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The “Trump Dividend” Is Just Another Proposed Tax Hike

Thomas Knapp: Three Card Monte. Photo by ZioDave. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. “Only I can make this promise to you,” US president Donald Trump told America from the stage of his party’s weird midterm “convention” event on September 9: “If the Republicans win the House and Senate, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen … Continue reading The “Trump Dividend” Is Just Another Proposed Tax Hike → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Russia’s New 1945 War Monument Signals The Revival Of Its Historic Rivalry With Japan By Andrew Korybko It wasn’t Russia that’s responsible for this, but the US, which refused to allow its de facto Japanese protectorate to settle their dispute over... Read More › - Voice of East

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Voice of East: Could Washington Deploy Ukraine’s Veterans In Latin America Under A New Monroe Doctrine? By Uriel Araujo The conflicts in Ukraine and Iran are transforming asymmetric warfare, from FPV drones to electronic war. Latin American veterans and criminal groups are already entering... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: As of September 8, Forbes reports, more than 100,000 people have signed a petition asking organizers of New York City’s 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony to “carefully consider whether [New York City mayor Zohran] Mamdani’s participation would align with the intention of the ceremony and the expectations of the families most directly affected by the tragedy.” Coming from … Continue reading Stop Letting Politicians Milk 9/11 For Their Own Benefit → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Ukraine’s Wartime Consensus Frays As Europe Confronts The Limits of Sanctions By Uriel Araujo The political foundations of the Ukraine war are being challenged. EU member states are increasingly weighing the risks of sanctions and financial support, while Kiev confronts corruption... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: Andrew Langer’s “What JD Vance Gets Wrong About Hamilton” (The Wall Street Journal, August 28) could as aptly have been titled “What JD Vance Gets Wrong About Milton Friedman.” Langer notes that Hamiltonian trade barriers were “generally moderate” in comparison with “President Trump’s sweeping protectionism,” but is just as concerned that “Mr. Vance also caricatures … Continue reading No Mercantilists, No Masters → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Trump’s New Monroe Doctrine Could Push Canada Toward China By Uriel Araujo Trump’s escalating trade war with Canada reveals a broader geopolitical drive. As Washington revives Monroeist thinking and pressures Ottawa, Canada is diversifying its trade and security relationships. Could US... Read More › - Voice of East

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Voice of East: Niger Mutiny: Russia Thwarts France’s Latest Power Play In The Sahel By Andrew Korybko France attempted to exploit the preexisting rivalry between the Nigerien military and the Presidential Guard that was exacerbated by recent terrorist attacks as part of a plot... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: In 2024, Floridians voted, by a margin of 55.9% to 44.1%, to legalize recreational marijuana. Unfortunately, the threshold for passage of “Amendment 3” was 60% and the measure failed. So far so bad … but it gets worse. Nearly two years later we’ve learned that state government officials misappropriated millions of dollars in taxpayer money; … Continue reading Dog Bites Man: Florida Pols Rigged an Election Using Stolen Taxpayer Money → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Is Russia Really Plotting To Test NATO’s Resolve? By Andrew Korybko It’s actually NATO that might soon test Russia’s resolve. Politico cited unnamed officials to report that CIA chief John Ratcliffe’s unannounced trip to Russia was primarily meant to warn it against... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: “California,” Milo Yiannopoulos wrote last year on X, “needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can’t prove they are in the US legally.” On August 27, ICE agents abducted Yiannopoulos at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, briefly detained … Continue reading Welcome to the Milo Yiannopoulos No-Gloating Zone → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Thomas Knapp: The US Army, Fox Business reports, plans to build nuclear “microreactors” at five of its bases — Fort Bragg, Fort Campbell, Fort Hood, Fort Benning, and Fort Drum — over the next two years, with at least 15 more to follow later. Why? To, the report says, “strengthen the military’s energy security and reduce its … Continue reading Off-Grid Is Good For Everyone, Not Just the Military → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Thomas Knapp: On August 22, a new set of US tariffs went into effect. Those tariffs charge American buyers of Canadian goods — 569 categories of stuff including dairy, alcohol, electronics, furniture, building materials, and other items, amounting to a usual annual value of nearly $25 billion — an extra 50%. Let me re-state and clarify that: … Continue reading Say It With Me Again: Trump’s Tariffs are Taxes on Americans → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Peskov Shouldn’t Have Been Surprised By Tusk’s Defence Of The Nord Stream Sabotage By Andrew Korybko Simply put, it’s par for the course for European leaders to support all actions – including terrorism – aimed against Russia, and especially so in... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: In late 1861, Union soldiers in Bloomfield, Missouri, found the local newspaper’s office empty and decided to put it to good use. Stars and Stripes covered the activities of the three Illinois regiments. Their commander in chief, of course, was US president Abraham Lincoln. Over time, the paper gained direct funding from the military, but with … Continue reading Stars and Stripes, Perhaps Not Forever → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Thomas Knapp: “Our national debt just hit 40 TRILLION DOLLARS!” some guy tweeted on August 19. “This is bad. Congress needs to get spending under control and BALANCE THE BUDGET. Americans deserve better.” That does sound like a good idea. But coming from US Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), it’s just hot air. A “Readers added context they … Continue reading Note to Rick Scott: Stop Tweeting and Cut Up That Government Credit Card → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: USA Scales Back South Korea Drills To Appease North Korea As Iran War Drains Resources By Uriel Araujo The Trump administration is scaling back the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises with South Korea while US forces remain entangled in the Middle... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: “President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea,” Matthew Lee and Ben Finley write for the Associated Press, “does not just slight a longtime ally but raises broader concerns about the security interests of the United States in Asia and elsewhere.” Trump’s reason for supposedly, and in unspecified ways, downsizing … Continue reading Korean Peninsula: One Small Step in the Right Direction → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: USS Abraham Lincoln Suicide Crisis: Several Sailors Reportedly “Attempted To Go Overboard” By Uriel Araujo Reports of sailors attempting to go overboard aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln amid the war in Iran have exposed a military crisis. The US also faces... Read More › - Voice of East

