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3/20/20 Mike Swanson on the Coming Recession

by Scott Horton | Mar 24, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Mike Swanson offers his take on the current virus-induced stock market downturn. What has surprised him most so far is the fact that assets are down across the board, unlike previous recessions, which might see a decline in stocks offset by a jump in precious metals....

9/20/19 Mike Swanson on the Next Big Bubble

by Scott Horton | Sep 22, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Mike Swanson is back with his forecast for the stock market and the next recession. Swanson thinks that the next crash could begin to set in motion an unravelling of the whole bubble of the dollar system itself, which might lead to the type of stagflation we saw in...

8/2/19 Mike Swanson on the Coming Financial Catastrophe

by Scott Horton | Aug 3, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Mike Swanson discusses the recent announcement that the Federal Reserve will begin cutting interest rates again. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has said this is a precautionary measure against a possible recession, of which there have been early signs over the last few...

1/18/19 Mike Swanson on the Current Economic Bubble

by Scott Horton | Jan 20, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Mike Swanson joins the show for an update on the U.S. economy. He says that some investors think the recent 20 percent drop in the stock market was the needed "correction," and that the economy is now healthy. But Swanson warns that we're far from out of the woods,...

The Prophetic C. Wright Mills on the Deep State

by Brad Hoff | Jan 28, 2017 | Blog

The opening paragraphs of C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite are prophetic, especially considering they were penned in 1956. The concept of the deep state has only just begun to gain some acceptance within mainstream discourse. Mills was a Columbia University professor,...

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Time Marches On… a Patrick MacFarlane Update

This post first appeared on Pat MacFarlane's email list, "What They're Not Tellin' You" Sign up for that here. The last few months I've been especially conscious of how time is passing us by. This being my original Liberty Weekly mailing list, some of you have been...

Anti-War Blog – Pointless Wars are Tradition

Over a decade ago, the US and Western nations would feign concern for the loss of innocent life while they waged a war. Terms such as Collateral or Unintentional would be thrown around, even when all evidence points in the opposite direction. There was a need for...

Taliban Defeats Five American Presidents

GEN McChrystal was a martial disaster. What wrong looks like… This is what happens when your architects fall in love with their processes so much they forget about the objective. Military students should really study why graduate-level white papers, PowerPoint slides,...

Understanding the Nativist new-Right

There is a surge among the liberal democracies towards a nativist conservatism. The United States experienced the lie of Donald Trump’s MAGA and the misplaced promise of an America First, once a dirty word, now a salvation for not only the war wracked planet but the...

Rules for Radicals: Of Means and Ends

John and I continue reading and commentary of Rules for Radicals.

The Kyle Anzalone Show: Tulsi Breaks Her Silence Says YES, WAR WITH IRAN! JOE KENT RESIGNS Say Iran NO THREAT

Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has resigned in protest over the Iran war, becoming the first senior official to break ranks. In his resignation, Kent stated bluntly that Iran posed no “imminent threat” to the United States — directly...

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Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...