The Pacific has always rewarded nations capable of thinking decades ahead. It is vast enough to hide ambition, deep enough to conceal preparation and unforgiving enough to expose even the smallest strategic mistake. For generations, American planners viewed that immense stretch of water as the highway that carried military power across half the planet. Chinese planners looked at the very same ocean and saw something entirely different.

"La politique, ce n'est qu'une façon d'agiter le peuple avant de s'en servir". ~ Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

"Ceux qui rendent une révolution pacifique impossible rendront une révolution violente inévitable". ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Il est des vérités d'une telle absurdité que seuls les intellectuels peuvent y croire". ~ George Orwell

"Plus tu sais, plus tu sembles bizarre aux autres".

par The Black Elephant Experience et Dr. Jonas Toegel

La guerre cognitive ne viserait plus seulement les adversaires extérieurs : les opinions publiques occidentales seraient désormais elles-mêmes devenues un terrain d'opération.

Dans ce nouvel entretien de The Black Elephant Experience, Félix Marquardt et Alexis Poulin Le Monde Moderne reçoivent le Dr Jonas Tögel, ch

publié le 13/07/2026 Par Paul Fernandez-Mateo

Les crises entre l'Europe et ses voisins et partenaires se multiplient depuis quelques années. Le continent est plus que jamais isolé, et ne peut plus compter sur les États-Unis pour le protéger. Mais d'un pays européen à l'autre, les intérêts et les positionnements stratégiques continuent de varier de façon parfois considérable. La question de la défense et de la diplomatie européenne semble destinée à demeurer un vœu pieux, et une équation sans solution.

Netanyahu is pulling out all stops to force Trump to continue the illegal war against Iran.  

By Kurt Nimmo
Another Day in the Empire  

July 13, 2026

If the Art of the Deal fails, threaten them with total destruction. That's what Trump did Friday night with another irrational post to his Truth Social.

1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!

By Joseph T. Salerno
Mises.org

July 13, 2026

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Murray N. Rothbard was a system builder in the mode of Ludwig von Mises, Frank H. Knight, and Friedrich A. Hayek. Like these eminent economists, Rothbard concluded that mastery of pure economic theory alone does not get one very far. Social, economic, and political problems are intertwined and complex and require a grand theory to address them.

Israel feeds misinformation that Iran wants to kill him  

By Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review  

July 13, 2026

There is a good thing about having Donald J Trump as president and that is how during a normal week he will say or do a number of incredibly stupid things that make one want to smile or even laugh outright. Unfortunately, however, the fun stops shortly after that point when one recalls that the outright insanity is not only destroying the White House and much of the District of Columbia.

By Ed Mullen
Trust The Science  

July 13, 2026

The language a society uses can powerfully shape how its members perceive reality, organize their thoughts, and prioritize values-steering cultural norms, institutions, and collective decisions in lasting ways. This idea, often linked to linguistic relativity, holds that the structure, vocabulary, and metaphors of a language influence everything from social attitudes to policy priorities.

By Drago Bosnic
InfoBrics  

July 13, 2026

This is mainly about profit and posturing, but there's also a strategic restructuring element to it. Namely, Washington DC sees such deals as a way to hit (at least) two birds with one stone. It keeps the Kremlin busy (America's main military adversary), while draining the EU's coffers (which the Trump administration sees as its second most challenging economic opponent, right after China).

We're all in this race, whether we realize it or not. We'd better pick up the pace.  

By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com  

July 13, 2026

John F Kennedy was correct when he said "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

That's why police robots are being aggressively normalized today. The empire managers want to make sure violent revolution is impossible, too.

By Wendy Williamson
WendyWilliamson.com  

July 13, 2026

"The economy doesn't work for you - it works to extract from you." -Michael Hudson

Financialization is a word you have probably heard in economic news, but its true meaning is rarely explained. The popular media treats it as the natural growth of finance in a modern economy-simply the evolution of markets. But financialization is not natural, and it is not evolution.

By Ilana Mercer  

July 13, 2026

Without demarcation, Vance has blended into an administration that is terrorizing the world financially, economically and militarily. From Greenland, to Latin America to West Asia to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

DEVOUTLY AND LOUDLY do various media organs of the establishment-CNN, The War Street Journal, The Hill, Politico or Israel's Axios-dazzle you with flattering depictions of JD Vance's foreign-policy stance, almost always based on unnamed sources, which have conveniently slithered out of dank corners, at this point of the election cycle.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

July 13, 2026

Israel has such contempt for its American puppet doll, into which Israeli operative President Donald Trump has turned a once proud United States, that US Representative Ro Khanna and his fact-finding delegation in the West Bank were detained by criminal "Israeli settlers" armed with US Army machine guns who had no right to be in what remains of Palestine's West Bank.

By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack  

July 13, 2026

Shall our country be independent (sovereign), or instead be ruled by and for the U.S. Government, or maybe by and for Israel or some other imperial country?

There are just six empires today. The #1 empire is U.S., which in 2022 had 900 foreign military bases, now has 861 (to see the information about each, click on "List" at "View Mode... List", and then onto each of the 861).