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Nexus X HumectressSkokie’s battle, The Skokie Swastika War
Showdown coming in the former East Germany
Hong Kong Protests: A Warning to The West
American elite divided over US-China economic ties
Trump admin sees China as primary enemy
Press TV. Listen here. The administration of US President Donald trump views China as the “primary enemy” amid a growing divide between political and business leaders in the United States over how Washington should treat China’s growing military and economic threat, an American political analyst says. Keith Preston, […]
Gold Price Suppression Denier Defends His Client Central Banks
By Chris Powell While most market analysts who have denied central bank and government intervention against gold have long since gone silent on the issue, Managing Partner Jeff Christian of metals consultancy CPM Group continues to disparage such complaints as “conspiracy theory.” In an interview last week with Money […]
Why I’m a Proud Anti-American
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Anti-American, that’s the popular slur for any critic of American foreign policy, especially in an election year. If you happen to have enough of a conscience to give a shit about who this country happens to be bombing […]
William Godwin: The First Modern Anarchist
By Keith Preston Few thinkers personified the intellectual culture of the Enlightenment to a greater degree than the English political philosopher and novelist, William Godwin. In 1793, Godwin published his most influential work, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness, which at the […]
“A State within a State”: Hezbollah as a Bulwark against the Atlanticist-Zionist-Gulf State Axis
By Keith Preston Introduction Hezbollah is one of the most unique political organizations in the world and has the distinction of having forced the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to withdraw from southern Lebanon on two separate occasions. The first of these was in 2000, ending Israel’s 18-year […]
The Intellectual Legacy of Carl Schmitt
by Keith Preston Part One: p. 1 Early Life and Intellectual Development The Turmoil of Weimar and the State of the Exception Part Two: p. 6 The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy and The Concept of the Political Part Three: p. 11 The Destruction of the Weimar Republic […]
American elite divided over US-China economic ties
Press TV. Listen here. The American elite are divided over what the economic relationship between the United States and China should be like, says a political analyst. Keith Preston made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday when asked about President Donald Trump’s furious reaction […]
Ghani: Afghan govt. must be present in US-Taliban talks
Why I Stopped Being White (and You Should Too)
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Race is a touchy subject in the West. People across the aisle, especially white folk, tend to avoid it like a plague. A big part of the reason behind this reservation has to do with the fact that […]
How to SOLVE Illegal Immigration
Kim has an interesting take on the immigration question that demonstrates how the way the issue is presented by the political class and the media is an insincere fraud.
US unveils warrant for seizure of Iran-operated Grace 1
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has unveiled a warrant for the seizure of the Iran-operated Grace 1 supertanker a day after Gibraltar’s Supreme Court confirmed the release of the vessel.
I Was a Red Flag Kid
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Middle school sucks for everybody. But its harder for some people than others. After nearly a decade at a small, conservative, K-8 Catholic school, I was beginning to chafe beneath the cross of my mental illness. I had […]
The Sound Money Showdown in U.S. States
Policies relating to sound money have been the subject of substantial debate at the state level this year, with bills, hearings, and/or votes taking place in nearly a dozen legislatures. As most state legislatures have now wrapped up their work for the year, let’s review the victories (both […]
Praise of Folly Podcast #53: Non-violent resistance
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston to discuss the relevance of non-violent resistance for Utopian, Anarchist and Libertarian communities.
Debate: US anti-Iran alliance
Who’s Afraid of Tulsi Gabbard?
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Elections are different for anarchists. We’ve already made our peace with the basic fact that representative democracy is a sham even when it’s not rigged by moneyed oligarchs. So when we do actually take part in the process, […]
Majority of Democrats Now Favor Trump Impeachment
After Fed Disappoints, Will Trump Initiate Currency Intervention?
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Following months of cajoling by the White House, the Federal Reserve finally cut its benchmark interest rate. However, the reaction in equity and currency markets was not the one President Donald Trump wanted – or many traders anticipated. The Trump administration wants […]
Reflections on His Goofiness: William Gillis on Positive and Negative Liberty
Goofy Gillis has a lengthy interview podcast interview available. Listen here. Here’s my general take on the content of this interview. He’s not unintelligent, and much of what he is saying is not “wrong” per se. But I know enough about him to know that his idea of […]
Israeli Lobby behind Senate Failure to Overturn Saudi Arms Sale Veto
My recent interview with Tasnim. TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The US Senate failed in its latest bid to block the controversial sale of $8.1bn worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia due to the influence of the powerful Israeli lobby in the United States, an American political analyst said. “…Saudi […]
Pompeo has ‘ulterior motives’ in expressing desire to travel to Iran
Press TV. Listen here. It is clear that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has “ulterior motives” in expressing his desire to travel to Iran and be interviewed by Iranian news media, according to American political analyst Keith Preston. On Thursday, July 25, Pompeo said he was willing to […]
Jp Cortez: Sound Money Movement Gains Momentum in the States
Mike Gleason: It is my privilege, now, to welcome in Jp Cortez, with the Sound Money Defense League, a non-partisan national public policy organization working to restore sound money on the state and federal level. Jp is a proponent of, and has studied in the Austrian School of […]
US Marines accused of smuggling immigrants & drugs over the border
Chinese Government uses Triad gangs to attack protesters in Hong Kong
https://nyti.ms/2yoozyk Full story at the New York Times.
