Source – mises.org Hamas, Israel, and the Collapse of the Fiat Global Order By Tho Bishop This past weekend, the world witnessed absolute barbarism play out as Hamas agents brutally targeted Israeli civilians. The State of Israel, suffering from a historic failure to protect its residents, has predictably responded with major military operations in the Gaza…
Source – scheerpost.com Our Collective Trauma Is The Road To Tyranny – By Chris Hedges American society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism. By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Corporate capitalism, defined by the cult of the self and…
Source – brownstone.org Welcome to the Dying Earth BY HALEY KYNEFIN Welcome to The Dying Earth — “an exotic world hovering on the edge of time” — reads the tantalizing promise that adorns this 1977 edition of Jack Vancian “science fantasy” stories. The short stories, which each follow different characters, all take place in the same eponymous world, a dying…
Source – michael-hudson.com America Has Just Destroyed a Great Empire MICHAEL HUDSON Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him…
Source – strategic-culture.org An Unfolding Tragedy: The Impossibility of Doing ‘Anything Other’ By Alastair Crooke The conditions that gave rise to the golden era that created the ‘Comfort Generation’ no longer are available, Alastair Crooke writes. The Tragedy that besets the West today consists, on the one hand, of the sheer impossibility for it to continue…
Source – oftwominds.com This Is Why Nobody Will Do Anything Until It’s Too Late By Charles Hugh Smith I like a rousing story as much as anyone else, but systems aren’t stories, and confusing the two won’t actually fix what’s not sustainable in the current system’s configuration. (Image Added By SM)OK, I get it: we…
Source – scheerpost.com Why Should We Pay Attention to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? “Kennedy has been marginalized by the mainstream media for 18 years…but I know him to be deeply honest, totally dedicated to his beliefs and willing to back them up with personal courage and scientific evidence.” By Blake Fleetwood / Original to ScheerPost Last…
Source – voltairenet.org All empires are mortal, the “American Empire” too by Thierry Meyssan Last week, I wondered about the reality of the rivalry between the United States and China. Perhaps the “Thucydides trap” is only a screen that masks the imminent disintegration of the “American empire”. In this article, I summarize its course, which Westerners…
Source – sovereignman.com We’re done with “gradually”. We’ve now reached the “suddenly” part by Simon Black By the summer of 1563, all of Britain had plunged into chaos over religion and the Reformation. King Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic church back in the 1530s, sparking a near civil war within the kingdom. Protestants…
Source – greenpeace.org – “…You are the sword. You are the tool that you take into battle. Keep that tool sharp. Be prepared. In Buddhism, the sharpening comes from meditation and acts of compassion…When we sharpen the sword, we quiet our own ego so that we become a calming influence rather than a source of anxiety…
Source – internationalman.com Doug Casey On Why The US Is Headed Into Its ‘Fourth Turning’ Authored by Doug Casey International Man: The economic, political, social, and cultural situation seems to have become increasingly volatile in the United States and more broadly in the West. Is this a unique situation or part of a recurring historical…
Source – voltairenet.org The war, the separation of the world, or the end of an Empire? by Thierry Meyssan Many are those who predict a World War. Indeed, some groups are preparing for it. But the States are reasonable and, in fact, consider rather an amicable separation, a division of the world into two different worlds,…
Source – brownstone.org The Retreat From the Enlightenment Can be Stopped BY PAUL FRIJTERS, GIGI FOSTER, MICHAEL BAKER The war that the Enlightenment is now having to fight to defend itself against the globalists seems like a David and Goliath match-up. Western state bureaucracies and the big companies that have infiltrated them are encircling their populations with propaganda,…
Source – internationalman.com When Empires Die By Jeff Thomas (Above Image Added By SM) Years ago, Doug Casey stated, “When empires die, they do so with surprising speed.” At the time, that comment raised eyebrows, yet he was quite correct in his observation. Ernest Hemingway made a similar comment when a character in his novel The…
Source – kunstler.com The Hero’s Journey By James Howard Kunstle “If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms.” — Robert F.…
Source – theamericanconservative.com Americans Must Choose Will voters compel a shift away from endless foreign wars in the upcoming election? (Photo by Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Douglas Macgregor Apr 4, 202312:03 AM Choosing war is the most important policy decision Washington makes on behalf of the American people. War profoundly affects the…
Source – vtforeignpolicy.com Coronation Oath: Will King Charles Liberate or Enslave The People? By Professor Gloria Moss PhD The make-or-break constitutional issue. As the chattering classes focus on Harry and Meghan, a make-or-break issue concerns the coronation oath that Charles takes on 6 May, just two months away. Although academics at UCL’s constitution unit state…
Source – strategic-culture.org L’Entente Is a Bitter Pill for the West By Alastair Crooke (Above Image Addec By SM) The West is stuck between the public sentiment which it contrived and the reality on the ground, Alastair Crooke writes. Consequential Strategic Change – Upon leaving his meeting with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping said to Putin, “Change is coming…
