In a new poll, Americans were asked to rate states on their “win percentages” in head-to-head matchups, and Washington, DC came in last. The YouGov poll ranked states in matchups, but included Washington, DC, which many advocates have been pushing for statehood. …

Two British gunboats will soon be cutting through the waters off the south coast of Russia, amid escalating tensions between Moscow and the West over troop deployments and NATO military activity on Russia’s border with Ukraine. The Sunday Times reported over the…

Comply or Die: The Only Truly Compliant Person in a Police State Is a Dead One By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead, April 21 2021 These warrior cops may get paid by the citizenry, but they don’t work … The post Selected Articles: The…

Biden Isn’t Ending The Afghan War, He’s Privatizing It Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, ‘Unclear’ If Over 18,000 Contractors Will Ever Leave Afghanistan: Pentagon While President Biden said he will withdraw troops from Afghanistan, it’s not clear if his plan extends…

Watch: Rand Paul Demands “Petty Tyrant” Fauci Be “Removed From TV For Fear Mongering” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Appearing on Fox Business Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul made an impassioned plea for Anthony Fauci to be taken off the airwaves…

Every four years, US intelligence community analysts try to predict what is going to happen in the next 20 years. Although events regularly take place that show how difficult it is to make predictions for even the next five years (I’m talking…

A proposed summit offered to Russian President Vladimir Putin by his American counterpart, Joe Biden, won’t go ahead in the “near future,” Moscow has said. It comes amid speculation that new US sanctions on Moscow are imminent. A proposed summit offered to…

Russia’s Interior Ministry has banned entry to the country for 122 foreign nationals found to have participated in unauthorized protests in Moscow this year. The restricted individuals won’t able to return for 40 years. Speaking at a meeting about security, immigration, and…

President Xi is confronting the Biden administration with a new world view, that Beijing’s decades of not challenging the U.S. as global leader are over President Xi is confronting the Biden administration with a new world view, that Beijing’s decades of not…

Escobar: So Who Wants A Hot War? Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog, It’s a scorpion battle inside a vortex of distorted mirrors inside a circus. So let’s start with the mirrors in the circus. The non-entity that passes for…

US domestic demand for natural gas has been falling for a year now, according to EIA data. The authority expects demand will continue down this year as well because of cheap renewables and coal. And yet, production is on the rise—a combination…

Import/Export Prices Explode Higher In March, Hottest In A Decade Amid global supply chain disruptions and trillions in liquidity to support consumption, it is perhaps unsurprising that import and export price inflation is soaring. However, the scale of the moves is notable…

How close can Russia and Ukraine come to war without actually going over the precipice?  Over the weekend, more forces on both sides continued to pour into the conflict zone.  And on the line of separation in eastern Ukraine, there are regular…

The Bankers Are Coming! The Bankers Are Coming… For Your Bitcoin Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, One of the oldest arguments against Bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies in general, is the Central Banker Attack. Anyone who’s spent more than…

Ankara has backed Kiev’s bid to join NATO and vowed to expand defense industry cooperation as well as “coordinate steps” with Ukraine to reclaim Crimea, all while saying it does not seek to spite third countries. “Our main goal is that the…

The Failure Of Imperial College Modeling Is Far Worse than We Knew Authored by Phillip Magness via The American Institute for Economic Research, A fascinating exchange played out in the UK’s House of Lords on June 2, 2020. Neil Ferguson, the physicist…

An attempted comeback by Ecuadorian leftists ended in a disappointing defeat after their presidential candidate lost to an IMF-friendly career banker. Guillermo Lasso’s third attempt to become the president of Ecuador was a success on Sunday. During the first round in February,…

Production of Sputnik V, the world’s first registered vaccine against Covid-19, has started in Serbia, the Russian developers of the jab have announced. Italy, India and Iran are expected to follow suit in the coming months. “Production of Sputnik V vaccine was…

Governments around the world could start clamping down on the use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to Jesse Powell, the chief executive of the Kraken exchange. “I think there could be some crackdown,” the CEO told CNBC, adding that regulatory uncertainty…

Ankara’s competition watchdog has imposed a large fine on Google after it was found to be in violation of the country’s laws and suppressing local competitors through its dominant market position. The decision was announced by Turkey’s Competition Authority on Wednesday. The…

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE A new “threat assessment” by the US intelligence cartel has named China the number one threat to the United States today, followed by Russia, Iran, and North Korea. This has of course led to blaring news headlines like “China poses the…

Luongo: The Digital Yuan, Proof Of Guns, & The Expiration Of Money Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, From the Notebook posts were first published exclusively to my Patrons and are expanded upon here. This one was from 4/12/2021 One…

Via GenZConservative Note: This is article 1 of what will likely be a multi-part series on how the conservative right is fighting back. This one mainly regards the media and the rise of conservative media. Future articles will cover other ways we…

