Commentary

Terrorism, Immigration and Mass Manipulation

January 14, 2015 0

“What I’m about to say is maybe a little pompous,” Stéphane Charbonnier, or “Charb”, “but I’d rather die standing up than live on my knees.” Terrorism, Immigration and Mass Manipulation A BREAKING ALL THE RULES Editorial […]

Freedom

Q&A: ON THE UNTOUCHABLE ‘LORDS OF SECRECY’

January 13, 2015 0

BY DAN FROOMKIN Powerful, unaccountable, and operating far in the shadows, the Lords of Secrecy, as author Scott Horton calls them, are real, and they are in charge of our national security state. Horton, a lawyer, […]

Freedom

The Value of Wealth

January 13, 2015 0

By The Automatic Earth Ann Rosener Reconditioning spark plugs, Melrose Park Buick plant, Chicago 1942  We need to do a lot more thinking, and take a far more critical look at ourselves, than we do at present. […]

World Affairs

Killing Charlie: Cui Bono?

January 9, 2015 0

by PEPE ESCOBAR Putin did it. Sorry, he didn’t. In the end, it was not Russia “aggression” that attacked the heart of Europe. It was a pro-style jihadi commando. Cui bono? Careful planning and preparation; Kalashnikovs; rocket-propelled grenade launcher; balaclavas; sand-colored ammunition […]

Commentary

Forecast 2015 — Life in the Breakdown Lane

January 9, 2015 0

“Don’t look back — something might be gaining on you,” Satchel Paige famously warned. For connoisseurs of civilizational collapse, 2014 was merely annoying, a continued pile-up of over-investments in complexity with mounting diminishing returns, metastasizing […]

Commentary

We Are Entering An Era Of Shattered Illusions

January 8, 2015 0

By Brandon Smith The structure of history is held together by two essential and distinct kinds of links, two moments in time to which no one is immune: moments of epiphany, and moments of catastrophe. Sometimes, […]

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