Month: May 2021

Not Even The Soviet Union Paid People To Stay Home Authored by Viktorija via SovereignMan.com, Last week after my little ‘incident’ when I was almost mugged in downtown Las Vegas, I felt the need to unwind and have a drink. Apparently everyone else had the same idea, because the hotel bar was packed as tightly […]

China Ready To Deter “US Warmongering” By Expanding Nuclear Arsenal At a moment that President Biden’s defense budget, the largest in history, is seeking to spend heavily on ‘China deterrence’ as well as nuclear funding to modernize America’s ageing Cold War era arsenal and systems – which many critics lambasted as a classic case of […]

Pentagon Now Says China Is Top “Pacing Threat” Not Only On Earth But Also Space Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The head of US Space Command said Saturday that the “Chinese” are the top “pacing threat” facing the US not only on Earth but also in space. “Our pacing threat is the Chinese, so we are watching […]

Eating Meat Is The Norm Almost Everywhere On average, 86 percent of people surveyed for the Statista Global Consumer Survey in 39 countries said that their diet contained meat – highlighting, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, that despite the trend around meat substitutes and plant-based products, eating meat remains the norm almost everywhere in the world. In […]

In 1993, my first ever anti-euthanasia column warned in Newsweek that once euthanasia became accepted widely, it would be followed by organ harvesting “as a plum to society.” By now, you know how that story goes. I was accused of alarmism, slippery-slope advocacy, conspiracy theories, etc., etc. And, as these kind of stories nearly always end, it came to […]

“What The Hell Is Going On – 2020 Edition” – Chamath’s Annual Letter Warns That “People Have Stopped Thinking For Themselves” While many of the SPACs he has sponsored have seen less than stellar returns, Chamath Palihapitiya and his VC firm, Social Capital, are doing just fine.  Palihapitiya has been a player in Silicon Valley […]

  This Tuesday, TGP’S Jordan Conradson attended FreedomWorks’ ‘America Comeback Tour’ in Phoenix, Arizona.  BREXIT leader Nigel Farage was the keynote speaker.  He spoke to a PACKED HOUSE about fighting the socialist globalist regime.  He also praised American excellence and described the fight to conserve these values. Farage was introduced by local Arizona legend and… […]

In “Thanks to Kobach, Trump and conservative think tank, we know extent of voter fraud,” Kansas City Star columnist Charles Hammer on May 20 wrote that The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database has 1,322 proven instances of election fraud, including 17 cases from Missouri. That, he said, is “measly” compared with the number of registered […]

Countries unfriendly to Belarus have moved on from organizing riots and are now onto the stage of “strangulation,” a tactic they will later use in Russia. That’s according to the country’s president Alexander Lukashenko. Speaking to politicians, Lukashenko explained his view that protests have been deemed to have failed in Belarus, so foreign backers of […]

Merkel Flips Off Biden’s Protest… To Buy Putin’s Gas Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org, When the U.S. created NATO, a primary purpose of the alliance was to serve as a western wall to defend Germany against the 400,000 Russian troops on the eastern side of the Elbe River. Seventy years later, Germany has decided […]

Waking Up From Wokeness Op-Ed Authored by Roger Kimball via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), I cannot identify who exactly popularized the term “woke.” But I’ve had cause to wheel it out here and elsewhere on and off for the past few years, generally when describing some absurd piece of academic or corporate or government […]

Counterhegemony – The Need for Operationalizing the Ideology into Strategy, Plans, Vision of the Beautiful Free Prosperous Shining Town on the Hill   The Thorn Flag and the Lost legitimacy of the False Globalists The global hegemon has already lost. It is defeated economically, militarily, politically, and most importantly, it has lost the moral and […]

The CDC has given its blessing to allow children to attend youth camps mask-free, but only if they’ve been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The rest should still be masked for indoor activities and some outdoor gatherings. Summer camps where all participants are fully vaccinated may operate as normal, without masks or other social-distancing measures, the […]