Source – asiatimes.com Why Ukraine may embrace China’s peace plan Recent private conference of top US foreign policy experts saw Ukraine at risk of losing a war of attrition despite West’s best efforts A gloomy assessment of Ukraine’s prospects for victory against Russia emerged from a recent private gathering of former top US soldiers, intelligence…
Source – theamericanconservative.com Macgregor: The Gathering Storm Authored by Douglas Macgregor America’s self-inflicted trouble in Ukraine aggravates our dangerous trouble at home… The crisis of American national power has begun. America’s economy is tipping over, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Imperiled by rising interest rates, mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasuries are losing their value. The market’s proverbial “vibes”—feelings,…
Source – thecradle.co Destruction of the ‘Third Temple’: Israel on the brink of civil war Recent mass protests in Israel against controversial, undemocratic judicial reforms have raised concerns about the potential for domestic civil clashes which threaten the fundamental stability of the ‘Jewish state.’ Photo Credit: The Cradle As tens of thousands of Israelis rallied in protests…
Source – scheerpost.com Lynching the Deplorables The criminal investigation undertaken by the federal government against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol is polarizing the country and shredding civil libertie By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost There is little that unites me with those who occupied the Capitol building on Jan.…
Source – mises.org Secession Is Inevitable. It’s about When, Not If By Ryan McMaken (Above Image Added By SM) Never is a very, very long time in politics. Yet whenever the topic of secession or so-called national divorce comes up, how often do we hear that “secession will never happen.” It’s difficult to tell if people…
Source – goldswitzerland.com Powell’s Gettysburg Moment, The US Dollar’s Waterloo, & Today’s Open Madness Authored by Matthew Piepenburg Below we examine the historical interplay of losing wars, cornered egos, tanking currencies, greater controls and gold’s loyalty in times of open madness. History Matters Despite the fact that universities even in the Land of Lincoln have…
Source – scheerpost.com Rage Against The War Machine Speech Hedges spoke at the Washington DC rally on Feb. 19 alongside an array of other notable speakers. By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Idolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They demand the sacrifice of others…
Source – investigatingimperialism.wordpress.com – ‘…We have to start by removing the 1% and getting rid of their state apparatuses in order for us to take the vital steps needed to address the crisis. And there is no getting around this. You can hide from it the way Extinction/Rebellion does by focusing on carbon dioxide to…
Source – dailysceptic.org Four Hypotheses About The Secular-Corporatist Global Elite Authored by Dr. James Alexander Everyone has a theory about what is going on. But many are partial, or fragmentary, or too simple in explanation – attributing too much significance to ‘capitalism’ or ‘globalism’ or ‘opportunism’ or ‘unintended consequences’. We have to keep trying to make…
Source – globalresearch.ca Schwab at World Government Summit — Two Competing Visions for the Future By Michael Nevradakis Billionaire Elon Musk and World Economic Forum (WEF) Chairman Klaus Schwab faced off this week, presenting competing visions for the future at this year’s World Government Summit (WGS). Convened from Feb. 13-15 in Dubai under the slogan “Shaping Future Governments,” the WGS brought together…
Source – globalresearch.ca Man Is Good, But Irritated He is not ill, he is not properly enlightened (Part I) By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel Foreword Dear readers! As citizens you have a right to be properly enlightened, to acquire psychological knowledge of human nature and to learn the truth, even if many things seem incomprehensible at…
Source – thesaker.is Homo implacatus by Naresh Jotwani People often wrongly interpret the process of natural selection – which drives the evolution of living species – by the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’. However, the latter phrase can be highly misleading – for two reasons. One reason is that ‘survival’ may be wrongly understood as…
Source – preppgroup.home.blog You May Not Find Yourself Living In The 19th Century Tomorrow, But What If? By Milan Adams Those that are aware of the EMP commissions report have probably also heard the statement that this type of event would suddenly transport everyone involved back to the 1800’s almost instantly. It is also possible…
Source – sovereignman.com If we’re being honest… this is the REAL State of the Union by Simon Black (Above Image Added By SM) [Editor’s note: This is Simon’s take on what POTUS should have said at last night’s State of the Union address.] My fellow Americans. It has become somewhat of a tradition for Presidents…
Source – scheerpost.com Nuclear War Imminent? Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William J. Astore who served in the nuclear missile command fears the end of human life through nuclear war is more likely than in the Cold War era. War with China in two years, 90 seconds to midnight, fighter jets to Ukraine. The climate of war is brewing around…
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