03.24.23- It’s Turtles All the Way Down
Brian Maher

Twentieth-century British philosopher Bertrand Russell once gave a public lecture on astronomy.

An attendee — supposedly — claimed that Earth was not situated in space, as this Russell fellow argued…

This attendee claimed instead that Earth rested upon the back of a monstrous turtle. Read More

03.23.23- Raiding the Taxpayer Piggy-Bank
Mike Shedlock

Janet Yellen is one continuous anti-prosperity horror show and the reason is obvious enough. She got her indoctrination at Yale from the granddaddy of Professor Keynes’ US disciples, James Tobin, in the late 1960s and has spent most of her years since then pontificating in academia or dictating from the Fed.

So now with the arrival of screaming evidence that the banking system desperately needs the disciplining effect of depositor flight, she comes out four-square for euthanizing the $9 trillion of still uninsured deposits in the US banking system. Read More

03.22.23- Pentagon Lied About the Drone
James Rickards

Headlines this past week have been dominated by the new global banking crisis and rightly so.

We’ve seen the sequential collapses of Silvergate Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, along with the bailouts of First Republic Bank and Credit Suisse.

You can be certain that more bank failures are on the way. And you can be sure I’ll be on top of it. Read More

03.21.23- The Rise of Tyranny in the United States and the Western World
Paul Craig Roberts

In every country of the Western world freedom and civil liberty are being destroyed by governments, none of which represents the people.  One of America’s last remaining journalists, Glenn Greenwald, sees hope that people are catching on and the process can be stopped.  My fear is that Western peoples are too weak and uninvolved to reclaim their freedom and that they will accept tyranny with minimal opposition, thus committing all future generations to life under tyranny. Read More

03.20.23- We Are in the Eye of the Hurricane – What Happens Next?
Peter Reagan

March 16th, was the 15th anniversary of the first bank failure of the Global Financial Crisis.  If you were paying attention to financial markets back then, you probably remember…

On March 14, Bear Stearns, an 85-year-old Wall Street investment bank with a respectable pedigree, announced major liquidity problems.

To be clear, “liquidity problems” are bad, but they aren’t the end of the world. “Liquidity problems” is the banking phrase that means, “We’re good for the money, we just don’t have ready cash right now.” Read More

03.18.23- Weekend Rant: The Western Empire
Is Mor(t)ally Wounded
Ianto Watt

I have been seeing in these past silent months the latest fin-de-siècle. The end of the cycle. It’s not pretty. At least, not for the Western Caesar. We are now witnessing the changing of the guard. Bottom line: we are no longer the guards. Let me try to explain.

Scripture tells us that ‘God will not be mocked’. But it does say there will come a time when God will be mocking us. And surely, my friends, that time is upon us. Apart from the seriousness of the titanic battle unfolding before Him, He must be rolling on the floors of Heaven, gasping for breath as He wipes the tears of hilarity from His eyes. He does have a sense of humour, you know. Read More

03.17.23- Elections Have Consequences;
Stolen Elections Have Catastrophes
J.B. Shurk

“Put the adults back in charge,” they whined.  “Donald Trump will break the world,” they lied.  Well, they manipulated election rules to certify suspicious vote totals that preposterously portrayed senile Joe Biden as the most popularly elected president in history; censored and locked up anyone who complained; and covered up their crimes with J6 show trials drenched in untruths meant to hide from history the Uniparty’s underhanded machinations in outright stealing a presidential election.  The whole mess was so banana-republic-yucky that Biden was inaugurated behind barbed wire and a show of military force befitting the small junta who attended the successful coup’s celebration. Read More

03.16.23- The Moral Consequences of Hyper-Inflation Have Come Home to Roost
Sean Ring

Happy Thursday from beautiful Northern Italy!

There are times I wish I was unaware of what’s going on in the world.

Especially since last Sunday.

I won’t lie. The thought of Meghan and her ginger nut Prince becoming paupers lit me up like a Christmas tree.

