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Most Of The Building Blocks For Revolutionary Action In The West Are Now In Place, But Which Revolution?
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Middle East Media Research Institute Palestinians | MEMRI Daily Brief No. 784 What would you do to stop what you consider ultimate evil? If you are truly sincere, the likely answer is that you would do whatever it takes. “Genocide,” an incandescent, inciting word much used these days, would seem to be part of what many would […]
Drop NATO’s Pacific Illusion
/in Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Doug Bandow Written by Doug Bandow Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Europeans should focus on defending themselves, not on pretending to counter China The Trump administration may be following its predecessor’s policy in looking to NATO for assistance against China. Alas, expecting European military aid in the Pacific is a fool’s errand. The best […]
Why Hamas Rejected Witkoff’s Ceasefire Plan
/in Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Khaled Abu Toameh Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The leaders of the Iran-backed Hamas terror group do not seem to be in a rush to end the war with Israel: after all, they and their family members are not living in the Gaza Strip, which has been turned into a war zone over the […]
‘Warrior Spirit Being Restored’: Retired General Weighs In on Renaming USNS Harvey Milk
/in DrRichSwier.com, Featured, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a U.S. Navy vessel to be stripped of its name. The USNS Harvey Milk is an oiler named after a San Francisco gay rights activist. In November 2021, the ship was “formally christened and launched” into service after plans were made to name a ship […]
Gen. Mike Flynn: An Assessment of our Nation’s Intelligence Services
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. Mike Flynn (Lt. Gen. U.S.A. Ret) truly cares about the safety and welfare of Americans and our national well-being. This is not a polite statement or me “buttering up” Gen. Flynn hoping to score points. During one of the darkest periods in his life, just a couple of weeks after […]
President Trump Bans Travel to U.S. from Several Jihad Countries to Block ‘Dangerous Foreign Actors’
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Featured, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Common sense prevails. Jihad immigration is a grave threat. Deadly. WATCH: ALERT: Trump just issued a new TRAVEL BAN for 12 countries. The new travel restrictions — announced under Executive Order 14161 — apply to nationals from 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen, all deemed “very high risk” […]
Sanctuary Churches Undermine Our Nation
/in Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Timon Kline Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Weaponizing American privileges to own America In January, the Department of Homeland Security rescinded a policy enacted by the Obama Administration, and expanded by the Biden Administration, that barred immigration law enforcement from making arrests in “sensitive” areas, namely churches and schools. According to Biden DHS Secretary […]
The Veto Queen Backs The Chinese Communists
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Arizona’s veto Queen, Katie Hobbs, vetoed another bill passed by the legislature. This one struck down legislation that would have restricted Chinese Communist entities from owning land next to vital military installations. Hobbs seems to be on a streak likely to land her […]
Two Chinese nationals arrested in Michigan on charges of smuggling deadly pathogen into United States
/in DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Leo Hohmann Evidence taken into custody suggests at least one of the two suspects is a loyal member of the Chinese Communist Party. Two Chinese nationals were charged in Michigan Tuesday with allegedly smuggling a dangerous pathogen into the United States, claiming it was for the purpose of studying at the University of Michigan. […]
Netanyahu slams ‘vicious’ attack in U.S., blames ‘blood libels’ against Israel
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story “This attack was aimed against peaceful people who wished to express their solidarity with the hostages held by Hamas, simply because they were Jews.” — Benjamin Netanyhu JNS – Jewish News Syndicate — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday condemned what the “vicious” terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, […]
Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Admin’s Naming And Shaming Of Sanctuary Cities Coming Back
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Caller on Tuesday that the Trump administration will soon be releasing a new list of sanctuary cities that are not in compliance with federal statutes. The Department of Homeland and Security removed its previous list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” Sunday, which was previously ordered under a Trump […]
President Trump: U.S. Nuclear Agreement with Iran WON’T Allow Any Uranium Enrichment
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Anything else you heard is fake news and deliberate disinformation designed to undermine Trump. Iran’s entire nuclear program must be dismantled. How much longer will Iran’s leaders be allowed to lie, deceive, stall, and reject U.S offers? Let Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear program. Trump clarifies U.S. nuclear agreement with Iran would not allow any […]
How the Gaza War Must End
/in DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch John Spencer is a professor of urban warfare at West Point who has closely studied the war in Gaza ever since it began, as well as other campaigns fought by the IDF, and has concluded that “Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties in war than any military in history — […]
Tennessee Passes Landmark Human Smuggling Legislation into Law
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Center For Security Policy On May 27, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed groundbreaking state-level human smuggling legislation into law. Mass illegal immigration into our country during the Biden administration has turned every state into a border state. Increased supply of dangerous drugs such as fentanyl, combined with expanded human trafficking, have caused a severe strain on […]
Elias Rodriguez Is a Son of the Left’s Revolutionary Ecosystem
/in Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mike Gonzalez Written by Mike Gonzalez Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Elias Rodriguez’s alleged murderous rampage and the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death came four days apart, and these two events may not be as different as you think. They provide a grim omen that the revolutionary violence that shook the nation in the name of “social justice” five […]
