Geostrategy

JPMorgan: Investors Have Been Asking Questions About The Potential For Hyperinflation The following excerpts from today’s JPMorgan Market Intelligence report (Afternoon Briefing) from JPM’s Andrew Tyler: EQUITY AND MACRO NARRATIVE: The CPI print today may assuage some of the building anxiety regarding inflation. While the reflation trade is approaching consensus long, investors across all asset […]

Panic Across The Plains States As Nat Gas Prices Explodes To $80 One look at the price of nat gas in the central states and you’d think it was a pennystock with a 1000% short interest: behold the price of Southern Star nat gas spot (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas). It just hit $38 and is normally […]

Does the US Still Have an Economy? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, February 11 2021 People want to know where the economy is headed.  What they should be asking is does the US still have an economy?  My answer … The post Selected Articles: Does the US Still Have an Economy? appeared first on Global Research. Does the […]

Escobar: Why Russia Is Driving The West Crazy Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Future historians may register it as the day when usually unflappable Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov decided he had had enough: We are getting used to the fact that the European Union is trying to impose unilateral restrictions, illegitimate […]

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 against the [B.1.351 South African] variant,” Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said during an […]

Relations between Russia and the West are in choppy waters, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who says the Black Sea is the new battleground in the US-led bloc’s fight for influence and control in the region. At a joint press conference with Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on Tuesday, Stoltenberg said that “we […]

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 piece was to reiterate what we have been saying for months: that Elon […]

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 they can tame the beast should it ever get out of hand). “It’s […]

(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 deep state would have been able to steal enough votes to ensure a… […]

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 secure the UK’s trade deal with the EU in December. He said a […]

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 behalf of the entire nation and stands as the antithesis of a free […]

Negative Rates Are Coming To The UK And US, Protect Your Savings Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Negative rates are the destruction of money, an economic aberration based on the mistakes of many central banks and some of their economists who start from a wrong diagnosis: the idea that economic agents do not take more credit or invest […]

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 democracy is working “very well” or “extremely well” in the US, a new […]

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts India will account for the biggest share of energy demand growth over the next two decades. The nation is projected to become the world’s third-largest energy consumer by 2030. Primary energy consumption in the country was forecast to almost double to 1,123 million tons of oil equivalent as the […]

Journalist Andy Ngo On How Antifa Wants To “Destroy Democracy” Gabriel Nadales, a former Antifa activist who now works for Campus Reform’s parent organization, the Leadership Institute, sat down with journalist Andy Ngo to talk about his new book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. By unmasking Antifa’s true goal and exposing the group […]

Is This The Biggest Financial Bubble Ever? Rubino: “Hell Yes It Is!” Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, If you’re over 40 you’ve lived through at least three epic financial bubbles: junk bonds in the 1980s, tech stocks in the 1990s, and housing in the 2000s. Each was spectacular in its own way, and each […]

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 them in the safety of the care home. A propaganda-addled populace wandering around […]

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“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 stats say consumer prices were going up fast before Russia invaded Ukraine […]

Skirmishes broke out in Jerusalem between police and ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting against Covid-19 restrictions, creating chaotic scenes that have become commonplace in the Israeli city. Hundreds of men from Haredi neighborhoods gathered on Tuesday night to demonstrate against Israel’s public health measures, specifically the shuttering of schools and seminaries, known as yeshivas. The event started […]

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 monopolise on a fixed understanding of ‘Europe’ was intended to create a common […]

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 the attack. He was reportedly known to the authorities for acts of violence […]

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 account was permanently suspended on Thursday over “repeated violations of the companies [sic] […]

The changes underway are a revolutionary change from one historic epoch to another, Joaquin Flores writes. Ephesians 6: 10 – 12 – 10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of […]

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 northeast Hasakeh Province. Details aren’t clear on why the convoy arrived, beyond delivering […]

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 Peskov told TASS on Monday that sufficient numbers of people will have caught […]

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 the hands of the European Central Bank “in exchange for greater public investment” […]

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 it was just a matter of time before Elon Musk joined MicorStrategy and […]

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 by Moscow’s ambassador to Tehran. Russian Ambassador Levan Dzhagaryan said, “The next multilateral […]

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 on Terror, except that this time the “Terrorists” are all “Domestic Violent Extremists” […]

