Back in the 1990s, when modern Russia emerged from the ashes of the Soviet Union, the West was the best. It offered the only realistic role model. Times have changed, but the penny hasn’t dropped yet in Brussels or Washington. Today, the…

Facebook has decided to block news sharing on its Australian platform, because of a new law there that would require the Big Tech behemoth to compensate publishers for their work. A report on the dispute at TechCrunch explained that the move by…

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South Africa is putting on hold the rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, after disappointing study results suggested the jab offers significantly less protection against the locally prevalent variant of Covid-19. “The AstraZeneca vaccine appeared effective against the original strain, but not…

A Third Of All US Homeowners Own Property Worth Double The Underlying Mortgage In the midst of a virus pandemic, with millions of Americans out of work facing housing and food insecurities, the Federal Reserve has managed to keep interest rates near…

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE In a high-quality dementia care facility, confused residents who are at risk of unsafe wandering are skillfully redirected away from exit doors by staff members who are trained to provide them with the illusion of freedom while still keeping…

Just a small fraction of Americans believe democracy is working very well, though most agree that a democratically elected government is essential to US society, a new poll has shown. Unfortunately, most see things getting worse. Just 16 percent of Americans believe…

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Europe’s Debt Cancellation Would Mean Recognition Of Insolvency Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Economist Thomas Piketty, creator of some of the most absurd proposals embraced by the extreme left, has published an article in which he demands a cancellation of government debt in…

A member of the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has claimed that lockdowns could be a part of people’s lives for “several years” as variants of Covid-19 mutate. Professor Sir Ian Boyd, who teaches at the University of St…

(Natural News) If America had a ‘mainstream media’ that was honest, free of political bias and still interested in keeping the people informed as was their founding mandate and the reason for a free press, then there is no way the Democrat…

With artificial intelligence (AI) steadily progressing, concerns have been growing about how much innovation is too much. Cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright offers his forecast for the industry. The quest for AI is right now “one of the biggest battles” between countries around…

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Going Anywhere Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, “There is no scenario where hydrocarbons disappear,” the chief executive of Baker Hughes, Lorenzo Simonelli, said during his keynote speech at this year’s annual meeting in the company. Like other executives from…

Bitcoin Explodes To Record High After Tesla Buys $1.5 BIllion In retrospect it was so obvious. Back on January 9, when discussing the recent surge of institutional and corporate purchases of bitcoin and conversion of cash into the cryptocurrency, we said that…

Flashing Red? Global Inflation Breakevens Are Breaking Out Between global central bank money-printing, government fiscal support out the wazoo, and hopes for vaccine-related developments, the world and his pet rabbit is betting on inflation (and just as confidently, central planners are sure…

Our Children Have a Right to a Decent Future By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, February 08 2021 What the rebellious generation of 68 reproached their fathers for, that they had willingly submitted to a dictator and a tyranny, is happening … The post Selected…

Will The Fed’s “Feelgood” Medicine Cause An Economic Collapse? Authored by Barry Brownstein via The American Institute for Economic Research, Dr. Max Jacobson became known as Dr. Feelgood and “Miracle Max” for treating wealthy celebrities with concoctions, “mixing amphetamines, vitamins, enzymes, tranquilizers, placenta, and…

Protesters have clashed with French police outside of Total’s head office in La Defense, Paris as striking employees and climate activists accuse the oil giant of jettisoning jobs while failing to protect the environment. Employees of the Grandpuits refinery, who have been…

The EU is restricting the powers of London’s top diplomat in Brussels, which risks worsening the UK’s already-fractious relationship with the bloc after Brexit, the government’s EU adviser David Frost said on Tuesday. Frost is the former chief Brexit negotiator who helped…

Google Reverses Course In Australia – Opens Paid Platform For (Some) Australian News The Australian government has possibly obtained a rare, partial victory in its standoff with Google. The US-based tech giant has appeared to reverse course as Australia holds hearings aimed at enacting…