I was so excited to use this meme. It’s devastating that it’s no longer valid. Read More

03.15.23- Money Troubles
James Howard Kunstler

“As for the evil: It lurks in the interstices of our bureaucratic institutions, which, as they have grown in size and complexity since the nineteenth century, behave in ways that are increasingly impossible to understand and contrary to human flourishing.” — Eugyppius on Substack

Money is all theoretical… until it’s not. Paper money is bad enough, as France learned under the tutelage of the rascal John Law in the early 1700s. The nation was broke, exhausted by foolish wars, and heaped under unbearable debt. Monsieur Law, a Scottish genius-wizard (the Jerry Lewis of political economy), landed in Paris, cast a spell on the regent Duc d’Orléans, set up a magic credit engine fueled by dreams of untold riches burgeoning out of the vast lands called Louisiana up the Mississippi River, and modern finance was born! Read More

03.14.23- Death of a Myth
George D. O’Neill Jr.

Americans need to wake up to the realities of a post-unipolar world before it’s too late.

As we witness the collapse of various mainstream narratives, especially those surrounding the U.S./NATO war with Russia in Ukraine, Americans should begin to reassess their understanding of U.S. national leadership. Most American citizens have no notion of the great disparity between what their government does overseas and the stories they hear from its mouthpieces. As a result, Americans unwittingly support all sorts of foreign operations with little or no understanding of what is actually going on. For years, they have been misled by a non-stop propaganda campaign that is only now beginning to crumble. Read More

03.13.23- Treasonocracy
TL Davis

I don’t know if the revelations surrounding the January 6th tapes will result in anything. When you live in a nation where the capitol could be nuked by Russia and the headline would be “Mostly Black City Bombed by Whites;” where even as the crater continues to smoke, propagandists can go on television and with the smoke rising above the crater rail on about the effects of it on climate change; I don’t know what ultimately filters out to the rabble who merely go to work, sports events and pick up the kids from school. I can do all of those things and still recognize that my nation’s government is out to murder and terrorize the population. Read More

03.11.23- Dear Conservatives, I Apologize
Dr Naomi Wolf

There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who “put America first” everywhere.

It’s tempting to sweep this confrontation with my own gullibility under the rug — to “move on” without ever acknowledging that I was duped, and that as a result I made mistakes in judgement, and that these mistakes, multiplied by the tens of thousands and millions on the part of people just like me, hurt millions of other people like you all, in existential ways. Read More

03.10.23- Weapons of Mass Distraction (WMD)
Charles R. Dickens

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” ~ from The Wizard of Oz

In 1939 America marveled at Hollywood’s masterful adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s fantasy. The story is a metaphor for the twentieth century’s social and political times. While the movie is entertaining, the book is astonishing. Watch for the allegory as you read the story or watch the film. Read More

03.09.23- The Rise of “Climate Brats”
and Other Useful Idiots
Doug Casey

International Man: Webster’s Dictionary defines a useful idiot as a “naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda.”

Lenin is thought to have originated the phrase when referring to communist sympathizers in the West.

What is your take on this term? Is it still applicable today? Read More

03.08.23- Erin Brockovich in East Palestine: "Something is not Right Here
Erin Brockovich

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03.07.23- Allegorical Intermezzo
James Howard Kunstler

” If, however, as Pareto suggested… a governing elite is inevitable, then we are certainly under the wrong elites. Whether a circulation of elites can be completed in time to save the world economic system from ruin and the majority from destitution and veritable slavery is a question of no little urgency.” — Michael Rectenwald

Imagine that on an April evening in 1912, the captain of the RMS Titanic had announced a grand ball at which the male passengers were asked to wear their wives’ clothing and vice-versa…. That was approximately the condition of Western Civ verging on springtime in 2023: preoccupied with silliness while the iceberg awaits. Read More

03.06.23- Biden's Executive Order Nightmare: Government Will Track Every Dime You Spend
Lawrence Kadish

• Under this new digital currency, any transfer of funds to family, friends, charities, or clients would be able to be tracked by the nation's central bank that issued this virtual money. Big Brother will be in your wallet every hour or every day. You will not be able to buy a stick of gum without a Federal Reserve computer knowing where, when, and to whom you just put down a buck. Read More

03.04.23- A Contagion of Cowardice
Jeffrey Tucker

Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University. He was one voice of reason during the pandemic.

