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The U.S Destroys Iranian Girls’ School

It is ironic that the unprovoked U.S-Israeli attack on the Republic of Iran has taken place in 2026, the 250^th anniversary of American independence. No doubt there will be grand celebrations this summer for the American Revolution that brought the 13 colonies their freedom from England, However, the festivities planned may still be marred with the nation’s commuters paying $5-to-$10- per-gallon for gasoline. A more somber pall on the celebrations will be the honoring of the inevitable wounded and dead U.S. military personnel from the hostilities.

The duplicitous U.S.-Israeli attack was done, once again, under the cover of negotiations. They have at least a five-fold purpose:

To assist Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in fulfilling the long-held Zionist dream of Greater Israel – the absorption of all of Israel’s neighbors into one massive Israeli state. This “Greater Israel Project” necessitates the destruction of Iran;
A payback to President Donald Trump’s Zionist donor class who financed his successful 2024 presidential election;
To cut off another energy supplier to China;
To continue to fill the coffers of the military industrial complex; and
Another distraction from the Epstein files.

The war with Iran is another in a long, bloody and destructive series of repudiations of the spirit of America’s independence which the country’s founders contended was a struggle against empire and any type of aristocracy and/or monarchial quasi-religious oversight.

Seeing the level of government interference in the everyday lives of Americans, the level of taxation, and now Trump’s onerous tariffs, the amount of wealth confiscation and meddling that the English inflicted on its colonies was negligible compared to that of the Leviathan that resides on the shores of the Potomac River.

Independence from empire would prove fleeting and, within a decade, the confederacy of 13 independent states would lose almost all of their sovereignty to a powerful central government created under the U.S. Constitution. A once – decentralized political arrangement had been trashed and turned into a centralized nation state with an unchecked executive branch.

Murray Rothbard, in his five-volume history of the American Revolution, accurately described what took place in those tragic years between 1787 and 1789:

It was a bloodless coup d’etat against an unresisting

Confederation Congress. … The Federalists, by use of

propaganda, chicanery, fraud, malapportionment of

delegates, blackmail threats of secession and even

coercive laws, had managed to sustain enough delegates

to defy the wishes of the majority of the American people

and create a new Constitution. *

It would be difficult to argue that the history of the world would have been a more peaceful and prosperous place had America remained a country with a myriad of sovereign governing bodies. Furthermore, it is likely that such a political condition would have accelerated decentralization around the world.

Many libertarians and most anti-war podcasters still cannot see that the Constitution they so enthusiastically honor is the essence of the problem in U.S. foreign policy. Moreover, it was the explicit intention of the framers to create such a case. The idea of the Constitution as a limitation on state power or that its interpreters have misunderstood the intention of the founders is fallacious.

The political philosophy and understanding of the Constitution’s framers came mostly from antiquity, which glorified the state while they ignored the near millennium of European history after Rome’s fall which was a decentralized political order.

Basic political science has demonstrated that a multitude of political entities and jurisdictions are superior and conducive to both personal freedom and economic growth. Wars, too, that are fought under such conditions are limited in scope because the participants can only amass small amounts of resources and personnel from the populace. Vast states, like the United States, China, and Russia can tap seemingly untold amounts of men and resources, which will mean far more destructive conflicts.

It should be obvious that the solution to the nation’s interventionist foreign policy is one of political decentralization which, in America’s case, would mean a breakup of the nation into 50 (and hopefully more) political entities.

President Trump was the last hope (among most) to rein in the empire. Since he has the unlimited means to conduct wars as chief executive, it was only up to his personal integrity and discretion to abide by his campaign promises as the “peace president” to prevent future wars. Since Trump, like most politicians, is untrustworthy and a bald-faced propagandist, conflicts were inevitable. Finding the right man for the job in the future is futile as it is the system itself which is to blame.

Disengagement from the political process and the building of the ideological case for decentralization should be the path of America firsters, libertarians, and anti-war social media outlets. The secession of the American colonies from the British Empire 250 years ago should be the model for those who hope to stop the murderous foreign policy of the United States.

