To claim that jostling for the biggest share of federal power and largesse–in a word, greed–magically serves the common good is a convenient cover for an oligarchy masquerading as a “democracy.” Is a “democracy” that’s for sale still a democracy, or is it something else? The question arises from the nature […]
The 20th century featured the passing of the torch from the maritime dominance of Pax Britannica to the industrial revolution of Pax Americana in the aftermath of World War 2. However, the beginning of the new century featured a covert changing of the guard when the events of September 11th […]
Today’s Digest covers helium force majeure from Qatar disruptions, Turkey’s gold sales, surging China EV demand, Israel-Iran strikes, Houthi missile attacks, U.S. drone ops, Asian crude pricing, Iran shipping blocks, Anthropic Claude leak, brain organoid AI, and Vanden Bossche warnings. Economy AirGas, an Air Liquide company, declared force majeure on […]
Some books explain events, and others explain the world in which events become possible. Jacob Siegel’s The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control (Henry Holt, March 2026) belongs firmly to the second category. A former US Army infantry and intelligence officer who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Siegel […]
Story at-a-glance More than 2,000 scientific papers now examine molecular hydrogen — a gas researchers once dismissed as biologically inert. That assumption held for decades until studies began revealing that hydrogen interacts directly with the reactive oxygen species responsible for cellular damage, inflammation, and chronic disease. Your body produces reactive […]
“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”—Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations You’re not imagining it. Everything costs more. Everything is monitored. Everything feels like it’s designed to take—from your wallet, your time, your freedom. That’s because […]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Remember when the internet was fun? If you’re under the age of 30, you probably don’t. Yes, all internet websites, services and applications are getting worse year after year. That is by design. But there are things we can do about it! Today on Solutions Watch, […]
American hegemony or multipolarity Alexander Dugin maps the global conflict between American hegemony and rising civilization-states. Many analysts are now advancing the hypothesis that the Third World War has already begun and that we are in its first stage. Whether this is so or not will become clear in the […]
Seabed 2030 is a global initiative launched in 2017 by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO, operating under the International Hydrographic Organization and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, with the stated goal of mapping the entire ocean floor by 2030 and compiling that data into a single global grid, drawing on governments, […]
It’s probably nothin’ according to the MAGA crowd and the Fed fanboys alike. But then again, anyone who has been paying attention to the financial metrics for more than two weeks might beg to differ. When you have the following eruption in real time, there is surely an economic earthquake rumbling ominously […]