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Voice of East: The US Is Implementing The NATO 3.0 Concept In Asia Through AUKUS+ By Andrew Korybko The US is replicating its anti-Russian regional containment model against China. Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby gave a landmark speech in Manilla during the first... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: Around the US this November, voters will decide a number of tax questions. In California, it’s “wealth tax” on billionaires. In mine, it’s an increase in the “homestead exemption,” the amount of home value excluded from property taxes. In your neck of the woods, it might be a sales tax for road maintenance of emergency … Continue reading Tax Supporters Falsely Define “Cost” and “Lose” → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: US Strategic Oil Reserves Hit A 43-Year Low: How Long Can Washington Sustain The Iran War? By Uriel Araujo The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to a 43-year low while the Iran conflict continues to disrupt oil supplies and shipping.... Read More › - Voice of East

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Voice of East: Why Did Russia Once Again Reaffirm Its Commitment To The “Spirit Of Anchorage”? By Andrew Korybko Putin favours compromising for peace over continuing to pursue maximum victory at the growing risk of World War III, but it’s up to Trump whether... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: “The congressional town hall is becoming an endangered species,” Kate Santaliz writes at Axios. As the Congress goes into its late summer recess, only 11 of its 535 members show such events on their August schedules. Coming less than three months before all 435 members of the House and 35 members of the Senate are up … Continue reading “Town Hall” Pageants Lose Their Luster for Politicians → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: There’d Likely Be Another Civil War Before Ukraine Meaningfully Turns Away From The West By Andrew Korybko For as much as the Telegraph fears this scenario and Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service hopes that it’ll happen, it’s unrealistic to expect that the... Read More › - Voice of East

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Attack of the $20 Burrito!