It’s not just his credentials or his position at Stanford. It’s his erudition that gave him the reach to make sense of our times. I personally found it compelling.

Summing up his message, the response upended a century of public-health practice based on computer modeling that was not informed by any medical knowledge or public-health experience. Read More

‘Dr Doom’: World headed for dark times in the next 20 years
The Bottom Line

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03.02.23- Who? We The People…
Charles R. Dickens

Not everyone sees things as I do; I see things differently. I’m not right or wrong, just different and somewhat unconventional. My view is that we created these issues – We, the People. We let this great republic slip through our fingers. I concede that decline is part of the natural order and always follows ascent. Nothing lasts forever, and humans are naturally pernicious. Read More

03.01.23- America We Have a Problem
Brett Vance

Prologue

Astronaut and Mission Commander of Apollo 13, James A. Lovell, reported to Mission Control on 13Apr70, “Houston, we’ve had a problem” when announcing a Main Bus B Undervolt malfunction caused during an oxygen tank explosion.  Most people know the story of incredible teamwork and courage that ended in the safe return of the crew following this near-catastrophic mission abort.  Today’s lingo of that transmission is “Houston, we’ve got a problem,” and is generally associated with the appearance of a sudden unforeseen situation.  It is also usually a huge understatement. Read More

02.28.23- Showdown in Ukraine
Mike Whitney

Hobbled US Turns to War to Preserve its Waning Primacy

The future of humanity will be decided on a battlefield in Ukraine. That’s no exaggeration. The conflict between the United States and Russia will determine whether global economic integration will expand within an evolving multi-polar system or if the “rules-based order” will succeed in crushing any opponent to its Western-centric model. This is what’s taking place in Ukraine today, in fact, all of the recent government-prepared documents related to national security identify Russia and China as the greatest threats to US hegemony .Read More

02.27.23- End the Insanity Immediately!
Lex Greene

The United States of America is on the brink of extinction and the O’Biden regime has pushed the world to the brink of World War III which may go to full-scale global war or even a nuclear exchange before they are finished.

Any American who supports Ukraine today is either completely ignorant of history and reality, or totally insane. And there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that a growing segment of society is totally insane! In fact, they aren’t just insane, they are suicidal! Read More

02.25.23- Weekend Rant: The World
Has Enough Trouble
James Howard Kunstler

“[This] is what happens when you invent your own reality. You end up bamboozling yourself. — The Sirius Report on Twitter

If you think about it at all, can you come up with any good reasons why our country has involved itself in the Ukraine war? To defend democracy, many say? An emptier platitude does not exist in the vast slippery lexicon of spin. To thwart Russia’s imperial overreach? You apparently have no clue about Ukraine’s history, ancient or modern. To incite an overthrow of the wicked Putin by his own people? The Russian president is more popular there now than even John F. Kennedy was here in 1962. Read More

02.24.23- The Lesson of East Palestine
Kurt Nimmo

The lesson learned, and largely ignored, is that the government Americans vote for every two and four years does not “represent” them.

East Palestine is the lesson du jour. So long as it remains in the corporate media’s “news cycle,” coverage will downplay the federal government’s decision to ignore the poisoning of thousands of people, not only in East Palestine but across Ohio and Pennsylvania. Read More

02.23.23- The U.S. And Europe vs. Russia And China – The “Alliances Of The Apocalypse”
Have Formed
Michael Snyder

It is kind of like watching a really bad Hollywood disaster movie slowly play out, except in this case billions of people could end up dead.  Thanks to the endless bumbling of the Biden administration, Russia and China have been pushed into each other’s arms, and now they seem determined to confront the western powers together.  For those of you that have not been paying attention, the apocalyptic alliances that we have been anticipating for years have now formed.  It is going to be the U.S. and Europe on one side, and Russia and China will be on the other.  All of the marbles are at stake, and both sides have plenty of nuclear weapons. Read More

02.22.23- It Can't Happen Here - Until It Does
Michael Smith

A time is rapidly approaching when action is the only course. It happened in 1776, it will happen again.

