World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West is a 2008 six-episode BBC/PBS documentary series on the role of Joseph Stalin and German-Soviet relations before, during, and after World War II, created by Laurence Rees and Andrew Williams. It contains new controversial material which only became available to the public after the fall of communism from the Soviet archives, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Each episode lasts approximately one hour and features reenactments of the situations subject.       The post https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/world-war-ii-behind-closed-doors-stalin-the-nazis-and-the-west-2/ . https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/world-war-ii-behind-closed-doors-stalin-the-nazis-and-the-west-2/

No Wedding Garment One of the most mysterious passages in the Gospels, to my mind, comes at the end of Jesus’ parable about the king who gave a wedding feast for his son. The people the king invites say that they can’t come. They have more important things to do. They even mistreat his servants, killing some. The king then musters his army and destroys the murderers and their city. Then he instructs his servants to go out into the crossroads and invite everyone they can find. That they do, and the feast is set. But the king discovers that one man there isn’t … https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/no-wedding-garment/ The post https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/no-wedding-garment/ . https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/no-wedding-garment/

Trump: No American Troops Will Be Sent to Ukraine As President Donald Trump works to mediate peace in Ukraine, a major concern among many Americans is that their loved ones will be sent to Ukraine as part of a security agreement being worked out with European and Russian leaders. On Tuesday, Trump sought to allay those concerns. During a call-in to Fox and Friends, when asked to provide assurance that Americans won’t end up defending Ukraine’s border, he said, “Well, you have my assurance, and I’m president.” CONFIRMED: No American troops are going into Ukraine: FOX NEWS: “What kind of assurances do you feel like you have that… it … https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/trump-no-american-troops-will-be-sent-to-ukraine/ The post https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/trump-no-american-troops-will-be-sent-to-ukraine/ . https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/trump-no-american-troops-will-be-sent-to-ukraine/

How The Ukraine War Could ‘End Tomorrow’ If The US Wanted: Jeffrey Sachs Addresses Ron Paul’s DC Conference Just the day after the historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska to discuss finding peace in Ukraine, the famous economist and UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs made his first ever appearance before the Ron Paul Institute’s (RPI) annual conference in Washington DC. Sachs’ Saturday speech presented essentially a ‘Blueprint for Peace’ – which was precisely the title and theme for this year’s event, attended by several hundreds of independent-minded people. Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of RPI, had previewed in a media statement that “Professor Sachs has become one of the most courageous voices challenging the Washington foreign policy establishment.” Former Congressman from Texas Ron Paul also … https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/tyler-durden/how-the-ukraine-war-could-end-tomorrow-if-the-us-wanted-jeffrey-sachs-addresses-ron-pauls-dc-conference/ The post https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/tyler-durden/how-the-ukraine-war-could-end-tomorrow-if-the-us-wanted-jeffrey-sachs-addresses-ron-pauls-dc-conference/ . https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/tyler-durden/how-the-ukraine-war-could-end-tomorrow-if-the-us-wanted-jeffrey-sachs-addresses-ron-pauls-dc-conference/

Trump Still Fails to Understand Russia’s Fundamental Reason for the Special Military Operation, But He Is Trying Despite claims from the Trump administration about the success of Monday’s meeting with Zelensky and the European pimp delegation, the prospect for a successful negotiation to end the war in Ukraine is zero. Trump continues to mistakenly believe that he simply needs to get Putin and Zelensky together, who will hammer out a deal. Trump labors under the false assumption that the war in Ukraine was caused in part by a personal tiff between Putin and Zelensky. Putin has been very clear that he will only meet with Zelensky once the details of a Ukrainian surrender have been agreed upon. Trump also … https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/trump-still-fails-to-understand-russias-fundamental-reason-for-the-special-military-operation-but-he-is-trying/ The post https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/trump-still-fails-to-understand-russias-fundamental-reason-for-the-special-military-operation-but-he-is-trying/ . https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/trump-still-fails-to-understand-russias-fundamental-reason-for-the-special-military-operation-but-he-is-trying/

The Peace Process Is a Ruse I appreciate John Helmer’s truth-telling in his program with Nima, Tuesday, August 19. Also, I am pleased that Helmer’s detailed analysis supports my general conclusions on Nima’s podcast the previous day.  We are both equally contemptuous of the scam underway.  Helmer’s very direct language was appropriate. I thank him for it. Like John Helmer, I am waiting to see if Putin’s need for time to prepare for wider war causes him to accept Ukraine’s remilitarization as a “peace agreement” and  whether Putin succumbs to a land swap instead of completing the conquest of the areas that are already reincorporated into Russia. Putin said … https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/paul-craig-roberts/the-peace-process-is-a-ruse/ The post https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/paul-craig-roberts/the-peace-process-is-a-ruse/ . https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/paul-craig-roberts/the-peace-process-is-a-ruse/

Mining Network: Borrowing Short Puts the Country at Risk Peter recently returned to the Mining Network for an interview with Peter Gadsdon. In this interview the duo covers executive overreach, unreliable government jobs data, a weakening dollar, and why persistent inflation will keep the Federal Reserve from cutting rates. Peter ties all of these threads to a larger theme — loss of confidence in fiat money and the growing logic for holding sound money. He opens by calling out a recent deal struck by President Trump and Nvidia that oversteps constitutional authority and functions like an export tax. Peter sees it as another example of presidential power expanding at the expense of constitutional limits and … https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/mining-network-borrowing-short-puts-the-country-at-risk/ The post https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/mining-network-borrowing-short-puts-the-country-at-risk/ . https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/mining-network-borrowing-short-puts-the-country-at-risk/

Nobody Knows What’s Real There’s no better example of how little faith Americans have that government officials will tell the truth than the public’s blasé reaction to UFO announcements.  In the last ten years, The New York Times has run stories about secret Pentagon programs tasked with retrieving alien craft.  Members of Congress have held hearings on “mysterious orbs” and invited government witnesses to testify about black budget projects supposedly reverse-engineering alien technology.  Secretary of State Rubio and director of National Intelligence Gabbard have both suggested that the UFO issue is serious.  Yet eight billion people around the world collectively shrug. Can you imagine what the public reaction would have been like had national newspapers … https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/nobody-knows-whats-real/ The post https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/nobody-knows-whats-real/ . https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/nobody-knows-whats-real/

AI Is a Mirror in Which We See Our Own Reflection AI is not so much a tool that everyone uses in more or less the same way, but a mirror in which we see our own reflection–if we care to look. Attention has been riveted on what AI can do for the three years since the unveiling of ChatGPT, but very little attention has been paid to what the human user is bringing to the exchange. If we pay close attention to what the human brings to the exchange, we find that AI is not so much a tool that everyone uses in more or less the same way, but a … https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/charles-hugh-smith/ai-is-a-mirror-in-which-we-see-our-own-reflection/ The post https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/charles-hugh-smith/ai-is-a-mirror-in-which-we-see-our-own-reflection/ . https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/charles-hugh-smith/ai-is-a-mirror-in-which-we-see-our-own-reflection/

President Trump — Come Home From Ukraine — Promote Freedom In America President Trump campaigned on getting the United States out of the Ukraine War on “Day 1”. It is now Day 211. The President continues to refer to the war as “Biden’s War,” but how many days must pass before it becomes “Biden & Trump’s War”? It’s time for President Trump to do what he should have done on Day 1 … Get America out. The post https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/president-trump-come-home-from-ukraine-promote-freedom-in-america/ . https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/president-trump-come-home-from-ukraine-promote-freedom-in-america/