Russian energy giant Rosneft has revealed the launch of the Rospan International gas project in the Yamal region of the Arctic. It is expected to become the company’s gas production hub in the region. “Regarding natural gas, we want to announce that in the first quarter of 2021 the company launched its flagship gas project […]

The European database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, which also tracks reports of injuries and deaths following the experimental COVID-19 “vaccines.” Here is what EudraVigilance states about their database: This website was launched by the European Medicines Agency in 2012 to provide public access to reports of suspected side effects (also known as suspected adverse drug reactions). These reports are submitted […]

The Swiss government has said it will abandon seven years of negotiations for a framework agreement with the EU, arguing Brussels had not met its conditions for the deal, which would have simplified relations between the pair. Switzerland’s Federal Council, its ruling executive, announced the decision to scrap efforts to ink the much-delayed accord at […]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed legislation allowing locals to sue the likes of Facebook and YouTube for as much as $100,000 if they’re unjustly deplatformed. “Today, Floridians are being guaranteed protection against the Silicon Valley power grab on speech, thought and content,” DeSantis said on Monday at a signing ceremony in Miami. “We the […]

France fears losing control over North African region after new military coup in Mali. Read More

The Zionists on the Defensive By Philip Giraldi, May 25, 2021 Yes folks, there is an international conspiracy and it is all about “protecting” Israel. It operates through front and lobbying groups that uniquely promote the interests of a … The post Selected Articles: The Zionists on the Defensive appeared first on Global Research. Read […]

China Expands Influence In Africa By Building Government Facilities, West Starting To Counter Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times, In mid-May, China invested $35 million in Kenya to build a new foreign ministry building. It’s the latest in a series of investments and grants given by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to African countries, […]

President Joe Biden shut down a State Department probe this spring into the origins of COVID-19 in China that was launched by the Trump administration under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last fall, according to a CNN report Tuesday. Read More

Riot police have been deployed in Berlin to forcefully disperse hundreds of protesters. Demonstrators have taken to the streets of the German capital denouncing the Covid-19 lockdown measures. Coronavirus skeptics gathered and marched through the streets in central Berlin on Saturday. The rally has been banned by authorities, but despite that, hundreds took to the […]

Lithium, Cobalt, & Rare Earths: The Post-Petroleum Resource Race Authored by Michael Klare via TomDispatch.com, Thanks to its very name – renewable energy – we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for non-renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal will vanish. Indeed, the Biden administration has announced a breakthrough target of […]

Would a Germany that is doubling its dependency on Russia for the natural gas that fuels its economy be willing to go to war against that same Russia, and send German troops to fight alongside NATO? Would Berlin be willing to declare war on its own gas station? When the … Read more… Would a […]

Bhandari: Inside India’s “Hunger Games” Authored by Jayant Bhandari via Acting-Man.com, Scavengers Out in Full Force I have just returned from a visit to my family in India. It was hard to escape. To get to the US from India, I needed a COVID test. The Indian government has seriously restricted who can provide COVID […]

‘Based on that VH score, we will demote or leave the comment alone depending on the content within the comment,’ one of the whistleblowers told Project Veritas. Read More

Former US President Donald Trump took a victory lap of sorts over the sudden willingness of mainstream media to talk about the Wuhan lab leak theory of Covid-19 virus origin – which they initially opposed because he favored it. “Now everybody is agreeing that I was right when I very early on called Wuhan as […]

Mandatory vaccination cannot be introduced in Russia, President Vladimir Putin has said, arguing that it was up to citizens themselves to weigh the risks of being infected with Covid-19 without getting a jab. “I want to state my position again. I think that mandatory vaccination is inappropriate and can’t be introduced,” Putin said during a […]

Reports that the US National Intelligence Agency, aided by Denmark, spied on top European politicians including Angela Merkel are “extremely serious” if true, the French secretary of state for European affairs has said. “It is extremely serious, we must verify if our EU partners, Danes, have committed errors or mistakes in their cooperation with the […]