Neera Tanden, Joe Biden’s nominee for budget director, was pressed over her history of insulting tweets and corporate coziness. However, neither party took her to task for suggesting that Libya pay for its own bombing. Tanden sat before the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday for her second confirmation hearing, after Tuesday’s session with the Homeland […]

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,” and “if we don’t get it, burn it down.” Chants of “If we […]

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 anything else that inspired him.” Jacobson’s most famous client was President Kennedy, who […]

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 unveiled… God willing, we will go toward (building) speed vessels with 100knots/h speed,” […]

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), whose disappointing +49k reading could be easily explained by continued job losses in […]

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 landmarks in the city are ‘diverse enough’. The selection is chocked full of […]

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 formal arrest of Cheng Lei is under charges of “illegally supplying state secrets overseas” after she […]

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” approach to rule breakers in order to protect the UK from importing new […]

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 planning to manufacture a “gadget-packed shotgun” for hipsters.  According to AFP, Kalashnikov, the […]

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 game, but of course, it’s a stock-trading game. The ‘in-game’ purchases are equities […]

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 it was told by Facebook that it could not sell Gress’s book on […]

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. Climate Forecast Headline Predictions 1967 Salt Lake Tribune: Dire Famine Forecast by 1975, […]

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 of things, the most consequential of his breaches. As of last week, it […]

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 Covid-19 is “man-made or manufactured,” or that vaccines are ineffective, unsafe, dangerous or […]

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 this week that it met with automotive and chip manufacturers to try and […]

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 the river, fine looking and fat; and they fed in the meadow. Then […]

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 serve in the economy?Given that the Middle Class is constantly invoked by politicos […]

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 Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft. pic.twitter.com/a3dzXrysWB — Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) February 6, 2021 Hoft’s […]

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 not identify the crime. The clash between Washington and Berne marks another episode […]

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 the Roaring 20s were followed by the bleak, dour, and impoverished years of […]

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 Initiative continues to evolve deep into the Eurasian Arctic via the Polar Silk […]

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 Minister Olaf Scholz – currently running as a candidate for chancellor in the […]

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 vaccine, in an effort to coerce refusniks into taking the shot, according to […]

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 of Moscow’s impending postwar communist aggression.  The short, allegorical novel’s human-like farm animals […]

“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 been the only people who weren’t surprised by the purchase. That’s because a […]

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 U.S.-backed rightest coup government. (1) Luis Arce, President Evo Morales’ (2006-2019) minister of […]

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 of GoldSilver.com, adding: “This is unsustainable, the currency creation has exceeded my wildest […]

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 governs many of the ways we communicate, trade, work and live. It also […]

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 was launched on Tuesday in a ceremony attended by President Hassan Rouhani. Medics […]

“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 “The United States is deploying long-range B-1 bombers to Norway to train in […]

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 foreign currency, the central bank said in a statement on its website on […]

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 Oldsmar, Florida boosted levels of sodium hydroxide in the system by nearly a […]

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 Merkel’s party, is seen as the favorite to replace her as the next […]

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 toward “a foreign policy centered on democracy, human rights, and equality,” the newly-appointed […]

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 invention” and the world “should be accessing it in an equal way,” David […]

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, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Italian Prime Minister Mario […]

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 have not encountered such a phenomenon that the scientific school has given 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 mountainous border region between the two countries. The decision came after the ninth […]

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 puts him at odds with Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said before […]

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 team with the World Health Organization (WHO) held a press conference on Tuesday […]

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 theoretical future aerial attack from Russia or China.  The joint exercises, dubbed ‘Cope North […]

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 squeeze in GameStop (GME) followed by headhunting for shorts in a handful of […]

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 known as the Iran nuclear deal. “Will the U.S. lift sanctions first in […]

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 payment giant said. It has explained that the first segment includes fiat-backed […]

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 opposition is something else,” Maria Zakharova said on Thursday to Russia’s Channel One. […]

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 treaty which strictly forbids monetary financing of states,” the ECB chief said in […]

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. It neatly captures the violent traditions of the province and explains why the […]

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 meeting this year that “the economy is bouncing back rather steadily” and that “given the current positive trends” […]

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 bans against each side’s intelligence and diplomatic officials.  According to the latest, “Three […]

