By Charles Hugh Smith

OfTwoMinds.com

December 6, 2025

The conclusion that soaring asset prices mean the economy is strong is a hallucination that goes unrecognized because the entire financial system is hallucinating.

Consider the data that the financial sector bases conclusions / decisions on (i.e. the data that the financial sector "trains" on) in a Bubble Economy like the present. The Bubble Economy's core goal is to inflate the valuation of assets not by increasing utility-value or productivity but by artificially expanding credit and leverage.

By Milan Adams
Preppgroup

December 6, 2025

A heist has a scoreboard. After the robbery, you don't argue about theories. You count what's missing.

For fifty years, we've been told a story: that your struggle is a personal failure. That the economy is just "evolving." That the system is broken.

The system is not broken. It was picked clean.

The following numbers are the evidence. This is the financial autopsy of the American Dream.

By David Stockman

David Stockman's Contra Corner

December 6, 2025

The Trumpian attack on immigrants is about as anti-supply side, pro-statist and inimical to free market prosperity as it gets. As we have seen in Parts 1 & 2, immigrant labor accounted for 42% of the thundering 3.62% annual real GDP growth during the golden age of American industrial expansion between 1870 and 1920, but that wasn't the end of the story.

By Chuck Baldwin

Chuck Baldwin Live

December 6, 2025

Whitney Webb is right. America is One Nation Under Blackmail. From the White House to Congress to state governors and legislators to the mainstream media to mega churches and televangelists, they are on the take. And the godfather with the money-our money (and the enforcers to make sure they take the bribes)-is Israel.

From Bill Clinton to Donald Trump and every U.S.

By Ted Snider
The American Conservative

December 6, 2025

The people of Honduras had not yet made up their minds. So, Donald Trump intervened to help them.

The major candidates in Sunday's election were Rixi Moncada, the former defense minister of the ruling left-wing LIBRE party, who had promised to continue President Xiomara Castro's agenda; Nasry "Tito" Asfura, a construction magnate who is running for the right-wing National Party on a free market platform; and Salvador Nasralla, formerly of the LIBRE party, who broke with them and moved to a centrist anticorruption platform.

By James Bovard

The Libertarian Institute

December 6, 2025

The Trump administration's killings of scores of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, "We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists." Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama.

In his 2017 farewell address, Obama boasted, "We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists." Drone strikes increased tenfold under Obama, helping fuel anti-U.S.

By A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine

December 6, 2025

Since our society is conditioned to believe all vaccines are "safe and effective" many do not realize the risk and benefits of each vaccine vary greatly. One of the most controversial vaccines has been the Hepatitis B vaccine, which is given to every newborn in the country at their most fragile moment of life despite their risk of contracting hepatitis B being negligible.

By Doug Casey

International Man

December 6, 2025

International Man: A recent BHG Financial survey found that 62% of Americans earning over $300,000 a year still struggle with credit card debt.

What's your take on this?

Doug Casey: BHG is basically a Shylock for the upper middle class. They loan mainly to doctors and successful small businessmen, typically at around 12%. They're in a position to know when their demographic is in trouble.

By Jonathan Cook
JonathanCook.net

December 6, 2025

Six political prisoners who targeted factories arming Israel's genocide are weeks into a hunger strike. But in contrast to the IRA's 1980s hunger strike, this one is being blanked by the media

If we truly had a free media in the UK, rather than one serving the interests only of the state and billionaire class, this would be a front-page news story:

By Karen Kwiatkowski

December 6, 2025

The American contract, a combination of Constitution and myth, is unraveling like the marriage of an unimaginative yet loyal wife who wakes up to find the money gone, eviction imminent, and he loves another. Further, in a battle for the kids, or any remaining resources, our lying spendthrift plays cards with the judge and drinks with the sheriff, while we are friendless.

par Moon of Alabama

La Maison-Blanche a publié la nouvelle stratégie de sécurité nationale des États-Unis (NSS) (pdf, 33 pages).

Elle est très différente de la dernière publiée en 2022 sous l'administration Biden.

La nouvelle NSS marque la fin de la doctrine Wolfowitz, plutôt tristement célèbre :

«La «doctrine Wolfowitz» est le nom officieux donné à la version initiale du Guide de Planification de la Défense (GPD) pour les exercices 1994-1999 (daté du 18 février 1992).

Je tiens Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann pour l'un des excellents connaisseurs français de l'Allemagne et, incontestablement, notre meilleur analyste universitaire des questions géopolitiques. C'est pourquoi je suis heureux de publier, avec son autorisation, ce texte. Quand j'ai testé auprès de lui le concept de «national-globalisme» ; Pierre-Emmanuel m'a envoyé l'article que vous allez lire ci-dessous.