What Will Happen When Xi Jinping Dies?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Middle East Media Research Institute Xi Jinping has made himself China’s new emperor – its president for life. Under Xi’s command, China has abandoned many of its free-market capitalist policies in favor of centralized control even if it carried economic repercussions. Xi has also pursued global hegemony and engaged in bad behavior in trade, […]
VIDEO: Some Russian-Ukrainian Conflict History
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Critically Thinking about this international issue. We read about the Russian-Ukraine hostility on almost a daily basis. But how many of us know more than a cursory amount about the complicated history of this far-away region? As with many other things, the mainstream media is primarily feeding us soundbites, where context is almost […]
Former CIA analyst: ‘100 percent sure’ CIA had some involvement in massive Ukrainian drone strike on Russian airfields
/in DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Leo Hohmann Ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson says Ukraine could not have pulled this off on its own and that it bears the fingerprints of a CIA and/or British MI6 operation. By now you’ve all heard something about Ukraine’s massive assault of killer drones that attacked Russian airfields housing Russia’s nuclear bomber fleet in Siberia […]
EXCLUSIVE: Harvard Commencement Speaker Worked For Org Tied To China’s Military
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Harvard’s 2025 commencement speaker, “Luanna” Yurong Jiang, worked for a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entity with extensive ties to Beijing’s military and intelligence networks, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered. Jiang, who graduated from the Kennedy School on May 29 and appeared to take a swipe at the Trump administration during her […]
NATION OF RADICALS
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller NATION OF RADICALS A group of elderly folks were marching Sunday in a weekly event in Boulder, Colorado, to support the hostages taken by Hamas during the terror group’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Their activism ended in terror as an enraged pro-Palestinian Egyptian illegal immigrant used a “makeshift […]
‘Habitual Lawbreakers’: ICE Rolls Up Hundreds Of Illegal Migrant Criminals In Sprawling Massachusetts Operation
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Federal immigration authorities arrested well over 1,000 illegal migrants during a month-long enforcement operation across Massachusetts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, working alongside a slate of other federal partners, arrested 1,461 illegal migrants throughout the Bay State during the month of May, the agency announced Monday. Most of the apprehended foreign […]
Assad and Iran Are Out of Syria. The U.S. Should Be Too
/in Featured, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Alex Madajian Written by Alex Madajian Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes American troops stationed in the country serve no vital interest President Donald Trump met earlier this month with Ahmed al-Sharaa, the de-facto leader of Syria, and signaled that he’s open to normalizing relations, including by lifting the crippling Assad-era sanctions. Regardless of what […]
Trump Is Reviving a Great American Tariff Tradition
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Charles Benoit Written by Charles Benoit Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Now, the administration should heed Henry Clay’s warning on ‘specific’ tariffs Recently, and almost entirely unnoticed by the mainstream media, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) reopened a door that has been bolted shut since 1930. For the […]
The Anti-Israel Right Joins the Pro-Iran Left
/in Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Lee Smith Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes MAGA influencers replace the mainstream media as vehicles for traditional information campaigns targeting Israel—and Trump Donald Trump says he is going to fight to end antisemitism and the left-wing delegitimization and hatred of Israel that has plagued college campuses since Oct. 7, which led to the murder […]
COLORADO: Jews Set on Fire by Muslim Illegal Alien Moments Ago In Boulder — Pray on Shavuous!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Beverly Newman, Ed. D. The incident comes roughly 10 days after a 31-year-old man was arrested for shooting and killing two Israeli diplomats outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. On Sunday in Boulder, Colorado, a man identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, attacked a crowd at a memorial for […]
S. Korea’s Crucial June 3 Election: Could The U.S. Lose South Korea To Communist China?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Middle East Media Research Institute China | MEMRI Daily Brief No. 781 On June 3, 2025, South Korea heads to the polls for the snap presidential elections, triggered by the impeachment of pro-U.S. conservative president Yoon Suk-yeol, who pursued economic decoupling from China.[1] David Eunkoo Kim To FOX News: This Election Is Widely Seen As A Pivotal […]
‘Totally Unacceptable’: Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff Rejects Hamas Demands to U.S. Ceasefire Proposal
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report With Israel being demonized by much of the European Union, South America, the UK, Canada, and others, Hamas is emboldened to reject ceasefire proposals from the U.S. Instead, Hamas responds with insane demands, including a ceasefire for 7 years. Such a ceasefire would allow Hamas to re-build, so that they can […]
Tariffs: Why You Should Fear Them
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Douglas Carswell Written by Douglas Carswell Editors’ Note: Readers know that The Prickly Pear supports most of MAGA’s agenda. However, on the issue of trade, our position is more nuanced. We don’t think the present regime has been “fair trade,” and we don’t think America’s ruling elites have given American workers and companies a fair break. We […]
Attorney General Eliminates Far-Left American Bar Association’s Role in Vetting Judicial Nominees
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report It won’t affect the rogue, radical judges running amok but going forward it will impact future nominees. Attorney General Eliminates American Bar Association’s Role in Vetting Judicial Nominees The association ‘no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications,” Pam Bondi said. By Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times, May 31, 2025: […]
“Israel doesn’t need a better image. It needs to win.”
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report This is the best argued piece I have seen on the false premise — the foundational premise — that the Jewish people cling to, “the national obsession with explaining and justifying ourselves to the world.” It’s pathetic. It best articulates what I and a handful of others have vocalized and fought […]