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The Great Madness
Has the world gone mad? It certainly seems that way to some of us. Even the most cynical never imagined the government shutting down the country for fear of a virus, but it has suddenly […]
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Can This Pandemic Usher in a New Era?
March 27, 2020 by Patrick J. Buchanan Trump should go further, turn the tables, and seize this crisis to do what he was elected to do — impose a new foreign policy. To fight the coronavirus at […]
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Science and Fiction
Jimmie Moglia for The Saker Blog In all mass phenomena it is uncertain whether to believe the scientists as the infallible voices of truth, or if, in their explanation of some events, we see but […]
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Nothing is Working Now: What’s Next for America?
Mish 18 hours ago Eventually, the coronavirus depression will subside. But what will America look like when it does? Jim Bianco “This virus is the event of this generation. In the future, we will refer […]
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Nine Meals from Anarchy
by Jeff Thomas In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people as disparate as Robert Heinlein and Leon Trotsky. The […]
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Things Have Changed
At least in wartime, the bars stay open. That’s how you know this is a different thing altogether from whatever else you’ve seen in your lifetime. Even those of us who signed up for this […]
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Trump and Xi’s Defence of Classical Culture Takes Aim at Malthusian Agenda
Matthew EHRET In the post WWII years two cultural revolutions swept both Asian and western civilisations appearing on the surface to have distinct characteristics, yet each resulting in profound moral cultural decay. In America and Europe, […]
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Goodbye to All That: The Demise of Globalization and Imperial Pretensions
CHARLES HUGH SMITH The decline phase of the S-Curve is just beginning. Globalization and Imperial Pretensions have been decaying for years; now the tide has turned definitively against them. The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t cause the demise of globalization […]
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Is the Western World Losing Its Mind?
Frank Suess As a Swiss citizen and voter, I cherish the privilege of open discourse on political issues and problems. Having heated political discussions and arguments is part and parcel of Switzerland’s direct democracy. However, […]