By John Leake
Courageous Discourse
November 14, 2025
There's a funny (perhaps apocryphal) story about a famous showdown that happened in Aspen, Colorado during the ski season of 1991/1992. Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana, where in town to enjoy the pleasures of the fashionable mountain town, but paradise was soon lost when Ivana heard a rumor that another woman named Marla Maples had caught the Donald's eye.
By James Bovard
Mises.org
November 14, 2025
During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: "The United States Is Letting Its People Starve." But the delayed payments had scant impact in part because many states offered supplemental benefits, many recipients had leftover benefits on their Electronic Benefit Cards (EBTs), and because vast numbers of food pantries and other private charities provided relief.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
November 14, 2025
Should America's constitutional republic ever fall, the most likely cause of death will be its corrupt institutions. When citizens lose faith in the "system" and have exhausted all available remedies to "fix" that "system," they will feel wholly disconnected from the government that rules over them. A cascade of institutional crises will exacerbate public distrust in the "system" until the "system's" legitimacy collapses.
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
November 14, 2025
The difference between people who supported the British Empire and people who support the US empire is that those who supported the British Empire knew they were supporting an empire.
Someone who supported the British Empire's acts of mass military slaughter around the world did so because they supported the Crown and wanted His Majesty to civilize the godless savages and turn the whole world into his royal subjects.
Moon of Alabama
November 14, 2025
In 2003 the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Council (OLC) issued a memo which declared the use of torture in 'authorized military interrogations' as legal when done under the 'president's constitutional authority to direct a war'.
The memo was widely condemned. The Obama administration withdrew it but refrained from prosecuting the torturers which had used it as cover.
By Donald Jeffries
"I Protest"
November 14, 2025
The title of this article may seem puzzling. After all, aren't we still being misruled by mostly White men? That's undeniably true, but for the vast majority of White men in this country today, especially those under forty, life is no picnic. We all know that nice guys finish last. Nice White guys finish the lastest of all. Rock bottom.
By George Giles
November 14, 2025
The President of the United States is big on crypto currency. It now represents the majority of his wealth. In one sense a crypto currency is just another tool for facilitating economic activity. Currency is not wealth, it is a just a tool that allows buyers and sellers of goods and services to easily transact their business without resorting to barter. Barter is inefficient for example how many pair of shoes must a cobbler make in order to buy the latest NVidia GPU? Not to mention manufacture them in the right color, size and quality etc.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
November 14, 2025
Yesterday, November 12, the same day I published my article about the threat AI poses to humanity, Peter Koenig reached the same conclusion, "The Digital Gulag Is the Guillotine for a Sovereign Humanity."
I received his article with this note:
"All thinking people know that digitization will lead us to a bottomless prison with shackles, of no escape.
By Karen Kwiatkowski
November 14, 2025
I'm cautiously pessimistic about the near-term survival of this institution, even as its coffers have surged. As it actively seeks war in the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the North Atlantic, with an energized expansion in the Middle East, the Pentagon brings to mind not American security, but rapid metastasis.
The tasks of the Pentagon are threefold: To expand and maintain markets for the dollar; to subsidize risk and eliminate competition for favored US industries; and to serve as a mechanism for government payment transfers to the citizens in all 435 congressional districts.
Par Patrick Lawrence, Spécial Consortium News, le 11 novembre 2025
La visite d'al-Sharaa à la Maison Blanche rappelle la détestation de longue date de Washington pour les processus démocratiques et tous ceux qui les défendent, au-delà du périmètre occidental et parfois même en son sein.
Je n'aurais jamais cru voir un jour Ahmed al-Sharaa arriver à la Maison Blanche pour s'entretenir avec le président Donald Trump et la brochette habituelle de désaxés chargés de s'assurer que Trump comprenne au moins un peu ce qui se dit.
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Pete Hegseth, ministre de la Guerre des États-Unis
Pete Hegseth, le ministre de la Guerre des États-Unis, a révélé le véritable ennemi du Pentagone : les «païens nordiques» qui semblent apprécier le port de la barbe. Pendant que l'armée se bat contre la pilosité, Hegseth tente de recentrer les troupes sur les dix principes de l'armée américaine, dont le «bon sens» se trouve en troisième position.
