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The Federal Reserve just lowered interest rates — but what does that really mean for everyday Americans? In this episode, financial expert Phillip Patrick from Birch Gold Group joins us to break down the impact of the Fed’s decision on inflation, savings, mortgages, and the broader U.S. economy.
On Tuesday the US Senate voted to push back on President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil - a move that caused coffee prices to soar for American consumers. Is the US Legislative Branch starting to wake up to their Constitutional role in government? Also today - you'll never guess which country the US has bombed the most this past year...
The new US "war on narco-terrorism" in Latin America will enrich the coffers of the military-industrial complex and will create much death and destruction in the countries the US government decides to "liberate," but in the end the result will be failure...and that's just fine with the neocons. Also today: US Ambassador to NATO says $2 billion more in weapons in the pipeline for Ukraine.
We are hearing more and more about the "successful" Panama operation under President GHW Bush to "beat the Vietnam Syndrome" and re-start US interventionism overseas. This is to be the model for the invasion of Venezuela as well. Will they get away with it again?
In a new survey some 30 percent of Americans said they could not afford a vacation. That is the highest number among all countries surveyed. Meanwhile the US national debt just surpassed $38 trillion. Is there a connection?
By Ron Paul
According to several recent news reports, the two major Trump foreign policy shifts last week are the handiwork of Marco Rubio, the President’s Secretary of State and (acting) National Security Advisor. As with all neocon plans, they will be big on promises and small on delivery. First up, according to Bloomberg it was Rubio who finally convinced President Trump to take “ownership” of the US proxy war on Russia, and for the first time place sanctions on Russia. Up to this point President Trump chose to portray himself as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia. But with this move against Russia’s oil sector he can no longer credibly claim that this is “Joe Biden’s war.” The Trump move followed a confusing few weeks since the Trump/Putin Alaska summit in August. After that meeting Trump dropped the neocon position that a ceasefire in the Russia/Ukraine war must occur before any peace negotiations. It was a sign that Trump was looking more realistically at the war. He also said he did not think Ukraine would win, which is pretty obvious. A surprise call to Putin the day before Ukrainian president Zelensky was to arrive in town just over a week ago reinforced that position and Zelensky left Washington empty-handed. He was seeking Tomahawk missiles that could strike deep into Russian territory. Then out of the blue President Trump last week announced through his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the US would be sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil companies until Russia declares a ceasefire in the war before negotiations. That won’t happen, but what it does mean is that Rubio and the neocons have successfully gotten Trump to step on the escalation escalator. That is what they always do. It will be much harder to back down now. At the same time the US Administration was jumping deeper into the Russia/Ukraine war, a long-time neocon dream was suddenly back in play. Although in Trump’s first term a “regime change” operation was attempted against Venezuela, it failed spectacularly. But the neocons have long dreamed of overthrowing the Venezuelan government – they almost got their way back in 2002 – and suddenly after several weeks of extrajudicial murder on the high seas in the name of fighting the drug war, President Trump announced that land strikes on Venezuela would begin soon. He did mention that he might brief Congress on his plans for war on Venezuela, not that Congress can be bothered to care much one way or the other. The neocon old guard that still dominates Washington foreign policy is taking a victory lap. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham was on the Sunday shows beaming over the conversion of “no regime-change wars” President Trump to “regime change wars” President Trump. The Saddam Hussein WMD factories of 2002 have become the Nicolas Maduro cocaine and fentanyl factories of 2025 and once again the neocon war lies are amplified by the US mainstream media and transmitted to the American people. A new disaster is in the making. The “global war on terror” has been rebranded the “hemispheric war on narco-terror” and the US military industrial complex is rubbing its hands in anticipation of a windfall. After John Bolton’s disastrous stint in the first Trump Administration, promises were made that the second Trump Administration would be neocon-free. Instead, the neocons are back. Unless President Trump wakes up soon, the neocons will destroy his second term…and maybe the country.
President Trump has decided that it's "Empire First" rather than "America First." The two are not the same at all. "Empire First" means continuing the endless wars that have nothing to do with America. It means bailing out Argentina at the expense of American farmers and taxpayers. It means, trying to keep the idea alive that every inch of the planet must be under the thumb of the U.S. federal government. That ideology has been running on fumes for decades. The question was Can we pivot back to "America First" before total bankruptcy hits? That was the promise and hope of electing Trump. He has broken that promise.
Another day, another Trump position on the Ukraine war. After saying just Monday that it is unlikely that Ukraine would win the war with Russia, President Trump today announced that the US is sanctioning Russia's two oil giants until Russia agrees to a ceasefire along current conflict lines. Not coincidentally, NATO uber-hawk Mark Rutte was in town yesterday bending Trump's ear.
As the Trump Administration continues to blow up speedboats in international waters off the Venezuelan coast, rumors persist that the US president intends to launch a ground operation against the country. Is the attack imminent? Is anyone in Congress doing a thing to stop it?
More than 80 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the "ceasefire" went into effect nearly two weeks ago. Will Trump's "peace deal" be able to hold? Also today: Why was the CIA lying to Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff?
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