Month: April 2023

In the Open Veins of Latin America Eduardo Galeano described an 1870 genocidal war of regime change waged on Paraguay by a Triple Alliance of its neighbors, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, on behalf of British imperialism. The target, nationalist president Solano Lopez, died in battle. The country lost 56,000 square miles of territory. Paraguay’s population was reduced […]

Private Chinese refiners in the Shangdong province are estimated to have bought 800,000 bpd of Iranian crude oil and condensate in March. As Indian refiners and China’s state-owned oil giants buy up Russian crude, teapots are increasingly reliant on Iranian oil. There isn’t any official data on Iranian imports into China, but tanker-tracking companies estimate […]

Credit Suisse, one of the fifty largest banks in the world, has joined the long list of Western banks over the past two decades that have been rescued from the brink of failure and subsequently acquired by a larger financial institution. After comments from the chairman of the Saudi National Bank triggered the evaporation of almost a third […]

Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief economist who coined the acronym BRIC, said the bloc of nations that later adopted the name should expand and work to counter the dollar’s dominance. In a paper published in the Global Policy journal, O’Neill called on the group to apply strict criteria to ensure the […]

America has entered the era of ‘show me the man and I’ll show you the crime’ politics. A Manhattan grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office confirmed following late-Thursday media leaks. While the indictment remains under seal, one thing seems certain: America has now entered the era of […]

Seventeenth-century French kings and their minions did not impose an accelerating burden of absolutism without provoking grave, deep, and continuing opposition. Indeed, there were repeated rebellions by groups of peasants and nobles in France from the 1630s to the 1670s. Generally, the focus of discontent and uprising was rising taxes, as well as the losses […]

Paris could be looking to improve its defense capacity in the midst of a tense world, but the action could also be aimed at mitigating the effects of the serious domestic crisis. France is preparing for a conflict in the near future. The country is about to implement a new measure to raise the age […]

The super-rich have always profited enormously from imperialism — and that means from invasions, coups, and other international regime-change operations. Right now, they are especially pumping for WW III (to conquer Russia and China, above all), or at least for increasing the likelihood that it will happen; and here’s how they do this — how […]

In the news in the western hemisphere today, the truth is like the Holy Grail. And like the cup of Christ, it too may be lost forever. Take any information about Russia or China, for instance. Reality is now shifted not only in the halls of power in Washington, London, and Brussels, but in journalism, […]

The head of Germany’s Evangelical Church Annette Kurschus has criticized Ukrainian officials who have dismissed calls for peace as “senile”. The council president of the country’s Evangelical Church Annette Kurschus emphasized a need for peace proposals. The head of the Evangelical Church in Germany has rebuked high-profile Ukrainian officials for attacking a recent public appeal […]

In a quest to maintain its hegemony in a unipolar world, American foreign policy strategy has sought to weaken a Russia that it sees as an “acute threat” and to confront and contain a China that it sees as “the most comprehensive and serious challenge to U.S. national security.” The immediate challenge is Russia, the theory goes, […]

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop talk about global moves being made against the US dollar. The regime’s decade long weaponization of money and banking has both global rivals and historical allies looking for alternatives. Ryan and Tho discuss what that means for Americans, and what may come next. Recommended […]

It is a pattern we see again and again: New political hopefuls are elected to office espousing progressive values and vowing to challenge the status quo in Washington, D.C. They are sent off with high hopes. But then, over time, the change they promise never materializes. Worse yet, the politicians themselves begin to change. They […]

The treatment received by judge Stuart Kyle Duncan at Stanford Law School has received enormous attention but this attention is entirely about the state of free expression at an elite law school. Almost nothing, however, about why his speech was disrupted. Let me suggest that the reasons behind student vehemence are just as significant as disruption itself. […]

The EU is facing destruction because its policies are totally subject to those of Washington, the Belarusian president has said. Europe can only survive as an independent force if it joins forces with Russia, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko declares. The world is currently witnessing “the destruction of Europe,” Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told the national […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that from now on his “doors are closed” to the US Ambassador to Ankara, Jeffry Flake. The Turkish leader spoke of the “need to teach America a lesson” in diplomacy. While the US President Joe Biden’s ambassador was meeting with main opponent of the incumbent president, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, […]