PBS Journalist Implies That Ending Mask Mandates Is Racist Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, During a White House press briefing, a PBS journalist suggested that ending mask mandates was racist. Yes, really. Last week, the CDC disappointed face diaper extremists by lifting restrictions on mask wearing in numerous settings. This prompted a […]

Coroners will probe whether BBC presenter Lisa Shaw died as a result of being inoculated with AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine. Shaw’s family say she was treated for blood clots shortly after her first dose. Shaw passed away on Friday, with her family saying she “developed severe headaches a week after receiving her AstraZeneca vaccine and fell […]

Guest Post by Pat Buchanan Is there no limit to the racial, religious, ideological, political, cultural and ethnic diversity the nation can accommodate before it splinters into its component parts? After nine people were shot to death by a public transit worker, who then killed himself in San Jose, the latest mass murder in America, […]

Guest Post by Kit Knightly A new report, published just yesterday, has provided yet more evidence that the CDC is manipulating data to conceal the number of “breakthrough infections”. A “breakthrough infection” (or “breakthrough case”) is defined as a person who tests positive for Sars-Cov-2 infection, despite already being fully vaccinated. And this new report […]

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong I hear the whispers – Ron DeSantis for President. Indeed, he seems to be the ONLY politician who understands the gravity of what is taking place in America. He now signed legislation that allows Florida to impose fines on social media platforms that ban users with ever-changing guidelines and clear […]

It’s called ‘the news,’ and here’s how it worked for Arkansas’ Sen. Tom Cotton’s completely plausible theory that COVID-19 came from a Chinese lab. Read More

The Biden administration’s Covid-19 czar Dr. Anthony Fauci was keenly aware of how dangerous gain-of-function virus research was, but reportedly pushed for its renewal without alerting the White House during the HHS churn in 2017. Fauci, the director of the Nat­ional Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institute of Health, “did […]

Rabo: To Achieve “Buy American” The Entire Supply Chain Needs To Shift From Raw Materials To Components By Michael Every of Rabobank Oy Gestalt! There isn’t a lot of direct interest to report on markets today, so I am going to take a small/big segue to cry “Oy Gestalt!” The phrase “Oy gevalt!” is a […]

Restricting Freedom Didn’t Defeat COVID Authored by John Tamny via The American Institute for Economic Research, Let’s travel back in time to March of 2020, when predictions of mass death related to the new coronavirus started to gain currency. One study, conducted by Imperial College’s Neil Ferguson, indicated that U.S. deaths alone would exceed 2 million.  […]

The Real Big Lie: You Can’t Question Elections Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics.com, Liz Cheney doesn’t get to decide what is true for the rest of us; neither, as hard as it is for some of them to believe, do the media pundits and philosopher-kings whom our society breeds like rats in a junkyard. […]

How Zuckerberg Paid Millions For Progressives To Work With 2020 Vote Officials Nationwide Authored by Steve Miller via RealClearInvestigations (emphasis ours), In the months leading up to November’s election, voting officials in major cities and counties worked with a progressive group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and its allies to create ballots, strategically target […]

Greta Thunberg lobbies for a change in the way food is produced on May 22, 2021. (Video screenshot) She’s known worldwide for her climate-change activism, but now Sweden’s Greta Thunberg is targeting the way your food is produced. “Our relationship with nature is broken. But relationships can change,” Thunberg said in a video she posted […]

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this AM. Cotton is famously the first politician to suggest back in February 2020 that the COVID-19 virus originated in a Wuhan, China lab. Tom Cotton reiterates his suggestion that the Coronavirus originated at a super-lab in Wuhan pic.twitter.com/i1cSNSqU0d — Acyn (@Acyn) February 16,… […]

Escobar: The Disintegrated States Of America Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Andrei Martyanov is in a class by himself. A third wave baby boomer, born in the early 1960s in Baku, in the Caucasus, then part of the former USSR, he’s arguably the foremost military analyst in the Russian sphere, living and working […]

