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It’s Time for America to Rethink Its Relationship With NATO

With no European bogeyman waiting to pounce on its neighbors from the shadows, there is no longer a need for overriding American influence and outlandish spending on the continent.

For over a century, the United States has had one overarching goal in Europe: ensuring that the continent’s economic and military power was divided among various states by preventing the rise of a European superstate that could usurp that power for itself. Now that that goal has been achieved, will Washington admit it...

Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect

Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning that anything that arrestees say can be used against them in a court of law. But the Biden administration secretly created a new tripwire: Anything you purchase can be used against you. And if you didn’t want to be categorized as a “lone wolf” potential terrorist, you never should have bought that Bass Pro hat.

Federal agencies have long kept an eye on suspicious purchases by Americans considered potential troublemakers. Flash back 50 years, and th...

America Has Only Two Religions: Democrat and Republican

Poll after poll describes how religious America is. It is true that at its inception, and for over 150 years following, America was indeed a very religious nation. In fact, without the strong Christian convictions of the Pilgrims, Puritans and Patriots, the United States would have never come into existence. That statement is indisputable.

After the Second World War, however, America began experiencing a gradual but undeniable transmutation. During the 1950s, Christian fervor in America was stil...

The Digital Revolution Is Satan’s Master Weapon

UPDATE: 2.9 billion records, including Social Security numbers, stolen in data hack: What to know.

Readers know that I am death on the digital revolution. I regard it as an equivalent disaster to the creation of nuclear weapons. Both can, and most likely will, destroy our lives, nuclear weapons by physically destroying us, and the digital revolution by destroying our freedom.

The digital revolution is the foundation, already in place, for the police state, and it will be a total police state far...

Banned Again

This is getting really tiresome.

Two days ago, I appeared on the “Alex Jones Show”. I explained to Mr Jones that to me it looked as if there were at least two coups underway at the White House — possibly three: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/18...

Clearly the Harris team had taken out of play the Biden team, and now, with a bizarre interview in which Nancy Pelosi was distancing herself from President Biden, it appeared that the Schumer/Pelosi/Obama team was distancing themselve...

Gold’s Next Explosive Move

International Man: Gold has recently reached a new all-time high.

What are the underlying factors pushing the gold price higher?

Doug Casey: Three emotions typically move the gold price: prudence, fear, and greed. At the moment, only prudence is dominant, and certainly not greed. Or even fear, even though there’s plenty to be afraid about. The public seems quite unaware that gold is pushing all-time nominal highs. The gold bull market will likely remain intact, at least until the public is clamo...

Braced for the Quake

As a nation, we’re going broke—in multiple senses. But what I call the Scarlett O’Hara Defense (“I’ll think about it tomorrow”) and psychologists call “normalcy bias” allows us to go about our semi-normal lives even when the country has no leader, is involved in two proxy wars, is staggering under a ballooning national debt that exceeds our gross domestic product, and is placidly enduring a hostile invasion.

Now, personally, if I was going broke, I’d take on extra work, forage for edibles, and r...

The Road to Serfdom: Are We on the Final Stretch?

An attempt at an analysis from the perspective of a free Swiss individual

What you’re about to read is the abridged and condensed English translation of a speech I gave in Munich in November 2023. You can find the full speech, in German with English subtitles, here.

It tackles the very difficult, but also very crucial, subject of individual freedom, or what is left of it these days, and it seeks to offer a constructive analysis from a Swiss perspective.

It is also focused on identifying the root...

U.S. Tries To Deter Iran From Taking Revenge

The Washington Post is warmongering against Iran.

It’s informal CIA spokesman David Ignatius claims today that Iran is plotting to kill U.S. politicians:

Tehran has been plotting a violent retaliation campaign against the United States for years. Iran has conducted repeated assassination plots inside the United States ever since, without success, according to Justice Department documents.

Iran has applied similar methodology in most of these attacks. Iranians or their operatives who traveled to ...

The EU Needs To Learn What Democracy Is, and What Dictatorship Is.

On August 12th, Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner who is the EU’s censorship czar, lettered to Elon Musk,

https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/18...

https://archive.is/PhEvc

Thierry Breton

@ThierryBreton

With great audience comes greater responsibility #DSA

As there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in   in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to 

@elonmusk: 

Dear Mr. Musk,

I am writing to you in the context of...