Black Lives Matter Activist Charged With Anti-Asian Hate Crime Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A Black Lives Matter activist was arrested in Seattle for allegedly committing two separate hate crimes against Asian people, once again contradicting the media narrative…

Russia Warns US Warships To Stay Far Away From Crimea “For Their Own Good”  At a moment the United States appears poised to send its warships near Ukraine as a strong ‘deterrent message’ against Russian forces built up near the east Ukrainian border,…

Biden Blames Russia For The Exact Same “Interference” That US Corporate Media Is Guilty Of Authored by Michael Tracey via substack, Deliberately vague weasel-word terms like “election interference” and/or “influence” gained such purchase in the past four-to-five years for a simple reason:…

Inflation: Making The Complex, Simple – Part 1 Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The quarterback signals for the Y receiver in the trips formation to shift left toward the right tackle. At the same time, the running back moves to the…

France’s top officials have reiterated their pledge to continue fighting terrorism in the aftermath of the killing of a policewoman by a suspected Islamist outside of Paris. A terror inquiry into the incident has been launched. The murder of the policewoman was…

Ukraine Demands “More Weapons, More Money, More Support To Join NATO” From Biden Naturally, a CNN camera crew was in tow for last week’s visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to an area near Mariupol in Donetsk where he “walked the front line with the…

“Total Chaos” – Unlawful Assembly Declared In Huntington Beach When “White Lives Matter” Clashed With Counter-Protesters  Huntington Beach police declared an unlawful assembly in Downtown Huntington Beach, California, Sunday afternoon following a “White Lives Matter” rally that resulted in social unrest.  Hundreds of people gathered…

Every Physical Silver Ounce Has Been Sold Up To 1000x Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com, The silver price is today half of the January 1980 level. That was the peak at $50 which silver reached again 31 years later in…

The expected departure of US troops from Afghanistan means other foreign nations in the NATO-led mission will be leaving too, Germany’s defense minister has said. Berlin has the second-largest military presence there after the US. After a special meeting of defense and…

Donald Trump has blasted President Joe Biden for not sticking to the former administration’s May 1 withdrawal from Afghanistan and instead using the September 11 anniversary instead. “I wish Joe Biden wouldn’t use September 11th as the date to withdraw our troops…

Beijing has launched a scathing attack on Washington, claiming the US has committed multiple crimes against humanity, after Secretary Blinken blasted the Chinese “genocide” against Uighur Muslims on the eve of Ramadan. Speaking on Tuesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian hit…

‘You’re Not The Boss Of Me’: Xi Urges Resistance To US ‘Setting The Rules For The World’ Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday issued some aggressive remarks clearly aimed at Washington, but without naming the United States directly, in his keynote address at…

Why NATO Destroyed Libya Ten Years Ago By Manlio Dinucci, April 12 2021 Ten years ago, on March 19, 2011, US/NATO forces began their bombardment of Libya by air and by sea. The war was initiated directly by the … The post Selected…

In Huge Reversal, China Now Calls Bitcoin “Investment Alternative” After Years Of Crackdowns With both India and Turkey cracking down on bitcoin, is China set to warm to the cryptocurrency that it has been waging a not so quiet capital control war…

When Will The UK Go Back To The Office? For those with the opportunity to work from home during the pandemic, the ‘new normal’ has by now simply become, well, normal. However, as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, with the UK’s vaccination programme…

Contrary to Mujahedin-e Khalq claims of being democratic, the terrorist group of MEK has no democracy at all, according to the separated members of this group, members have been forced to do things that the leaders of the group want, such as…

I love Caitlin, an Aussie who speaks powerful truth. And so do you! Summary; ‘Murika is run by morans. ======================= = SOURCE: caitlinjohnstone.com Intelligence sources say biggest threat to US is actually US policy A new “threat assessment” by the US intelligence…

Egypt’s foreign minister has hailed the positive signals and dialog coming out of Ankara and reinforced his government’s wishes to establish good relations with Turkey following years of animosity after President Morsi’s removal. “The recent Turkish statements and moves are appreciated […]…

Comedian John Cleese ‘Apologises’ For Making “Fun Of White English People” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Monty Python star John Cleese has caused a stir once again by tweeting out an ‘apology’ for using ‘white English people’ as the butt of…

By Jeremy KUZMAROV n Wednesday April 14th, President Joe Biden announced that he would end the U.S.’s longest war and withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Over 6,000 NATO troops will also be withdrawn by that…

China May Require Automakers, Including Tesla, To Store Driver Data Domestically In a move that we’re sure Elon Musk will hurriedly comply with, China is reportedly mulling the idea of making auto manufacturers store the personal data and information they collect in…

