By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com 

April 15, 2026

I will enthusiastically join the Bulls when we replace a guaranteed-to-bankrupt-us Sickcare system and we rebalance the extreme asymmetries of Capital and Labor.

Being permanently bullish is profitable because "markets go up." This is more than enough reason to be permanently bullish, of course, but being persnickety, I prefer there actually being some economic basis for being bullish other than memes (markets go up, the Fed has our back, AI, super-abundance is all around us, etc.).

By Paul Craig Roberts  

April 15, 2026

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The real enemy in the Iran War.  

By JD Breen
Pretium Insights  

April 15, 2026

"What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. As the President showed, two can play at that game."

- Vice President JD Vance

The war with Iran was lost the moment it was launched. There's no "winning" a fight that can only make everything worse.

Before the war, the US military offered the illusion of Mideast security.

By Alexandra Bruce
Forbidden Knowledge TV 

April 15, 2026

By now, most of us have a decent grasp of how mass media is weaponized to facilitate the perpetratration of transnational crimes. We see the mainstream media go into lockstep with the same scripted propaganda on a daily basis and we know that we're living in 5th Generational Warfare (5GW).

We understand that COVID was a multi-trillion-dollar fraud and we can comprehend the enormous marshaling of forces that it must have taken, across many sectors, over several years to pull it off.

By Paul Dragu
The New American  

April 15, 2026

In another example of the president's errant shift in views and policies, he recently endorsed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for reelection. Ten years ago, Trump called Graham "one of the worst representatives of any representative in the United States."

"Senator Lindsey Graham is doing a fantastic job," President Donald Trump said Friday on his social media platform Truth Social.

By Eric Peters
Eric Peters Autos  

April 15, 2026

The headline is the question many of us are asking. So what's the answer ? His recent actions - especially the Trump-as-Jesus thing he posted the other day - come across as almost unbelievably stupid. Is he that stupid?

Or is it something worse?

Some believe he is that stupid. That he's literally the "low IQ" person he says those who intelligently question his stupid actions must be.

Ksenia Muratshina,

Récemment, de nombreux événements ont eu lieu dans le monde de la culture - allant de la joie à l'inacceptable. "NEO" présente les plus marquants.

Les monuments sous les frappes

L'agression américano-israélienne a endommagé plus de 50 sites culturels et historiques en Iran : mosquées, musées, complexes palatiaux. La barbarie de la "coalition d'Epstein" est condamnée par le monde entier.

Margherita Furlan

La rivista del Partito comunista ridefinisce la strategia commerciale. Il quotidiano economico di Stato respinge la narrativa dello "shock cinese"

La principale pubblicazione teorica del Comitato centrale del Partito comunista cinese ha compiuto un passo che, nel linguaggio politico di Pechino, equivale a un cambio di rotta ufficiale. Qiushi, "Cercare la verità", la rivista che da decenni anticipa le svolte della dirigenza, ha pubblicato nella sua ultima edizione un commento in cui definisce il modello di crescita trainato dalle esportazioni "insostenibile" per un'economia delle dimensioni di quella cinese, in un contesto globale segnato dal protezionismo crescente e dalle tensioni geopolitiche.1

Alastair Crooke

A cessação temporária das hostilidades em toda a Ásia Ocidental está bastante em jogo. Originalmente, deveria haver uma cessação das ações militares em "todas as frentes", incluindo o Líbano - sendo essa uma das dez pré-condições iranianas para as negociações rumo a um cessar-fogo permanente. Trump afirmou devidamente que a estrutura de 10 pontos do Irã fornecia uma "base viável" para iniciar negociações diretas com o Irã.