SchiffGold
October 14, 2026
In Wednesday's episode of the Peter Schiff Show, Peter traces a common thread connecting America's trade deficits, runaway government spending, and the sovereign debt troubles now creeping across the Atlantic. He also takes a detour into history, arguing that many of the country's deepest economic wounds, from the income tax to the Federal Reserve, trace back further than most people realize.
By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org
October 14, 2026
Texas Republicans recently became embroiled in a dispute between two factions that we could call, for purposes of exposition, the "Heritage Texans" and the "Creedal Texans."
Heritage Republicans believe that a nation is constituted by a specific and identifiable people who are historically rooted in a place over time, while Creedal Republicans believe in a concept they call "the idea of Texas." Their idea of Texas involves hard work, love of football, and the savoir-faire to say, "Hook 'em Horns." To the Creedals, anyone from anywhere in the world who embraces this idea is as much a Texan as anyone whose ancestors rode with the Texas cavalry in 1861.
By Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
October 14, 2026
Is Israel winning its war with Hamas?
Not in the classic von Clausewitz sense of the word, because the purpose of war is to achieve a political end-state. What is the political end-state Israel hopes to achieve?
Israel wants to remove the Palestinians from Gaza. We know that; everyone knows that.
But that hasn't happened, and after three years of relentless brutality, Israel is no closer to success than it was on October 8.
Moon of Alabama
October 14, 2026
In the 1930s, during the formation of Saudi Arabia, three provinces were taken from Yemen. The Yemeni have always wanted them back. They are now in a position where they may eventually achieve that aim.
The western parts of Yemen are unlike the deserts of Saudi Arabia. The area is mountainous and gets a decent amount of precipitation.
Why a repeat of the 2008 economic collapse is coming.
By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack
October 14, 2026
All three provide to the billionaires from the U.S. empire, and their personal representatives, an opportunity to meet and discuss privately with each other, and thus facilitate - but do not prove - their conspiring together against not only the billionaires outside the empire, but governments over foreign lands they wish to acquire (add to the empire), and also against the workers and consumers in their own country.
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
October 14, 2026
The Federal Reserve's latest household survey gives Washington plenty of figures to celebrate, provided nobody reads too far down the page. Between 2022 and 2025, inflation-adjusted median family income rose 7% to $82,200, while real median net worth increased 2% to $215,900. Yet the same report shows that the share of families devoting at least 40% of their income to debt payments climbed from 6.5% to 8.6%, the highest level since 2013.
By Edward Curtin
EdwardCurtin.com
October 14, 2026
Ten years ago I had lunch with a man who vehemently insisted that Vladimir Putin was the satanic leader of an evil country and Hilary Clinton was a great American who should be President. This was two years after the U.S. government under Barack Obama, Joseph Biden, Victoria Nuland, and the CIA had engineered a coup d'état in Ukraine as part of their proxy war against Russia, bringing Ukraine's neo-Nazis into greater power.
By Gary D. Barnett
GaryDBarnett.com
October 14, 2026
"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide."
Schiff Sovereign
October 14, 2026
In 1938 the airline business was brand new- only 35 years had passed since the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk.
Hardly anyone had even seen an airplane. A coast-to-coast round trip cost about $260, half the price of a new car, so passengers were mostly very wealthy.
The airlines were small, and during the Depression they were losing money. Congress was afraid they would undercut each other into bankruptcy, and the country would lose an industry it needed for its mail and its defense.
The removal of altar rails and the displacing of tabernacles has naturally led to confusion about what makes a church a church.
By John M. Grondelski
Crisis Magazine
October 14, 2026
The National Catholic Register carried a story September 3 about Anglican cathedrals in the United Kingdom increasingly renting out their spaces for pop concerts and discos. Many justify the practice as a revenue source: maintaining great cathedrals purloined from the Church costs money, money not coming in from either the collection basket or government subsidies.
By admin
October 13, 2026
Writes Ginny Garner:
I doubt if Tulsi Gabbard ran her speech past TPUSA staff before she delivered it at the Texas Youth Summit. She managed to speak out against war for more than a minute. Gabbard denounced war profiteers, explained how war erodes liberty and produces the surveillance state, commended the visionary founding fathers, honored James Madison's recognition that war leads to all other ills of the state, and cited George Washington's farewell address.
Xu Li
À l'occasion du 90e anniversaire de la victoire de la Longue Marche, nous revenons sur un épisode fascinant mais méconnu de cette épopée historique.
En 1934, traquée par les forces du Kuomintang, l'Armée rouge chinoise entame un repli stratégique qui s'effectue dans des conditions extrêmes. Son avant-garde, la 6e Armée rouge, parvient à Jiuzhou, dans la province du Guizhou.
Par Serge Savigny
Début octobre, la Corne de l'Afrique s'est de nouveau retrouvée au cœur d'une tempête géopolitique mondiale. Après quatre ans de trêve fragile, l'Éthiopie replonge dans une guerre civile de grande ampleur qui s'internationalise rapidement et déborde largement de ses frontières nationales.
La rupture des relations diplomatiques avec l'Érythrée et l'offensive des forces fédérales vers le nord créent une situation explosive: le monde se trouve au bord d'un conflit capable de paralyser les principales routes commerciales entre l'Asie et l'Europe.
Sami Al-Arian, 7 octobre 2026. - Les événements du 7 octobre ne peuvent être compris en dehors de la longue histoire de la dépossession, de l'occupation, du siège et de la lutte des Palestiniens. Ils ne peuvent être examinés sérieusement en partant du principe que les Palestiniens doivent justifier leur droit de résister à un système qui les dépossède depuis des générations. Ce droit ne fait aucun doute.
Muzna Shihabi, 10 octobre 2026.- Je déteste le mot. Car pour nous, Palestiniens, il a toujours été synonyme de plus de guerre, de plus de terres volées, de plus de vies perdues.
Nous avons vu qu'il est possible d'armer l'État colonial de peuplement tout en appelant au cessez-le-feu, de condamner la colonisation tout en commerçant avec ceux qui la bâtissent, de reconnaître un État palestinien tout en regardant ses terres disparaître.
Frédéric DELORCA
Avec son climat subtropical qui permet d'avoir plusieurs récoltes de fruits par an et ses plages de sable fin sur les bords de la Mer Noire, et ses chemins de randonnée à travers les forêts profondes et les sommets enneigés du Caucase, l'Abkhazie, ancien lieu de villégiature de la nomenklatura soviétique, pourrait être un paradis touristique inscrit au catalogue de toutes les agences de voyage comme la Thaïlande et Acapulco.