Technocrats Everywhere: Central Bankers As Political Saviors Authored by Robert Aro via The Mises Institute, The word “technocrat” is seldom used by the liberty crowd. It invokes the idea of a bureaucracy using technical experts to somehow make the right decisions on…

The (New Normal) War On Domestic Terror Authored (mostly satirically) by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, If you enjoyed the Global War on Terror, you’re going to love the new War on Domestic Terror! It’s just like the original Global War…

Europe’s three largest cities lie outside the European Union, or four if you count Istanbul, and 40% of people on the continent are not citizens of the bloc. This hasn’t prevented Brussels from trying to hijack European identity. The EU’s efforts to…

The manager of a refugee center in the French city of Pau has died of his injuries, after allegedly being stabbed multiple times by a Sudanese asylum seeker, police said on Friday. The suspect, a 38-year-old man from Sudan, was arrested following…

Russia, Iran & China To Hold Joint Naval Drills As CENTCOM Chief Blasts Iran As “Driver Of Instability” On Monday Russia announced plans to hold joint naval drills with Iran and China in the Indian Ocean, according to Reuters, which cites comments made…

Iran’s latest homegrown military hardware, capable of cruising at 90nots/h, was unveiled in front of the armed forces top brass on Monday amid a buildup of foreign naval assets in the Persian Gulf. “Today, marine vessels which cruise at 90nots/h will be…

Four Chinese Regulators Meet With Tesla, Urge Company To “Operate According To China Law” It was only about 3 weeks ago that we published a piece called “Elon Musk’s Chinese Fairy Tale Will Eventually Come To An End“. The purpose of the…

London Mayor Appoints Woke Activist Brigade To “Review” Statues For “Diversity” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has appointed a rogues gallery of woke partisans as a ‘task force’ to review whether statues and other…

Biden Appears To Be Expanding The US Occupation Of Syria Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, some 50 vehicles in a US military convoy crossed into Syria this weekend and headed for bases in the nation’s…

“You did it, you did it, you did it in a minute.”  – Hall & Oates Putin caused inflation. That’s what Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Jen Psaki told the nation. We are dealing with the “Putin price rise.” Of course, all…

The founder of Project Veritas has fired shots at Twitter for letting CNN get away with a 2018 ambushing of a Trump supporter in her home, but taking down the watchdog’s account for allegedly violating its ‘anti-doxxing’ policy. The conservative watchdog group’s…

China’s Industry Ministry Urges Chipmakers To Increase Production Capacity All does not seem to be well in the world’s largest auto market – especially now as the ongoing global semiconductor shortage is hitting the country where it hurts.  China’s industry ministry said…

Let’s Review 50 Years Of Dire Climate Forecasts And What Actually Happened Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Here are 21 headlines from various news sources regarding dire climate predictions over the last 50 years. Many of the predictions are outrageously funny….

Even ‘Scientist’ Models Now Forecast The COVID Scourge Ending By The Summer The covid pandemic was front and center today in economic news, when its impact was felt throughout the January payrolls report (if not to the same extent as December payrolls),…

Facebook is expanding the list of ‘false’ and ‘debunked’ claims about the coronavirus and vaccines that will be grounds for ban from the platform, while launching the largest ‘authoritative’ vaccination campaign worldwide. Under the ‘Community Standards’ policy, posts with “debunked claims” that…

Rabo: The Fed Is Giving People The FAIT Finger By Michael Every of Rabobank FAIT and lean cows Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “Behold, in my dream I stood on the bank of the river. Suddenly seven cows came up out of…

Kalashnikov Makes Gadget-Packed Shotgun For “Hipsters”  The American-made Standard Manufacturing DP-12 is a modern bullpup pump-action shotgun that looks and feels like a futuristic weapon but lacks high-tech systems embedded within the firearm. That’s where Russia comes in, with legendary Kalashnikov Group, now…