Syria is on the brink of recovery as Saudi Arabia plans to invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the Arab League summit in Riyadh on May 19. Syria is on the brink of recovery as Saudi Arabia plans to invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the Arab League summit in Riyadh on May 19. Saudi […]

Former US ambassador to Finland, Earle Mack has visited Ukraine several times, on humanitarian missions. He claims, in a March 29 piece for The Hill, that, during his last visit, he could see a lack of morale firsthand, in the voice of the leaders to whom he talked. More importantly, Mack states matter-of-factly that the […]

People are sick and tired of the ruling class’s overblown fear-mongering of COVID, so much so that no really pays attention to it anymore. But The World Health Organization (WHO) says the newest mild variant is “one to watch”. They’ve found a gold mine of control over the public and really don’t want it to […]

For two years now I’ve been calling for a “National Divorce.” I warned Democrats were crazed suicide bombers intent on destroying America, American exceptionalism, and the American Dream. I warned this was a communist takeover. I warned about the weaponization of the government. I warned about the end of free speech. I warned about where […]

Dr Doom: “Most banks are technically insolvent” pic.twitter.com/2GlWm6324O — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) April 2, 2023 By Francis Marion Read More

There will be no more Marshall Plans Exactly 75 years ago, the foundation stone of the transatlantic relationship was laid. After the Marshall Plan was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman, the US would go on to send billions of dollars in economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe after the Second World […]

Following news that Brazil and China agreed to trade in their local currencies, it emerged that a French company charged the export of liquefied gas (LNG) to China National Offshore Oil Corporation in the Chinese yuan. This is another sign that the inexorable process of de-dollarization has gained momentum and even spread to the European […]

Claudio Resta explores the increasing possibility of a violent Civil War in America Let me just give you a few on-the-spot personal reactions of mine about the news of the Grand Jury Indictment of former President Donald Trump. Clearly, this is the first time in US history that a former president who is campaigning for […]

Imagine the uproar if China or Russia—or any other country for that matter—said it aimed to exercise military control over land, sea, air, and space to protect its interests and investments. This amazingly has been the stated United States policy since 1997. Full spectrum dominance, as the doctrine is known, is the reason the United […]

Washing machines, microwaves and other high-power appliances shouldn’t be used in the evening, Poland’s state power company said. Consumers should continue efforts to conserve energy ahead of next winter, according to the Germany’s national utilities regulator. Polish households should avoid using washing machines, heaters, and microwaves during peak hours, the Polish state energy company said. […]

During a visit by the Chinese president to Russia, both countries deepened their “no limits” partnership. The visit comes at a time when the West and Russia are involved in a proxy war in Ukraine and when Washington has launched a Cold War against China. How dangerous is this ’friendship’ between Putin and Xi? No-limits […]

The head of the Russian private military company (PMC), Evgeny Prigozhin, has announced a milestone achievement in the battle for the city of Artryomovsk / Bakhmut, publishing a video taken in the centre of Bakhmut  front of the town’s administrative building on Sunday evening. “We hoisted the Russian flag with the inscription ‘Good memory to […]

My woman turned to me tonight, rapt in attention in the horrid blue light of the screen, and told me the New York Times real estate section was making her feel jealous, alienated, alone, and worthless. We were holed up in our apartment in the Catskills on another of those miserable spring-will-never-be-here nights of bitter […]

In the current socio-political climate, it may well be that ideology is secondary to psychology, much of it abnormal. In plain view(and often placed on the pedestal) is so much lunacy with no relation to reality. At least when communism was a force in the 19th and 20th centuries, there were workers struggling in harsh […]

We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support. […]

First, Obama falsely portrayed Gaddafi as a monster; then, he lied about the need for harsh sanctions to punish him for crimes he never committed and, finally, he launched an illegal war under a pretext as phony as Lyndon Johnson’s Tonkin Gulf Resolution and George W. Bush’s Weapons of Mass Destruction. Once upon a time, […]

My first thought when I saw the news flash that Donald Trump had been indicted was “Banana republic, here we come.”  After seeing the instant jubilation on the left, including in the media, my second thought was, “Banana republic, here we are.”  It’s a cliché to say we’ve crossed the Rubicon, but that doesn’t make it less […]

The West destroyed over a half-century of cooperation in the energy sector with no new affordable prospects in sight European energy costs are soaring, driving inflation to heights not seen in nearly 50 years and strangling EU consumers and businesses alike. Unprecedented sanctions placed on Russia, Europe’s premier provider of affordable energy, coupled with the […]