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 happening all over the world today.  But in our time, an additional threat […]

“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 hits $100,000 next” which boiled down to just one observation: “countless other publicly-traded […]

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 phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.” He […]

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 Initiative continues to evolve deep into the Eurasian Arctic via the Polar Silk […]

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 impeached him on one count of “incitement of insurrection.” To prepare for the […]

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 dominance of Western currencies, but the Fed’s failing monetary policies and those […]

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 has purged accounts of recent Saudi political prisoners.  A number of prominent Saudi […]

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 three tested positive for Covid-19. The mother of the family reportedly works at […]

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, which is also stabilising within international relationships’ – these are arguments we can […]

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 the government is looking at the possibility of creating a vaccine passport, as […]

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 on the bomb phase now. A base in Lvov/Lviv was bombed and many […]

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 and replacement of Ukraine’s democratically elected President, Viktor Yanukovych, who had been called to the […]

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 amid the events in Ukraine. So, after the outright genocide of the Russian-speaking […]

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 not be joining NATO as member States. President Biden must also call for […]

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 the town of Starobelsk, roughly 100km (62 miles) north of Lugansk on Saturday […]

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, as you’ll see today. The war on cash is a global effort being […]

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 next drowning victim.  Discarded refrigerators prowled the land looking for unsuspecting eight-year-olds to […]

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 menu from which one can pick and choose this or that. They are […]

Edward Snowden via Continuing Ed.  gave criticisms against Central Bank Digital Currencies, in an article that he published about CBDCs on Oct 9, 2021. In this post, Snowden delivers a comprehensive description of his position and arguments on the state of CBDCs and how they might be implemented by the US Federal government. Snowden refers to […]

Stability in Bosnia is appearing to unravel, and the EU’s efforts to restore stability seem destined to make matters worse. While Brussels views itself as a selfless security provider, the reality is it is making matters worse. Moreover, the EU has actually become a main contributor to the political conflict in the country, due to […]

Jamie Dimon Warns JP Morgan Bracing For “Potentially Catastrophic” US Default Debt-Ceiling Battle Drags On Now that Janet Yellen has confirmed Oct. 18 is the “drop dead” for Congress to lift the federal debt borrowing limit, progressives are pushing even harder against the Democratic leadership, which is stuck between appeasing the “Squad”, and moderates like […]

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 ludicrous claim that China “sent warplanes flying over Taiwan”. In reality Chinese planes […]

Former US top diplomat and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton became the first female chancellor of Queen’s University in Belfast, but her triumphant entrance was picketed by hecklers protesting her as a “war criminal.” Clinton was inaugurated on Friday as the first-ever female chancellor of Queen’s, a public university dating back to the 1840s. She […]

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 years, from capping ATM withdrawals to doing away with large-denomination bills. Last year, China launched a digital […]

By Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor is seeking approval to resume an investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan but will “deprioritize” investigating suspected crimes by the US and its allies. Karim Khan, who took over as ICC prosecutor in June, said he would focus on Taliban and ISIS-K, citing recent allegations. […]

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 Lijian took aim at Japan’s new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, who visited the […]

A surge in the cost of gas which has seen bills shoot up for households and industry is down to a shortfall in electricity generation, and not because Russia is somehow squeezing supplies, President Vladimir Putin has argued. Speaking as part of a keynote address at Russian Energy Week on Wednesday, Putin said that a […]

The Vatican enjoys sovereign immunity that protects it from sexual-abuse lawsuits in local courts, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled, after a case was put forward by 24 people who claim to be victims. On Tuesday, the top court dismissed a case submitted by two dozen people who claim to be survivors […]

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 are lifted, but according to the BBC, they’re facing an acute shortage of clowns. […]

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 my mom (age 8), or drove dad’s car (sometimes into a tree) without […]

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 between 1,000 and 2,000, per local media reports – descended on the Auckland Domain […]

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 availability has dried up, and we have not been able to purchase our […]

Alexander Dugin Youtube excelled again. This time he demolished the Russian television channel Russia Today in Germany without warning. As soon as I gave comments on the elections to the Bundestag for this channel, Youtube immediately eliminated it. Coincidence? Yes, I think it’s a coincidence, but a very symbolic one. The same Youtube, more than […]