I've always appreciated Calvin Coolidge as a president, but as I have had the occasion to read and re-read his speeches, I realized I have underappreciated him as an orator and as someone with an ironclad understanding of our Founders. This is an excerpt from his 1926 speech commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: Read More

02.21.23- They Wouldn’t Really Go Nuclear,
Would They?
Jeff Thomas

In 2014, the US funded a coup d’état in Ukraine, ejecting the democratically elected president and installing an American puppet. The new regime then set about attacking the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, which were predominantly Russian. Russia did not intervene, even though the US was messing in Russia’s “back yard.” It did, however, draw some “red lines,” warning the Ukrainian government in Kiev that if it tried to take Crimea, join NATO, or become a nuclear state, Russia would invade. Read More

02.20.23- A US-Led 'Coalition Of The Willing' Foreshadows The Splintering Of NATO
Mike Whitney

The destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline was a gangster act that reveals the cancer at the heart of the “rules-based order”.

How can there be peace and security when the world’s most powerful nation can destroy the critical infrastructure of other countries without deliberation or judicial proceedings? If Hersh’s report can be trusted—and I think it can—then we must assume that senior-level advisors in the Biden administration as well as the president himself deliberately perpetrated an act of industrial terrorism against a long-term friend and ally, Germany. Read More

02.18.23- Coordinated Destruction;
Let’s Start With the Eggs!
Tom Renz

My family eats a lot of eggs, and the last dozen eggs we purchased cost 8 bucks; like many other Americans, I’m now shopping for chickens, and asking what the hell is actually going on here?

I live in a small town in Ohio where we are surrounded by cornfields, and quite a few of my friends are farmers. Throw me a bottle of homemade moonshine and sit me down around a campfire with hillbillies and rednecks, and I’m happy. So after spending 8 bucks on a dozen eggs, I decided to talk to some farmers I know about what they think is causing this chicken and egg crisis. Read More

02.17.23- Biden’s “Economic Recovery” Deception Is Collapsing, Here’s The Truth
Haley Zarremba

This month an ABC and Washington Post poll with a 37-year history asked Americans whether they were better or worse off in the two years since President Biden entered the White House.

If you were to ask Biden this question, you would be regaled with a flurry of great news about a fantastic economic recovery, epic jobs numbers, falling inflation and a dropping deficit. When you ask actual average citizens, you get a much different reply. Read More

02.16.23- Your Invisible Prison
Neal Ross

The subject I wish to discuss today is extremely complex and convoluted, yet it is something that people need to try and wrap their heads around; before it is too late. Sitting here thinking about how to go about explaining it all is akin to trying to describe the intricacy of a spider web to a blind person; yet, in a way, a spider web and the subject matter I wish to discuss are both very similar; as they trap those things that land in them. Read More

02.15.23- The War on Cash is Here
Blake Lovewell

They are an alliance of nation states, corporations and NGOs. They meet under the aegis of the United Nations Capital for Development program (UNCFD). They number about 80 members, of varying influence, ranging from the small states of Equatorial Guinea and the Solomon Islands up to heavyweight global corporates like Unilever and Coca-Cola. They also receive significant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID and Visa Inc. Read More

02.14.23- If they are willing to poison the chickens to stop them from laying eggs, they are likely poisoning the HUMAN food supply to stop us from having children
S.D. Wells

Even mainstream media news can’t avoid reporting the widespread devastation that is happening to chickens and eggs at farms across the country, sending the pricing of meat and byproducts through the roof. From massive fires and explosions at food processing plants, to animal feed poisoned with arsenic and infertility chemicals, it all seems to be part of the “master plan” by the globalists and Democrats to wipe out the middle class and install dreaded socialism in America. Read More

02.13.23- Introduction to the Khazarian mafia (Ukraine)
Clif High

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02.11.23- A Star is Born!
James Howard Kunstler

Democratic Rep. Daniel Sachs Goldman

“Everything that can be engineered is being engineered dishonestly.” —Truman Verdun

If you think the reasons behind the First World War were incomprehensible, imagine what historians of the future — pan-frying peccary loins over their camp fires — will think about World War Three. Some people started something in Ukraine… and then the USA blew up the main energy supply line of its NATO ally, Germany… say, what…?!? Read More