Can The Great “Awokening” Succeed? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via AmGreatness.com, We all know that we are living in revolutionary times. The origins, ascendence, values, laws, and future of the United States are all under assault by self-described, though accurately described,…

March Deficit Blowout: US Spends 3.5x More Than It Brings In; YTD Deficit Is Biggest Ever The covid crisis may be over (with nearly 60% of the population vaccinated, one would certainly hope it’s over), but covid crisis spending is here to…

A Third Bank Joins The Doom Chorus, Sees Painful Correction In 3 Months: Here’s Why Quietly, one bank after another is telling its clients that the music is about to end. It started with Morgan Stanley, whose chief equity strategist Michael Wilson…

Kissinger Warns Washington: Accept New Global System Or Face A Pre-WWI Geopolitical Situation Authored by Paul Antonopoulos via GlobalResearch.ca, With the White House continually provoking tensions against Russia and China, the doyen of American foreign policy, Henry Kissinger, dramatically warned Washington last week…

40% Of Marines Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine Just under 40 percent of US Marines are refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, according to data obtained by CNN. According to the report, 38.9% of Marines – with an average age of 25, putting them…

Obsessively disinfecting all surfaces may not be necessary to deal with the coronavirus, US health authorities are now saying, citing data that suggests that the odds of catching Covid-19 from surfaces are low. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published…

‘That’s Not Orwellian, THIS Is Orwellian’: Aussies Mulling ID For Access To Facebook, Twitter, Tinder The Australian government is mulling a proposal which would require citizens to provide at least two forms of identification if they want to use social media, under…

Balance Of Power In The Black Sea: Will The Montreux Convention Prevail? Authored by Brian Kalman exclusively for SouthFront, The current deterioration of any hopes of a lasting “ceasefire” in the eastern Ukraine, have brought not only the long smoldering conflict back into the forefront…

Night-time curfews, sweeping business closures and severe limits on public gatherings are all part of the German government’s new bill aimed at “standardizing” Covid-19 measures to stop the third wave, German media report. Berlin is currently working on amendments to the national…

Via International Man International Man: For over 2,500 years, gold has been mankind’s most enduring money. With the emergence of Bitcoin—which has piqued the interest of many—there is a new hard money option. How do you see the two as governments worldwide…

The Mexican government has issued a warning to nine states, including its capital, Mexico City, alerting them that a device capable of causing “fatal injuries” if handled improperly found its way into the hands of robbers. Industrial radiography equipment has been stolen…

America’s internal political battles have smothered consensus and led to Washington being asleep at the wheel in foreign affairs for many years now. The lack of US strategic clarity only fuels uncertainty and instability globally. The Afghanistan Papers, published by the Washington…

Russia will end its participation in the International Space Station after it reaches the end of its planned lifespan in 2024, a senior official has confirmed. Moscow is already working on a new station to replace the current one. Moscow will “notify…

Peter Schiff: Inflation Is A Painful Tax Via SchiffGold.com, We’re told inflation isn’t a problem. But a quick trip out to the grocery store or to fill up your car with gas tells you otherwise. Prices are going up. Peter Schiff recently…

COVID Abates, Tax And Geopolitical Risks Emerge Submitted by Paul Hoffmeister, Chief Economist at Camelot Portfolios Covid outlook continues to improve. Fed prioritizes Covid over inflation. Tax hikes to pay for spending. Relations with China and Russia introduce geopolitical risks.. The S&P…

German Government Pitches Plan To Reimpose Harsh Lockdown Measures After canceling Germany’s draconian Easter lockdown last month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel “took full responsibility” for her misjudgment. But,now it looks like her government is reverting to the decision that new COVID-19 restrictions need…

Taibbi: On The Miserable Necessity Of Doing Censorship Stories In Pairs Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News, For roughly half a year, I’ve been running a series of interviews here on TK called “Meet The Censored,” with the aim of highlighting…

Florida Gov. DeSantis Says Lockdowns Were A “Huge Mistake” Authored by Ivan Pentchoukov and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home order on April 1 last year locking down the Sunshine State for 30 days amid…

After hearing about the absentee SCOTUS vote that could have determined the amount of fraud that played into the 2020 election of Josef Liden whose pre-ordained executive orders are killing our most basic freedoms…..well, someone said it much better than I can….

