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WEF Discuss’s Artificial Intelligence Amidst Disinformation

At the World Economic Forum, Ukraine is adamant that they will be a leader in the conversion to “Renewable Energy”.   In a bombshell revelation, The World Trade Organization declared that ‘trade drives growth’…   But given all the wars, that might not be a feasible outcome…  Antonio Guterres and Klaus Schwab, aged 72 and 85 respectively said the current global system is an aging grandparent and a ‘networked multilateralism of the 2030 Agenda must be implemented wherein ‘all relevant players’ acr...

The Genocide Continues

2.3 million are starving.
The Israeli butchers are busy carving—
carving up the people
carving up the land.
Don’t you see this genocide
was carefully organized and planned?
Palestinians have no food,
no water, no homes, they huddle outdoors.
Hospitals, schools, neighborhoods gone
as the Zionist war-machine marches on.
Gaza in ruins, most houses destroyed.
Famine and illness sweep the land
but Joseph Biden is rather annoyed
that Netanyahu didn’t win quick—
US bombs and jets didn’t do the trick.

I...

Netanyahu’s Shape-shifting ‘Endgame’ – It Is No Ploy, but a Reversion to Earlier Zionist Strategy

The blurring of established and demarcated space has gradually permeated from the military into the Israeli political sphere, Alastair Crooke writes.

The late Ariel Sharon, a long-time Israeli military and political leader, once confided to his close friend Uri Dan that, “the Arabs had never genuinely accepted the presence of Israel … and so, a two-state solution was not possible – nor even desirable”.

In the minds of these two – as well as for most Israelis today – is the ‘Gordian Knot’ that si...

National Self-Reliance Is On the Rise: China and the U.S.

Balancing globalized trade and capital flows with domestic self-reliance and control of credit and capital is a positive development for everyone.

This week’s focus is on self-reliance, a topic of increasing relevance than is more complex that it may seem.

The flip side of the decline of hyper-globalization is the rise of national self-reliance. We can see this dynamic expanding in real time across the globe, particularly in China and the U.S.: though still bound by trillions of dollars / RMB in...

The Pipe-bomb Caper

“The FBI must come forward with the whole truth, immediately. If they will not, then Republicans have a duty to tear the FBI down to its foundation, and ensure that no government organization is allowed to amass this kind of power ever again.” — Charlie Kirk

Kudos to Darren J. Beattie of Revolver News and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for doing the FBI’s work for the FBI, smoking out the role of law enforcement (including the FBI) in but one module of the J6 operation that turned a peaceful mass ass...

Biden Has Started Another US War

The Washington Post has an article out titled “As Houthis vow to fight on, U.S. prepares for sustained campaign,” with “sustained campaign” being empire-speak for a new American war.

“The Biden administration is crafting plans for a sustained military campaign targeting the Houthis in Yemen after 10 days of strikes failed to halt the group’s attacks on maritime commerce, stoking concern among some officials that an open-ended operation could derail the war-ravaged country’s fragile peace and pul...

April 25, 2014 was the 99th Anniversary of the Disastrous Battle of Gallipoli

Not too long ago I watched Johnny Got His Gun, the film adaptation of Dalton Trumbo’s famous antiwar novel with the same title about a young American soldier who came home from the trenches of World War One France, having miraculously survived an artillery explosion that blew away his face, as well as both legs and both arms – not to mention his dog tags and genitals. The helpless victim, with absolutely no hope of ever attaining a useful, pain-free life was being kept alive in the back wards of...

Jacobin Capitalism?

In his important book The Failure of American Conservatism (2023), the political theorist and philosopher Claes G. Ryn offers some criticisms of libertarianism and free-market capitalism, and in this week’s column, I’d like to examine these.

Ryn is not an opponent of all forms of the free market, but he fears an extreme version of it can be dangerous. He defends what he calls “value-centered historicism,” according to which people’s values stem not from abstract reason but from the concrete part...

Don’t Tax the Rich. End the Fed!

Select politicians, government officials, economic elites, and experts arriving at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland were greeted with an open letter signed by more than 250 billionaires and millionaires. The signers request their respective governments raise their taxes.

The letter signers are concerned about “inequality” that they say “has reached a tipping point.” The cost of this inequality “to our economic, societal and ecological stability risk,” the letter cont...

How the West Was Defeated

Emmanuel Todd, historian, demographer, anthropologist, sociologist and political analyst, is part of a dying breed: one of the very few remaining exponents of old school French intelligentzia – a heir to those like Braudel, Sartre, Deleuze and Foucault who dazzled successive young Cold War generations from the West down to the East.

The first nugget concerning his latest book, La Défaite de L’Occident (“The Defeat of the West”) is the minor miracle of actually being published last week in France...