(Natural News) Donald Trump won in 2016 in large part because he promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. He “lost” in 2020 because the swamp he tried to drain stole his reelection — he was that much of a threat to the status quo. Here’s another example of just what Trump was up… […]

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced this weekend that he will not get vaccinated against COVID-19, explaining that he already contracted the virus last year and has “natural immunity.” Paul, who is an ophthalmologist, said that he has not seen evidence proving the vaccine is more effective than having survived the CCP […]

Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei has said he is “optimistic” about the progress of indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal ahead of a fifth round of talks in Vienna. Efforts at securing the US and Iran’s full return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement have […]

President Biden acknowledged that he took office too late to stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline linking Russia and Germany, saying it would be “counterproductive” to sanction allies over the project as it nears completion. “I had been opposed to Nord Stream 2 from the beginning, but it was almost completed by the time I […]

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Nearly three decades ago, Kyrgyzstan signed a deal designed to enrich the mountainous nation and its people. Now though, with warnings of human rights abuses and ecological catastrophe, it appears ready to tear up the agreement. The long-running stand-off over the Kumtor Mine, operated by Toronto-based Centerra Gold, has spilled over into outright conflict. The […]

To Protect Your Liberty, Smash The Total Virus-Elimination Narrative Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via RealClearMarkets.com, Many industries were throttled, bludgeoned, beaten, and even destroyed during the lockdowns of 2020. It will be years before the damage is repaired, and some of it is irreparable.  One industry that did not suffer was that which was and […]

WaPo Head ‘Fact Checker’ Glenn Kessler Heckled Over Lab-Leak Flip-Flop With the COVID-19 ‘lab leak’ theory finally gaining mainstream legitimacy following recent reports from the Wall Street Journal, and an admission by Anthony Fauci that he’s now open to the possibility, formerly smug establishment ‘fact checkers’ are now scrambling to salvage their reputations after categorically […]

Having spent months mercilessly removing any claims that the novel coronavirus may not have evolved naturally, Facebook said it will no longer do so. The move comes as Wuhan lab leak theory is gaining mainstream attention. “In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of [Covid-19] and in consultation with public health experts, we will […]

There may be 850,000 child sex offenders lurking in the UK, a new report claims. The number is three times higher than previously thought, but may still fall short of the true scale of the threat. In its annual National Strategic Assessment, the National Crime Agency (NCA) stated last year that there were 300,000 individuals […]

Matt Ehret explains what caused the rise of the perversion of science known as “eugenics” as a new scientific religion in the 19th century. Today’s world is gripped between two possible futures: on the one hand, a multipolar alliance in defense of sovereign nation states has organized itself around a paradigm of long-term thinking, scientific optimism […]

25 of May is Dante’s birthday. But in the West, they don’t celebrate it anymore. Today it is simply dangerous. How so, you ask? Dante is the symbol of Western poetry, the world-famous classic. Yes, that’s right. But even this Italian medieval genius was not spared by the guillotine of political correctness. Read More

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi said on Wednesday it has been officially removed from a US government blacklist prohibiting American investment in “Communist Chinese military companies.” According to the statement, the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued a final judgment on Tuesday afternoon, formally lifting all restrictions on the purchase or holding of […]

So hey there Corporate America, the Fed and your neofeudal cronies: take this job and shove it. This time it really is different, but not in the way the Wall Street shucksters are claiming. Conventional economists, politicos and pundits are completely clueless about the unraveling that’s gathering momentum beneath the superficial surface of “reflation” because […]

Social Media Censorship Slammed After Fauci Admits Possibility Of Wuhan Lab Leak Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Questions over the ethics of social media censorship policies that previously characterized the Wuhan lab leak theory as “misinformation” are being asked following a new report bolstering the explanation and Dr. Fauci admitting it’s a […]

Guest Post by PF Whalen Headline #1:          House GOP Members: COVID Likely Came from Wuhan Lab A report generated by Republican members of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee was obtained by media members with details being published on Thursday. The report claims there is “significant circumstantial evidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by […]

