Good morning! Trip the Beltway Fantastic is going on a hiatus of sorts to make way for some more original reporting on my part. I will be posting new stories, and interviews here as breaking news and opportunities for interesting conversati…
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The Washington Post is reporting that the CIA had dismissed as not credible an Israeli warning of a plot to harm the president this summer in Turkey. Was the Israeli “gift” of intelligence just a self-ser…
In September of 2025, during a Saturday vigil in Stockholm’s Odenplan Square, Isak Hernández, age nine, asked if he could recite a poem he wrote. Deeply troubled by images he saw, day and night, from Gaza, he resolved not to be silent. “The…
From John Mearsheimer’s new YouTube channel: The aim of this video is to compare the terms of the new deal to end the Iran war, which key Iranian spokesmen have just described, with those of the June 17, 2026, Memorandum of Understanding (M…
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: In a Wednesday social media post, President Trump has declared that the US controls the Strait of Hormuz and that the US would likely “keep it.” He repeated his previous claims that Iran has “no navy” and…
Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. Sunday was National Peacekeepers’ Day and the Canadian Forces had the temerity to celebrate the UN occupation of Haiti. Through UN missions Ottawa has contributed to major US imperial crimes. On its Fac…
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump has answered Iran’s call for US compensation over its unprovoked attacks on the country with a demand from Iran for compensation to the US and to its own citizens. Using widely inflated fi…
A YouTuber with a million followers, Ryan McBeth, devotes his latest video and Substack column today to a denunciation of an article I wrote last month for Responsible Statecraft, “Why is the Selective Service war gaming a ‘special skills’
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 9 August 2026, I was on “Switzerland” with Vali Nasr, one of the world’s leading experts on Iran, and the host Tom Switzer. We had an excellent discussion about Iran’s latest demands, which came out on 8 A…
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The largest military spending increase in modern times is before the US Senate, with some Republicans balking at the huge price tag at a time when more Americans are feeling the crush of inflation. The mi…
Some of the more than 220 people murdered by our government at sea were likely not involved in drug trafficking at all: The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcot…
Veterans For Peace has issued a strong condemnation of Marco Rubio’s McCarthyite report, Cuba, the Capital of 21st Century Communism, which was released by the State Department on July 20. The 100-page document charges Cuba with interfering…