 18 mai 2026
Les deux individus qui ont tué trois personnes dans une mosquée de San Diego, le 18 mai, ont été identifiés comme étant Cain Clark, 17 ans, et Caleb Velasquez, 18 ans, selon une source policière citée par un quotidien.
Par Larry C. Johnson pour Strategic Culture Foundation, le 19 mai 2026
Le jeune garçon qui a inspiré à Ésope son conte "L'enfant qui criait au loup" (également connu sous le nom de "Le jeune berger et le loup") a grandi et occupe aujourd'hui le poste de président des États-Unis. Depuis le 28 février 2026, Donald Trump a publié 11 déclarations suggérant la fin de la guerre contre l'Iran ou l'imminence d'un accord de paix, mais toutes se sont avérées n'être qu'un canular.