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U.S.-China Relations in the Years Ahead: The Trade War Is a Sideshow
U.S.-China Relations in the Years Ahead: The Trade War Is a Sideshow As President Trump has said many times, we rebuilt China over the past 25 years. No truer words were spoken, but those days are over. The United States now recognizes China as a strategic and economic rival. – Vice President Mike Pence during a […]
The Tech Giants Are a Conduit for Fascism
The Tech Giants Are a Conduit for Fascism A second former Amazon employee would spark more controversy. Deap Ubhi, a former AWS employee who worked for Lynch, was tasked with gathering marketing information to make the case for a single cloud inside the DOD. Around the same time that he started working on JEDI, Ubhi […]
Humans Are Creating Their Own Narratives Michael Krieger | Posted Tuesday Sep 3, 2019 at 3:47 pm Somewhere between the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein and his extremely suspicious death in a Department of Justice operated prison, the public learned that an FBI intelligence bulletin published by the bureau’s Phoenix field office mentioned for the first time that conspiracy theories pose a domestic […]
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, […]
U.S. Stock Market Hits a New Record High, but What’s Really Going On?
U.S. Stock Market Hits a New Record High, but What’s Really Going On? As Americans head off to Independence Day celebrations, they’ll be greeted with a plethora of headlines about record highs in the U.S. stock market. What I find most interesting about the latest bout of exuberance is the fact that priced in gold, […]
Macro Update – Gold, Bitcoin and the Gigantic Global Debt Bubble
Macro Update – Gold, Bitcoin and the Gigantic Global Debt Bubble Today’s the first day in a long time financial markets appear willing to at least consider the reality of the geopolitical situation on the ground for what it is, as opposed to what most people would like it to be. As I’ve noted for […]
The Trump Administration’s Iran Policy Will Hasten Imperial Decline
The Trump Administration’s Iran Policy Will Hasten Imperial Decline There was a postwar order, but was it liberal? Like most political orders, it looked much better on paper than it did in practice and to the core members of the order than those on the margins… Liberal values were only remotely attached to the postwar […]
Arrest of Julian Assange is an Attack on Journalism, Liberty, Self-Government and Civilization Itself
Arrest of Julian Assange is an Attack on Journalism, Liberty, Self-Government and Civilization Itself Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense – the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if […]
Trump Cares About Two Things – Empire and the Stock Market
Trump Cares About Two Things – Empire and the Stock Market Though not surprising, it’s nevertheless extraordinary to watch Donald Trump publicly and shamelessly morph into a George W. Bush era neocon when it comes to foreign policy, and a CNBC stock market cheerleader when it comes to the economy. Just like Barack Obama before […]
Is the World Already Multi-Polar?
Is the World Already Multi-Polar? A hefty case can be made that the Empire of Chaos currently has no allies; it’s essentially surrounded by an assortment of vassals, puppets and comprador 5th columnist elites professing varied degrees of – sometimes reluctant – obedience. The Trump administration’s foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between […]
Federal Reserve Chairman Appears on 60 Minutes – Why Now?
Federal Reserve Chairman Appears on 60 Minutes – Why Now? One of the most famous, and prescient, financial cartoons in American history is the above depiction of the Federal Reserve Bank as a giant octopus that would come to parasitically suck the life out of all U.S. institutions as well as free markets. The image is […]
Don’t Believe the Hype – Expect a Worsening of U.S.-China Relations
Don’t Believe the Hype – Expect a Worsening of U.S.-China Relations If you receive your news via Donald Trump tweet, or courtesy of proclamations by Larry Kudlow, you’d be forgiven for eagerly anticipating a groundbreaking U.S.-China trade deal to be announced imminently, and thinking such a deal will save the global economy from rolling over […]
You Can’t Stop the Cycle
You Can’t Stop the Cycle 2018’s valuation records are astounding in that they show the S&P 500 to be more fundamentally over-valued than it was at the prior two historic stock market valuation peaks in 1929 and 2000, bona fide speculative manias. – From Crescat Capital’s recent investor letter Cycles are perhaps the most natural and […]
YouTube Will Determine What ‘Conspiracy’ Is and Stop Recommending Such Videos
YouTube Will Determine What ‘Conspiracy’ Is and Stop Recommending Such Videos While the evolution of Google’s YouTube from a free expression platform into something entirely different has been underway for a while, it just took another step in a very short-sighted and restrictive direction. NBC News reports: YouTube has announced that it will no longer recommend videos […]
The American Empire Pivots Toward Venezuela
The American Empire Pivots Toward Venezuela Many people are coming to quick takes on yesterday’s extraordinary decision by the U.S. government to recognize an unelected opposition leader as interim President of Venezuela based on their view of Maduro and his government. Similar to the emotional responses to those first clips of the Covington students and […]
