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Donald Trump’s Lack of Critical Thinking Skills with Respect to Russia and Ukraine

Donald Trump grabbed headlines on Monday with his Sunday outburst directed primarily at Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Here’s his rant:

I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever. I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece o...

The ‘AI Revolution’ May Take an Unexpected Turn into the ‘AI Coup’

It would be, well, interesting, if the “AI revolution” in which the slaves make the masters rich beyond their wildest dreams unexpectedly transmogrifies into an “AI coup” that deposes the masters.

Here’s the approved script for the “AI Revolution”: AI gets increasingly intelligent, replaces more and more human labor, and makes trillions of dollars for those who own the technologies and put them to work reducing their human workforces. The “revolution’s” key attribute is its immense profitability...

The American Pravda Sues the Trump Administration

In a recent executive order President Trump called for an end to taxpayer funding of NPR and “public” television (PBS), created by Congress in 1967 to laughingly create an “independent” news source.  Yes, they have always been independent of the free market and of the hapless American taxpayers, but certainly not independent of the deep state Washington establishment.  NPR has always been a government-subsidized propaganda organ.  If Americans want even more government propaganda thrown at them ...

Traders Are ‘Selling America’

On Sunday’s podcast, Peter dissects another rough stretch for American financial markets, spotlighting mounting selloffs across sectors and another breakout moment for gold. He breaks down why US treasuries are now riskier than ever, the structural problems with fiscal and monetary policy, and how tariffs are hitting American consumers harder than politicians care to admit.

The week’s headlines were dominated by red ink, but Peter points out that there’s still one clear winner:

Anyway, it was a...

Here’s How a Cashless Society Will Impact the World

Aside from economic collapse scenarios, many countries are in the process of eliminating physical cash and coins. Instead, everyone has an account that holds their money. You cannot purchase goods or services without access to government-based cryptocurrency. Even if the currency itself is still backed by faith in the government, you have to use this electronic system.

The result is multiple problems that could leave you in a situation where you have the money in the bank to pay your bills and p...

Trump Criticizes Neocons?

From the Tom Woods Letter:

When I think back to 2008 and 2012, I recall all those people who would tell me, “I agree with Ron Paul — except on foreign policy.”

I would shake my head and think: they’re not ready, but maybe someday they will be.

And for some people that day did eventually come. It dawned on these folks that the same establishment that lied to them about Covid and health and “Russia collusion” and BLM (I remind you that Mitt Romney held all of these positions just as much as Hillar...

The Pentagon’s ‘Salvador Option’, Al Qaeda Government in Damascus

[This article was first published by Global Research. You may read it here.]

In mid-2024, the Western media was portraying former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Stephen Ford as a “moderate”, committed to supporting so-called “moderate mainstream opposition rebels”. R. S. Ford was upheld as a outspoken critic of US foreign policy, tacitly blaming the US State Department for gross mismanagement:

“I was no longer in a position where I felt I could defend the American policy… We have been unable to a...

The Left Was Going To Ride the Race Grift All the Way To Permanent One-Party Rule

The Democrat party viewed race politics as their ticket to one-party rule. They were going to run that play all the way to the end zone, until they turned enough states permanently blue that the GOP could never win another presidency. The race grift was bulletproof.

So they thought.

The Left believed they could do anything, not matter how destructive, no matter how degenerate, no matter how imbecilic, because as long as they spewed the right rhetoric they would never lose the loyalty of blacks a...

Should Vance Have Kissed the Ring?

Although our country has Protestant roots and is still predominantly Protestant, we are now accustomed to Catholics in high political office. Unfortunately, many of those Catholic politicians—people such as Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Richard Durbin—aren’t very good Catholics, showing disdain for fundamental Catholic teaching like the dignity of the unborn and the sacredness of marriage. Now, however, we have a Vice President in J.D. Vance who actually takes the Church’s teachings seriously and...

Will the Effort To Restore Equal Treatment Under Law for White Americans Succeed?

In 1995, 30 years ago, Henry Regnery published my book, The New Color Line.  Henry told his son Alfred that my book was the second most important book, after Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, that the publishing house had ever published.

Reviewers agreed. Irving Kristol, the father of the neoconservatives, called attention in The Public Interest  to the important message of my book.  What had happened was the implementation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by the EEOC had overthrown the 14th Ame...