By Max BLUMENTHAL and Wyatt REED
Documents released by a federal court provide new and disturbing details of Trump associates' attempt to orchestrate a coup against a government they clearly did not understand. This is an unprecedented look at the players and their plots - from terrorism to false flags - that may inform the looming US military assault on Venezuela.
The man the government blames for it all, Jordan Goudreau, provided evidence to The Grayzone that:
Joaquin Flores
The broader project to "Make America Great Again" cannot succeed if Americans don't have a chance to live long enough to see it realized.
The broader project to "Make America Great Again" cannot succeed if Americans remain sick, overburdened by healthcare costs, or worse, dead before they have a chance to live long enough to see it realized.
On the evening of November 9th, U.S.
By John Leake
Courageous Discourse
November 13, 2025
It wasn't so long ago that the new Syrian President-Ahmed Al-Sharaa (AKA Muhammad Al-Jawlani) was regarded as a top al-Qaeda, "specially designated global terrorist" with a U.S. government ten million bounty on his head.
Yesterday, November 10-the official birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps and National Forget-Me-Not Day (commemorating the sacrifices returning soldiers have made of body, blood, and limb)-President Trump hosted him for an official state visit at the White House.
By Tom Mullen
November 13, 2025
If you believe the approved narrative, the post-bellum South was a monolithic hive-mind of sheet-wearing racists who couldn't wait to codify their hatred into law. While this fiction validates statists of every stripe and allows northerners to feel morally superior, the truth is uncomfortable for both: large parts of the South were already desegregating on their own until the government stepped in to stop them.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
November 13, 2025
As President Trump floats the idea of 50-year mortgages, Americans are being sold a new version of the American Dream-one that can never truly be owned, only leased from the banks, billionaires, and private equity landlords who profit from our permanent state of debt.
Which begs the question: who owns America?
Is it the government? The politicians? The corporations? The foreign investors? The American people?
By John Mac Ghlionn
Crisis Magazine
November 13, 2025
Steve Bannon is a paradox of epic proportions. A former finance titan turned populist prophet, he carries the scent of boardrooms and beer halls in equal measure. He once moved millions on Wall Street; now he moves crowds in Rust Belt towns. To his critics, he's a grifter, a grand manipulator who cloaks chaos in patriotism. To his supporters, he's a proud Catholic calling the country back to what it once was-and could be again.
Par Caitlin Johnstone - Le 9 novembre 2025 - Source Blog de l'auteur
Le secrétaire à la Guerre™ Pete Hegseth a déclaré vendredi youtube que les États-Unis se trouvaient à "un moment style 1939" dû à "l'urgence croissante" avec laquelle "les ennemis se rassemblent, les menaces grandissent", ajoutant : "Nous ne construisons pas pour un temps de paix. Nous orientons le Pentagone et notre base industrielle sur la base d'une guerre".
Les manifestations sont censées être la voix de ceux qui ne sont pas entendus. Pourtant, ces manifestations sont la voix de ceux qui ne se taisent jamais. − Observateur anonyme de No Kings, rapporté par Roger Kimball
Par James Howard Kunstler - Le 27 octobre 2025 - Source Clusterfuck Nation
Au cours du week-end, vous avez peut-être remarqué que la police de Portland, dans l'Oregon, a démantelé les campements Antifa autour du centre ICE de la ville, emporté leur matériel anti-émeute sophistiqué et les a avertis de ne pas se rassembler dans la rue à cet endroit.
Par Brandon Smith − Le 31 octobre 2025 − Source Alt-Market
Chaque fois que l'on se plonge dans l'histoire moderne des conflits nationaux internes, on tombe inévitablement sur des témoignages post-crise de personnes qui ont déclaré : « Nous ne l'avons pas vu venir... » ou « La violence nous a frappés de nulle part... ». En général, il s'agit de personnes qui n'étaient pas attentives et qui ont survécu par pure chance.