America
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The Bank Collapse That Wasn’t Allowed to Be Seen
How America’s first bank failure of 2026 was buried as silver broke, markets fell, and war decisions stalled The first United States bank failure of 2026 occurred without public disorder, market panic, or sustained media attention, reflecting a deliberate administrative approach shaped by post-2008 regulatory practice, an approach described by former Federal Reserve official Daniel… Continue reading
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Trump’s Dilemma – Iran is not blinking
Balancing Oil, Markets, and Military Strategy in the Face of Iranian Defiance President Trump faces a narrowing set of options over Iran as economic exposure, regional military realities, domestic political pressure, and an emerging credibility problem increasingly overlap. Alongside military and economic constraints, the sudden resurgence of the Epstein files across global media platforms has… Continue reading
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Silver Crash: The Largest Act of Market Manipulation on Record
You can suppress futures prices, but you cannot suppress physical scarcity and markets will eventually reflect that reality. The collapse in gold and silver prices observed yesterday reflected a deliberate intervention rather than a market driven repricing event, given the scale, timing, sequencing, and institutional mechanisms involved. Gold declined by more than twelve per cent… Continue reading
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The Iran Deal That Was Deliberately Broken
How Abandoning the JCPOA Removed Containment To Make Way For Confrontation For several years, Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that Iran must “make a deal,” but his most recent demand has been framed with unusual urgency. He has publicly declared that Iran has until today to comply, warning of severe consequences if it does not.… Continue reading
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The Dollar System and the End of Fiat Global Monetary Order
The Decline of Fiat Credibility and End of Monetary Universality in a Fragmenting Global Economy What is unfolding within the international monetary and financial system is more accurately described as de-fiatisation rather than de-dollarisation, because the structural erosion concerns confidence in state issued credit money rather than exclusive rejection of the United States dollar. Benjamin… Continue reading
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On the Verge of Iran War
The region braces for war as U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict could start at any moment, affecting both regional security and global markets. The confrontation involving Iran, the United States, and Israel has reached a stage where military forces are positioned for rapid action, diplomatic efforts are secondary to military readiness, and the risk of escalation depends largely… Continue reading
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The Board of Peace as a Turning Point in Global Governance
Institutional Self-Displacement at the United Nations: The Board of Peace as a Precedent for the Marginalisation of International Law and the Erosion of Collective Security The establishment of the Board of Peace represents a decisive institutional rupture in the post-1945 international order, because its legal form and political authority directly supersede the foundational role of… Continue reading
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Michael Parenti has Died but his Power of Labels will Live On
How mainstream media framing obscured the life and work of a persistent critic of power The world is being misled, and Michael Parenti’s death shows how this still works. Michael Parenti died yesterday at 92. Today, much of the mainstream press describes him as a “Marxist academic.” That label misses the point. It reduces his… Continue reading
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The Persistence of an Unwinnable War
U.S.–Israeli Strategy Has Strengthened the Adversary It Sought to Break and Why Another War Is Likely to Reproduce Past Failures The current phase of confrontation unfolds amid an unprecedented concentration of military and naval forces across the Middle East, creating conditions widely recognised by defence analysts as consistent with imminent large scale conflict. Naval strike… Continue reading
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On the Menu at Last
Mark Carney, Davos, and the Open Admission of Western Imperial Hypocrisy That Exposed the Conditional Morality of Western Power The speech delivered by Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum in Davos warrants close scrutiny not for its surface-level defiance, but for the structural admissions it contains regarding Western power, hierarchy, and… Continue reading
