Pax Silica—The Dollar’s Next Foundation

“And it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark.” — Revelation 13:17 Pax Silica is a U.S.-led strategic initiative launched…

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The Sacrificial Machine—How Private Finance Turned War into Permanent Profit

“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…

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