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The first few weeks of the second Trump Administration were exciting and hopeful. Elon Musk, along with the support of a large majority of Americans, was going to dive into the Swamp in order free the American citizens. It actually looked as though it were going to happen. The pentagon would be audited, Ft. Knox would be visited, the Fed would be audited, and TRILLIONS would be cut from the budget! But alas, even the richest man in the world (armed with public opinion) would be stopped cold. None of the above would come. Government spending and debt are expected to skyrocket even further!
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced new restrictions on foreign visas, including student visas, targeting individuals who he determines to be critical of the state of Israel. They will not be allowed into the United States if they express such views, he said yesterday. He also slammed foreign governments that scrutinize the social media posts of Americans and punish them for exercising free speech rights. So...is he pro-free speech or anti-free speech?
New German Chancellor Fredreich Merz is in hot water over strong statements this week that Ukraine's war with Russia must continue and that Germany is lifting all restrictions on Ukraine using German weapons to strike deep inside Russia. Also today: 90,000 tons of US weapons have been delivered to Israel over the past two years. Finally: Is Musk throwing in the towel on the DOGE project?
It didn't have to be this way. President Trump had the opportunity when first inaugurated to wash his hands of Biden's proxy war with Russia through Ukraine, but he could not resist intervening further. Now as things are not going as planned, he is raging at both sides, attacking Putin and Zelensky. Also today, Rand versus Lindsey on Russia secondary sanctions...who will win?
By Ron Paul
Deal-making is said to be President Trump’s specialty, yet after five rounds of indirect talks with Iran – most recently just days ago – we seem as far away from an agreement as ever. The fifth round ended last Friday with no breakthrough, but at least no breakdown. However, each day that passes without a document signed on the table is another day for the neocons to maneuver the US president toward an attack on Iran. One way the war party does this is to continuously move the goal posts and change the rules of the game. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, under great pressure from the neocons, has himself signaled at least three position-shifts: from no enrichment at all, to low-level enrichment for civilian uses, back to no enrichment at all. The neocons know that Iran will not give up its right to the civilian use of nuclear power and that is why they are applying maximum pressure to force Trump to officially adopt that position. They know if that becomes the US “red line” then they will win and they will get their war. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, in league with US neocons, has been warning us for 20 years that Iran is “months away” from a nuclear weapon – even though our own Intelligence Community recently re-affirmed that Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon at all. Of course this is the same Netanyahu who promised Congress in 2002 if the US would just invade Iraq, peace and prosperity would break out in the Middle East. “If you take out Saddam, Saddam’s regime,” he told Congress in March of that year, “I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region.” We know how that worked out. Poll after poll shows that the American people are tired of intervention and tired of Middle East wars. President Trump himself recognized this in his scathing rebuke of neocons and interventionists during a recent speech in Saudi Arabia. But rebuke in a speech is not enough. President Trump must actively turn away from the neocons – many of whom are prominent in his own administration. The recent US debacle in Yemen – where billions were wasted, civilians killed, and US military equipment destroyed – is just a taste of what the US would be in for if the neocons get their way and take us to war with Iran. The Iranian foreign minister laid down in the simplest terms how the impasse could be solved, posting on X that, “Zero nuclear weapons = we DO have a deal; Zero enrichment = we do NOT have a deal. My own preference is non-intervention and I do not believe Iran has the desire or the ability to militarily harm the United States. I share President Trump’s view that it would be far better to re-establish relations with Iran and begin mutually beneficial trade with the country. But if a mutually acceptable nuclear deal is the best way to take the neocon war with Iran off the table, then a deal is worth supporting. President Trump should make his position clear to his negotiators: no more waffling or contradictions, get this agreement signed and put one in the “win” column.
Jason Jones is president of The Vulnerable People Project, a charity dedicated to helping victims in areas of conflicts. His organization is active in Gaza, among other places, and we will get a view of the reality of the conflict from one who has spent a good deal of time there.
The House narrowly approved President Trump's "big beautiful bill" earlier today, with two Republicans dissenting. Will this bill usher in a new era of prosperity...or will it drown the country in unmanageable debt?
President Trump announced yesterday that plans have been adopted to construct a "Golden Dome" to protect the United States from a missile attack. It is sold as a completion of President Reagan's ill-fated (but very profitable) "Star Wars" program. Already a down payment "supplemental" appropriation of $150 billion is being prepared. Also today: Is Israel preparing a strike on Iran without US participation?
It started with President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff claiming that Iran can have zero ability to enrich uranium, even for power generation. Then he shifted his public stance. Then he said it again and Trump chimed in. If this is the "red line" then the deal is off and the neocons may well get their US war on Iran. Also today: Trump SLAMS Thomas Massie for questioning massive debt increase in the "big beautiful bill."
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