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.

If Trump Derangement Syndrome exaggerates faults, Trump Devotion Syndrome does the exact opposite. At the present moment, it may be the more dangerous of the two. 

By Scott Ventureyra
Crisis Magazine 

April 23, 2026

Probably my earliest recollection of Donald Trump was his cameo in Home Alone 2. Years later, I recall seeing fragments of the TV series The Apprentice. Unlike many others at the time, I found him too abrasive and impertinent.

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Donald Trump

22 avr. 2026, 20:11

L'administration de Donald Trump a classé les pays de l'OTAN en "bons" et "mauvais élèves" selon leur position sur la guerre avec l'Iran, rapporte Politico, précisant que cette distinction s'accompagne de menaces visant des alliés qui ne se conforment pas aux attentes de Washington.

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La stratégie de l'impérialisme américain et son «mode d'autodestruction»

Source: unser-mitteleuropa.com

La stratégie de l'impérialisme de notre époque semble être le «mode d'autodestruction ». Un exemple récent en est la guerre en Iran, qui, d'un point de vue historique, peut à peine être considérée comme une «erreur» de la politique américaine, voire pas du tout.

Analyse matérielle de l'impérialisme

Par Brad Reed

Des dizaines d'anciens combattants ont été arrêtés lundi par la police du Capitole après avoir occupé le bâtiment Cannon de la Chambre des représentants, sur la colline du Capitole, pour protester contre la guerre illégale menée par le président Donald Trump contre l'Iran.

Lors de cette manifestation, organisée par une coalition d'associations d'anciens combattants, les protestataires se sont rassemblés au centre de la rotonde, brandissant des tulipes rouges et scandant des slogans pacifistes.

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE

These moves were planned years in advance, and would have been rolled out regardless of what impotent meat puppet happened to be wheeled into office in January 2025.

Former senior Biden advisor Amos Hochstein said during  youtube that the Biden administration had been preparing to bomb Iran if they had won re-election in 2024.

Hochstein was asked by Face the Nation's Margaret Brennan, "In July 2024 Secretary Blinken claimed Iran was one or two weeks away from having enough fissile material breakout capacity to eventually make a weapon if Iran had decided to do so.

© Alex Brandon Source: AP

Donald Trump lors d'une réception à la Maison Blanche, le 21 avril 2026. [Photo d'illustration]

22 avr. 2026, 15:54

Des volumes d'échanges inhabituels sur les marchés financiers, observés juste avant plusieurs déclarations majeures de Donald Trump, alimentent les soupçons de délit d'initié. Une enquête de la BBC met en lumière des gains potentiels de plusieurs millions de dollars, sans preuve formelle à ce stade.