Martin Jay
Lebanon now is the main theatre, and the game that Israel is playing there is incredibly risky for Netanyahu and Trump.
The failed talks between the U.S. and Iran surprised no one. But what is surprising is how there seems to be no safety catch on Trump's foreign policy. Except Lebanon.
What did we just witness when the talks between the U.S. and Iran failed ? For many, the whole show was as surreal as it was disingenuous.
By Andrew P. Napolitano
April 16, 2026
The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.
- Justice Louis D.
By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org
April 16, 2026
Walter E. Williams often made the point that a policy should be judged by whether it works, not by its good intentions. This warning is especially important because politicians are experts at declaring good intentions. If we judge them by their stated intentions alone, when their schemes end in disaster they could simply remind us that they meant well.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
April 16, 2026
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."- Friedrich Nietzsche
One week after posting a profanity-laced Easter message threatening to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, Donald J. Trump, the 47th president of the United States, spent the night of April 12 and into the early morning hours unleashing a barrage of AI-generated images, threats and insults.
By Andrew Wallace
April 16, 2026
Congress is gambling that most of the People are Sunshine Patriots who are brainwashed, ignorant, apathetic, and freeloaders. They are correct at this instant in time, but that can change in a heartbeat when living conditions deteriorate further.
Anyone who does not know that our economy is on the brink of collapse is an Economic Illiterate. A great majority of the People elected President Trump on a platform of "America-First" but he is practicing Zionist, "Israel-First".
John Gotti ordered the murder of five people, while Trump ordered the murder of thousands.
By Kurt Nimmo
Another Day in the Empire
April 16, 2026
In the climax to Francis Ford Coppola's classic film, The Godfather, Michael Corleone, the scion of an Italian crime family, orders the murder of rival Mafia leaders after a failed peace meeting with members of the Five Families in New York.
Reading Truth Social posts by President Donald Trump, I am reminded of this film with its bloody ending.
By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21
April 16, 2026
If you set aside your logic and rational thought and listen instead to what Donald Trump and his media echo chamber is saying about the war with Iran you are hearing this:
The US has wiped out Iran's military capabilities.
The nuclear program is obliterated.
Iran's economy is shattered and it is looking for a way to be reintegrated into the global economy.
The man is always negotiating.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
April 16, 2026
Eminently quotable writer James Howard Kunstler sized up President Trump's play in Iran a couple months back by concluding, "The art of the deal is not for sissies." That line aptly describes Trump's whole presidency, doesn't it?
Trump makes moves that scare people. Even his friends and allies require an occasional pause to digest exactly what he may or may not be planning.
Par Larry Johnson, le 16 avril 2026
Trump s'apprête à attaquer à nouveau l'Iran - peut-être dès ce week-end - avant de déclarer victoire et de retirer les forces américaines de la région du golfe Persique. Pourquoi ? Parce que Trump, par l'intermédiaire du secrétaire à la Guerre Hegseth, a dépêché 10 000 militaires américains supplémentaires dans la région du golfe Persique, ainsi que le groupe aéronaval de l'USS George H.W.
Par Larry C. Johnson
Trump s'apprête à attaquer à nouveau l'Iran — peut-être dès ce week-end — en prélude à une déclaration de victoire et au retrait des forces américaines de la région du golfe Persique. Je dis cela parce que Trump, par l'intermédiaire du secrétaire à la Guerre Hegseth, a dépêché 10 000 militaires américains supplémentaires dans la région du golfe Persique, ainsi que le groupe aéronaval de l'USS George H.W.
Par Jeffrey D. Sachs, Bandy X. Lee, James Gilligan, Prudence L. Gourguechon et James R. Merikangas
Le président Trump présente ce que les experts en santé mentale légale ont identifié comme la "triade noire" des traits de personnalité : le narcissisme, le machiavélisme et la psychopathie. Il s'agit là d'une urgence constitutionnelle
Note de la rédaction : La lettre suivante a été envoyée aux dirigeants bipartis du Congrès le lundi 13 avril 2026 au sujet des récentes déclarations et actions du président américain Donald J.
Par Patrick Lawrence
Arrêt sur info — 15 avril 2026
Note de la rédaction. Avertissement : Toute personne craignant d'être accusée d'antisémitisme pour avoir critiqué Israël devrait s'abstenir de lire le reportage suivant de notre chroniqueur américain Patrick Lawrence. Lawrence y démontre comment le président américain Donald Trump devient de plus en plus dépendant du Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu et agit non pas dans l'intérêt des États-Unis, mais uniquement dans celui d'Israël.
Laura Ruggeri
Trump is not an aberration, a deviation from the system. He is the system finally becoming visible in all its self-undermining contradictions.
The No Kings protests, which began last June to coincide with Donald Trump's birthday and a U.S. Army 250th anniversary military parade in Washington, have drawn millions of participants, not only in the United States but more recently in several Western countries as well.
Par Larry Johnson, le 15 avril 2026
En mettant de côté toute logique et pensée rationnelle pour écouter ce que Donald Trump et les médias qui en font l'écho disent au sujet de la guerre avec l'Iran, voici ce que l'on entend :
Les États-Unis ont anéanti les capacités militaires de l'Iran.
Le programme nucléaire est anéanti.
L'économie iranienne est en ruine et le pays cherche un moyen de se reconnecter à l'économie mondiale.
par Caitlin Johnstone
Je n'ai pas honte d'admettre que j'espère que les États-Unis et Israël subiront une défaite écrasante et dévastatrice en Iran. J'espère que cette guerre entraînera l'effondrement de tout l'empire américain. Ma seule loyauté va à l'humanité, et faire partie de l'équipe humaine dans le monde d'aujourd'hui signifie être contre l'empire américain et contre Israël.
By Karen Kwiatkowski
April 15, 2026
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By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
April 15, 2026
The US Treasury Department last week releasedits monthly report on federal spending and revenue. March spending for the US federal government was up by more than $20 billion, or by nearly four percent, from March of last year. In spite of the administration's claims last year that Trump would implement hundreds of billions in spending cuts, the US federal government is now spending at higher levels than anything seen since 2021 when covid-related spending surged above all previous historical peacetime levels.
By Nick Giambruno
International Man
April 15, 2026
Crassus was one of the richest and most powerful men in Rome.
He rose to the top alongside Julius Caesar and Pompey as part of the First Triumvirate, an informal three-man alliance that dominated Roman politics even though it was not an official office.
Crassus wanted military glory to match his wealth and political influence, so in 53 BC he led a Roman invasion of the Parthian Empire, which then ruled much of what is now modern-day Iran.
The real enemy in the Iran War.
By JD Breen
Pretium Insights
April 15, 2026
"What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. As the President showed, two can play at that game."
- Vice President JD Vance
The war with Iran was lost the moment it was launched. There's no "winning" a fight that can only make everything worse.
Before the war, the US military offered the illusion of Mideast security.
By Alexandra Bruce
Forbidden Knowledge TV
April 15, 2026
By now, most of us have a decent grasp of how mass media is weaponized to facilitate the perpetratration of transnational crimes. We see the mainstream media go into lockstep with the same scripted propaganda on a daily basis and we know that we're living in 5th Generational Warfare (5GW).
We understand that COVID was a multi-trillion-dollar fraud and we can comprehend the enormous marshaling of forces that it must have taken, across many sectors, over several years to pull it off.