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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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ICJ Declares Israel’s Occupation Illegal

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory violates international law.

What a strange fetish it all is…

Is it a fetish? There are some fascinating memes and clips doing the rounds of Trump lately. The populist appeal has become silly. The trouble is that some supposedly serious people are unironically aroused by it all. Then again, maybe it’s just for the LOLs? Grown...

Tariffs Violate Freedom

Debate goes on over who suffers from U.S. tariffs. Biden and Trump, for example, think U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods hurt China, not Americans. This is nonsense. Even if they hurt Chinese producers (who can sell their goods elsewhere), the tariffs still hurt...

If Pigs Could Fly: The F35 Continues to Miss the Mark

The Pentagon will continue to pay Bugatti prices for Yugos until the morale improves. Software upgrades have haunted this flying circus since its "full operational status" was fabricated years ago. The combination of a severely Sovietized acquisition system married to...

The Empire Strikes Back: Soldiering and Brain Injury

Whatever empires do abroad eventually comes home. Yet another unintended consequences come home in a tidal wave. This is personal; I was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury in 2019. I spent nearly a quarter century in the US military. I know there's a connection....

US Surface Navy is No Longer a Global Force

The US Navy may credibly dominate the Atlantic but the Pacific Ocean is no longer an exclusive US naval domination calculus. The Arctic is still dominated by the Russians and will remain so. The US Navy's ability to build functioning surface ships is compromised...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

by Jim Bovard

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...