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[ad_1] Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Welcome to Foreign Policy with Robert Inlakesh. In today’s episode, Robert discusses how the violent destabilizing actions of the United States and Israel on the world stage are in the interest of creating a new global order—one that puts the two governments at the center of the new control paradigm.  Bitcoin Donations Are Appreciated:www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/bitcoin-donation(3FSozj9gQ1UniHvEiRmkPnXzHSVMc68U9f) [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Eisenhower’s warning that U.S. policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite explains why Washington sustains the war in Ukraine as a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale. U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testing a Dronebuster in Powidz, Poland, Feb. 15, 2025. (DoD / U.S. Navy Petty Alexander C. Kubitza/Public Domain) By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil FaresCommon Dreams In his farewell address of January 1961, Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans against the “acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex,” and the danger that “public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”…

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[ad_1] President Donald Trump suggested he would relaunch his war on Yemen if Ansar Allah follows through on its pledge to prevent Saudi shipping through the Bab al-Mandab. Last year, Trump ordered a massive bombing campaign against Yemen in an effort to break Ansar Allah’s blockade on Israel.  On Monday, the Yemeni Armed Forces said it was imposing the blockade in response to Saudi’s blockade of Yemen and the recent strikes on Sanaa airport. Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia bombed the airport in Yemen’s capital city.  On Tuesday, reporters asked Trump about the blockade. “So far, it hasn’t happened, might…

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[ad_1] Odysseus and the Sirens by John William Waterhouse, 1891. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Wikipedia, Public Domain. Prologue Christopher Nolan, producer of “The Odyssey” movie, admitted he was enchanted from childhood by Homer’s Odyssey. He produced a 250-million dollars film that rewrites both Homer’s Odyssey and Greek history. His Odyssey movie separates the Greeks from their gods. However, Greeks and their gods were inseparable. The Greeks and their gods “Told in this way, with divine intervention at a minimum,” says Richard Brady of the New Yorker, “the story remains an exciting adventure filled with passion, terror, tenderness, and…

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[ad_1] Ken Jouppi. (Institute for Justice)   In Timbs v. Indiana (2019), the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment is incorporated against state governments. It also ruled that asset forfeitures – confiscation of property that may have been used to facilitate commission of a crime – qualify as fines. But it gave little guidance on what exactly qualifies as “excessive.” This lack of clarity stimulated all sorts of uncertainty and disagreement in lower state and federal courts. Recently, the Court decided to hear the case of Jouppi v. Alaska. Jouppi is an Alaska “bush…

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