Introduction: A Stampede of Fear and an Opportunity to Stack On a recent Friday, the price of silver, the indispensable industrial metal and monetary asset, was violently taken to the slaughter. Headlines blared about a crash, and mainstream financial media quickly supplied a convenient, surface-level explanation. But for those who […]
Jack Lew, who served as President Biden’s ambassador to Israel, stopped a memo from reaching senior Biden administration officials in early 2024 that described north Gaza as an “Apocalyptic Wasteland” with dire shortages of food and medical aid, Reuters reported on Friday. The cable was drafted by USAID staff and was based […]
The U.S. government has finalized the forfeiture of over $400 million in cryptocurrency, cash, and property linked to Helix, a major darknet bitcoin mixer, following the conviction of its operator, Larry Dean Harmon. The U.S. government has taken full legal ownership of more than $400 million in seized cryptocurrency, cash, and real […]
In July of 1917 as the fires of WWI raged across Europe, the Russian city of Petrograd was facing its own special turmoil in the form of a large scale Bolshevik insurgency. Up to 500,000 protesters, agitators and provocateurs had entered the city from across the country, many of them […]
Story at-a-glance Are you an avid exerciser trying to break a personal record? Once you reach a point where you feel confident, there comes a time when you’ll want to take your athleticism to the next level. To do that, the usual answer is to train even harder. However, this […]
Facing an authoritarian bombast in the White House, the Left has suddenly rediscovered the value of free speech. After years of supporting clampdowns through the preposterous phenomenon of ‘hate speech’, now left-wing activists are having their wings clipped for allegedly hateful protests and social media posts. Whereas the Right has […]
Phew… we’re a month into the new year and things are just getting crazier and crazier. If you’ve ever wondered how things like the Jim Jones Kool-Aid moment happen, just look at America right now. You don’t need a jungle compound when you have flags with a red elephant and […]
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, describing fear and disorder tied to federal immigration enforcement and street-level unrest, reached for a loaded analogy. “We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s going to write that […]
Some people wonder why I look at the New York Times. It’s because I want to see what narratives the “newspaper of record” is pushing. I read an article about ten years ago by an ex-NYT editor, who said that at the beginning of the year, the editors were given a list […]
It flabbergasts them that I’m not saying harsh things about the latest Official Bad Guy of the Day. Reading by Tim Foley: Any time things heat up with an empire-targeted government I always get people demanding to know why I’m not critical of that government. “Why don’t you criticize Iran? […]