02.10.23- Asian Geopolitics Just Got Scarier
Francis P. Sempa

Even as the United States and its NATO allies pledged to supply more weapons systems to Ukraine, Asian geopolitics was eclipsing European geopolitics with reports of Xi Jinping’s October “war council,” the shooting down of what was believed to be a Chinese surveillance balloon, and reports that South Korea is considering developing its own nuclear deterrent. The 21st century is indeed shaping up to be the “Asian Century.” Read More

02.09.23- How America Took Out
The Nord Stream Pipeline
Seymour Hersh

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as its location—a drab concrete post-World War II structure that has the look of a vocational high school on the west side of Chicago. A coin-operated laundromat and a dance school are across what is now a four-lane road. Read More

02.08.23- On Which Hill?
T.L. Davis

I don’t usually title a piece before I write it, preferring to let the piece speak for itself, but I wanted to keep myself on track with this one. As the title suggests, on which hill do we die? We all die, it’s just a matter of how much pain and anguish goeth before the end. 

The only thing more emotionally difficult than watching the perfection of the United States die such a horribly corrupt and meaningless death was watching my father die of cancer. I don’t usually get into personal issues here, or talk much about my family; it’s just not relevant. But this time, in anticipation of death, both of myself and my nation, I’ll go outside that restriction. Read More

02.07.23- (Sales) Taxation Is Theft
Ron Paul, MD

A group of House Republicans is supporting legislation that would replace federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 30 percent national sales tax. The bill also eliminates the Internal Revenue Service, giving states the responsibility to collect the sales tax and send the revenue to DC.

This deputizing of states to act as federal tax collectors violates the principles of federalism, especially since the plan forces states that have chosen not to make their residents pay sales taxes create a mechanism for collecting sales tax. Read More

02.06.23- Emmanuel Todd: World War III has already begun
Rob Lownie

The French historian says that the West is now in an existential conflict

The third world war has already started, according to one of France’s leading intellectuals, Emmanuel Todd. Speaking to Le Figaro last week, the anthropologist and historian claimed that, contrary to the prevailing idea that Russia has more to lose than its liberal opponents, the West, too, has entered into an “existential” conflict. Read More

02.04.23- Weekend Rant: The Covid
and Green Energy Tyrannies
Chuck Baldwin

The phony Covid and Green Energy narratives have absolutely nothing to do with science and health and everything to do with tyranny and the destruction of Natural/Constitutional Liberty in the United States. And the two reports I’m referencing in this column more than substantiate that statement.

The Phony Covid Narrative

After three years of lies, deception, fearmongering and the destruction of what was a free, prosperous economy, a sizable percentage of Americans now realize that Anthony Fauci, the pharmaceutical industry and the CDC orchestrated a first-class con job—the world’s greatest Ponzi scheme ever. Read More

02.03.23- A tale of two worlds
Alasdair Macleod

In the war between the western alliance and the Asian axis, the media focus is on the Ukrainian battlefield. The real war is in currencies, with Russia capable of destroying the dollar.

So far, Putin’s actions have been relatively passive. But already, both Russia and China have accumulated enough gold to implement gold standards. It is now overwhelmingly in their interests to do so. Read More

02.02.23- Everything They’ve Told You
About Russia Is A Lie
Sean Ring

Buongiorno from beautiful Northern Italy!

The great Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard once said: “Everything the government touches turns to crap.”

I think we need a corollary to this statement, regarding the media.

“Everything the mainstream media feeds you is bull crap.” Read More

02.01.23- The War Against Us
James Howard Kunstler

“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy our economy ” – Chris Hedges

The question you might ask these days: how did we weaponize everything in American life against ourselves? Can you name an institution that is not at war with the people of this land? The exact mechanisms for all that bad faith stand in plain sight these days, and persons responsible can be easily identified. What’s missing are discernible motives. For now, it just looks like the greatest collective act of ass-covering in history. Read More

01.31.23- The New York Times
is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin

“Ingsoc. The sacred principles of ingsoc. Newspeak, double-speak, the mutability of the past.” – George Orwell, 1984

As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the cold grayness with small patches of snow littering the frozen ground.  As light snow began to fall, I felt a deep mourning in my soul as a memory came to me of another snowy day in 1972 when I awoke to news of Richard Nixon’s savage Christmas bombing of North Vietnam with more than a hundred B-52 bombers, in wave after wave, dropping death and destruction on Hanoi and other parts of North Vietnam. Read More

01.30.23- Air Force General Tells His Officers 'War With China' Only 2 Years Away
Tyler Durden

In recent years there have been at least a handful of high-ranking US military commanders which in some form or fashion have sounded the alarm over a "coming war with China"... with the latest warning being the most unusual, issued in the form of a memo by an active four-star general and circulated with an official order.

