By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com  

March 30, 2026

To claim that jostling for the biggest share of federal power and largesse-in a word, greed-magically serves the common good is a convenient cover for an oligarchy masquerading as a "democracy."

Is a "democracy" that's for sale still a democracy, or is it something else? The question arises from the nature of our political system, whatever you wish to call it: it is an auction for political favors / influence in which the highest bidder wins-as in any auction.

By Drago Bosnic
InfoBrics  

March 30, 2026

The timing is almost perfect for Trump to leave the Neo-Nazi junta and pretend that the US had nothing to do with orchestrating the Ukrainian conflict. It's now entangled in yet another war in the Middle East and it's virtually impossible to wage a two-front conflict with both Russia and Iran.

Relations between US President Donald Trump and the Kiev regime frontman Volodymyr Zelensky have long been defined by mutual distrust, clashing worldviews and high-stakes bargaining rather than any form of genuine partnership.

The US needs to help Israel harm people or else the people who are mad about being harmed might harm Israelis. It's circular reasoning all the way  

By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com  

March 30, 2026

The US-Israel alliance exists to fix the problems created by its existence.

The US and Israel have sown death and destruction throughout the middle east for generations, creating generation after generation of survivors who hate them and want them gone, and then it cites the existence of people who hate them and want them gone as the reason why the US needs to keep supporting Israel.

This week, governments which ignored basics are seeing serious consequences for fantastical thinking.  

By Clarice Feldman
American Thinker  

March 30, 2026

Math ruins some really enchanting ideas. Things like fossil-free energy and open borders, combined with generous social welfare. This week, governments that ignored the basics are seeing serious consequences for fantastical thinking. By the same token, however, properly applied math can dispel doomster thinking.

Moon of Alabama  

March 30, 2026

One Sergey Poletaev (quoted here) writes in RT about the Shock and Awe doctrine:

Russia also succumbed to the idea of the shock and awe doctrine.

After the war with Georgia in 2008, the Russian military was restructured to carry out rapid and destructive military interventions. However, Russia was the first to stumble on this doctrine. In spring 2022, it faced a critical choice: Either fight a serious, bloody war of attrition or settle for a disgraceful peace.

SchiffGold.com  

March 30, 2026

On Thursday, Peter faced off against Mark Moss in a ZeroHedge debate to lay out a clear, market-focused case for gold and a skeptical case against Bitcoin. He argues that central banks are quietly shifting away from the dollar into gold because they no longer trust the ability of the U.S. government to repay debt without relying on the printing press. He also explains why gold retains the key qualities of money and why Bitcoin, by contrast, functions more like a speculative collectible.

By Gary D. Barnett
GaryDBarnett.com  

March 30, 2026

Note: I wrote and published this article on April 5, 2022, 4 years ago. What I wrote then about what was happening at the time, and what was coming in the future, is exactly what is happening now; only much faster and at a much more advanced pace. While I was looking at this from multiple perspectives, and of course at the time, we were in the midst of the fake 'covid' hoax, which was being used in much the same way as the so-called Iran war is being used today, the State's agenda never changed.

By Paul Anthony Taylor
Dr. Rath Health Foundation  

March 30, 2026

The idea that the open ocean remains one of the last untouched environments on Earth has now been shattered. A major new study has revealed that human-made chemicals - from pharmaceuticals and pesticides to plastic additives and industrial compounds - have spread across the entire global ocean, reaching even the most remote waters far from land.

How America's Food Supply Is Slowly Eroding, the Hidden Forces Behind the Crisis, and the Quiet Collapse We Are Already Adapting To 

By Madge Waggy
MadgeWaggy.blogspot.com 

March 30, 2026

The Illusion of Permanence

For most people living in the United States, food has never been something that felt fragile. It has felt as permanent as electricity, as guaranteed as running water. Grocery stores have functioned for decades as quiet monuments to abundance, where every season appears to exist simultaneously and every product seems to arrive without effort.

March 27 2026

HOW THE GLOBAL CRISIS WILL UNFOLD

Michael Hudson & Steve Keen

David Graeber Institute

NIKA

Hello, everyone. We are very happy to invite back Michael Hudson and Professor Steve Keen to the David Graeber Institute. Steve Keen is an economist and author, one of the few who warned about the 2008 crisis in advance. He is known for his critique of mainstream neoclassical theory and his models of debt deflation and financial instability.

Raphael Machado

Se gli Stati Uniti sono amici dell'Europa, allora l'Europa non ha bisogno di nemici.

Ci siamo abituati a considerare il rapporto tra gli Stati Uniti e i paesi europei, specialmente quelli dell'Europa occidentale, come un'alleanza irreprensibile, una vera amicizia tra i popoli. Anzi, il discorso dominante parla di un'unica "civiltà occidentale", che unisce il Nord America e l'Europa, fondata sugli stessi "valori giudaico-cristiani".

Par Alexandre Douguine

L'axe Netanyahu/Trump a pour cible principale l'Iran. Si l'Iran venait à tomber, il est possible, voire très probable, qu'ils se tournent à nouveau vers le soutien à l'Ukraine contre la Russie. Mais la résistance acharnée de l'Iran accapare toute leur attention. Pour l'instant, la Russie ne les préoccupe pas: la priorité, c'est l'Iran. Bien sûr, Trump ne se soucie plus du tout de la "paix", et c'est pourquoi la normalisation des relations avec la Russie, si tant est qu'elle ait un sens, est entreprise selon des critères très pragmatiques.

USA: Des sionistes chrétiens dans l'esprit de la fin des temps se préparent pour la bataille finale contre "Magog" et les "Perses"

Par Susann Witt-Stahl

Source: jungewelt.de

Une mer de versets bibliques et de kitsch évangélique inonde actuellement les réseaux sociaux américains. "Le Seigneur ordonne à ses anges de veiller sur eux dans toutes leurs voies", lit-on dans une publication Instagram accompagnée d'une image montrant des soldats en prière, avec la bannière étoilée, des chars et des avions, survolés par une escouade de chevaliers blancs ailés.

par Jamal Maselmani

Source: telegra.ph

Dans les guerres traditionnelles, les armées concentraient leur puissance de feu sur des cibles stratégiques visibles - bases militaires, usines d'armement, aéroports - où il était possible de tracer les lignes de ravitaillement et de définir des plans de bataille avec une relative certitude. L'efficacité au combat dépendait des effectifs, de la puissance de feu et des manœuvres tactiques.