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It’s been no secret that two decades of the largely failed ‘war on terror’ started under the Bush administration has led to increased suicides and rates of depression among US military veterans. This trend is likely also to only continue in the wake of the horrific Afghan evacuation debacle and final pullout from August. “What… Continue reading Military Suicides Jump By Alarming 15%

Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, Through the sheer power of his intellectual output, Ludwig von Mises established himself as one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. His work Human Action remains a foundational text of the Austrian school. His critique outlining the impracticality of socialism was vindicated with the fall of… Continue reading “The Great Reset” Is The Road To Socialism Mises Warned Us About

While President Biden has kept Trump’s tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese imports in place he’s simultaneously remained generally quiet on anything touching long-term policy, particularly as regards China’s non-market trade and subsidy practices. But that’s expected to change, with all eyes on a major speech set for 10 a.m. EDT on Monday by US… Continue reading US Trade Chief To Give Major Speech Monday Belatedly Unveiling Biden’s China Trade Strategy

Authored by Victor Davis Hanson,  “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which… Continue reading Orwell And The Woke | ZeroHedge

If you’re looking for more evidence the housing market is in a bubble, look no further than this single-family home in Melrose, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts.  A little more than a month ago, the 1,857 sqft, three-bedroom home built in the 1960s was severely damaged in a fire where much of the inside was… Continue reading Housing’s On Fire… Literally: Burned-Out Boston Home Selling ‘As Is’ For $400K

Authored by James Dawes via TheConversation.com, Autonomous weapon systems – commonly known as killer robots – may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent United Nations Security Council report on the Libyan civil war. History could well identify this as the starting point of the next major arms race, one… Continue reading How Autonomous Weapons Could Be More Destabilizing Than Nukes

The Republic of Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili made a surprise announcement earlier this week, confirming that he had returned to Georgia after eight years in exile – during which time he mostly lived in Ukraine, and was still politically active, even rising to prominence in Ukrainian politics. On Friday the government of Georgia issued the… Continue reading Georgia Arrests Ex-President Saakashvili After Return From 8-Year Exile In Ukraine

Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.”  – Albert Speer, Nuremberg Trials It’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when. This is what we know: the government has the means,… Continue reading COVID-19 Detention Camps: Are Government Round-Ups Of Resistors In Our Future?

Looks like Merck just beat Pfizer to the punch. Merck announced Friday that an experimental COVID pill it has developed reduced hospitalizations and deaths by 50% in people recently infected with COVID. The company will soon ask health officials in the US and abroad to authorize use of the drug. The news came as a… Continue reading “This Is A Game-Changer” – Merck Releasing “Phenomenal” Test Results For Experimental COVID Pill

The Democrats were supposed to “get it done today”; instead the Biden-mediated negotiation with the increasingly rebellious progressives proved to be the latest failure for the 78 year old president. Speaking to reporters after a brief, 30-minute meeting with the House Democratic caucus, Biden said there was no rush to pass his economic agenda amid… Continue reading Biden Fails To Clinch Infrastructure Deal With Progs, Says “Doesn’t Matter” When Bill Passes, Is Ordered By Staff Not To Take Questions