By Doug Casey
International Man
January 1, 2026
You're likely aware that I'm a libertarian. But I'm actually more than a libertarian. I don't believe in the right of the State to exist. The reason is that anything that has a monopoly of force is extremely dangerous. As Mao Tse-tung, lately one of the world's leading experts on government, said: "The power of the state comes out of a barrel of a gun."
From Eshkol's headline to JFK's rupture to Charlie Kirk's final message, the same architecture appears: financial pressure, narrative warfare, and intelligence tools now normalized in America.
Phantom Pain
January 1, 2026
This is Charlie Kirk's TPUSA examination of the JFK assassination, where he briefly delves into Israel's interests, Lyndon B. Johnson's pivot, and the concealed government dynamics of 1963.
Moon of Alabama
January 1, 2026
Today the NY Times published a long piece on the relations between the Trump administration and the government of Ukraine.
The Separation (archived) - NY Times, Dec 30 2025
There is a lot of gossip about the back and forth between the U.S. Ukraine and Russia in it, but also some interesting nuggets which confirm U.S. intelligence involvement in attacks on Russia and Russia related shipping:
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
January 1, 2026
At times I have expressed doubts whether Americans have enough sense to continue to survive as a people, and they keep proving my doubts justified. The London Daily Mail reported yesterday that San Francisco voters elected a mayor who has just sneaked through a reparations bill that gives each black resident of San Francisco $5 million to "compensate the affected population for the decades of harms that they have experienced."
By Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
January 1, 2026
I've been writing about the inherent fraud behind third-world immigration for many years now, including the rarely addressed issue of remittances flowing from migrants in the US back to their countries of origin. Third worlders tend to act like a nest of vampires, bleeding the US and giving indirect sustenance to their failing home economies. This process is heavily enabled by foreign governments that rely on this river of dollars to stay afloat.
By James Bovard
Mises.org
January 1, 2026
On Tuesday, President Trump denounced the New York Times in a Truth Social post as a "serious threat to the National Security of our Nation" and a "TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" for publishing an article detailing Trump's close personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. "Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency," the Times reported.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
January 1, 2026
Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off.
2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution-when executive power expanded openly and unapologetically, surveillance became ambient, dissent became dangerous, and the machinery of militarized government embedded itself into daily life.
Par Moon of Alabama - Le 31 décembre 2025
Aujourd'hui, le NY Times a publié un long article sur les relations entre l'administration Trump et le gouvernement ukrainien.
Cet article est plein de ragots sur les négociations entre les États-Unis, l'Ukraine et la Russie, mais contient aussi quelques pépites intéressantes qui confirment l'implication des services de renseignement américains dans les attaques contre la Russie et son fret maritime :
Source: Gettyimages.ru
Keith Kellogg, envoyé spécial pour l'Ukraine
Donald Trump a critiqué son envoyé pour l'Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, après que celui-ci a déclaré qu'il défendait Kiev contre les «isolationnistes» au sein de l'administration. En qualifiant Zelensky de leader courageux lors de la conférence de Munich, Kellogg a provoqué la colère de Trump, qui l'a ensuite qualifié d'«idiot» devant ses conseillers.
By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org
December 31, 2025
The idea of constitutionalism is that of limited government under the rule of law. The whole point of agreeing on the basic rules by which the country is to be governed is to constrain the tendency of bureaucrats, and all those vested with executive power, to become despots and turn on their own citizens. In theory, the Constitution should safeguard individual liberty by giving citizens a bulwark against state tyranny.
By L. Reichard White
December 31, 2025
On December 5, 1933, after 14 years of violence, civil disorder, and loss of respect for law and order, our ancestors wisely ratified the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, repealing attempted Alcohol Prohibition, and thus indelibly marking that classic fail.
Note for later contemplation: Beginning in 1920, the attempted prohibition had likewise been put into effect Constitutionally by ratifying the 18th Amendment.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
December 31, 2025
Gary Heavin and Mike Adams discuss MAGA Divided between Israel First and America First.
It is distressing, but true, that Israel not only controls America's media and publishing, entertainment, financial sector, Middle East foreign policy, but also the Republican House and Senate, the Republican Party, Republican governors, President Trump, and half of MAGA America.
Move along, there's nothing else to see
By Donald Jeffries
"I Protest"
December 31, 2025
Note: Many thanks to Peter Secosh for much of this information. He has helped me immensely with his incomparable research skills.
Our Congress, which is noted for honestly representing the interests of the general, unwashed, riffraff public, has forced the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. You know, the ones that Donald Trump called a "Democrat hoax." The ones that Kash Patel and Pam Bondi said didn't exist.
After failing to protect Lahaina from the known fire risk, County administrators put Kihei's vacation apartment owners in the crosshairs.
By John Leake
Courageous Discourse
December 31, 2025
In September 2023, I posted an essay on this newsletter in which I presented evidence that the August 8, 2023 Lahaina, Maui fire was a Predictable & Predicted Disaster. That the lovely, historic town was in grave danger of being incinerated by wildfire was obvious to everyone who noted that a similar fire almost incinerated the town on August 24, 2018.
By Douglas Flint
American Thinker
December 31, 2025
In the eighties, I had a friend who worked for me on and off. He was a competent handyman and could do an oil change without screwing it up, something that was always useful in an auto shop, which I ran. Eventually, however, he got a better paying job as a drywaller.
Anyone who has ever done a home project with even a small drywall repair knows how difficult it is not to have even a small repair stick out like a sore thumb.
Les meurtres extrajudiciaires perpétrés par l'administration Trump dans les Caraïbes s'inscrivent dans le prolongement d'une dangereuse prise de pouvoir initiée par Dick Cheney et amplifiée sous Barack Obama.
Source : Jacobin, David Sirota
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
Il y a plus de dix ans, j'ai posé une question qui semblait tout droit sortie d'un épisode de Black Mirror : qui ne peut pas être inscrit sur la liste des assassinats extrajudiciaires d'un président ?
Par Dmitry Orlov − Le 24 décembre 2025 − Source Club Orlov
Si vous écoutez les déclarations du président américain et que vous les prenez pour argent comptant, vous aurez l'impression que beaucoup de grandes choses sont accomplies. Mais il suffit de creuser un peu pour découvrir que ces grands projets ne sont que pure fiction. Et si vous cherchez vraiment un domaine dans lequel les États-Unis sont encore les meilleurs au monde, vous ne trouverez que ceci : la suspension de l'incrédulité.
Le feu qui te consume est le feu qui te trempe. − EKO dans « X »
Par James Howard Kunstler - Le 12 décembre 2025 - Source Clusterfuck Nation
Réfléchissez avant de parler
C'est la saison où tout le monde est déconcerté. Vous voyez maintenant ce que c'est quand toute autorité est suspecte et que personne ne peut croire quoi que ce soit. La question, bien sûr, est de savoir dans quelle mesure cela est orchestré par des parties intéressées et qui sont ces parties ?
Tout d'abord, commentaires de Larchmonter
• L'ambassadeur américain auprès de l'OTAN a déclaré qu'il restait 90 jours. C'est également le délai politique imparti à Trump pour présenter sa politique aux républicains : la paix selon les conditions de Poutine ou la guerre selon les conditions de Zelensky. Trump n'a pas son mot à dire. Il doit simplement prendre une décision.
By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute
December 30, 2025
President Trump recently signed an executive order changing marijuana's Controlled Substances Act classification from Schedule I to Schedule III. Schedule I is supposed to include especially dangerous drugs that are likely to be abused and have no medical purpose. Whatever one thinks of the wisdom and morality of using marijuana, the fact is it is less addictive, and quite possibly safer, than alcohol.