By Taki Theodoracopulos

Taki's Magazine

August 23, 2025

Historical verisimilitude does not seem to concern Hollywood writers these days. Not that it ever did. Blatant misrepresentations in the movies are far too many to list here. The bloodthirsty George Custer was portrayed by an almost angelic-looking Errol Flynn in They Died With Their Boots On, while the desperate and homely Dutch hooker Mata Hari-guillotined by the cowardly French as a German spy-was embodied by Greta Garbo in all the thespian's magnificence.

By Philip Giraldi

The Unz Review

August 23, 2025

It must be Good News Week judging by the stories generated by the Trump regime and its supporting cast of neocons, with good old best friend and ally Israel up to its usual tricks and Ukraine, Russia and the Europeans vying to see who can flatter and cajole the mentally challenged American president most effectively. With much of the focus on Ukraine and the visit of Vladimir Putin to Alaska, Israel was free to continue to slaughter Palestinians as part of the plan to create an "Eretz" or Greater Israel running from the Euphrates to the Nile and also incorporating much of Lebanon and Syria.

By Brandon Smith

Alt-Market.us

August 23, 2025

People who carefully track the machinations of globalist institutions might have noticed a disturbing atmosphere of silence since the 2024 elections. I discussed this trend a few months ago in my article "Globalists Go Radio Silent As NATO Flirts With World War III", specifically the dramatic shift that has taken place since the pandemic when organizations like the World Economic Forum ripped the mask off completely and admitted their true authoritarian intentions.

By Charles Hugh Smith

OfTwoMinds.com

August 23, 2025

We're humoring our self-delusion.

How do great powers come undone? We can start with a destructive force without equal: self-delusion.

Emperor Norton comes to mind in this context. In 1859, in the Gold Rush-enriched city of San Francisco, Joshua Norton, a bankrupt businessman, declared himself "Emperor of these United States" in a proclamation that he signed "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."

par Maxime Marquette

La chute programmée d'un chef de l'ombre

Le cœur du renseignement militaire américain est secoué. Selon un haut responsable, le chef de la Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), pilier discret mais crucial du dispositif sécuritaire de Washington, va être évincé de son poste. Une décision d'une brutalité rare, car elle renverse l'un des hommes censés garantir la stabilité stratégique des États-Unis dans un monde déjà en feu.

La maison de John Bolton perquisitionnée par le FBI. Crédit : TASS

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Des sources affirment que cette opération s'inscrit dans le cadre d'une enquête très médiatisée portant sur des documents classifiés, alors que le président Trump a nié toute connaissance de l'affaire, suggérant que l'ancien conseiller à la sécurité nationale pourrait être «très antipatriotique».

Par Larry Johnson

Malgré les déclarations de l'administration Trump sur le succès de la réunion de lundi avec Zelensky et la délégation européenne, la perspective d'une négociation réussie pour mettre fin à la guerre en Ukraine est nulle. Trump continue de croire, à tort, qu'il a simplement besoin de réunir Poutine et Zelensky, pour qu'ils concluent un accord. Trump travaille avec la fausse hypothèse que la guerre en Ukraine a été causée en partie par un conflit personnel entre Poutine et Zelensky.

Par Philip Giraldi, le 21 août 2025

Des enfants blessés à Gaza se voient refuser des soins médicaux aux États-Unis.

À en juger par l'actualité générée par le régime de Trump et ses soutiens néoconservateurs, avec Israël dans son rôle habituel et l'Ukraine, la Russie et les Européens débattant de la meilleure façon de flatter et de cajoler le président américain déficient mental, c'est sans conteste la semaine des "bonnes" nouvelles.

By Jeremy KUZMAROV

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed off on the first-ever trillion-dollar military budget.

When the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its budget request for fiscal year 2026 in May, it included a base defense request of $892.6 billion, plus a $119.3 billion allocation of additional resources from the Republican-controlled Congress's budget reconciliation bill.

