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Trump on Crypto

The President of the United States is big on crypto currency. It now represents the majority of his wealth. In one sense a crypto currency is just another tool for facilitating economic activity. Currency is not wealth, it is a just a tool that allows buyers and sellers of goods and services to easily transact their business without resorting to barter. Barter is inefficient for example how many pair of shoes must a cobbler make in order to buy the latest NVidia GPU? Not to mention manufacture t...

America 2.0- No Country for White Men

The title of this article may seem puzzling. After all, aren’t we still being misruled by mostly White men? That’s undeniably true, but for the vast majority of White men in this country today, especially those under forty, life is no picnic. We all know that nice guys finish last. Nice White guys finish the lastest of all. Rock bottom.

As the graph above shows, this country was still nearly 90 percent White when JFK was elected. Then some of the usual non-Irish suspects got together, along wit...

The Economy Is Ice Cold

Peter opens this episode by walking listeners through what he sees as two diverging monetary stories: gold’s quiet march higher after a period of consolidation, and Bitcoin’s fragile plumbing that could amplify losses when the market turns. He frames these trends as a test of sound money versus speculative credit structures, and he ties the market drama back to politics and policy — including the Trump administration’s embrace of crypto and the constitutionality of tariffs.

He starts with gold,...

Justice Department Office Which Justified Torture Now Argues For Killing

In 2003 the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Council (OLC) issued a memo which declared the use of torture in ‘authorized military interrogations’ as legal when done under the ‘president’s constitutional authority to direct a war’.

The memo was widely condemned. The Obama administration withdrew it but refrained from prosecuting the torturers which had used it as cover.

The Trump administration now issued a comparable OLC memo to justify its wanton killing of alleged drug smugglers at s...

The Difference Between The US Empire and the British Empire

The difference between people who supported the British Empire and people who support the US empire is that those who supported the British Empire knew they were supporting an empire.

Someone who supported the British Empire’s acts of mass military slaughter around the world did so because they supported the Crown and wanted His Majesty to civilize the godless savages and turn the whole world into his royal subjects. Someone who supports the US empire’s warmongering thinks they are doing so beca...

Judicial Overreach Threatens the Republic

Should America’s constitutional republic ever fall, the most likely cause of death will be its corrupt institutions. When citizens lose faith in the “system” and have exhausted all available remedies to “fix” that “system,” they will feel wholly disconnected from the government that rules over them. A cascade of institutional crises will exacerbate public distrust in the “system” until the “system’s” legitimacy collapses.

Should that foreboding and chaotic event come, a primary driver will have ...

BBC News Has a Long Record of Disinformation. But This Time It Chose the Wrong Target

The BBC’s now in a death loop: it grows ever more craven to the billionaires, shifting the political centre of gravity further rightwards, even as the billionaire-owned media claim it’s too ‘leftwing’

The BBC is in turmoil, its director-general and head of news forced to resign after a memo leaked to the Daily Telegraph highlighted editorial malpractice at the state broadcaster’s flagship news programme Panorama. The documentary had spliced together two separate clips of Donald Trump speaking on...

Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance

During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: “The United States Is Letting Its People Starve.” But the delayed payments had scant impact in part because many states offered supplemental benefits, many recipients had leftover benefits on their Electronic Benefit Cards (EBTs), and because vast numbers of food pantries and ...

An Ideal Foreign Policy

Americans living today have lived their entire lives under governmental systems and policies that have come with perpetual war, interventionism, embargoes, sanctions, coups, state-sponsored assassinations, extrajudicial murders, foreign aid to brutal regimes, torture, invasions, occupations, tariffs, trade wars, immigration controls, an immigration police state, wars of aggression, out of control federal spending and debt, and massive infringements on civil liberties. From the first grade on up,...