The corporate/access media press is gushing about removing the 155 mm Advanced Gun System (AGS) to replace it with the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missile on the ugly Zumwalt-class ship in the US Navy. The AGS was designed in the 1990s to increase the ability of...
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Ep 042 “Storming America: War Comes Home”
My Storming America Series covers the gamut of what the spontaneous attack in the US will look like when terror cells launch a simultaneous attack on the US homeland. I cover it in Episodes 37, 41-43 and 49-50 of my Chasing Ghosts podcast. In this episode I discuss...
The Monkey’s Paw and Imperial Hubris Ep. 263
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NP5UPVm6Bo&feature=youtu.be Patrick reads the W. W. Jacobs short story ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ discusses the theme’s ongoing application to US foreign policy. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter...
Caution or Catastrophe: Public Health’s COVID Response
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, proponents of lockdowns, shelter-in-place orders, mask mandates and other coercive government interventions have characterized these measures as benevolently “erring on the side of caution.” Now, as the grim toll of those public...
War of the Worlds: COVID Edition
In the H.G. Wells classic movie War of the Worlds (the 1953 original, not the trash Spielberg 2005 version) Martians invade Earth and vaporize an unprepared humanity. We're introduced to our protagonists, who are post-war atomic scientists living in Southern...
Stephen M Walt: Countries Should Mind Their Own Business
"As A.J.P. Taylor once archly observed, leaders in the 19th century “fought ‘necessary’ wars and killed thousands; the idealists of the 20th century fought ‘just’ wars and killed millions.” Stephen M. Walt (professor of international relations at Harvard University)...
Since Feeding the Homeless Is Illegal, Activists Carry AR-15s to Give Out Food, Supplies
Dallas, TX — Feeding and clothing the homeless in the land of the free has now become a revolutionary act. Luckily, however, there are still good people willing to carry that act out. In December 2014, the Dallas city council enacted Ordinance No. 29595, which makes...
Jim Grant: The World Created by Upside-Down Interest Rates
Central banks are trapped. "Five years into the negative rate experiment, and a decade on in radical monetary improvisation, the central bankers are looking for a way back to normalcy. Not finding it, they are casting around for new ways to control what they seem...
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Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole
Had Enough of the Deep State’s Warlords and War Lies? George W. Bush spent a year and a half gaslighting the American people, using the shock of 9/11 as the pretext for an unrelated war he sought long before that tragic event. Isolated incident? Not at all. Now a...
Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government
