SUNDAY SCREENING – Ecuador’s Disappeared: Inside Ecuador’s Forced Disappearances (2026)
Our weekly documentary film, curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE. Fault Lines investigates forced disappearances conducted by Ecuador’s military while waging a war against drug cartels. Ecuador is in the grip of a violent drug war with record killings, and the military is deployed on the streets. As the […]
Economy
Inflation Is Not Going Away
The latest PCE inflation report confirmed exactly what I have warned. Inflation was never “transitory,” and the Federal Reserve has completely lost control of the narrative. The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, core PCE, rose 3.3% annually in April, up from 3.2% in March and well above the Fed’s mythical 2% […]
Empire
Arctic route, far from tensions, could be alternative to Hormuz
Russia develops expertise and gains advantage in Arctic navigation compared to other countries. Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher. The far north of the globe is seeing new maritime routes open as the Arctic ice sheet melts, shortening the distance between China and Europe. Beijing has seized the […]
Activism
The Permanent War Government: Who’s Really Calling the Shots in Washington?
“You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don’t steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned.”—Seven Days in May (1964) Who is actually running […]
Health
Scientists Say 7 Days of Meditation Can Rewire Your Brain
Story at-a-glance What if the mental patterns you’ve been struggling with for years could begin to shift in just a single week? It sounds like an overstatement, but recent research suggests your brain is far more adaptable than you might think, and the timeline for meaningful change is much shorter […]
Tech
Study: AI, Crypto Data Centers Could Raise Electricity Costs Up to 57% in Some Regions
A new modeling study by researchers at North Carolina State University and Carnegie Mellon University projects that the rapid expansion of data centers supporting artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency mining could raise wholesale electricity costs by as much as 57% in some U.S. regions by 2030. The study, published in Environmental […]
Crypto
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Declares War on Clarity Act, Calls Coinbase’s Armstrong ‘Full of Sh*t’
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has drawn a battle line in Washington: the Clarity Act, as written, is dead on arrival — and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is the enemy driving it. In a Fox Business interview on Friday, Dimon unloaded on the pending crypto market structure legislation, calling it a threat […]
Podcasts
Planet Mind Control: Why You Can’t See the Collapse Coming
So… the last tanker to exit the Strait of Hormuz before the US and Israeli strikes has now arrived at its destination. The final barrels of crude loaded before the conflict have been delivered, refined, and consumed. Since the end of February, tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has […]
Solutions
Could Instability Trigger Radical Change In Your Life?
I propose that the world is upside down, that the way we live is the opposite of what we’re told it is: we don’t experience Progress, we experience Anti-Progress. My five most recent essays (listed below) lay out an account of the present era that is radically different from the […]