Corporate America’s alliance with LGBT activism has been brought to the breakfast table with the rollout of a new Kellogg’s gay pride cereal that encourages children to choose their own pronouns. The “Together With Pride” cereal, which went on sale in stores across the US last week, features rainbow-colored hearts “dusted with edible glitter,” according […]

France’s President Emmanuel Macron has called on the EU to re-evaluate its foreign policy approach to Russia, arguing that the bloc’s current strategy isn’t helping to restore constructive relations between Moscow and the West. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Macron said that “with Russia, the policy of progressive sanctions on frozen situations is […]

Some 12% of the British public consider themselves “woke,” according to new research by polling site YouGov, although it appears that not everyone in the UK has added the trendy term to their vocabulary. In February, YouGov asked 1,692 British adults about what it means to be woke and whether they would use the term […]

“This Is A Completely Dysfunctional Economy” – Peter Schiff Fears Dollar Crisis “Close At Hand” Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Money manager and economist Peter Schiff says all the debt and money printing by the Fed will, ultimately, get down to one thing and that is the U.S. dollar.  The Fed has been getting away with this […]

US Troops Will Be Out Of Afghanistan By July: Pentagon Officials Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, According to a report from The New York Times, US troops are expected to be out of Afghanistan by early to mid-July, well before the September 11th deadline set by President Biden. Unnamed US officials told the Times that Washington’s allies are also […]

Greta Thunberg has ratcheted up her alarmist climate change rhetoric, warning of impending doom unless everyone stops eating meat. But her latest sermon was unappetizing to many. In a sleekly edited video, complete with punchy music, the Swedish activist argued that the Earth’s ecological suffering could be greatly alleviated if humans stopped raising livestock. According […]

Is Ivermectin The New Penicillin? Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug placed the same radioactive category as Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for the treatment of COVID-19, has reemerged as a promising treatment in the battle to extinguish the pandemic. New York Times best-selling author Michael Capuzzo has called it the “drug that cracked Covid,” writing that there are “hundreds […]

Nobody elected Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and he has made no secret of his political bias. That should be enough to ban him from influencing election machinery. Read More

A joint statement from 53 countries has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to address “deep concerns” about allegations of sexual abuse, exploitation, and harassment by staff at the agency. The statement delivered to the WHO’s annual assembly by Canadian Ambassador Leslie Norton called on the UN agency to provide “credible outcomes” to address […]

Russia May Cripple Google Services Over Failure To Remove ‘Illegal Content’ Russia may forcibly slow down Google services after the tech giant failed to remove 12 YouTube videos containing “illegal content” regarding unauthorized opposition rallies held in January 2021, according to the Moscow Times. In response to demands by Russia’s internet regulator Roskomnadzor to remove […]

Three-quarters of adults in the UK have now developed antibodies against Covid-19, including over 90% of people aged 50 and above, data from the government’s Office for National Statistics has revealed. “The vaccine is severing the link between cases and hospitalisations and deaths from coronavirus,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock told a news briefing on Thursday, […]

The BBC was bombarded with angry messages after publishing a story which insinuated that a paramedic at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing wasn’t proactive enough. It appears that the article was later modified. On Tuesday, the public broadcaster ran a piece about an inquiry into the 2017 terror attack that saw 22 killed […]

Russia has signed a deal with Pakistan to build a major gas pipeline linking the nation’s southern port of Karachi to industrial hubs in the north. The deal is set to be the biggest between Moscow and Islamabad since the 1970s. Russia’s Energy Minister Nikolay Shulginov and the Pakistani Ambassador, Shafqat Ali Khan, signed a […]

Protasevich was virtually unknown, but Lukashenko’s daring arrest made him known throughout the world. Read More

Inflation, Money, And Supply Bottlenecks Authored by Daniel Lacalle, “The constant refinancing of debt from companies of doubtful viability also leads to the perpetuation of overcapacity because a key process for economic progress, such as creative destruction, is eliminated or limited”. One of the arguments most used by central banks regarding the increase in inflation is that […]

