Only the blackest of hearts need apply
By Donald Jeffries
"I Protest"
April 25, 2026
The old line about "truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne" comes to mind regularly now, as I observe the dying throes of the American Republic. It's probably fitting that we've closed most of the mental institutions, since the entire country has largely devolved into the largest insane asylum the world has ever seen.
Their business model runs on hate.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
April 25, 2026
Democrats and their ideological allies really do hate America.
Earlier this week, Democrat Senator Chris Murphy highlighted a disputed news story claiming that a shadow fleet of several dozen Iranian vessels had successfully eluded the U.S. Navy's blockade near the Strait of Hormuz. Above what appears to have been Iranian propaganda, Murphy wrote one word: "Awesome." How much does a Democrat senator have to hate the country he putatively represents to root for a foreign enemy presently engaged in battle with the United States?
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Vue sur la ville de Pretoria. [Photo d'illustration]
Washington envisage d'augmenter de 10 000 places le plafond annuel des réfugiés, initialement fixé à 7 500, afin d'accueillir plus d'Afrikaners fuyant l'Afrique du Sud. L'administration Trump affirme que cette minorité blanche subit des persécutions raciales, une accusation rejetée par Pretoria.
Or How Defeat in the Iran War Will Accelerate American Global Decline
By Alfred McCOY
Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call "micro-militarism." When an imperial power like Athens then, or America now, is in decline, its leaders often react emotionally by mounting seemingly bold military strikes in hopes of regaining the imperial grandeur that's slipping through their fingers.
Finally there's an award that President Trump deserves to win
By Doug BANDOW
With the Middle East in flames, President Donald Trump's desperate lobbying campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize looks ever more bizarre. Of course, his claim to have ended and prevented numerous wars is more fantasy than reality.
Worse, his surprise bombing of Iran amid negotiations, twice, demonstrated that his goal is anything but peace.
Par Larry Johnson, le 24 avril 2026
J'ai déjà réfuté le mensonge selon lequel l'Iran serait le premier commanditaire du terrorisme. Je vais maintenant m'intéresser plus précisément à la question du nombre d'Américains, civils et militaires tués par des mandataires ayant reçu l'aide de l'Iran. Je vais ensuite inverser la perspective... Combien d'Iraniens, civils et militaires, ont été tués par des mandataires américains ? Les chiffres sont stupéfiants.
By Doug Casey
International Man
April 24, 2026
International Man: Tax Day just passed on April 15th. What does it say about a society when productive people must spend part of every spring calculating how much tribute they owe the State?
Doug Casey: It's said that nothing is certain except death and taxes. But let's reserve a conversation about the inevitability of death for another day.
Taxes are not only unnecessary for running a civil society, but evil (Click here for a free copy of Market for Liberty).
By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
April 24, 2026
Donald Trump ran for the presidency as a populist and he won as a populist. All the usual suspects-such as Hillary Clinton-condemned him as a populist. The political playbook his campaign followed served up the typical populist fare for the voters. That is, Trump promised to serve the "common people" by fighting against the ruling class, "draining the swamp," punishing the corrupt, ending the government gravy train, and generally throwing a monkey wrench in the whole ruling class's machine of exploitation.
By Mark Keenan
April 24, 2026
The Quiet Collapse of Masculinity in the West
Across the Western world, something unusual-and deeply unsettling-is happening.
Marriage rates are collapsing. Birth rates have fallen below replacement levels. And more men than ever are quietly withdrawing-from relationships, from institutions, and from public life itself.
Recent debates around gender policy, workplace dynamics, and the reshaping of family life have brought these issues back into focus-but the deeper shift began long before the headlines.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
April 24, 2026
"The cost of war is too damn high
Not another nickel
Not another dime
We won't pay for Trump's war crimes."
-Chanted by anti-war military veteran protesters in DC
Reports of food shortages on naval ships deployed to the Middle East.
