Putting two sides together — let alone three — who have wildly diverse chronicles of their histories and even less commonality in charting their future national trajectory was innately unlikely to reach to an agreed settlement. More likely in such ill-prepared encounters is often an ill-tempered recapitulation of…
The jump of Olympian proportions follows reports of Donald Trump being ready to continue the blockade of Iranian ports for months. The price of Brent crude oil rose to $130 on Thursday as US-Iran talks stalled and news emerged that US President Donald Trump may extend the…
“The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.” — William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” From January of 2021 to January of 2025, a disturbingly obvious fraud was foisted on the American people: the man occupying the Oval Office was several bricks shy…
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”—Benjamin Franklin Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. We are being asked—no, told—to believe that the greatest threat to America…
The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and specifically describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. Last…
If a country cannot defend itself from external attacks and will not defend its own internal culture, then that country won’t long last. This isn’t a controversial point, is it? Nations survive when they are capable of securing their borders from invaders who wish to conquer them. Nations endure when they are capable of preserving…
An Iranian general has warned that Iran would respond to any US attack with ‘long and painful strikes.’ Israeli media reported on Thursday that Israel is preparing for the possibility of returning to war with Iran as President Trump is considering restarting the bombing campaign. The Times…
International Man: Governments learned during COVID that populations will tolerate extraordinary restrictions if they’re sold as an emergency. Could an energy crisis become the next excuse for lockdown-style controls? Doug Casey: We’re looking at something much worse than another lockdown, as bad as that was. The big question is…
Donald Trump is the dumbest man who has ever sat in the Oval Office. His own former Chief of Staff, a four-star Marine general, called him “the most flawed person” the general had ever met. The ghostwriter of his only famous book has gone on the record saying…
Gavin Newsom spent more than $450 million on a regional emergency call system that flopped and was canceled—meantime, the old system risks “catastrophic failure.” California once built massive infrastructure projects—dams, highways, and aqueducts—that were the marvel of the world. During the Great Depression, engineers erected the Golden Gate Bridge…