Mob Threatens Arson During ‘F*ck The Police’ March In DC Anti-police, BLM activists marched through the streets of Washington DC Saturday night, where they yelled at police and harassed outdoor diners while chanting various slogans such as “Black lives, they matter here,”…

By Patrick LAWRENCE A return to diplomacy: Let us hold this thought up to the light. Among all the promises President Joe Biden is going to break over the next four years, this will prove the most fraudulent and, in the larger scheme…

Parents Sue Robinhood After 20-Year-Old Son Commits Suicide Over Options Confusion To better understand why Robinhood is so popular among millennial investors, it’s best to think about game design. The Robinhood stock trading app feels and plays very much like a video…

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has unveiled stricter punishments for individuals who flout Covid-19 border restrictions and quarantine rules, threatening £10,000 fines and up to 10 years in prison. The new measures are part of what Hancock describes as a “no apologies”…

Back to normal by summer. It’s a bold ambition after almost a year of pandemic-related disruption but, according to the Kremlin, it is a real possibility as the number of people immune to Covid-19 across the world rises further. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry…

Our Animal Farm Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via AMGreatness.com, George Orwell published Animal Farm in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most naïve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial about the contours…

Iran, which has had the deadliest Covid-19 outbreak in the Middle East, has begun vaccinating its citizens. The US-sanctioned nation is using Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, the first batch of which was delivered to Tehran last week. The vaccination campaign in Iran…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers in Australia have demonstrated how it is possible to train a system to manipulate human behavior and decision-making, highlighting the double-edged sword that is modern high tech. AI now pervades the vast majority of contemporary human society and…

UK Government Considering Knocking On Doors Of Vaccine Refusniks, Report Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, The UK government is considering a plan to despatch council staff to knock on the doors of those who have refused to take a coronavirus…

Twitter Permanently Bans Gateway Pundit For Violating “Civic Integrity Policy” Twitter has permanently suspended the account of Jim Hoft, founder of the popular conservative website The Gateway Pundit, for reportedly violating the social media giant’s “civic integrity policy.” Twitter has suspended The…

China Arrests High Profile Australian Journalist On Spy Charges  Fueling tensions amid an already spiraling trade dispute between the two countries, China has formally arrested an Australian citizen and journalist after she was initially detained under mysterious circumstances last summer. The now…

In a last-ditch effort to save a vital gas project from US sanctions, Berlin offered Washington ‎€1 billion ($1.21 billion) to boost imports of American liquified natural gas (LNG) in exchange, a German eco-group claims. The offer was allegedly made by Finance…

An apparent cyber attack on a water treatment plant on Florida’s gulf coast nearly sent dangerous amounts of a caustic chemical into the public drinking supply, police said amid a federal probe into the incident. The breach on the water facility in…

“Thank Me Later”: Redditor Leaked A Month Ago That Tesla “Just Bought 800 Million Worth Of Bitcoin” We noted that Tesla’s buy of $1.5 billion in bitcoin wasn’t a huge surprise to us yesterday. But it turns out we might not have…

Gold Could Offer A Way Out Of Switzerland’s Failing Inflationist Experiment Authored by Brendan Brown via The Mises Institute, Never mind that the US Treasury’s indictment late last year of Switzerland as a currency manipulator rested on some flawed evidence and does…

Half of the country’s revenues still come from natural gas and oil. Agricultural production is second. Arce wishes to diversify the economy, Ron Ridenour writes. Communtarian-indigenous based Movement toward Socialism (MAS) regained governmental control of the country, October 18, 2021, defeating the…

When (Or If) Comes The Pushback? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via AMGreatness.com, The corruption of the Renaissance Church prompted the Reformation, which in turn sparked a Counter Reformation of reformist and more zealous Catholics.   The cultural excesses and economic recklessness of…

Unfortunately for those at the top who’ve benefited immensely from speculative bubbles, speculative bubbles don’t create a vibrant middle class–they push what’s left of the middle class off a cliff. What exactly is the Middle Class and what unique role does it…