This case is particularly significant given he took the rare step of passing it down through military command and to the chief officers he oversees, giving a greater urgency to the warning: Read More

01.28.23- Has World War III Begun?
James Rickards

Has World War III already begun?

That’s a serious question and deserves serious consideration by investors. A wave of analysts and commentators have warned that the war in Ukraine could spin out of control and escalate into World War III.

One variation on that theme is that the war could escalate into a nuclear war with tactical nuclear weapons deployed. Most point a finger at Russia as the party that will launch a nuclear strike out of desperation at a failing campaign in Ukraine. Read More

01.27.23- The Nuclear War That We Have Been Relentlessly Warned About Is Now
Right On Our Doorstep
Michael Snyder

Once the nukes start flying, there will be no going back.  So I hope that you all understand that we are playing for all the marbles here.  Sadly, our leaders don’t seem to get it.  They just keep escalating the conflict in Ukraine, and on the other side the Russians just keep escalating matters as well. On Thursday, Russia responded to news that the U.S. and Germany would be giving highly advanced tanks to the Ukrainians by firing “a barrage of missiles and drones across the country”. Read More

01.26.23- Lockheed Says It’s Ready With F-16s If US and Allies Choose to Send Them to Ukraine
Dave DeCamp

The arms maker says it's ramping up production of the fighter jet.

Lockheed Martin has said that it’s ready to meet demands for F-16 fighter jetsif the US and its allies choose to ship them to Ukraine.

So far, the US and its allies have been hesitant to send fighter jets to Ukraine due to concerns that they could be used to target Russian territory. But the Western powers seem less and less concerned about escalation as the US and Germany have now pledged to send their main battle tanks. Read More

01.25.23- Your Living Standards
Have Declined Dramatically
Jeffrey Tucker

In the old days, shopping for groceries used to be a joy. By old days, I mean two years ago. Now, it is shocking and miserable. You look at these prices and wonder if you can even afford normal foods we took for granted.

Everyone knows about the egg problem, which is being chalked up to a bird flu, just as Putin was responsible for the gas price and greedy meat processors caused beef prices to soar. Sorry but this is ridiculous. The price of eggs is up dramatically because all the costs associated with making them available to consumers are up. Read More

01.24.23- 2023: Fourth Turning Meets Mass Formation Psychosis
Jim Quinn

“Four things need to exist or need to be in place if you want a large-scale mass phenomenon to emerge. The first thing is that there needs to be a lot of socially isolated people, people who experience a lack of social bonds. The second one is that there needs to be a lot of people who experience a lack of sense-making in life. And the third and the fourth conditions are that there needs to be a lot of free-floating anxiety and a lot of free-floating psychological discontent. So: meaning, anxiety, and discontent that is not connected to a specific representation. Read More

01.23.23- Progress Toward Terminal Dumbness
Anthony J. DeBlasi

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States [that] has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” – Isaac Asimov

When a young man of my acquaintance confessed to me, some time ago, that he didn’t like to think, it shocked me to the core. Was this dreadful handicap the result of having slid too far down the slope of dumbing down, by way of progressive education in the public schools? Was it a bad case of chronic mental laziness? Whatever the cause, the condition of his mind was tantamount to having had a lobotomy. Read More

01.21.23- The Schools We Need For The New "Cognitive Economy"
Charles Lipson

We are in the midst of a post-industrial revolution as profound and disruptive as the tectonic changes that launched the West’s rise to prosperity, providing ordinary people with a cornucopia of goods and services. The latest economic revolution – built on tiny computer chips, enormous data, and ubiquitous connectivity – differs from its predecessors in at least one crucial way. Unlike the first revolution (cotton spinning) and the second (heavy industry, from oil and steel to autos), this one relies on a highly educated work force. The least skilled are being displaced by smart machines, which are built and programmed by a skilled and adaptive workforce. Read More

