By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute  

August 18, 2026

Last week we heard that US sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships in the Middle East were being fed food that, from photos that surfaced in the media, looked worse than what you would feed a dog. Parents and spouses of service members risked disciplinary action against their loved ones to highlight to the US Navy Secretary and to the media the revolting conditions aboard the carrier, which has been at sea with no port of call for a record period of time.

By Karen Kwiatkowski  

August 18, 2026

Polymarket predicts Democrats taking both houses of Congress this November. Instead of a more typical election year focus on hearth and home, economy and peace, Trump devotedly pursues deep state continuity and endless war. His administration is rallying what is left of our military to vainly extend the life of a dying petrodollar. Trump's Israel obsession, and Israel's amoral maximalism, is producing global chaos designed to advance Israel's interests as it consumes American bone and sinew, much as the US is consuming Ukraine's in the proxy war with Russia.

By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21  

August 18, 2026

The images were mundane in a way that made them land harder than any battle footage: half-empty meal trays, a gray slab of processed meat, sailors rationing food among themselves so no one got more than anyone else. Through the spring and summer of 2026, the crews of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and the assault ship USS Tripoli contended with food shortages, long chow lines, broken toilets, mold in the showers, dead laundry machines, and shortages of basics like soap and toothpaste - aboard warships operating in the Arabian Sea and the wider Indian Ocean after more than 250 days at sea.

By Robert Gore
Straight Line Logic  

August 18, 2026

Trump may not be the fifth face on Mt. Rushmore.

President Trump has betrayed what he considered his own movement, but which has always been "Much More Than Trump." MAGA is fractured; minus Trump the underlying movement will be stronger than it is now. There are millions of Americans who fear the government and despise the so-called elites who control it.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

August 18, 2026

Russian news sources for the outside world, such as RT and Sputnik, would benefit from thinking about how their reports read to outsiders, especially Americans. Perhaps the editors have thought that by appearing so objective they can gain credibility as non-partisan, thus deflating US claims that they are propaganda organs like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.

Freedom of association is under attack.  

By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker  

August 18, 2026

There are a number of ways in which Western governments are waging war against their citizens. The United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and leftists in the United States do not believe in free speech. These Western governments also spy on their citizens without warrants or probable cause.

It's been a few months since Kim has threatened the total annihilation of South Korea, and a few years since he threatened to inflict "shocking and unimaginable disaster" on the USA.  

By John Leake
The Focal Points  

August 18, 2026

On Sunday, President Trump announced on his Truth Social account that he is patching things up with North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, and is therefore no longer concerned about the security of South Korea - one of the US's key trading partners.

How Your Blood, Sweat, and Forty-Three Cents of Every Dollar Feed a Beast That Devours Its Young  

By Milan Adams
Preppgroup  

August 18, 2026

Ludwig von Mises
Economic philosopher and author of Human Action (1949), whose analysis of bureaucratic intervention and market distortion influenced generations of free-market economists:

"The bureaucrat is not only a government employee. He is, by virtue of his position, the representative of the government, the agent of coercion.

By Peter Koenig
Global Research  

August 18, 2026

If they had their way, chaos is for culling the population, slowly and as painlessly as possible.

So is the holy wish of Dennis Meadow, one of the chief architects of the Club of Rome's first and most infamous report "Limits to Growth" (1972).

"We can have 1 billion people with freedom, or 9 billion slaves. We're at over 7 billion right now, so we need to bring that down to 1 billion.

Moon of Alabama  

August 18, 2026

The Wall Street Journal has unearthed a big secret!

Iran's Secret Plan to Escalate the War - WSJ, Aug 16 2026
Intercepted communications and other intelligence suggest a strategic shift by hard-line leaders to raise the costs for the U.S. and its regional allies

Arab intelligence officials have picked up evidence-including communications between Iran and militia allies in countries such as Yemen and Iraq-of a strategic shift inside the country's hard-line leadership to get their forces ready to widen the war and raise the costs for the U.S., officials familiar with the findings say.

By Michael Snyder
End Of The American Dream  

August 18, 2026

It appears that most of the population has become way too apathetic about the threat of nuclear war. There are people on social media that cheer as both sides continue to escalate the conflict in Ukraine, and there are people on social media that are openly advocating for nuclear weapons to be used in the Middle East. I don't think that such people actually understand the immense destructive power of modern nuclear weapons.

Cinematic Low-Light 4K Film  

By Aysar Yousef
Gaze At This  

August 18, 2026

Historians often describe Quseir 'Amra merely as a product of Byzantine influence, yet this narrative remains entirely flawed, showing a clear lack of understanding regarding Umayyad history. Built upon the desire of Caliph Al-Walid ibn Yazid at the peak of imperial power-when borders stretched from northern al-Andalus in the west to China in the east-the palace features surviving inscriptions bearing his name alongside ornamentations matching the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

par Michele Blanco

Source: sinistrainrete.info

La thèse avancée par Jeffrey Sachs et Sybil Fares est claire: la guerre en Ukraine n'est pas seulement un affrontement entre Moscou et Kiev, mais le produit d'une stratégie américaine planifiée depuis plus de trente ans. Une stratégie qui a transformé le territoire ukrainien en principal champ de bataille et de test pour la nouvelle guerre technologique contemporaine, alors que Kiev continue d'en payer le prix humain, économique et territorial, prix qui est extrêmement élevé.