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Government Spending ~ The Discovery of Common Sense
By John Geraci Guest Editorial ‘Government is like an infant: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.’ Ronald Reagan may have said that decades ago, but it's hard to imagine a more fitting description of our...

INSIDE THE REVOLUTION REWIRING AMERICAN POWER
The Clock Struck 2 AM on Jan 21, 2025. Guest Editorial: 3EKO In Treasury's basement, fluorescent lights hummed above four young coders. Their screens cast blue light across government-issue desks, illuminating energy drink cans and agency badges. As their algorithms...

America’s ATM for the World’s Grifters
By John Geraci Guest Editorial Ah, USAID—the benevolent Uncle Moneybags of international development, generously sprinkling American tax dollars across the globe like confetti at a New Year’s Eve party. If there’s a dubious foreign project in need of cash, rest...

Concerned Graduates of West Point and The Long Gray Line
Open Letter to the Secretary of Defense February 4, 2025 Dear Mr. Secretary, By assumption of your duties as SECDEF, you have assumed authority uniquely suited to implement policies needed to correct the Marxist legacy of the Obama and Biden Administrations that is...

The Almighty Dollar: The World’s Favorite Toxic Asset
By John Geraci For a country that spends like a teenager with a stolen credit card, the United States sure has a lot of trust from the global economy. The dollar remains the undisputed heavyweight champion of reserve currencies, held lovingly in vaults across the...
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Who Owns the Gaza Strip? The History[1]
By MG Paul E Vallely MG US Army (Ret) Here’s a look at the troubled modern history of the Gaza Strip: 1948 – 1967: Egyptian rule of Gaza Before the war surrounding Israel’s establishment in 1948, present-day Gaza was part of the large swathe of the Middle East under...