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FBI Says ‘a Lot More’ Than 20 People ‘May Have Known’ Charlie Kirk Was Going To Be Shot

The FBI is currently investigating the possibility that dozens of other individuals may have known about the planned murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk through their participation in an online chatroom.

Kirk, the head of campus outreach group Turning Point USA, was fatally shot on September 10 while speaking at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University. Two days later, authorities apprehended and accused 22-year-old Robinson of the shooting and detailed how he was motivated by his v...

EU Supercharges for War: Bundeswehr to Quadruple, Poland Training Mothers

Bundeswehr planners now want to increase German military presence in virtually all of Eastern Europe, including Poland. In other words, German tanks will be moving through Poland and Ukraine to fight Russia. Does this sound familiar by any chance? It’s almost as if something like this happened already, but we can’t really put our finger on it. Jokes aside, anyone with a primary education would certainly know and understand that this is a patently bad idea.

The war hysteria in the European Union ...

Assaults on Free Speech Go Into Hyperdrive After Charlie Kirk Killing

It’s amazing how aggressively free speech in the United States is being torn apart in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing.

Jimmy Kimmel was fired after President Trump’s FCC threatened ABC when the late night comic suggested that Kirk’s killer was a Trumper. I personally dislike Kimmel, but this is about as naked a government assault on free expression as you could possibly imagine.

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered deported to Syria or Algeria after the Trump administration ...

Why Is Every Newborn Forced To Get the Dangerous Hepatitis B Vaccine?

In order to have a healthy and meaningful life, people need to have a unifying purpose behind everything they do. Recognizing the importance of this at a young age (as I saw many lacking one struggle greatly), I decided to devote myself to the pursuit of truth, regardless of where it took me. From this, I quickly realized how difficult this was, as on virtually every issue, there is a massive amount of ambiguity, which inevitably leads you reaching false conclusions produced from your existing b...

Israel, Charlie Kirk, and the Weaponization of Murder

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Trump’s National Guard Deployment and the Future of Liberty in America

International Man: Donald Trump has already deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles and Washington, DC, and threatened to send them into more cities.

Is this a legitimate use of executive power, or a dangerous escalation?

Doug Casey: Once upon a time, that wouldn’t even have been a question, because the Posse Comitatus Act used to be taken seriously. It basically holds that the US military can’t be used for domestic law enforcement. But the government has violated the tradition of not usin...

How Government Caused the Great Depression

The precise causes of the Great Depression remain a subject of debate, although, as economist Richard Timberlake observed in 2005, “Virtually all present-day economists . . . deny that a capitalist free-market economy in any way caused” it.

At the time, however, the free market was blamed, with much of the ire directed at bankers and speculators. Financiers were seen as having wrecked the economy through reckless speculation. President Hoover came to be viewed as a laissez-faire ideologue who di...

No Major Support in U.S. for ‘America First’

Readers often ask me why Dr. McCullough and I are not more critical of President Trump’s “give Benjamin Netanyahu whatever he wants” policy.

Before I respond to this question, I’d like to give a bit of background on this issue. For over thirty years, Dr. McCullough and I have been acutely aware the State of Israel’s outsized influence over U.S. foreign policy since the Johnson administration. Moreover, Dr. McCullough’s wife is a Palestinian Christian who is extremely distraught about the plight ...

Israel Is Committing Genocide. This Is a Fact, Not an Opinion.

A UN inquiry has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and that Israeli authorities have “intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible” in the enclave.

Israel has responded to the UN report by calling it Hamas and antisemitic, because that’s all they’ve got. The Israeli Foreign Ministry released a statement claiming the report was authored by “individuals serving as Hamas proxies, notorious for their openly antisemitic positions.”

Blah, blah, blah. The report is Hamas and antise...

Rate Cuts Will Make Inflation Worse

In his latest podcast, Peter goes through the just-released August consumer price data and uses the report as a springboard to explain why the markets are misreading the Fed and why ordinary Americans are likely to pay the price. He connects the dots between an understated CPI (Consumer Price Index), the rally in stocks tied to hopes for rate cuts, and why those cuts would be bearish for bonds, inflationary for the economy, and ultimately harsher on workers than many realize.

He opens by framin...