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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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A Global Coup is Underway
Archbishop Viganò’s Warning on Agenda 2030, Censorship, Criminalisation of Dissent and Centrisation of Power This article does not proceed from a religious position, nor does it ask the reader to share any faith or doctrine. I cite Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò here not as a cleric but as a public figure addressing questions of power, Continue reading
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China’s Military Shake-Up
Understanding Xi Jinping’s balancing of loyalty, competence, and institutional stability in China’s armed forces, within the context of governance and national development The investigation and removal of General Zhang Youxia, one of the most senior officers in the People’s Liberation Army and vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC), marks an event of deep significance Continue reading
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Dutch Defense Minister Warns of “Imaginary” Growing Russian Military Threat
Ruben Brekelmans says Russia now fields “1.5 million combat-ready soldiers” and urges society to prepare for the risk of World War III The Dutch Defense Minister, Ruben Brekelmans, warned that Russia’s military strength continues to grow, stating that the Russian army now numbers “1.5 million combat-ready soldiers,” and urged citizens to prepare for the possibility 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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Public Anger Flares as Ukrainian Elites Make Light of Blackouts with Sex Jokes
Sex-toy comments and elite messaging inflame public anger amid Ukraine’s winter energy crisis Ukraine is experiencing widespread electricity and heating shortages as winter temperatures fall below freezing. The outages are the result of sustained damage to the country’s energy infrastructure, much of it caused by Russian missile and drone strikes on power plants, substations and Continue reading
