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.

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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.