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Mantes-la-Jolie

It is likely that nobody who will read this article has any idea that Mantes-la-Jolie is a town nestled into a curve of the Seine river about 50 km northwest of the center of Paris. The town, at the limit of the Paris region called Ile-de-France and the Normandie region, became significant to me recently because I was reading the works of Henry Adams. Henry Adams is one of the more interesting public intellectuals in American history. I wrote about him in a 2015 article about Gore Vidal’s novel ...

Donald Trump Following Project Esther Playbook

Gaza, Palestine, is the modern Warsaw, Poland.

The so-called modern civilized world is showing itself to be as uncivilized as any corrupt, authoritarian society in world history. And the United States of America and Israel are leading the pack. There are no nations on the planet today that are showing themselves more bloodthirsty, more calloused to the mass murder of innocents and more guilty of international war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity than these two count...

The Greatness of Power and Market

In an earlier column, I wrote about the greatness of Man, Economy, and State. I’d like to continue with a discussion of another great book of his, Power and Market. Actually, that book was intended to be part of MES, but owing to the insistence of one of the readers for the Volker Fund, which funded the publication of MES with Van Nostrand, it had to be removed from the book. Instead, only a truncated chapter was added to the manuscript of MES and the book was published in that form.

Power and M...

Can Reality Any Longer Be Acknowledged?

The attack on Russian strategic forces by Ukraine, with or without President Trump’s knowledge and with or without help from Washington and the British, could have been the most dangerous event in East-West relations during my lifetime.  The reason is that recently revised Russian war doctrine states that an attack, even by a non-nuclear country, on the Russian strategic triad requires a strategic response.  Strategic usually means nuclear or at least a disabling response.  

Putin dodged the res...

Trump Administration Furthering Control Grid

It seems that on a daily basis we get more bad news coming out of the Trump administration indicating that this administration is as committed to implementing a control grid as the previous administration. It was on day two of the Trump administration when it announced Stargate and its ten gigantic facilities being constructed to house AI databases. When announced, this scheme touted AI as being able to use mRNA and create individual specific ‘vaccines’ to target cancer. Unfortunately, mRNA caus...

How Shadow Banks Rule the World

In any alternative media space, you are sure to find much talk about US dollar dominance, as well as optimistic forecasts of its imminent decline. This is also true in the radical right, where nationalists pine after an end to US imperial hegemony and the rise of a more multipolar world.

Often though, this hope is little more than wishful thinking, with unlikely challengers to US power much overhyped. This is especially true concerning US dollar hegemony, a topic that is ripe for misunderstandin...

Epstein, Israel, ISIS, Palantir

Amid the inevitable giant ego clash between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Musk tweeted that the president “is in the Epstein files,” saying “That is the real reason they have not been made public.”

As we have discussed previously, it is a known fact that Trump is on the Epstein flight logs and has been obstructing the release of the Epstein files. It is also a known fact that Jeffrey Epstein worked with Israeli intelligence and was running a sexual blackmail operation, and that Trump has been bend...

The ‘Golden Dome’ Is Pure Fantasy

Mutzig, France – First stop on my annual visit to France’s mighty Maginot Line forts is this lovely Alsatian town. Mutzig was built by the Germans 1893-1916 to defend against enemy approaches to the important city of Strasbourg. It was – and remains – the largest modern fortress in Europe.

The vast fortress, which covers over 800 acres, was never attacked during World War I by the Germans or French. But as Europe’s first important fortress made of concrete and fully electrified, it was eagerly s...

Elon Goes Nuclear Against Trump

From the Tom Woods Letter:

It began perhaps with Elon’s concerns about the tariff program, but accelerated dramatically when he came out against the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.

Thomas Massie and Rand Paul had been subjected to the usual abuse for their objections to the bill.

Some people — even some who claim to oppose budget deficits — had been piling on against Massie and Rand: why, they don’t understand the long game, they always vote no, they don’t understand that we have to spend in order...

Living in a World of Ongoing Shortages

The toilet paper shortages of 2020 may be behind us, but that doesn’t mean that everything is hunky-dory. Shortages continue to plague not only our land but the world as a whole. Entire industries are struggling to overcome the scarcity of parts and materials, while consumers are forced to forget about finding a good deal, settling for just the things they need.

As Americans, we are so accustomed to living in a world full of plenty that we’re a bit taken back by seeing store shelves that are poo...