“Show Of Force Unseen Since Cold War”: US Military Flexes In Norway Amid mounting tensions between Russia and the West and as the Kremlin has lately placed strategic emphasis on its military readiness in the far north Arctic Circle, AFP reports that…

Big Tech is trying to silence women who speak out against radical feminism, author Carrie Gress told RT, after a Catholic store claimed that Facebook had taken down ads for her book on ‘toxic femininity’. A Catholic gift store, Guadalupe Gifts, said…

The future battleground which Canada is being prepared to set up is to be found in the Arctic, Matthew Ehret writes. As relations between the USA and Russia continue to fall ever deeper into the abyss, and as China’s Belt and Road…

The money supply increased dramatically in the US in 2020 since the lockdowns closed the economy. RT’s Keiser Report talks to Mike Maloney, a leading expert on monetary history, economics, and precious metals. “We’re approaching an endgame here,” says Maloney, the CEO…

Russian central bank has lifted restrictions on foreign currency buying introduced last month to limit the sanctions-related ruble drop. Sanctions-induced capital control measures relaxed as ruble strengthens. The Bank of Russia is lifting temporary capital control measures that banned individuals from buying…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced America will “re-engage” with the UNHRC as an “observer” in a bid to pressure the international body to dispense with what he called its “disproportionate” focus on Israel. Touting the Biden administration’s supposed return…

In a new preview of his pre-Super Bowl interview, President Joe Biden made it clear there is no chance of the US lifting sanctions on Iran unless they “stop enriching uranium first,” a step Tehran is not willing to take. Biden’s stance…

Less than a month after being elected as leader of Germany’s most powerful political party, Armin Laschet revealed that he believes the European Union should give Ukraine a pathway towards becoming a member of the bloc. Laschet, who now heads Chancellor Angela…

The WHO’s Covid-19 envoy has praised ‘brave’ Britain for trying an experimental vaccination regimen and proving its viability. The UK should think about sharing some of its stocks with poorer nations soon, he also suggested. The vaccines against Covid-19 are a “fantastic…

In recent weeks, the leaders of the three largest EU countries by population — France, Germany, and Italy — have all come out in favor of negotiations between Kiev and Moscow as a way to end the fighting in Ukraine. Unlike President Biden,…

The current conditions of development require intellectuals, and especially sociologists, to scientifically and theoretically define and analyze the laws of development of modern society, what kind of social formation in which the world lives. Unfortunately, so far in the scientific literature we…

Monetary Policy Is Pushing Americans, Kicking And Screaming, Up The Risk Curve Authored by Peter Earle via The American Institute for Economic Research, The last few weeks in financial markets, particularly in equities, have been some for the books. The colossal short…

US Hosts Pacific War Games With Australia & Japan Aimed At Countering Russia, China Attack The United States military has kicked off joint war games with Australian and Japan on the Western Pacific island of Guam which will specifically focus on countering a…

Beijing’s Defense Ministry has announced the organized disengagement of Chinese and Indian armed forces along the Line of Actual Control, the disputed border in the Himalayas. An agreement was reached on Wednesday for the disengagement of Chinese and Indian troops at the…

The expert team has found no evidence to back up the theory that the Covid-19 pandemic was caused by a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China. At the same time, it has not identified any animal source of the virus either. The expert…

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE In a new interview with CBS Evening News, President Biden confirmed that his administration will not be lifting sanctions imposed upon Iran in order to bring Tehran to the negotiating table for the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly…

The head of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde rejected calls to write off debts incurred by members of the eurozone to uphold their economies during Covid-19 lockdowns. “Canceling that debt is unthinkable. It would be a violation of the European…

“The Herd Is Coming”: Novogratz Sees Bitcoin At $100,000 As “Every Company” Buys It Exactly one month ago, following MSTR’s latest purchase of bitcoin which helped push its stock to all time highs, we laid out a simple case for “How bitcoin…

Russia “Ready” To Cut EU Ties If Bloc Moves On Putin Inner Circle Sanctions  The arrest and recent prison sentencing of anti-Kremlin activist Alexei Navalny continues to drive a wedge between Russia and Western Europe, following recent tit-for-tat sanctions in the form of travel…

The UK-EU Clash Over Northern Ireland Will Have Grave Consequences Authored by Patrick Cockburn, “Get your retaliation in first,” is a cynical old saying in Northern Irish politics that means you hit your opponent whenever you can without waiting for a provocation….