Video footage of disabled military veterans-some in wheelchairs, others leaning on canes-being zip-tied and dragged out of the Capitol Rotunda for staging a peaceful, anti-war protest.
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
April 24, 2026
There are, of course, consequences of the U.S. war on Iran that are easy to see. The deaths and injuries of thousands of Iranians. The deaths and injuries of dozens of U.S. soldiers. The massive destruction of homes, businesses, ships, and infrastructure in Iran and nearby countries. Gasoline prices and the prices of other things soaring.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
April 24, 2026
A Yale University professor of law and history, Samuel Moyn, has resurrected and redefined Marxian class conflict. In the old Marxism, the capitalists exploited the workers. In Moyn's version, elderly Americans exploit the young. Moyn's solution, espoused, of course, in the New York Times (April 21), is for the old to be dispossessed of their homes, jobs, accumulated wealth, and political and judicial offices.
Par Normal Island News, le 23 avril 2026
On peut dire sans trop s'avancer que le président Trump a désespérément besoin d'une belle opération de comm', car la guerre en Iran ne se déroule pas vraiment comme prévu. Le plus grand violeur d'Amérique a pris un départ catastrophique en faisant exploser une école de filles. Il a ensuite menacé à tort de détruire toute une civilisation, avant de se rappeler qu'il est censé être le libérateur des femmes.
Brèves de crise
Il semble que le front le plus important dans les guerres et subcrises de la GrandeCrise se trouve de plus en plus à Washington même. En jeu et enjeu : la situation du président Trump, et non plus seulement, - et de moins en moins, - sa situation politique, mais de plus en plus le cas personnel de l'évidente pathologie mentale dont il est frappé. Les reclassements se font à une vitesse extraordinaire, notamment selon les données suivantes :
By Harrison BERGER
Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald worry Congress will reauthorize a controversial intelligence tool.
For nearly two decades, Congress has obediently renewed one of the federal government's most expansive and unconstitutional domestic surveillance authorities, typically with total bipartisan enthusiasm, little floor debate, and even less public attention.
par Lucas Leiroz
La cause profonde du problème réside dans le chaos institutionnel interne, et non dans des acteurs extérieurs.
La crise du fentanyl aux États-Unis ne peut plus être considérée comme un phénomène exclusivement externe, lié uniquement aux filières de trafic international ou aux agissements d'organisations étrangères. En réalité, des preuves solides mettent en évidence des défaillances structurelles internes, profondément enracinées dans le système réglementaire et politique américain lui-même.
Il ne suffit pas de s'opposer à cette guerre contre l'Iran. Nous devons exiger des réductions importantes du budget militaire américain, en commençant par le réduire de moitié.
Source : Jacobin, Eric Blanc
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
Donald Trump met le feu à l'Iran et au monde entier. Et tout porte à croire qu'il continuera à intensifier ses actions à l'étranger à mesure que son régime s'affaiblit et perd en popularité dans son pays.
By Andrew P. Napolitano
April 23, 2026
In a famous Supreme Court one-liner, reminding the legal community of the finality of the court's rulings, the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. is reputed to have said that the Constitution means whatever any five of us say it means. This reflects the basic math that five is a majority of nine. It also reflects the theory of realism in constitutional jurisprudence.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
April 23, 2026
According to research at Brown University's Watson School of International and Public Affairs, Washington's 21st century wars in behalf of the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel have cost American taxpayers about 10 trillion dollars. Twenty-five percent of the US national debt, the interest cost of which is approaching one trillion dollars annually, is the price imposed on Americans by Washington fighting Israel's wars for Israel.
Globalism is the philosophy of liars.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
April 23, 2026
rish farmers and truckers are blocking major thoroughfares as part of growing protests against their government's mass immigration policies, "green energy" regulations, and "climate change" taxes. Miles-long convoys of German drivers have blockaded the streets surrounding Chancellor Merz's residence in Berlin to demand his removal from office.