Thomas Knapp: Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet got people talking with an early August tweet in which he relates a student activist’s take on the “affordability” issue. “A burrito,” the student told him, “shouldn’t cost $20.” On the putative political “right,” responses range between two endpoints. At one end, various “burrito index” projects demonstrate that it’s difficult, … Continue reading Attack of the $20 Burrito! → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: A Five-Step Plan For Implementing The Indonesian-Russian Strategic Partnership By Andrew Korybko The vision is for Indonesia to follow India’s lead in balancing between China and the US via increased reliance on Russia. Russia and Indonesia agreed to enter into a strategic partnership... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: On August 6, the US Senate’s Agriculture Committee rejected the latest version of the federal government’s quinquennial “farm bill.” I say “quinquennial” because Congress normally passes this legislation every five years, but it’s still operating on the 2018 version and has been arguing on a new version since 2023. The major hang-up this year seems … Continue reading For Real “Farm Aid,” Go “Free Trade” → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: How The Drone Revolution Is Turning Ukraine Into A European “Forever War” By Andrew Korybko They influenced Western perceptions of the conflict in Ukraine’s favour, it’s now being perpetuated more by Germany than by the US, and it could thus perhaps... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: In the month celebrating 250 years of red, white and blue, Americans were seeing plenty of red — and not just as part of commemorative trifectas or midterm forecast maps. Red-baiters based in red states (or the financial districts of blue ones) have a wave of actual reds in power to push against. Once, the … Continue reading Red All Over? It’s Not So Black and White → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Saudi Arabia Has Five Points Of Leverage Over The US By Andrew Korybko It probably won’t ever muster up the political will to use them, however, but the possibility always remains. Trump recently surprised the Saudis by demanding that they recognize Israel as... Read More › - Voice of East

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Voice of East: France Is Leading the West’s “War of Attrition” Against Russia By Andrew Korybko Its leadership apparently calculated that the associated risks are worth becoming the US’ top ally in “NATO 3.0”, but its competition with Germany and the UK for this... Read More › - Voice of East

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Voice of East: What’s Behind Iran And Ukraine’s Sudden Mutual De-Escalation? By Andrew Korybko The US, Iran, and possibly also Russia appear to have calculated that it’s not in their interests, only in Ukraine’s and Israel’s. Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi’s latest tweet came as... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” On July 29, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that 111 times in response to questions from members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee. “What day of the week is it today?” “On … Continue reading Fauci Unmasked, Despite the Fifth Amendment → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Eritrea’s Hybrid War On Ethiopia Threatens To Set The Horn Of Africa Aflame By Andrew Korybko Ethiopia is on its own and cannot rely on US diplomatic assistance for resolving the spiralling regional security dilemma that Egypt orchestrated and is weaponizing... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: As if long wait times, Byzantine paperwork requirements, and unwelcome taxes and fees weren’t enough, we can add one more offense to state vehicle license bureaus’ tabs: Erroneous voter registration. According to New Jersey governor Mike Sherill, his state’s Motor Vehicle Commission improperly registered about 6,600 noncitizens to vote due to a “software error” in … Continue reading New Jersey Highlights the Problems with, and the Evils of, Automatic Voter Registration → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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How I Found Subversive Innovation in an Unfree World

Thomas Knapp: “Thousands of people collaborated to build and defend a global monetary network with no CEO, no president, and no master,” Max Borders says of Bitcoin. “Nobody gave them permission, because nobody could. It was developed peacefully in freedom.” Borders uses Bitcoin as an example of what he calls “subversive innovation” — finding ways to lower … Continue reading How I Found Subversive Innovation in an Unfree World → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Thomas Knapp: On July 20, citing “discriminatory treatment of American products” by the Canadian regime, US president Donald Trump signed three proclamations raising Americans’ taxes. Again. Trump’s latest tax hike comes in the form of a 50% tariff on Americans’ purchases of Canadian imports “ranging from wine to hockey sticks to cement.” Tariff supporters try to sell … Continue reading Reminder: US Tariffs are Taxes on Americans → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: The Ankara Declaration Committed NATO To A Forever War With Russia By Andrew Korybko Its members’ pledge of €140 billion divided between the rest of this year and the next disincentivizes Russia to cease hostilities even once it obtains full control... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: The term “gerontocracy” (rule by the elderly) isn’t new — it’s been in use since the 1830s — but according to Google Trends it’s come into more frequent usage since 2018. And no wonder. The two most recent US presidents have been the oldest ever, senior citizens who frequently lapse into dementia-driven rants in public. … Continue reading The Most Damaging Mental Disorder: Gerontocracy is Just a Symptom → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Foreign Affairs Is Right: The Old Model Of Nuclear Deterrence Is No More By Andrew Korybko The Ukrainian Conflict, the West Asian Wars, and spring 2025’s Indo-Pak clashes upended the past nearly 80 years’ worth of presumptions about strategic security with... Read More › - Voice of East

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Voice of East: “Interlude”: A Mesmerizing Bouquet of Poetry By Dr Maqsood Jafri Dr Farida Aziz is a professor of Paediatrics and is presently working in a Hospital in Abbottabad. She is from a Kashmiri family. Her parents migrated from Srinagar to Pakistan.... Read More › - Voice of East

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Stop the Presses! Congress Denies Netanyahu Something He Asked For!

