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The 2030 Agenda: The Totalitarian Trojan Horse
The 2030 Agenda: The Totalitarian Trojan Horse Upon perusing the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals included in the well-known 2030 Agenda, one may conclude that they are all harmless and entirely reasonable goals. Who could be opposed to reducing poverty and hunger or advancing infrastructure, innovation, and industry? The trick, akin to the tale of […]
Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast
Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast The Biden administration is developing a controversial solar geoengineering research plan to the dismay of many experts Proposed geoengineering methods include pumping salt water into clouds to make them more reflective of sunlight, or to place ice particles in clouds to stop them […]
The Great Gold Robbery of 1933
The Great Gold Robbery of 1933 It’s been 75 years since the federal government, on the spurious grounds of fighting the Great Depression, ordered the confiscation of all monetary gold from Americans, permitting trivial amounts for ornamental or industrial use. This happens to be one of the episodes Kevin Gutzman and I describe in detail […]
The Afghan Correction
The Afghan Correction Interventionistas never seem to learn these seven truths about war and ‘nation building.’ Soviet troops in the highlands near Kabul, Afghanistan, 1986. Photo by Кувакин Е. (1986); scanned and processed by Vizu (2009); размещено согласно Permissions: E. Kuvakin by personal collection, CC BY-SA 3.0. The chaotic rout of the U.S. in Afghanistan has got […]
War Is A Rich Man’s Game: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
War Is A Rich Man’s Game: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix War is always powerful people making up fake reasons for poor people to kill each other. ❖ Capitalism is working great if you ignore how it’s about to destroy our ecosystem and kill everything. ❖ Socialism is the collective’s best self-defense […]
The Lesson of a Crash that Cured Itself
The Lesson of a Crash that Cured Itself If a government wishes to alleviate, rather than aggravate, a depression, its only valid course is laissez-faire—to leave the economy alone. Only if there is no interference, direct or threatened, with prices, wage rates and business liquidation, will the necessary adjustment proceed with smooth dispatch. — Murray […]
Did Covid-19 Just Pop All the Global Financial Bubbles
Did Covid-19 Just Pop All the Global Financial Bubbles? Once confidence and certainty are lost, the willingness to expand debt and leverage collapses. Even though the first-order effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are still impossible to predict, it’s already possible to ask: did the pandemic pop all the global financial bubbles? The reason we can ask […]
Politicians Live in a Parallel Universe
Politicians Live in a Parallel Universe I’m convinced of it. Politicians definitely live in a parallel universe, one that could easily be called Bizarro World. Just read a recent op-ed in the Washington Post by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. It provides irrefutable proof that these people live in an alternative universe. The title of McConnell’s article […]
Provoking World War III with Iran and a U.S. History of Provocation
Provoking World War III with Iran and a U.S. History of Provocation In the history of the United States and its history of interventionism, the recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman seem to be foreboding and ominous signs of what may come—an inevitable war with the Islamic Republic of Iran? To […]
Understanding the Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Albright Doctrine
Understanding the Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Albright Doctrine Albright typifies the arrogance and hawkishness of Washington blob. How to describe U.S. foreign policy over the last couple of decades? Disastrous comes to mind. Arrogant and murderous also seem appropriate. Since 9/11, Washington has been extraordinarily active militarily—invading two nations, bombing and droning several […]
The Liberal Embrace of War
The Liberal Embrace of War American interventionists learned a lesson from Iraq: pre-empt the debate. Now everyone is for regime change The United States has just suspended flights to Venezuela. Per the New York Times: CARACAS — The United States banned all air transport with Venezuela on Wednesday over security concerns, further isolating the troubled South […]
Some Common Criticisms Of My Work Addressed, By Caitlin Johnstone
Some Common Criticisms Of My Work Addressed, By Caitlin Johnstone It’s a relatively slow news day so I thought it might be good to just tap out a few responses to common criticisms of the writing I’ve been doing since I started this gig two and a half years ago. I try to put all […]
End All Interventionism, Not Just in Venezuela
END ALL INTERVENTIONISM, NOT JUST IN VENEZUELA It truly is phenomenal. The massive death and destruction from U.S. interventionism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the rest of the Middle East isn’t even over with, and yet interventionist dead-enders are now shifting their sights to Venezuela. One almost gets the impression that the dead-enders are saying to […]