It would be wrong to view the restoration of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran as something that happened suddenly. Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, ties between the two important Muslim neighbours have been strained. For the Saudi elite the Revolution was not only anti-monarchical but also a boost to the Shia sect within […]

Details of the worst case scenario for an accident involving containers full of depleted uranium shells have been pulled from the National Archives by government censors. The risk assessment’s removal from public view will add to concerns about the safety of Britain sending such a controversial weapon to Ukraine. Depleted uranium (DU) is a chemically […]

In the past year, the upper echelons within the Western oil and gas industry have been observing a shift in global energy markets toward China, Russia and India. Indeed, amid the deepening conflict and escalating uncertainties between Ukraine and Russia, we have witnessed Western sanctions against Russia, and China and India’s willingness to secure energy […]

A shadowy Iraqi armed group has threatened to target United States military helicopters flying over the country with American-made FIM-92 Stinger man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADs) The group, known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq – ‘Ashab al-Kahf, released early on April 1 a photo of a CH-47 Chinook military transport helicopter flying over an unspecified […]

A long way has come since September 1995, when the first grains of depleted uranium ammunition from the bombed Repair Facility in Hadžići, at that time under the control of the Bosnian Serb Army, were brought from Sarajevo to the Military Technical Institute in Belgrade for possible toxicity analysis, until March 2023, when the quiet […]

Lionizing your own side and demonizing the enemy has been as important as battlefield victories Since the beginning of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, Western spin-doctors have been busy. But despite the rapid technological progress that changed the world over the last decades, the principles of war propaganda remain the same. Thomas Hobbes, the 17th […]

In 1993, American political scientist Samuel Huntington famously predicted that future wars would be between civilizations, not nations. Huntington forecast a substantial list of possible civilizational clashes. Thirty years later, it is clear that Huntington wasn’t entirely wrong. But in retrospect, his article The Clash of Civilizations was not really a forecast of coming conflicts between […]

The venue of SXSW EDU 2023 was gargantuan, and the scheduled list of subjects and speakers was overwhelming.  Undoubtedly, the great attraction of this years’ conference were the “Superstar Siblings,” Doreen Nelson and her brother, the world renowned architect, Frank Gehry, the Keynote Speakers on March 7, introducing Doreen Nelson’s ”Design-based Learning Unwrapped: Build Our Future.” Doreen is the recipient […]

China has just completed its first trade of liquefied natural gas (LNG) settled in yuan, the Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange said on Tuesday. Chinese state oil and gas giant CNOOC and TotalEnergies completed the first LNG trade on the exchange with settlement in the Chinese currency, the exchange said in a statement carried […]

The ultrarich are prepping for doomsday right now. France is on fire. The U.S. ruling elite and the mainstream media they own are avoiding reporting on it. The American rich want to exploit the workers more and more, and facing the wrath of the “common man and woman” is their greatest fear. So they have […]

Apparently, the most realistic wing of the American armed forces is beginning to distrust its own combat capacity in the face of the bellicose plans of their government. In a recent speech, a US top general warned that it would be “very difficult” for Washington to face Russia and China at the same time. The […]

Last week, China and Brazil reached an agreement to settle trades in one anothers’ currencies. Over the past 15 years, China has replaced the United States as the main trading partner of resource-rich Brazil, and as such that shift may have been inevitable. But within the context of recent circumstances, this appears to be another […]

While European officials and individual members of the European political elite try, to the detriment of ordinary Europeans, to develop a mechanism that would allow EU members to block even Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies without imposing additional sanctions, Europe’s deepening gas and economic crisis has already begun to shift the balance of power. […]

Galeano Names the Problem In the Open Veins of Latin America Eduardo Galeano described an 1870 genocidal war of regime change waged on Paraguay by a Triple Alliance of its neighbors, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, on behalf of British imperialism. The target, nationalist president Solano Lopez, died in battle. The country lost 56,000 square miles […]

On March 21, UK Minister of State for Defense Annabel Goldie stated that London would supply Ukraine with weapons containing depleted uranium (DU). This type of technology, as well known, is extremely dangerous and has serious chemical, radioactive effects among its consequences. For Moscow, this is yet another provocation that violates clear red lines in […]