Former President Donald Trump appeared emboldened by being acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial for a second time, making clear that he will seek to remain a major political force in the times to come. Trump denounced the impeachment as “yet another…

The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that it is time to stop calling supporters of Alexey Navalny the ‘opposition’, with its spokeswoman insisting they are better described as agents of NATO than conventional political figures. “We should stop calling them the opposition. The…

When Corporations Become More Powerful Than The Government, Our Definition Of “Big Brother” Needs To Change Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Throughout human history, our God-given liberties and freedoms have often been brutally crushed by oppressive governments, and that is still…

International payment system Visa is moving towards allowing its cardholders to buy and sell cryptocurrencies in countries where it does not contradict the local legislation, the company’s press service told RIA Novosti. “The cryptocurrency market can be roughly divided into two segments,”…

The New Zealand city of Auckland has entered a three-day lockdown – its first in six months – after just three new cases of Covid-19 were recorded locally. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern imposed the lockdown after an Auckland family of…

The economic situation in Russia has “turned out to be better than expected,” according to the country’s central bank. The regulator has decided on Friday to keep its key rate at 4.25 percent per annum. The bank’s governor Elvira Nabiullina said at the first board…

National Guard And Razor Wire Everywhere: DC Gets Dystopian As Impeachment Trial Kicks Off Next week, the country will gather round to watch Democrats argue why former President Trump should be convicted for inciting the Jan. 6 ‘Capitol Riot,’ after the House…

New NORAD Warfare Strategies And Canada’s Role In The Great Game Revisited Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, As relations between the USA and Russia continue to fall ever deeper into the abyss, and as China’s Belt and Road…

Rights Groups Outraged After Twitter Purges Accounts Of Saudi Political Prisoners Twitter is once again being called out for its free speech hypocrisy and double-dealing when it comes to influential and wealthy foreign governments allied closely with Washington. In this latest case Twitter…

Despite the relative multiplicity of studies, no theoretical foundations for the geopolitical analysis of energy transition have been developed so far. ‘New resources mean new investments, and thus also new jobs and income stabilisation for countries and societies taking up new challenges,…

Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi denied claims that the UK government is planning to introduce a “vaccine passport” detailing which Brits have been vaccinated and which haven’t, calling the idea “discriminatory.” Asked during an interview with Sky News on Sunday whether…

In recent articles I have argued that the era of a financialised fiat dollar standard is ending. This article takes my hypothesis further and explains that it is not just the emergence of new commodity backed currencies in Asia that will threaten…

The Great Russian Restoration IV – ROLO SLAVSKI  As per tradition, let’s start with some war updates: The Russian army appears to follow a bomb, advance, surround order of operations. The first cycle ended about a week ago and we are back…

Editorial On 12 March 2014 a historic 10-minute video was uploaded to youtube that acquired over a million hits since then, and that presented and truthfully explained a compendium of video-clips which had been uploaded to the Web during the 2014 overthrow…

Fleeing from wars, armed conflicts and various militant activities, migrants from Africa and Asia continue to make risky attempts to enter the EU by various means, often using risky and perilous routes. However, streams of refugees in Europe have increased in recent days…

This war must be immediately terminated before it expands and sucks in the European NATO States and the United States. Towards that end, President Biden must publicly announce that NATO Expansion is over for good  and that Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova will…

