By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
August 14, 2026
While the Everything Bubble has soared to new heights, consumer confidence has fallen to new lows.
For your consideration, four charts that tell a single story: while those Americans who have benefited so immensely from the Everything Bubble in stocks, housing, crypto, bat guano, etc.-every asset under the sun-have spent lavishly on fripperies, the foundations of everyday life for the bottom 90% have rotted away.
By Cherie Zaslawsky
CherieZaslawsky.substack.com
August 14, 2026
There's a slow-motion tragedy unfolding in many California cities, and no doubt in other cities across our nation.
And for my subscribers who are wondering why I haven't been writing new articles of late, here's my overdue explanation: My own tranquil suburb of Menlo Park, a bedroom community tucked away in a quiet corner of Silicon Valley, has been targeted for suburb-wrecking urbanization, and I've chosen to don my activist hat in the David vs.
Meet at the Liberty Tree.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
August 14, 2026
This chapter in American history could be titled, "The Bad Guys Keep Winning Because They Suffer No Consequences for Their Treachery."
Islamo-fascists and communists have taken over the Democrat Party and threaten to take over the U.S. Congress. Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton has been brought to justice for conspiring with parts of the Intelligence Community to frame President Trump as a Russian spy.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
August 14, 2026
Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Oz, a dual citizen of Turkey and the US, is head of Medicaid, a federal program that provides health care for the uninsured poor. He announced last Tuesday that Medicaid, as directed by President Trump, would no longer pay for change of gender surgeries for children and for hormone therapies to counteract their natural gender.
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
August 14, 2026
Taiwan began seriously examining Ukraine's battlefield experience after Russia invaded in 2022. Taipei has since partnered with Auterion, the American-German drone software company whose systems have been tested under actual combat conditions in Ukraine. Auterion CEO Lorenz Meier stated, "What we offer has been battle-tested in Ukraine to deter aggression and destroy tanks, naval vessels, and other truly expensive equipment." That is precisely the lesson Taiwan needs.
COVID exposed many shocking failures across society, but the most eye-opening was the suppression of scientific inquiry by the so-called scientists.
By Scott Ventureyra
Crisis Magazine
August 14, 2026
For over six years, I have written about the Covid debacle. In the spring of 2020, when questioning lockdowns, masking policies, Anthony Fauci, or the recommendations and policies of the World Health Organization, I was met with accusations of being "anti-science" and supporting conspiracy theories.
And the Medical Establishment Hates It
By Paul Dragu
The New American
August 14, 2026
Long before he became secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had determined to figure out a way to upend the crowded childhood vaccine schedule and replace it with one based on "gold standard" science. On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) titled "Delivering gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for Americans." Kennedy was right behind him.
By Mike Adams
Natural News
August 14, 2026
Introduction: Pandora's Box Is Open
Humanity has now crossed a line. The same institutions that promised to heal us are now engineering technologies designed to replace us, monitor us, and dismantle our biology from the inside. I have been warning about this for years, but what was once dismissed as paranoid speculation is now documented news. Artificial intelligence is designing functional viral genomes (pathogenic protein synthesis instructions) in the lab http://newsnet.fr/1.
By Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
August 14, 2026
This article was written By Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group
The introduction of AI into popular consciousness and everyday usage has been rather disappointing, for the most part. And by that I mean, we're not seeing any spectacular benefits to the presence of AI while the negatives keep piling up.
At best, AI represents an advancement for information structuring; a much faster way to sort, categorize and investigate the data landscape.
Par Al-Mayadeen
"Israël" provoque délibérément des incendies dans tout le sud du Liban, détruisant des forêts, des oliveraies et des terres agricoles, tout en menaçant les écosystèmes et en forçant les communautés à quitter leurs terres.
Les pompiers et les habitants du sud du Liban ont accusé les forces d'occupation israéliennes d'avoir délibérément provoqué des feux de forêt, alors que des zones boisées ont été ravagées par les flammes à la suite de bombardements israéliens.
Par Lucas Leiroz de Almeida
Les lourdes pertes subies par les États-Unis dans la guerre contre l'Iran choquent même les spécialistes les plus chevronnés. Dans une récente déclaration, John Mearsheimer, éminent professeur à l'université de Chicago, a commenté la situation en avertissant que l'administration de Donald Trump échouait sur le plan militaire en laissant le pays dépenser d'énormes ressources et perdre une part substantielle de son arsenal dans un conflit inutile.
Par Claude Morin
Fidel aurait eu 100 ans ce 13 août 2026. Il y a dix ans, je présentais l'exposé qui suit lors d'une table ronde « En hommage à Fidel Castro pour ses 90 ans » organisée par la Table de concertation de solidarité Québec-Cuba. L'événement s'inscrivait dans le cadre du Forum Social Mondial célébré à Montréal du 9 au 14 août 2016. C'était la première fois que le FSM, lancé à Porto Alegre (Brésil) en 2001, se tenait dans un pays du Nord.