Lucas Leiroz

I decenni trascorsi a credere nell'infallibilità del regime del 1988 stanno ora costando caro ai brasiliani.

Il Brasile sta attraversando una crisi istituzionale senza precedenti. Le fondamenta dell'intera Sesta Repubblica - definita la "Nuova Repubblica" dai suoi difensori, sebbene sia ormai piuttosto datata - stanno subendo una profonda scossa. Dal 1988, l'intero sistema politico brasiliano si è basato sull'idea della "sacralità" della Costituzione federale e dell'"infallibilità" della Corte Suprema Federale, nonché sul presunto ruolo "moderatore" delle istituzioni democratiche.

But this isn't a trade story. It's about $40 trillion in debt, and who ends up paying for it.  

By Lau Vegys
Snafu Investing  

September 18, 2026

If you want to understand just how serious America's $40 trillion debt problem has become, consider what President Trump threatened to do earlier this month.

"LOWER THE RATE OR I'LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT," he wrote on Truth Social.

Celebrating "Constitution Day" by highlighting the biggest blemish on a document everyone ignores.  

By JD Breen
Pretium Insights  

September 18, 2026

Happy "Constitution Day" ! - when politicians pretend to honor a document they usually treat the way a dog greets a hydrant.

This annual observation was officially established in the 1950s, by a government that had spent several decades tearing its charter to shreds.

"Poland's Sikorski is a dangerous figure propping up a failing European political elite."  

By Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture  

September 18, 2026

Russia-based analyst Stanislav Krapivnik shreds the claims made recently by Poland's Foreign Minister that NATO would "quickly defeat" Russia in a conventional war.

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Russia-based analyst Stanislav Krapivnik shreds the claims made recently by Poland's Foreign Minister that NATO would "quickly defeat" Russia in a conventional war.

By Gary D. Barnett
GaryDBarnett.com  

September 18, 2026

"What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians ? Goofy ? Very light ! Fool ? Not enough ! Brainless ? Yes, that is the very adjective!"

~ Mehmet Murat ildan

In a word, the answer to the title question is none. By now, most of you know how I feel about politics, politicians, and government; this includes all voting and ignorant rants about being 'free' under any government.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

September 18, 2026

Mail-in voting, along with street corner drop boxes, has proved to be one of the most effective methods of election stealing. There are examples where at the last moment a large number of mail-in votes arrive that suffice to change the outcome.

The COVID lockdown was used to expand mail-in voting. Democrat states such as Connecticut and Delaware made special efforts t o expand mail-in voting.

By Tom Woods  

September 18, 2026

From the Tom Woods Letter:

Pradeep Shanker is a contributor to National Review, and as a contributor to National Review it is his job to come down on the left-wing side of all the big issues.

I'm sure Shanker knows and will defend obvious things like price controls lead to shortages. He'll defend tame enough ideas like that.

But if the subject turns to something truly momentous, which touches on topics we have been told are settled forever, he will dutifully comply.

The case of Sydney Sweeney points to the lesser-of-two-evils culture that Catholics find themselves mired in.  

Moon of Alabama  

September 18, 2026

The editors of the Washington Post have a curious understanding of the process of "selling":

Trump's planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years (archived) - Washington Post, Sep 15 2026

The Trump administration is preparing a multibillion-dollar sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel in the largest single sale of the controversial munition in recent years, a U.S.

Schiff Sovereign  

September 18, 2026

It was January 2000. AOL had just announced it was buying Time Warner in what was then the biggest merger in history. Fourteen dot-com companies had bought Super Bowl ads, one of them starring a sock puppet that sold dog food.

The US economy was growing at one of its fastest paces ever; GDP was up nearly 5% the year before- and that's real growth, before adding inflation, which itself was just 1.4%.

By Madge Waggy
MadgeWaggy.blogspot.com  

September 18, 2026

Within eighteen months, the arithmetic of desperation will redraw the map of the American continent with a violence that cartographers cannot comprehend. The hinterlands will not merely empty; they will detonate. What we currently dismiss as "remote"-those skeletal towns gasping along county routes, the double-digit population clusters clinging to mountain ridges-will become the primary theaters of human predation.

By George F. Smith  

September 18, 2026

After Lexington and Concord, Congress had a war on their hands and needed a way to finance it. The Americans were in large measure tax rebels, so taxation of their own would have to wait. After giving some thought to borrowing, Congress decided instead to call upon their old friend, the printing press.

The colonists had a long history with paper money. They had been inflating since the 1690s and had all but driven silver specie out of circulation.

By Charles Burris  

September 17, 2026

Inside The LCStrange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation

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Mike Benz - USAID and the Rap Game

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USAID & The Rap Game (Part 2)

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