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First Countries Facing Severe Risks That Could Put Them on the Brink of Collapse by 2027

Predicting the collapse of a country is like reading between the lines of history, economics, and politics. Some nations, however, are walking on thin ice, where even a small additional burden could lead to their downfall. In this article, we’ll explore 10 countries facing severe risks that could put them on the brink of collapse by 2027. Some of these might surprise you.

1. Lebanon: A country where nothing works anymore
Once hailed as the “Switzerland of the Middle East,” Lebanon is now in abso...

Trump’s Tariffs and Those Damned Freeloading Europeans

Whenever I talk about things like tariffs, Trump supporters appear in my comments to tell me that Europe has gotten a free ride for long enough and that it is time we learned to pay our way. I find it a little frustrating to read this, because in Europe it does not feel like we are getting a free ride at all. In fact it seems like the opposite: The most common complaint on the populist German right is that our political class refuses to represent our interests and will not stop carrying water fo...

John Mearsheimer: The Palestinian Genocide and How the West Has Been Deceived Into Supporting It

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Reality Rules Whether of Not It Is Acknowledged

In the past few days I have listen to John Helmer say on Nima’s show that President Trump’s latest irresponsible outburst signals Putin that Russia is facing war.  Scott Ritter also on Nima’s show said the same.  I share the concern.

My position since the “Maidan Revolution” in Kiev in 2014, that is, since Washington’s overthrow of the democratically elected Ukrainian government and installed  a Russiaphobic puppet, has been that Putin’s unwillingness to deal decisively with the situation, first...

The Unlucky Elderly of America 2.0

“Old age is hell,” my dear mother used to tell me far too often. Well, now I am old, and she was right. I can’t complain too much about myself; I’m more fortunate than most. But for much of the elderly in this crumbling country, existence is a nightmare. Someone once said a society is measured by how it treats its elderly. Let’s look at that.

A century ago, there were virtually no nursing homes. And there certainly weren’t retirement homes and retirement communities, which serve as kind of a de ...

Things Fall Apart: A Transatlantic Odyssey

In recent years I’ve often thought that we, as a society, fail to appreciate how much our high living standard—our safety, creature comforts, and conveniences—are provided by an unseen and unsung army of skilled laborers.

Flip a switch and you have light; turn on a tap and you have clean water; adjust the thermostat and you have heat or AC; depress a lever and you flush the toilet. It wasn’t so long ago—a little over a century—that such conveniences were not available to even kings and emperors....

Trump’s Effectiveness Has Now Been Shattered. Dems Will Win the Mid-Terms.

The disastrous jobs-numbers that were released on Friday August 1st, showing that the U.S. added only 73,000 jobs in July and a mere 106,000 jobs since May (while the U.S. economy needs to add 80,000 to 100,000 jobs each month in order to replace employees who leave the workforce for retirement or incapacity), mean that the enormous uncertainty that Trump’s tariffs have created for business planners — whose top concern is their supply-chains, which need to be planned months in advance of signing...

Religion and Politics in Public Life

We live in a country whose citizenry have been, almost from the beginning of the Republic, carefully coached to observe all the requisite protocols. What that means, as a practical matter, is, quite simply, keeping religion and politics in separate compartments. In other words, Church and State must never be seen in the same room. That being the case, the very idea of a confessional society becomes an affront to both law and custom. For all the appeal it may have in theory, the actual reality of...

I Am Not Against Wars To Defend the United States But there Has Never Been One in Last 80 Years

I defy anyone to name one single war in the last 80 years that was fought for the National Security of the United States. All of these wars were fought for money and power promoted by government and media propaganda supported by a false flag or two.

It is impossible to tell an injured veteran or a grieving  family that their loss was based on a scam by government and the Military Industrial Complex of the Parasitic Super Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC).The truth is that these veterans did serve the Un...

The Zionist Occupation of Cyprus?

Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – Israelis have been buying land in Cyprus, and the locals are concerned.  Why should they be concerned?  Cypriots live right across the eastern Mediterranean Sea facing Palestine, so they must know what has been taking place since the end of World War II when Zionist Jews from Europe and elsewhere started occupying Palestinian land.  It began in 1947 after Great Britain decided to withdraw from Palestine which led the United Nations to propose a partit...