Brèves de crise  

Tulsi Gabbard a établi une première pour la fonction de Director of National Intelligence (DNI) créée en 2002 sur instruction du Congrès. Il s'agissait de tenter d'améliorer la coordination entre les divers services de sécurité (renseignement, contre-espionnage, police secrète, etc.) après que les premières observations sur la situation avant l'attaque du 11 septembre 2001 aient montré d'énormes lacunes conduisant à l'échec prévisionnel de prévention de l'attaque.

By Ginny Garner

August 22, 2025

Not too far from where the principal military industrial complex power players work and live, hundreds of liberty-lovers congregated in the suburbs of Washington DC at the ninth annual Ron Paul Peace and Prosperity Institute (RPI) conference. RPI brings together voices of differing ideologies to achieve its core mission. In its own orderly, diplomatic manner, the event was a raging against the war machine and a reminder that there is opposition to the trillions spent on military budgets in pursuit of a global empire, an empire that is nonetheless destined to collapse.

By Paul Craig Roberts

PaulCraigRoberts.org

August 22, 2025

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" - George Santayana

Our time is much like Europe during 1912-1914 and 1938-1939. War is brewing, and unlike the earlier periods today the countries likely to be involved, with the exception of Russia, China, and Iran, are not trying to avoid it. Between 1912-1914 the French President Poincare, Russian Foreign Minister Izvolski, later Russian ambassador to France, and Russian Foreign Minister Sazonov were deeply involved in a conspiracy to cause a war between Russia and France (with British approval and involvement) on one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other.

By James Bovard

The Future of Freedom Foundation

August 22, 2025

"If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion," economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic The Road to Serfdom. Hayek's insight could be the Rosetta Stone for understanding the Trump administration's zealotry for assailing freedom of speech.

On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts.

By Tucker Carlson

August 22, 2025

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par Glenn Diesen

Le juge Napolitano explique comment l'État profond, la dette insoutenable et les guerres étrangères entraîneront l'effondrement et la dislocation de l'Amérique. Napolitano est un ancien juge de la Cour supérieure du New Jersey et l'animateur de l'émission «Judging Freedom with Judge Napolitano».

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By Paul Craig Roberts

PaulCraigRoberts.org

August 21, 2025

I appreciate John Helmer's truth-telling in  youtube , Tuesday, August 19.

Also, I am pleased that Helmer's detailed analysis supports my general conclusions on Nima's podcast the previous day. We are both equally contemptuous of the scam underway. Helmer's very direct language was appropriate. I thank him for it.

Like John Helmer, I am waiting to see if Putin's need for time to prepare for wider war causes him to accept Ukraine's remilitarization as a "peace agreement" and whether Putin succumbs to a land swap instead of completing the conquest of the areas that are already reincorporated into Russia.

By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21

August 21, 2025

Despite claims from the Trump administration about the success of Monday's meeting with Zelensky and the European pimp delegation, the prospect for a successful negotiation to end the war in Ukraine is zero. Trump continues to mistakenly believe that he simply needs to get Putin and Zelensky together, who will hammer out a deal. Trump labors under the false assumption that the war in Ukraine was caused in part by a personal tiff between Putin and Zelensky.

By Paul Dragu
The New American

August 21, 2025

As President Donald Trump works to mediate peace in Ukraine, a major concern among many Americans is that their loved ones will be sent to Ukraine as part of a security agreement being worked out with European and Russian leaders.

On Tuesday, Trump sought to allay those concerns. During a call-in to Fox and Friends, when asked to provide assurance that Americans won't end up defending Ukraine's border, he said, "Well, you have my assurance, and I'm president."

By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute

August 21, 2025

"Have you ever wondered who's pulling the strings?... Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere."- U.S. Army Psychological Operations recruitment video

From viral memes to military-grade influence operations, the government is waging a full-spectrum psychological war-not against foreign enemies but against its own citizens.

By Douglas French

Mises.org

August 21, 2025

Zohran Mamdani, a self-identified democratic socialist, was asked directly whether "billionaires have a right to exist" and   to Kristin Welker on Meet The Press: "I don't think we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality."

Meanwhile, the stock market is so en fuego, the last hot stock is the IPO of a company called Bullish (BLSH).