Russia accused “Ukrainian nationalists” of firing rockets into residential areas in the town of Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic. The attack resulted in civilian casualties, Moscow claims. Moscow has said that Ukraine used multiple rocket launchers to shell residential blocks in…

With so much news about Ukraine, inflation, massive government spending and exploding deficits, it’s easy to overlook the ongoing war on cash. That’s a mistake because it has serious implications not only for your money, but for your privacy and personal freedom,…

It was the 1970s.  Dry cleaning bags lurked quietly behind couches waiting patiently for the opportunity to pounce on the hapless child who dropped a Lego nearby.  Unguarded five-gallon buckets stood brazenly in the middle of basement floors hoping to entice their…

Security proposals submitted to the US and NATO by Russia this week represent a broad deal required to defuse escalating tensions between Moscow and the military bloc, one of the country’s top diplomats explained on Friday. “Those two texts are not a…

By Matthew Piepenberg via GoldSwitzerland.com. Desperation and distraction are masquerading as economic policy. Below we see how and why…and at what cost… COVID: The Great Economic and Political Hall-Pass If every time I stole a cookie from the jar in front of…

Taiwan has been in the news a lot lately, and it’s really bringing out the crazy in people. The mass media have been falsely reporting that China has been encroaching on Taiwan’s “air defense zone”, which gets stretched into the even more…

Via SchiffGold.com.  We’ve written extensively about the “war on cash.” In a nutshell, governments would love to do away with cash in order to better track and control their citizens. There have been numerous moves closer to a cashless society in recent…

Afghanistan’s Deputy Minister of Information and Culture Zabihullah Mujahid has expressed the hope that Russia would help rebuild the country, destroyed from decades of war. “We are looking forward to cooperation with all countries, and foreign investment plays a significant role here….

Alasdair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation. Does Europe possess the energy and the humility to look itself in the mirror, and re-position itself diplomatically? Two events have combined to make a major inflection point for Europe: The first was America’s abandonment…

Whistleblower: Los Angeles Port Worker Says Shortages Are Fake! The global economy is in crisis. The Covid-19 Lockdown policies have triggered a process of Worldwide economic destabilization which directly affects both “Supply” and “Demand” relations. It’s the most serious economic crisis in World history affecting simultaneously more than…

The hyperinflation in European gas and electricity prices is getting more surreal by the day. Two days after we said that European natural gas and power prices hit escape velocity after Russia unexpectedly cut supplies, prices jumped to records, signaling the supply…

The Philippines’ controversial leader Rodrigo Duterte has said that he will not run for vice-president of the country in the 2022 election, but will instead retire from politics altogether. Duterte, who has been president since 2016, is ineligible to seek another term…

The value of Russian exports to European countries from January to August 2021 reached $109.7 billion, allowing Russia to remain the third largest EU exporter, European statistics agency Eurostat announced this week. The volume of Russian exports in the reporting period increased…

This week, the largest US producer of aluminum billet used to make automobiles and building supplies told customers and business associates that output capacity might be curtailed in 2022 due to a lack of magnesium supply. “In the last several weeks, magnesium…

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has reiterated its opposition to Japan’s decision to release nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima power plant into the ocean, after Tokyo’s new leader said the discharge could wait no longer. Speaking on Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao…

Alongside the UK’s ongoing fuel crisis, there’s a clown shortage in Northern Ireland’s circuses. With circus bosses searching for new clowns, some commenters suggested they look to the political arena for recruits. Circuses will soon tour Northern Ireland again once Covid-19 restrictions…

A large group of demonstrators gathered at a major park in Auckland, New Zealand to protest ongoing Covid lockdown measures in the country – many arriving with a procession of motorbikes headed by a local church leader. The protesters – who numbered…

Walt Garlington. Now the people of France know, following the AUKUS submarine agreement, the treachery of the Yankees. This is something Southerners have had to live with for more than 150 years. But in the shared experiences of these betrayals, there is…