Ricardo Martins,
L'accord entre l'Arabie saoudite, la Turquie et le Pakistan ne répond pas uniquement à des menaces militaires : il traduit aussi les ambitions, inquiétudes et rivalités des signataires comme des non-signataires.
Derrière le langage officiel de défense collective, ce pacte signale une compétition géopolitique plus large pour façonner le Moyen-Orient à l'heure du déclin du système de sécurité centré sur les États-Unis.
By Pepe Escobar
Geopolitics Prime
August 21, 2026
It took only a few Yemeni missiles on Saudi refineries to wake up "leadership" vectors of the Ummah; not over 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the death cult.
The Mecca Sunni NATO pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan remains a puzzle. Or dodgy sub-standard theatre - complete with photo ops and sparse intel sharing. The full text has not been released.
By Aysar Yousef
Gaze At This
August 21, 2026
How Gerasa, Jerash, is the largest well-preserved Roman city outside Italy-and why did the Greeks choose this place to build a great city?
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In the fertile hills of northern Jordan lies Gerasa, ancient Jerash, one of the most remarkable surviving cities of the Roman world. Its vast ruins preserve monumental streets, theatres, temples, plazas, fountains, and colonnades, offering an extraordinary glimpse into life in the ancient Near East.
The Treasury Secretary asked for it in public. An emergency facility used once in six years, running on printed dollars.
By Lau Vegys
Snafu Investing
August 21, 2026
Last week, I wrote to you about the operation in which the United States and Japan went into the currency market together to prop up the falling yen, the first coordinated action of its kind since 1998.
Japan reportedly put in around $75 billion of its dollar reserves.
By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org
August 21, 2026
Ludwig von Mises defended the principle of equality before the law as it was understood within the classical liberal tradition of "the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century."
Eighteenth century liberalism rejected the notion of "a select class of privileged persons" who had special rights and freedoms. The fundamental purpose of equality under the law was to ensure that no group is granted rights solely by virtue of membership, rights that remain unavailable to those outside it.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
August 21, 2026
Modern technology has provided government with growing capability to monitor our lives. The amount of freedom in a "free American" is slowly being reduced to nothing. Flock cameras are one such freedom-destroying tool.
This article referenced below about police misuse and incompetent use of Flock surveillance cameras should scare you to death.
By Eric Peters
Eric Peters Autos
August 21, 2026
It is coming up on a year since Charlie Kirk was assassinated - the right word, since this was not merely a murder. We do not use "assassination" to describe ordinary murders, as for example when a thug breaks into someone's home and murders the people within. Assassination are done for political reasons, not economic reasons.
Charlie Kirk did not hold any office but he was the leader of a movement and - had he not been assassinated - it is very possible he might have run for office (and won).
By John J. Mearsheimer
John's Substack
August 21, 2026
On 18 August 2026, I was on "Judging Freedom" talking with the Judge about the Iran war, Israel's never-ending outrageous behavior, the Ukraine war, and President Trump's increasingly erratic behavior, all thoroughly depressing subjects. Given that 1) Trump is destined to suffer a devastating defeat in Iran, 2) Ukraine & the West are almost certain to lose the Ukraine war, and 3) he has no hope of getting the Israelis to accept his peace plan for Gaza, it seems likely that Trump's behavior will become even more erratic in the months ahead.
By Doug Casey
International Man
August 21, 2026
International Man: A $20 burrito has somehow become a national political issue. Is this just another silly internet controversy, or does it reveal something important about the state of the American economy?
Doug Casey: The bottom line is that $20 just isn't worth that much anymore. Malcolm Forbes used to joke that his idea of social change was plenty of tens and twenties.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
August 21, 2026
"Electric shock has long been amnesty.org
By Tom Woods
August 21, 2026
From the Tom Woods Letter:
I absolutely insist to you: I really am trying to stop writing about this topic. But too much insanity keeps breaking out, and I have no choice but to comment on it.
You know the story: a Cambridge academic, Jason Arday, was found to have plagiarized his dissertation, borrowed heavily from others in his published articles, produced essentially worthless research, called the police on a reporter and on a professor who asked questions about his resume, invented wild tales of athletic and academic achievement as well as philanthropic work, and (of course) accused his critics of "racism." And then, late last week, he was found dead at his home in an apparent suicide.
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
August 20, 2026
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Pepe Escobar
Mafia, piracy, bribing, extortion: talk about a flexible Empire at work
Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy. And bribes.
Mike Pompeo, former aspiring Tony Soprano, admitted: "We lie, we cheat, we steal." And we bribe.
A youtube , is unequivocal: The President of the United States - despite having "won" the war on Iran countless times, at least in the Vociferation stakes - made a major attempt to induce IRGC Commander-in-Chief Gen.
Lucas Leiroz
Negli ultimi anni la sinistra latinoamericana ha puntato su un'immagine della Colombia che non corrisponde alla realtà storica del Paese.
In Colombia, il neoeletto presidente Abelardo de la Espriella ha avviato un forte riavvicinamento con lo Stato di Israele. Le relazioni, che erano state tese durante il governo di Gustavo Petro, non solo sono state pienamente ripristinate, ma si sono anche notevolmente rafforzate: il nuovo governo colombiano ha persino riconosciuto la "sovranità" israeliana sulle Alture del Golan, una regione siriana occupata illegalmente dai sionisti.
Frappes russes massives sur Kiev - Lutte de pouvoir à la Verkhovna Rada
Par Russia Truth, le 20 août 2026
Au cours de la nuit, les Forces aérospatiales russes (VKS) ont mené une série de frappes à grande échelle sur l'ensemble de la région métropolitaine de Kiev. Combinant des missiles de croisière hypersoniques Zircon lancés depuis la mer et des salves massives de missiles balistiques Iskander-M, ces frappes ont systématiquement neutralisé les principales usines ukrainiennes d'assemblage aérospatial et de drones, notamment le complexe historique de production en série Antonov et les ateliers de missiles Fire Point.
Par Alan MacLeod, le 18 août 2026
Les États-Unis s'ingèrent dans les élections présidentielles brésiliennes, faisant pression sur l'électorat brésilien pour qu'il vote en faveur du candidat de droite Flavio Bolsonaro, fils de l'ancien président déchu Jair Bolsonaro. Si ces manœuvres échouent et que le président Lula da Silva remporte un quatrième mandat, une intervention militaire potentielle est déjà en préparation.
Par Rasha Abu Jalal
Malgré des ressources limitées et un financement des plus restreints, les structures scolaires de fortune mises en place ces derniers mois s'efforcent d'offrir une certaine éducation aux enfants de Gaza.
VILLE DE GAZA - Samedi, Saida Abdullah, 13 ans, se tenait devant plusieurs dizaines de ses camarades de classe rassemblés sous des bâches tendues entre des oliviers, sur un terrain agricole du quartier de Cheikh Radwan, au nord de la ville de Gaza.