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Myth: Gold Makes Boom-Bust Cycles Worse

by Frank Shostak | Jul 8, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles

According to some commentators on the gold standard, an increase in the supply of gold generates similar distortions as money out of “thin air” does. Let us start with a barter economy. John the miner produces ten ounces of gold. The reason why he mines gold is...

Iran Sanctions a Reminder of How America Militarized the Financial System

by John Vibes | May 19, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Only CNN was surprised by Donald Trump’s recent announcement that he was pulling the United States out of the Iran Deal negotiated by his predecessor. Following the same failed approach of the last Republican administration, the President opted for confrontation with...

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Anti-War Blog – Be Proud

Proud mother come and see what your soldier sons are doing, see them search crying children who no longer can walk the streets to go from home to school. They kidnap little boys, to torture or imprison. Maybe they shatter their arms and send them on their way. Cry for...

The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army

It's not just the Army and all the services practice this level of institutional cravenness and dishonesty. Deceit and covering up errors is a long time practice in the US uniformed armed forces. The article is older but more true over time. The gravest peril of the...

Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things

Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and...

Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century

USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the...

Interview: Biden’s Faux Ceasefire Efforts Facilitate Israel’s Genocide

I discuss the latest news about Israel and the US role in its conflicts with the Palestinians and Hezbollah.

Failing Upward: The USAF and the Woke Circus

Now the excuse for this apartheid memo is "aspirational" but flag officer notions of aspiration become iron law in the ranks below, it is the nature of the military hierarchy. The Supreme Court made this broad-based discrimination in 2022 for officer selection illegal...

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by Keith Knight

Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...

Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...

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