01.20.23- Fiat Money Inflation Not Only Raises Prices but Also Undermines Division of Labor
Doug French

The line for the self-checkout registers at my neighborhood Albertsons stretched into the store’s produce section. Is this human progress? I wondered, scanning my groceries—this just after I had filled my car’s gas tank at a not-so-convenient convenience store near work.

Not long ago, someone not only pumped your gas and cleaned your windshield but also checked your oil and tire pressure while you waited comfortably behind the wheel of your car. Gas retailers were once called service stations for a reason. Someone provided service. Now, gas is sold at convenience stores or big box membership stores, with consumers handling the hose. Read More

01.19.23- Ukraine: Is the Hammer About to Fall?
Philip Giraldi

“Here’s something you must understand. We were not given any opportunity to act differently.” - Vladimir Putin

The plan to engage Russia militarily is a tacit admission that the United States can no longer maintain its global dominance through economic or political means alone. After exhaustive analysis and debate, western elites have settled on a course of action aimed at dividing the world into warring blocs in order to prosecute a war on Russia and China. Read More

01.18.23- Is The War In Ukraine About To Go To An Entirely New Level?
Michael Snyder

If Russia intends to make a major move to win the war in Ukraine, it needs to do it very soon.  As you will see below, representatives from over 50 different nations will gather this week for a historic meeting in Ramstein, Germany.  The goal of that meeting will be to implement a plan to absolutely flood Ukraine with tanks and missile systems in an attempt to turn the tide of the war.  At the moment, the Russians have regained the initiative and the Ukrainians are steadily losing territory in eastern Ukraine.  The Ukrainians are hoping to buy enough time for the next massive influx of military aid to arrive, because it could potentially change everything. Read More

01.17.23- Taxation = Theft
Jeff Thomas

Theft is defined as “the taking of another person’s property or services without that person’s permission or consent.”

Almost invariably, governments pass tax laws and set tax rates without any consultation with the citizenry. Further, no final approval is sought by the citizenry that they consent to the tax or the rates. It is simply imposed.

Most of us tend not to regard taxation as theft, yet, by definition, that’s exactly what it is. Read More

01.16.23- Whatever the Fate of the Fair Tax Act, Congress Should Still Abolish the IRS
JD Tuccille

Getting rid of the much-despised tax agency would be a good idea. It’s unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Watching a good idea enter the corridors of government is like dropping a seed into a desert: There's so much potential there, with virtually no chance of taking root. So it is with a proposal in the House of Representatives to overhaul the tax system and, importantly, abolish the abusive and intrusive Internal Revenue Service. Unfortunately, the very things that make that tax agency so widely despised by the public make it highly prized by politicians. Read More

01.14.23- Is Biden Being Blackmailed to Send US Combat Troops to Ukraine?
Mike Whitney

Billionaire elites are using their power over the media, the political class and public opinion to coerce Joe Biden into sending US troops to Ukraine to prevent a Russian victory. Idiot conservatives think the media is actually doing their job for once by accurately reporting Biden’s alleged transgressions. But, the fact is, the media is simply showing that it can switch sides at any time in order to pursue the elitist agenda.

No one should be surprised that Joe Biden’s ‘classified documents problem’ has emerged at the same time a key city in Ukraine (Soledar) has been liberated by Russian troops. Read More

01.13.23- The Digitization Of Humanity Shows Why The Globalist Agenda Is Evil
Brandon Smith

In recent weeks I’ve been seeing an interesting narrative fallacy being sold to the general public when it comes to the designs of globalists. The mainstream media and others are now openly suggesting that it’s actually okay to be opposed to certain aspects of groups like the World Economic Forum. They give you permission to be concerned, just don’t dare call it conspiracy. Read More

01.12.23- What's Behind the Global Erosion of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Property Rights?
Charles Hugh Smith

The second essential step is to recognize how the spectacles of "news" and entertainment distract our attention from this erosion of basic rights.  

