Source – mises.org “….Instead of trying to curb Gaza’s Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat’s Fatah…Israel’s experience echoes that of the U.S., which, during the Cold…
Source – scheerpost.com “…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…The endemic trauma in American society, which is getting worse under the onslaught of the gig economy, pronounced social inequality, indiscriminate police violence, the climate crisis and the seizure…
Source – brownstone.org “…Humanity distinguishes itself from the lowest beasts of the earth by our ability to elevate ourselves above the survival instinct. And history’s most immortal and inspiring heroes, both in reality and in fiction, are those who can sacrifice even their lives in search of higher values such as love, curiosity, creativity, and beauty…life…
Source – michael-hudson.com “…The upshot will be civilizational in scope. We are seeing not the End of History but a fresh alternative to U.S.-centered neoliberal finance capitalism and its junk economics of privatization, class war against labor, and the idea that money and credit should be privatized in the hands of a narrow financial class…
Source – strategic-culture.org “…The deeper paradox is that all the easy choices are behind us. And the headwinds of debt, inflation and recession are now buffeting us fiercely. System ‘unravelling’ is already present in the form of government and institutional weakness: the ‘system’ lacked the will to take difficult decisions when it could. Easy choices…
Source – oftwominds.com “…The Hollywood ending is electric vehicles will “save the planet.” Too bad this is Hollywood, not reality. Most of the consumption of resources and damage to the planet occur in the mining, smelting and manufacture of the vehicle, regardless of its fuel. Due to their massive consumption of minerals, electric vehicles consume far…
Source – scheerpost.com “…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…Last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his campaign for President 2024. His main campaign theme is to end the…
Source – voltairenet.org “…In the 35 years since the collapse of the USSR, the United States has wrongly convinced itself that it has defeated its rival. In reality, it was the Soviets themselves who overthrew it. They believed that the Russians would need a century to recover from their mistakes. In fact, they have become…
Source – sovereignman.com “…Logarithmic decay is like how Hemingway famously described going bankrupt in The Sun Also Rises– “Gradually, then suddenly”…In fact logarithmic decay is great way to describe social and financial decline. Even the rise and fall of superpowers are often logarithmic in scale. The Kingdom of France in the 1700s infamously fell gradually……
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 “…The bottom line is that societies arise from poverty through moral strength—and that brings them prosperity. But that prosperity brings on arrogance, and the arrogance brings on laziness, which brings on weakness and moral decline. Then they’re reduced to a condition of slavery and poverty again. Change is the only constant—except in…
Source – voltairenet.org “…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, one unipolar and the other multipolar. Perhaps we are actually witnessing a third scenario: the…
Source – brownstone.org “…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, digital money, travel passes, renewed and more abhorrent sin stories and deepening…
Source – internationalman.com “…In its latter days, an empire becomes hollowed out. It’s burdened with a costly and top-heavy government. The middle class is expected to provide largess to the masses through bread & circuses… At this point, the empire is a mere superstructure – one that’s becoming increasingly unsound. Importantly, the prosperity that made…
Source – kunstler.com “…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. Kennedy, Jr.” The Hero’s Journey By James…
Source – theamericanconservative.com “…Americans must choose. Will Americans continue to support escalating proxy war in Ukraine, a byproduct of Washington’s pursuit of global hegemony? Or will Americans demand that Washington defend America’s borders, maintain a republic that upholds the rule of law…The American financial and economic system is at risk of failing catastrophically. And Ukraine is losing the fight with…
Source – vtforeignpolicy.com “…A coronation ceremony for the monarchs of Britain can be traced back more than 1,000 years. Central to the ceremony is the ‘unction’, the act of anointing a monarch with holy oil, an act that signals the conferment of God’s grace upon a ruler. Today, the United Kingdom is the only European…