I’m a Little Bit Ilhan, and I’m a Little Bit Tucker Too
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As something of a radical contrarian, I often feel like my life is comprised largely of coming out of an endless procession of closets, often without even realizing I’m stepping through the doorway. What? You didn’t know I […]
The Condition of the World Economy
A very good discussion of the world economy by two Marxist-Leninists. I agree with virtually everything they say except for, of course, their interpretation of the role of Communism in the industrial development of the Eastern world. The Communist revolutions that took place in the East and the […]
Geopolitical Analysis #1: Russia
Today Lewis is joined by Keith Preston to discuss the geopolitics of Russia.
Russia warns of extensive military confrontation with Iran
Financial Media Elite Defensively Bash “Useless” Gold
By Chris Powell, Money Metals Exchange At least the Financial Times now has come clean about its hostility to gold – as well as to free markets and elementary journalism. Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) friend Chris Kniel of Orinda, California, sent to the newspaper’s chief economic columnist, […]
Who & What is Behind Secret Black Hawk Operation in Washington DC Area
Sputnik News The US Army has been quietly conducting a secret flight operation in and around Washington DC for months, judging from recently released fiscal documents. US military experts have outlined the possible goals of the clandestine mission and the agencies behind it. On 22 July, Bloomberg revealed […]
US political hostility has reached the greatest level
Press TV. Listen here. Hostility between major political parties in the US has now reached is greatest level, according to an American analyst. Large majorities of Americans believe the tone of political debate in the United States has become more negative in recent years and the inflammatory political rhetoric could […]
Smash All the Camps (Or Sympathy For Willem Van Spronsen)
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I sympathize with Willem Van Spronsen. Maybe that’s a bad way to start this post but it feels like the most honest way to start this post. A mentally ill anarchist, not unlike myself, Willem wanted to end […]
Epstein a flight risk, should be held without bail, analyst says
Press TV. Listen here. Accused child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, is a “flight risk” particularly as he is in possession of a Saudi passport and, therefore should be held without bail, says a political commentator. Virginia-based Keith Preston made the comments in an interview with Press TV Wednesday […]
Monetary Metals Don’t Need a “Gold Standard” Proxy System
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange President Trump moved recently to nominate an avowed sound money advocate, Judy Shelton, to the Federal Reserve Board. That triggered a flurry of superficial and derisive references in the controlled media to Shelton’s past support of a gold standard. For example, CBS […]
Who Am I?
Occasionally, new readers will come to this site and ask who I am and what I’m about? Briefly, this is me: Over the past 20 years or so, I have written half a dozen books, hundreds of essays, given dozens of lectures, done hundreds of podcasts and radio […]
Tucker: Antifa has the support of the ‘respectable’ left
Tucker Carlson has a predictable response to the Willem Van Spronsen incident. I disagree with Carlson that the Antifa is inherently connected to the mainstream Democratic Party-oriented left just as I disagree with the often-made claim that the Trumpians are inherently connected to the neo-fascists. As a general […]
The Truth About The Migrant Detention Centers
This is quite good. Totally smashes the conventional narrative that the abuse of migrants is somehow unique to Trump. The same thing is happening with the migrant detention center issue nowadays that happened with the Iraq War during the George W. Bush era. In both cases, liberal and […]
Full ‘Squad’ Press Conference In Response To President Donald Trump’s Attacks
I’m of two minds on these people. On one hand, I prefer these supposed “far left” (really just center-left) figures like Alexandria, Omar, Tlaib, etc. to both the mainstream Democrats and the Republicans because they’re usually much better on foreign policy (more anti-Israel, anti-Saudi, less antagonistic to Russia, […]
ICE Is Dangerously Inaccurate: Even American citizens are not immune from immigration raids
My main criticism of the mainstream right is their jingoistic flag-waving, dupiness for imperialism and their corporate-love (“those poor oppressed billionaires paying capital gains taxes”). My main criticism of the “far-right” is that many of them are so anti-immigrant and anti-private crime (particularly black crime) they end up […]
Trump’s immigration policies very divisive, escalating tensions in US
Islam Times. US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies have been extremely divisive and has led to rising social tensions across the country, says an American political analyst in Virginia. “Within the United States right now, immigration is one of these very divisive issues,” said Keith Preston, chief editor […]
Are these viable predictions for the future?
-North, Central, and South America will become increasingly integrated into a Schengen-like borderless trade zone. -US international hegemony will begin to recede due to imperial overstretch with international power increasingly being ceded to transnational institutions. -Class relations in the US will increasingly resemble the “Third World” (traditional) model, […]
Nukes For Peace?
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Surrounded by trigger happy Tonkinesque gunboats and drowning in debt, the Islamic Republic of Iran has made the risky decision to play the last card left in their deck; to defy the P5+1 Deal in order to save […]
Iran denies supertanker destined for Syria
The Hidden Reason Why Fed Chairman Powell and “Systemically Important” Banks Oppose a Gold Standard
By Mike Gleason, First Published on Sound Money Defense League Chairman Powell’s testimony this week was closely scrutinized not just for its economic implications but also for its political overtones. Powell cited “trade tensions” as cause for concern about the strength of the global economy. He clearly seemed […]
Trump comes out against Bitcoin, other Cryptocurrencies, and “Unregulated Crypto Assets”
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1149472282584072192
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