By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
August 15, 2025
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."-H.L. Mencken
Let's not mince words: every American should be alarmed by President Trump's "Liberation Day" tactics, theatrics and threats.
What is unfolding in the nation's capital is a hostile takeover of our constitutional republic.
By John M. Grondelski
American Thinker
August 15, 2025
Lots of misinformation is being spread about President Donald Trump's decision to federalize law enforcement in Washington, D.C. Much of it is the usual Trump Derangement Syndrome: "fascist" tendencies toward "authoritarianism" at the expense of "black and brown" people because of DJT's "racism" and desire to bury the Epstein scandal. There's no "emergency" justifying the takeover.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
August 15, 2025
Yesterday President Trump in his public statements validated my conclusion that Trump does not know what the Russian position is and that he is going to the meeting to find out what the "parameters" are and that he sees the meeting as a "feel-out meeting" to see whether the conflict in Ukraine can be ended.
In other words, no solution is expected from the meeting for which no preparatory work has been done.
Raphael Machado
The West pursues a consistent geopolitical strategy - even if it doesn't always succeed, Raphael Machado writes.
Trump's election is - as we know - a product of the fraying social fabric of the United States, in a context of growing contradictions between the "elites" and the "people." But another divide is key to understanding Trump's return.
Trump would never have been able to make a comeback without the complicity of part of the Deep State - that is, a segment of the permanent bureaucracy in the Pentagon, intelligence agencies, and federal government.
By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack
August 14, 2025
The forced expulsions of students at Harvard, Columbia, and other universities who had organized student demonstrations against Israel's ongoing genocide to eliminate Gazans, and the U.S. Government's penalizing of (such as withdrawal of research contracts with) those universities for having allowed those demonstrations to take place, are well known examples of the totalitarian thought-control by the U.S.
By Dr. Naomi Wolf
Outspoken
August 14, 2025
I started to feel guilty, in reacting on social media to New York City Democratic nominee Zohran Kwame Mamdani: to this immediate legacy-media darling, this Uganda-born, collectivization-advocating, smugly smiling, beautifully beard-groomed Bowdoin graduate, whose expensive, cleverly packaged Mayoral race launched him into our collective consciousness a few months ago, out of thin air.
By Michael Tennant
The New American
August 14, 2025
A Virginia school district has opened an independent investigation into charges that officials at one of its high schools secretly procured all-expenses-paid abortions for minor students.
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) claims it opened its investigation last week as soon as it learned of the allegations, yet there is indisputable evidence that the district was aware of the charges months ago.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
August 14, 2025
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard's declassification of communications and reports that implicate Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, senior officials from the Obama administration, and former heads of the Intelligence Community in a conspiracy to frame President Trump with the Russia Collusion Hoax is nothing less than earth-shattering.
By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
August 14, 2025
From its very beginnings in the seventeenth century, the classical liberals (also known as "libertarians," or, historically, "liberals") have been primarily focused on limiting the powers of the state. It has been state powers-not the powers of church or family or employer-that has been the great occupation of the classical liberals. After all, the movement was born in opposition to mercantilism and absolutism.
par Frans Leens
Quand l'URSS a été à bout de souffle dans les années 1980, l'élite dirigeante, après avoir choisi des hommes vieux et malades a choisi Mikhaïl Gorbatchev pour essayer de sauver le pays. Il a arrêté la guerre d'Afghanistan et entrepris des réformes importantes. Cependant, 6 ans après son accession au pouvoir et malgré ses efforts, l'URSS s'est disloquée en 1991.
Raphael Machado
Possivelmente, alguns eventos geopolíticos foram centrais para uma mudança de postura por parte do Deep State.
Escreva para nós: infostrategic-culture.su
A eleição de Trump é - sabe-se - fruto do esgarçamento do tecido social estadunidense, em um cenário de contradição crescente entre "elites" e "povo". Mas uma outra clivagem é relevante para entender o retorno de Trump.
Veniamin Popov,
Un semestre de présidence Trump aux États-Unis a provoqué une aggravation marquée des conflits politiques internes et une polarisation accrue de la société américaine.
Les démocrates accusent de plus en plus Trump d'utiliser le pouvoir d'État pour mettre en œuvre une politique tarifaire mercantiliste qui redirige les flux commerciaux mondiaux, ainsi que d'utiliser une politique industrielle pour choisir les gagnants et les perdants économiques.
By Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
August 13, 2025
The stage is being set for a dramatic showdown on the streets of the largest cities in the United States. The mainstream media is freaking out about President Trump's takeover of Washington D.C, and protests have already begun. Needless to say, Washington D.C. is not friendly territory for Trump. It has one of the highest concentrations of Democrats of any major city in the nation, and Kamala Harris won 90 percent of the vote in D.C.
By Christopher Chantrill
American Thinker
August 13, 2025
About eight years from now, after the reelection of President Vance, experts will agree that there was something rotten in the state of Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Always the last to know, the experts will finally "notice" that something has changed in this city on a hill.
Steve Sailer has a book on Noticing. And why not? The most important skill for a human is to notice when things have changed and then to figure out what to do next.
By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack
August 13, 2025
They do it because these billionaires, who control the firms that sell to the U.S. Government (and not - or very little - to consumers), need to control the U.S. Government, in order to control their market. A billionaire wants to control his/her market; and if one's market is one's Government (and its allies), then this is the way to do that - by controlling one's own Government.
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
August 13, 2025
With his education and healthcare policies, President Trump is highlighting a major divide between conservatives and libertarians on both education and healthcare.
As everyone knows, Trump is doing his best to induce universities to abandon leftist concepts involving what is known as DEI - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. He is doing this by threatening a cut-off of federal funds to such universities until they comply with his wishes, at which point he will restore the funding.
By Calvin Freiburger
Lifesite News
August 13, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. State Department under the Trump administration has indicated it intends to go through with the destruction of approximately $10 million worth of contraceptives whose distribution to Africa has been canceled by rule changes against taxpayer funding of abortion.
During a July 29 State Department press briefing, a reporter asked for an update about "millions of dollars' worth of contraceptives stocked in Belgium that are due to be incinerated in France [...] I know that the Belgian government is trying to find alternative solutions.
By George F. Smith
August 13, 2025
Hell is truth seen too late. - Thomas Hobbes
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. - Etienne de La Boétie
In politics, corruption begins with the corrupted. We see turpitude throughout society's power structure, but it's only there because we accepted a devil's bargain. It took shape long before the current crop of office holders ran for political office.
By Margot CLEVELAND
The HPSCI report proves indispensable for understanding what supposed intel Obama withheld from the intelligence community under the guise of executive privilege.
Documents released over the last month have exposed a post-election plot designed to derail President Donald Trump's first term. The recently declassified material reveals former President Barack Obama sought to continue the Russia-collusion hoax Hillary Clinton had launched during the presidential campaign by directing select members of his intelligence community to craft the deceptive Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election.
Par Dmitry Orlov − Le 3 août 2025 − Source Club Orlov
Dmitri Medvedev
Comme vous le savez peut-être, Donald Trump a été élu pour accomplir une mission. Si vous pensez que cette mission consiste à rendre à l'Amérique sa grandeur (MAGA), alors vous devez désapprendre cette fausse information. Il n'existe aucune force connue dans l'univers capable de sauver de la faillite un pays dont le PIB s'élève à 30 000 milliards de dollars et dont la dette publique totale avoisine les 150 000 milliards de dollars.