Source – strategic-culture.org “…Transformation is never easy. How is the U.S. political class reacting? =It is flailing about wildly. It is deeply spooked by the manifestation of this new entente. It has lashed out, as usual, with a propaganda outpouring…All of this propaganda is nonsense, of course….l’Entente is a bitter pill for the West. For a…
Source – asiatimes.com ‘…We should not be surprised, one of the lead presenters said at the end of the conclave, if Ukraine’s President Zelensky takes up China’s peace plan. No one in the West anticipated that China would mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Although Washington has dismissed China’s peace plan for Ukraine, Zelensky has…
Source – theamericanconservative.com “…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, emotions, beliefs, and psychological penchants—suggest a dark turn is underway inside the American economy” Macgregor: The Gathering Storm Authored…
Source – thecradle.co “…Netanyahu’s opponents argue that the reform plans led by Justice Minister Yariv Levin are a brazen attempt to “politicize and undermine the judiciary” in order to protect the prime minister from prosecution on longstanding charges of “corruption and breach of trust…Former Chief Justice Aharon Barak has expressed similar concerns, calling the bill “the beginning…
Source – scheerpost.com “…The post 9/11 model is being applied to American citizens…That model is the 19 hijackers. Everyone who is a religious Muslim is a suspect for the next 20 years..The same thing is happening, except it’s being applied to a new group of people, primarily white Christians, Trump supporters, for now…When power changes…
Source – mises.org “…The answer lies not in doubling down on political unity, maintained through endless violence or threats of violence. Rather, the answer lies in peaceful separation through expanded self-determination, regional autonomy, confederation, and consensus. The choice we now face is between a rearguard attempt at preserving political unity “forever” and facing the inevitable…
Source – goldswitzerland.com “…Despite the fact that universities even in the Land of Lincoln have had a say in cancelling Abraham Lincoln (good grief…) for apparently not being “woke” enough circa 1861 to be as wise as the neo-liberal faculties of 2023, I’d still make a case that history matters, and by this, I mean…
Source – scheerpost.com “…We have undergone a corporate coup d’état, where the poor and working men and women, half of whom lack $400 to cover an emergency expense, are reduced to chronic instability. Joblessness and food insecurity are endemic. Our communities and cities are desolate. War, financial speculation, constant surveillance and militarized police that function…
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 “…The point of this hypothesis is to say that all of the politics of the last two centuries was dominated by arguments about whether progress would take place in the observance or in the breach, so to speak: whether it would have to be consciously theorised and then imposed by some careful policy,…
Source – globalresearch.ca “…Musk called upon governments to develop safety regulations for AI, comparing its rise to the development of nuclear technology. “You look at, say, the discovery of nuclear physics. You had nuclear power generation but also nuclear bombs,” said Musk, adding: “I think we need to regulate AI safety, frankly. Think of any…
Source – globalresearch.ca …The future of our culture will largely depend on whether there will be enough “enlightened minds” capable of removing from the population those prejudices that are the ideological background of humanity’s catastrophes….At a time when the threat of the atomic bomb makes the self-destruction of humanity seem possible, we need more than…
Source – thesaker.is “…By adopting ‘heavily protected lifestyles’ using their enormous intellect and ingenuity, Homo sapiens create conditions which diminish their own biological fitness…recent economic theories are seen to be the pathetic works of limited human intellect failing to understand living economics – the economics of Mother Nature…The economics of death, powered by greed and…
Source – preppgroup.home.blog “…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 that up to 90% of the population could die within 2 years due to the sudden lack…
Source – sovereignman.com “…Domestically, American society has not been this polarized since at least the 1960s, and quite possibly the 1860s. Americans are at each other’s throats. And from the halls of Congress to the toxic waste dumps of social media, we have all lost the ability to engage in civil debate. For a society…
Source – scheerpost.com “…What comes after Putin? You know, or who comes after Putin? And if and if Russia becomes fragmented and unstable because, you know, Putin is overthrown or what have you, what happens to all the nuclear weapons that Russia has? You know, in a way, Putin is, you know, it’s sort of…