Russia & Belarus Say US-Backed “Assassination” & “Coup” Attempt Against Lukashenko Thwarted Russian and Belarusian state sources are alleging that a major assassination and “coup” attempt of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has been thwarted by security services, which has further been dubbed in state…

Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no…

Ahead of a May 1 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the Biden administration had hoped the talks would yield a cease-fire agreement Ahead of a May 1 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the Biden administration had hoped the…

(Natural News) For years, many of the world’s most powerful “three-letter agencies” – think CIA, FBI, and NSA – have gone “woke” as a cover for their devious activities and crimes against humanity. Now, large corporations are doing the same in an…

A new coalition of nations promoted by Russian President Vladimir Putin could run from Europe’s Atlantic coast to the Sea of Japan, after Moscow declared it would be open for any country across Eurasia that wants to participate. Speaking to Pakistan’s News…

How State Legislators Are Working To Reign In The Empire Authored by Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities, Fed up after years of relentless National Guard deployments in undeclared wars, state lawmakers across the country are pushing legislation that would prohibit the use…

Taliban Promises ‘Nightmare’ For US Troops If They Stay Past May 1st Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Since President Biden is breaking the US-Taliban peace deal by pushing back the May 1st withdrawal deadline to September 11th, the Taliban said it is…

US researchers have unveiled a significant upgrade to the CRISPR gene editing system, which, unlike its predecessor, can target specific genes with high precision and make completely reversible changes. The new gene editing technology, developed by Whitehead Institute Member Jonathan Weissman and…

Russian sailors will carry out a series of exercises in the Black Sea, including practicing the sinking of enemy vessels, just days after reports claimed two US warships were headed to the region – something Washington now denies. In a statement seen…

The American military presence in Germany will be increased by 500 soldiers, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said, reversing the policy of former President Donald Trump. Around 500 additional troops will be permanently stationed in the city of Wiesbaden “as early…

Amid a torrent of complaints at home, the BBC put out a special message to Russia, China and Iran, saying that its ‘round the clock coverage of Prince Philip’s death was completely normal, and actually in the public interest. When the Duke…

Is Bitcoin Displacing Gold As An Inflation Hedge? Authored by John Authers via Bloomberg.com, Silver and Gold, and Bitcoin How to explain bitcoin? As I said a couple of weeks ago, it’s hard to dismiss the digital currency as a classic investment…

The semiconductor shortage has been forcing international auto manufacturers to shut production in some countries. The disruption is expected to last for several months, experts say. Max Keiser interviews Wolf Richter of wolfstreet.com, who has worked for a decade as general manager…

Food Prices Are Rising Aggressively, And Even Corporate Media Admits It’s Only Going To Get Worse Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Food prices are outrageous now, but they are only going to go higher.  Earlier today, I came…

As a volcanic eruption cast a pall of ash over the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, tens of thousands fled – but eyebrows were raised after the island nation’s PM said they weren’t going anywhere without a Covid shot. The La Soufriere…

On Easter day, many chose to publish on their social profiles a painting dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ, among the countless ones that European art has handed down to us. Those who want to express eternal values, ideas and universal symbols…

UBS Predicts 80,000 More Retail Stores Will Close In Five Years The retail apocalypse has been well documented for readers (see: here & here & here) over the years as tens of thousands of brick and mortar stores nationwide have shuttered their doors….

How Putin’s “Saber-Rattling” Forced A Biden Summit, Bypassing Kiev To Decide Ukraine’s Fate As the leaders of France, Germany, and Ukraine hold an urgent meeting on Friday to discussing soaring tensions in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s largescale military build-up near the border,…

How Bill Gates Helped Drug Companies Maintain Their Monopoly On Vaccines During COVID A few weeks ago, when President Biden held his first press conference since taking office, he promised that 200 million adults will have received at least one vaccine jab…

“You’d Have To Shut Down The Internet” To Ban Bitcoin, Says SEC’s Hester Peirce Any government efforts to ban Bitcoin would be “foolish,” said Hester Peirce (aka “Crypto Mom”), a very Bitcoin-friendly commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), during…

Hundreds have rallied in cities across Australia against the deaths of aboriginal people in prisons and police custody. The government admitted that indigenous inmates are over-represented in the justice system. Protests and marches took place in cities, including Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane…

The Tyranny Of The “Enlightened” Experts Authored by Gregory Gordon via The Mises Institute, If you were to stroll through any typical upper-middle-income American neighborhood in 2021, the odds are very high that you’d observe at least one yard sign exuberantly proclaiming something like…

That wonderful ranting Pastor in Canada said he wasn’t sure what the following day would bring … the day after he called those armed thugs (cops) all kinds of colorful names.  Well, they closed his church.  THEY have the laws, the judges,…

Escobar: Bombshell Book In Germany Revives 9/11 As A Business Model Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog, Nearly 20 years after 9/11, Germany and the German-speaking world are being hit by a formidable one-two. A ground-breaking study by gifted independent…

BLM Founder Branded “Fraud” After Buying Million-Dollar Home In Mostly-White LA Enclave Authored by Samantha Chang via The Western Journal, The co-founder of the polarizing Black Lives Matter movement is under fire for buying a $1.4 million home in a posh California…