*Murray Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty. Vol. 5, The New Republic, 1784-1791, ed., Patrick Newman. Auburn, AL.: Mises Institute, 2019, p. 306.

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posted, eds. 3-12- ’26

Colorful houses of the coastal town of Ilulissat in western Greenland.

Although Donald Trump is now in office, his statements since the election indicated he has forgotten his pledge to follow an “America first” foreign policy. This is what he promised during the recent presidential contest and what he pledged in the 2016 campaign, but failed to deliver during his first term. While domestic issues are what a president is mostly concerned with, the most important decisions surround foreign affairs, since they often involve war.

Since his lopsided victory over the hapless Kamala Harris, Trump has made few references about reigning in the murderous U.S. Empire, but instead has talked about buying or invading Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, and making Canada an American state. After the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump said that “many people in Canada love being the 51^st state,” according to The New York Times, Jan. 7.*

If Joe Biden or Kamala Harris said such things, the MAGA crowd would be up in arms and accuse them of moving the country in the direction of the New World Order.

Whether Trump follows through with such fanciful plans, it shows that he does not understand what lies at the heart of the social and economic problems that America and the Western world face. Trump’s ideas would create greater political centralization, as an American-Canadian or American-Canadian-Mexican-Greenland union would create a gigantic North American state.

For anyone concerned with individual liberty, prosperity, and the No. 1 social issue that confronts the U.S. – illegal immigration – a North American superstate would be a nightmare. Gone would be the vital ability of “dissenters” to “vote with their feet” and move to less burdensome political jurisdictions.

In the United States, one can see this taking place on a daily basis as Americans move from high-tax and high regulatory states to those less onerous. Of course, citizens cannot escape the federal government’s dictates unless one decides to expatriate. Students of the nation’s history know the often-overlooked Anti-federalists made this argument in their opposition to the Constitution which has, over time, proven to be quite prescient.

The idea that more political entities lead to greater freedom has been proven by history. The best example of this is pre-modern Europe which was made up of a host of kingdoms, duchies, and free states with no dominant central government that could tax without impunity. It is well accepted by historians that Europe’s rise in its standard of living was the result of its political decentralization that resulted in low levels of taxation.

A multitude of nation states allows for “competition,” where if one government becomes too tyrannical, people have an opportunity to flee to another land. In recent U.S. history, a number of draft-aged men fled to Canada instead of being sent off to Vietnam to fight in what they considered an immoral war. A colossal North American state would have ended such an option.

Although not explicitly discussed by Trump, a North American Union would more than likely mean the creation of a new monetary unit as was done with the euro when the European Union was formed. Despite the warnings of some economists, price inflation in Europe escalated for countries like Germany once they relinquished their monetary autonomy.

Currently, national currencies “float” against one another in terms of exchange rates. If one central bank inflates its currency too much, its money will lose purchasing power to less inflationary nations. While not nearly as good as a gold standard, there is a sort of a “check and balance” on central bank monetary debasement with floating exchange rates.

A single North American monetary unit would not face the kind of limit that now exists, where the Canadian dollar, Mexican peso and U.S. dollar vie against each other. A North American currency would be another ominous step to a one-world currency – a dream of New World Order proponents.

While Trump’s disappointing talk about political centralization looks like a betrayal of the principles of America first principles, there may be a glimmer of hope. In a recent Truth Social post, Trump reposted a video of Prof. Jeffery Sachs, a longtime critic of American foreign policy, criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal actions in Gaza and throughout the Middle East calling him a “deep, dark SOB.”

Since the video has been posted, Netanyahu has canceled his plans to attend Trump’s inauguration, the implication being the Israeli leader was offended by the comment.

Only time will tell if Trump will abandon his promised America-first policies or pursue a drive to a New World Order.

*David E. Sanger and Michael D. Shear, “Trump Floats Using Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal,” The New York Times, 7 January 2025.

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