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U.S. Hubris-Driven Blunders Transform the Entire Complexion of the Wider War

Trump continues to be seized by the delusional view that his Israeli-centred vision could all be accomplished merely by ending the genocide in Gaza.

The big issue emerging from the U.S.’ 22 June strike on Iran – second only to ‘wither Iran?’ – is whether in Trump’s calculus he can ‘rhetorically impose’ the having “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme claim long enough to both restrain Israel from hitting Iran again, yet still allow Trump to pursue his show-stopper headline, ‘WE WON: I’m in char...

The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, and Control You

“When the states legalize the deliberate ending of certain lives… it will eventually broaden the categories of those who can be put to death with impunity.”—Nat Hentoff, The Washington Post, 1992

Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing.

The debate now extends beyond forced vaccinations or invasive searches to include biometric surveillance, wearable tracking, and predictive health profiling.

We are entering a new age of algorithmic, authoritari...

My 46 Years of Contempt of Congress

“Those bastards didn’t send back my article! Now I have to re-type the whole piece before I can submit it somewhere else!” I growled standing by the apartment cluster mailbox on a sultry afternoon of July 3, 1979. “Did they just throw away or steal the stamps from the self-addressed stamped envelope I sent along with my piece?!”

The New York Times logo on the front of a postcard in that day’s mail sparked my ire. I had dropped out of Virginia Tech three years before, confident that I didn’t need...

A Competence Deficit

In recent years, Dr. McCullough and I have frequently marveled at what appears to be a competence deficit among people who occupy leadership positions. Scarcely a month passes without news of a catastrophe that could have been prevented if those in charge had possessed the competence to assess quickly an unusual or risky situation— or even a clear and present danger—and to take decisive action to avert disaster.

We saw this competence deficit on a grand scale in the medical profession during the...

Ghosts in the Republic: Truth, Shadows, and the Death of Integrity

Imagine, for a moment, that the ghosts of Shakespeare’s plays—Banquo, Hamlet’s father, Julius Caesar—were to step across the boundary of fiction into the halls of Congress or the modern news cycle. These spectral figures were never meant to take action themselves; they hovered, hinted, warned—but they never engaged the living world directly. Ghosts, by their nature, are unseen, unaccountable, and unanchored. And yet, today, our public square is increasingly crowded with just such figures—not fro...

One Chart Proves They’re Liars

Today’s issue is for old times’ sake.

Fully half of the people who read my emails today started getting them during the Covid years. At that time I was trying my best to understand what was going on, and other people also trying to make sense of things stumbled on my videos and eBooks, thereby landing them on my subscriber list.

So remember the old days, when I’d share a chart that told the opposite of the story the liars were trying to tell us — and no matter how much you showed it to certain p...

The Weaponization of Feminine Charm

Beware of pretty faces that you find / A pretty face can hide an evil mind…”
—Johnny Rivers, “Secret Agent Man”

“Nuclear war via missiles scared everybody 70 years ago,” Doug Casey writes. “But today it’s not a practical threat. The likely threats, I think, are from more subtle areas—cyber war, bio war, or a new type of guerrilla war.”

There’s another threat that Casey didn’t mention, one that’s been around since humans began noticing the opposite sex, the import of which was immortalized in Chr...

Why the Epstein List Matters

I was never much of a conspiracy theorist. Sure, I heard the speculations (we didn’t land on the moon, vaccines cause autism, 9/11 was an inside job, etc.), but I usually just dismissed them with a shake of my head and maybe even a chuckle. I know that evil men can join together to do evil things, but I just didn’t think men were competent enough to pull off the usually elaborate machinations these theories proposed.

Of course, the past five years changed my perspective, and I’m not alone in thi...

Why Television Drug Commercials Must Stop

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Do They Deserve It? Mexico Is Collapsing as the US Deports Illegals Back Home

Oh, the delicious irony. For many years I’ve been writing about the southern US border and the many ways in which Mexico has used it as a “steam valve” to get rid of people in perpetual poverty, as well as malcontents, violent criminals and political revolutionaries. Who could have foreseen a time when the conundrum would be reversed and Mexico would be crushed by an avalanche of its own unwanted citizens?

But weren’t we told that migrants are an “economic boon” to any country lucky enough to ha...