Trump’s Mega-Blink on China Tariffs

MONDAY, MAY 12, 2025 It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance […]

Pope Leo XIV

Church and State, The Persistence of the Importance of the Catholic Church and Its Teachings, the New Pontiff, the Long View, Carl Schmitt, and more Niccolo Soldo May 12, 2025 Note: Dedicated to my friend Timothy Herman and his lovely family Share There are so many things to […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/12/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Energi, Saga, Sui, Convex Finance, Conflux and more…Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 12th, 2025   How Exec Order 14179 […]

Newark Mayor Arrested for ICE ‘Trespassing’

Newark Mayor Arrested for ICE ‘Trespassing’ Plus: Air traffic controller issues, tariff deal between U.S. and China reached, “murder insurance” rise, and more… LIZ WOLFE Whose jurisdiction is it anyway? If you ask Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility operated […]

Dugin’s American Turn

by Alexander Markovics Alexander Markovics May 12, 2025 Alexander Markovics argues that Alexander Dugin’s sudden admiration for America is not a betrayal of his anti-globalist philosophy but the natural outgrowth of his multipolar vision, which sees in Trumpist populism a potential ally in the struggle against thalassocratic liberalism. […]

Mother’s Day Poem for Palestine

A Poem for Palestine’s Children, for their mothers, for loss, for grief Ahmad Ibsais May 11, 2025 Child’s memory The cold clings to dreams, Frozen like scattered toys, in the dust of what was home. While others light candles, We count the stars through holes Where our ceiling […]

The Lost Promise of Reconstruction

Adam Hochschild One Brief Shining Moment Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America. Rachel Nolan ‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’ What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/11/2025

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The Week Ahead for 5/11/2025

Get ready for the week in stocks: key earnings, ex-dividend dates, and IPOs to watch.Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 11th, 2025   Tech Millionaire: “Here’s Where I’d […]

Veritatis splendor

Week XIX, MMXXV It’s not every week that Russia invades a neighboring country, or the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, or there’s a new pope. But there’s always news. Do you sometimes wonder, though, what exactly news is? We tend to talk about it as if it’s a thing […]

Trump Abandons ‘Israel’?

Troy Southgate May 10, 2025 REPORTS that Trump is “turning his back on Israel” are not worth the paper they are written on. What possible difference would it make if the US regime were seen to distance itself from AIPAC, when the same cockroaches are already running the […]