Gold and the Quiet Takeover
How the State Is Buying the Economy and Reshaping the Global Monetary System “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”— John Adams A few weeks ago, I woke with thoughts about Trump that I…
The Permanent Bailout
How the Fed Bails Out the World With Your Savings “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The Man Who Downgraded America In August 2011, Deven Sharma did something unprecedented. As president of Standard & Poor’s—one of the three major…
Financialization: The Parasite and the Host
Wars. Waste. Wall Street. Welfare. “The economy doesn’t work for you — it works to extract from you.” —Michael Hudson Financialization is a word you have probably heard in economic news, but its true meaning is rarely explained. The popular media treats it as the natural growth of finance in…
We Have Reached c²
How the Law of Reversal Is Remaking the Middle East “The Middle East is no more. Welcome to West Asia.” —Mohammed Soliman The post-Cold War regional order has entered a period of systemic collapse. That’s the verdict from Mohammed Soliman, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and one…
The Statecraft That Saves Us
Subversive Wisdom for an Age of Collapse “The great bulk of political history has been written from the standpoint of the state…The infrapolitics of the weak are the invisible, everyday forms of resistance.” —James C. Scott The past week’s headlines have been impossible to ignore. The narrative driving the global…
Where Is Mother?
Resolving the All-Male Trinity “One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth.” — Maria Prophetissa I grew up praying to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Three persons, one God. All male. I didn’t question it as a teen. But somewhere…
This Hidden Law Explains Everything—Even Why Jesus Comes Back
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” — Heraclitus Most religions acknowledge humanity’s shortcomings and expect something in the future: a reset, a restoration, a judge, a new age, or an event or place that makes this life worthwhile. But only one central figure in…
Does Media Inform or Control?
The Rise of “Professor Jiang” and the Art of Attentional Capture “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” — Jim Morrison, The Doors (1969) We want to believe media simply informs. It doesn’t. Government and media share a special relationship and the same goal: steering – guiding behavior, shaping choices,…
The Quiet Machine: The Psychology Behind the Dollar System
“The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones.” — John Maynard Keynes If you have a 401(k), buy gas, or wonder why your grocery and utility bills keep rising, look no further than the invisible machine running our global economy. For most of the…
The Preemptive Crisis
How an artificial oil shortage could be hiding the end of cheap energy “We are not going back to 2025. We are not going back to oil being $70 a barrel.” — Art Berman, The Great Simplification (May 2026) Two weeks ago, in Why People Are Going Crazy, I argued…