Hierarchical power structures like city-states arose as problem-solving solutions, not just for the elites who benefited from the concentration of wealth and power but for the citizenry. This dynamic underpins the analysis presented in my recent book Global Crisis, National Renewal: when nation-states and global hierarchies no longer solve the key problems of their populaces, they dissolve and are replaced by some new arrangement. Read More

01.11.23- Does Deep State Want Civil War in US? Sure Seems Like It!
Alex Newman

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01.10.23- Can SCOTUS Remove
a Sitting President?
Paul Engel

There is a case the Supreme Court is considering that we should look at. Mr. Brunson claims that President Biden, Vice-President Harris, former Vice-President Pence, and the majority of Congress committed treason, and therefore are no longer eligible to serve. Is what Mr. Brunson claims true? If it is, does the court have the legal authority to remove people from office? These are important questions that need to be answered.  Read More

01.09.23- It’s More Than Opinion! – 
Rebuttal from an Angry Patriot
Jeffrey Bennett

For many of us broadcasting on the alternative media – we have remained hard hitting on issues, which we believe are highly pertinent in our day and time. These issues include education, property rights, tyranny by government, government out of the control of the people, moral decay and rot, tax and sovereignty issues, a deeper drift into Socialism, the breakup of the family, protection of children and families, treason in high places of our government, cover-ups and conspiracies within the government itself, in addition to a sundry of other choice subjects.  Read More

01.07.23- When Federal Interest Payments Come to Exceed the Military Budget: Time to Stop Defending the Rest of the World
Doug Bandow

A new year dawns bright, with the US hurtling over the fiscal cliff. The lame duck Congress voted for a pork-packed $1.7 trillion budget bill. As the saying goes, it’s only money!

At a time of enormous domestic need, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell pushed an extra $45 billion for Ukraine, declaring that Washington’s “number one priority”was supporting that nation. Kentuckians might wonder if their Senator had moved to Odesa, Kharkiv, or Lviv over the holidays. Read More

01.06.23- Hypocrisy is Job One!!!
Charles R. Dickens

A Brief History of American Mendacity

My first sip of coffee is always magical – I know my morning routine is full-on, and I have a lot to accomplish. But today, incredulity stunts my ardor, derailing noteworthy thoughts and interrupting my course with inconceivable idiocy. It’s another WTF moment. Unfortunately, I’ve been having a lot of those lately.

It must be global warming… Read More

01.05.23- Two Craven anti-American Presidents, Obama and Biden, Threaten the Republic
George G. McClellan

Our nation is adrift in the dangerous sea of confusion by the premeditated actions of two craven anti-American presidents, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. They are supported by a phalanx of Marxist-leaning and loyal Leftists Deep State apparatchiks, in concert with the most powerful US intelligence agencies formed since the end of WWII that make their own rules. Read More

01.04.23- The government thinks you’re too stupid to notice this tax increase
Simon Black

On January 1, your taxes went up. But the federal government thinks that you are too stupid to notice.

They actually want you to believe that they only raised taxes on “greedy” corporations, or on the “evil” oil, gas, and coal industries… and that these taxes will in NO WAY affect regular, working people.

It’s pretty insulting, honestly. Read More

01.03.23- We Must Convince People That The Fascist Far Left Wants To Destroy The US
D. Parker

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” — Ayn Rand

Do you ever get the desperate feeling that you need to wake people up who are sitting around saying ‘This is fine,’ while the nation is on fire? If you look at the evidence that has accrued over the past few years and then apply it to the proper conceptional model, you will find that all the pieces fall perfectly into place. That is how you convince people that what’s happening is both real and serious. Read More

01.02.23- With The FBI Transformed Into The KGB For The 'Clinton Crime Family,' They're Now Fuhrer Biden's Personal Gestapo After Carrying Out A Coup For Their Preferred Political Party
John Green

I’m going to be discussing the FBI because they’re all over the news lately – but not in a good way, rather in a “what have they done now” way. However, I’m not dismissing the contribution of the overarching DOJ. They’ve certainly been complicit in the misdeeds of the FBI which they oversee. Read More