Thomas Knapp: “I want to stop American aid,” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on June 30. “It’s like welfare; I don’t want it.” Usually, Netanyahu gets anything he demands from Uncle Sugar. But on July 15, the US House of Representatives voted, 314-104 against even partially granting his wish. Every Republican except Thomas Massie of Kentucky, … Continue reading Stop the Presses! Congress Denies Netanyahu Something He Asked For! → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Interlude: A Mesmerizing Bouquet of Poetry By Dr Maqsood Jafri Dr Farida Aziz is a professor of Paediatrics and is presently working in a Hospital in Abbottabad. She is from a Kashmiri family. Her parents migrated from Srinagar to Pakistan.... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: The International Criminal Court, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio complains in a July 13 Wall Street Journal op-ed, styles itself “a standing world tribunal with near-unlimited reach, empowered to override the courts and constitutions of the U.S. and other sovereign states — and to prosecute and arrest our citizens.” Accepting that, he claims, “would … Continue reading Rubio’s Anti-ICC Campaign is an Anti-“Sovereignty” Project → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Western Officials Should Listen When Trenin Of All People Warns Of Russian Escalation By Andrew Korybko He’s not a hawk in the least and actually used to be one of his country’s most well-known Western-friendly experts before the special operation led... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: On June 9, Graham Platner won the Democratic Party’s nomination for US Senate from Maine with 72.1% of the primary vote. On July 10, Platner withdrew from the race, presumably due to popular demand by the same voters who nominated him. I’m tempted to a bit of schadenfreude toward those voters. This was not a … Continue reading The Dishonesty of Political Buyer’s Remorse → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Thomas Knapp: “The United States and Iran exchanged fire for a second consecutive night on Thursday [July 9],” the New York Times reports, “extending a pattern of hostilities that has all but collapsed their fragile truce and left the Middle East suspended between war and peace.” Let’s be honest here: There was no real “truce,” “fragile” or otherwise. … Continue reading Trump Says the Ceasefire is Over. The Law Says — Twice — the Iran War is Over. → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: Brazil Warns US Could Take Military Action On Its Territory By Uriel Araujo Brazil’s traditionally cautious diplomatic establishment has issued an unusually explicit warning regarding possible US military action. Legal, financial, and geopolitical pressures are reshaping relations across the continent in... Read More › - Voice of East

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Voice of East: Russia Exposed Ukraine’s New Three-Pronged Infowar Campaign About The Battlefield By Andrew Korybko Putting it all together, Ukraine’s new three-pronged infowar campaign about the battlefield sees it downplaying Russia’s on-the-ground gains as expanding the “gray zone”, potentially plotting more terrorist attacks... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: “I am calling on average Americans everywhere to peacefully exercise your First Amendment rights en masse every day until this administration is removed and our democratic republic is restored,” US Air Force major Jason Watson said in a public speech, delivered in uniform, before standing on the steps of the US Capitol with a sign … Continue reading Why Jason Watson is Wrong, Even if You Agree With What He Stands For → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Meh on the Fourth of July: In Dependence Day

Thomas Knapp: When the Continental Congress adopted its “Declaration of Independence,” officially published on July 4, 1776, there were reasons — reasons laid out in detail in that very same declaration. King George III, the founders of “the United States of America” said, obstructed immigration. He kept standing armies in times of peace. He sent out “swarms … Continue reading Meh on the Fourth of July: In Dependence Day → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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Voice of East: FSB Chief Bortnikov Is Right: There’s No One In Ukraine To Talk To Besides Zelensky By Andrew Korybko This is attributable to three primary reasons. FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov told local media in late June that “Zelensky is a terrorist, but there are... Read More › - Voice of East

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Thomas Knapp: On June 2, the US Postal Service proposed a new rule in the Federal Register on standards for handling of mail ballots, with public comment open through July 2. That rule was issued pursuant to an executive order by US president Donald Trump. While the proposal unambiguously claims that “states would retain full control over … Continue reading Mail Voting Proposal: Make an Example of Steiner → - by Thomas L. Knapp

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