By Thomas Catenacci – Liberal media fact checkers were quick to label reporters and lawmakers who supported the lab leak theory as conspiracy theorists in the wake of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. “We can’t disregard these as lunatic conspiracy theories on the fringes,” Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, a progressive media watchdog, stated in an […]

As IDF jets bomb Gaza and Palestinian militants fire rockets into Israel, the city of Lod has erupted in violence its mayor compared to a Nazi pogrom. PM Benjamin Netanyahu is pulling troops from the West Bank to restore order. “This is Kristallnacht in Lod,” Yair Revivo told the Times of Israel on Tuesday evening, […]

“Literally Armageddon”: 53 Killed In Gaza & 5 Israelis Dead As UN Warns “Full-Scale War” Imminent After overnight sustained rocket fire from Gaza and at the same time Israeli airstrikes pounding the strip, the combined death toll reached to at least 50, with hundreds more injured, into Wednesday. International reports are citing over 50 Palestinians killed in […]

“We’re In A Raging Mania” – Druckenmiller Warns “Fed Is Endangering Dollar Reserve Status” Thanks to The Fed’s ongoing largesse, billionaire Stan Druckenmiller told CNBC this morning that “even a monkey can make money in these markets.” “We are still acting like we’re in a black hole,” warns the fund manager, questioning The Fed’s wisdom […]

Caught Red-Handed: CDC Changes Test Thresholds To Virtually Eliminate New COVID Cases Among Vaxx’d Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, New policies will artificially deflate “breakthrough infections” in the vaccinated, while the old rules continue to inflate case numbers in the unvaccinated. The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is altering its practices of data […]

​​​​​​​Mediterranean Diet May “Protect” Brain From Alzheimer’s Disease, Study Says The best way to decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s disease could be a Mediterranean diet that is rich in fish, vegetables, and olive oil, according to a new study.  The research, titled “Mediterranean Diet, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Brain Atrophy in Old Age,” was published in the online issue […]

Reflections on Al-Nakba that Deserve Remembering By Jack Dresser, May 19, 2021 May 15 marked Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) Day, Palestinians’ annual mourning of British withdrawal in 1948 leaving them helpless – having been disarmed by the British in … The post Selected Articles: F-35s Bombing Gaza appeared first on Global Research. Read More

“Crypto Is Here To Stay”: Carl Icahn Wants Up To $1.5 Billion In Crypto Exposure, Prefers Ethereum With the likes of JPMorgan and Goldman jumping on the crypto train (favoring Ethereum over Bitcoin), yet another one of the world’s most legendary investors has became bullish on the space (adding to Loeb, Dalio and Druckenmiller, while […]

Guest Post by Adrian Day April’s Consumer and Producer Price indexes, showing prices up 4.2% and 6.2% respectively year on year, were well ahead of expectations and have produced widespread discussion. Everyone from Ray Dalio and Stan Druckenmiller to my next-door neighbor has chimed in. The Federal Reserve, Democratic politicians and media apologists all proclaim […]

As Chinese financial regulators go all out after bitcoin miners and traders, the world’s number one cryptocurrency touched another low for the current month, with the price of the token slipping below $35,000. Bitcoin was trading at $36,818 at 07:44 GMT, marking a day-on-day drop of nearly eight percent. The fall comes after a week […]

Washington Reality Versus American Reality Authored by Newt Gingrich, op-ed via The Epoch Times, Washington reality reflects the fevered conversation over lunch, cocktails, and dinner between the Washington press corps, lobbyists, and government officials. Washington reality reflects the narcissistic self-absorption of the Imperial Capital. Rep. Liz Cheney’s fate consumes days and days of gossip and […]

“Governing As Looting” In Washington & Beyond Authored by James Bovard via The American Institute for Economic Research, At what point does a democracy become a kleptocracy? That type of degeneration routinely happens in Third World regimes but the same blight can occur in the United States. Few things epitomize “governing as looting” like the […]