“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” — Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (1935) Major General Smedley Butler…
What Built an Empire in 1790 Won’t Save It in 2026 “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”— Thomas Jefferson When the Trump administration—and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in particular—began invoking Alexander Hamilton as the blueprint for a new American economic order, I…
How Financial Extraction Was Invented—and Why We Mistook It for Reality “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until…
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” — attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild There is a narrative circulating today—let us call it the Promethean narrative—that offers a seductive explanation for global chaos. It tells its followers that the…
How the Left and Right Are Trapped in the Same Mental Loop “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago American politics has become bipolar. Both poles organize themselves…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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