Chaque société occidentale est confrontée à un conflit culturel interne entre ceux qui souhaitent éloigner la société de son héritage civilisationnel et ceux qui souhaitent le renouveler. − Frank Furedi sur Substack
Par James Howard Kunstler - Le 14 avril 2025 - Source Clusterfuck Nation
Quoi que vous pensiez qu'il se passe d'autre dans notre monde, la contraction est l'ordre du jour basé sur la réalité, et tout le reste en découle.
By Chuck Baldwin
Chuck Baldwin Live
April 26, 2025
The title of this column on April 3 was Trump's Three Greatest Betrayals So Far. Today, I'm highlighting Trump's fourth greatest betrayal so far. And, given the fact that we are only three months into Trump's second term, there are doubtless many more betrayals on the way.
Trump's Greatest Betrayal Number Four
On May 7, the Trump administration will require that all Americans obtain a Real ID to be able to board a domestic airliner.
By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
April 26, 2025
The true scandal of current American fiscal governance needs be commented on. Or, better still, hammered upon good and hard.
To wit, the American electorate apparently doesn't give a shit about runaway government spending because as a practical matter the overwhelming share of voters don't pay the taxes to fund it. Aside from social insurance taxes, which most payroll taxpayers still believe to be a premium for a government-sponsored retirement annuity, the bottom 90% of households fund only a tiny fraction of Federal spending.
By Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
April 26, 2025
By now it's become increasingly clear that both the U.S. and China are eager to de-escalate the trade war, yet neither is willing to make the first move. In China, export orders are drying up, and factories are shutting down. Meanwhile, across the Pacific Ocean in the U.S., containerized cargo volumes through the Port of Los Angeles are teetering on the edge of a very sharp decline, threatening to send shockwaves through Southern California's economy and beyond.
By James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler.com
April 26, 2025
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"Fighting fascism," for the American Jacobins who lead the Democratic Party, means opposing any attempt to flush the corruption out of the entrenched bureaucracy, just as their pet phrase "our democracy" actually refers to the matrix of grift and despotic activism that drives their political operating system. That is exactly how and why the USAID was so crucial to spread captured taxpayer spoils as NGO salaries for the gender studies grads to play "activist," so as to inflict their special brand of sadistic power madness over the land - to keep the game going.
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Nous observerons aussitôt que ce texte ci-dessous de Rodolfo de Mattei (écrit par Mattei le 10 avril 2025) est donné à titre documentaire, et que nous ne sommes aucunement intéressé par une position d'appréciation politique, – pour être plus précis dans ce cas, nous dirons que nous n'endossons en aucune façon l'aspect indirectement mais nettement critique du sujet qu'il traite.
By Taki Theodoracopulos
Taki's Magazine
April 25, 2025
Okay, history buffs, I write this on April 19, 2025, exactly 250 years from that most famous of midnight runs, that of Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn fellow patriots that the British army was on the march. Popular legend has it that Paul warned them by yelling, "The British are coming, the British are coming." Not true. He yelled, "The regulars are coming," as back then both sides thought themselves British.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
April 25, 2025
A few readers thought I went a bit too far in my column two days ago when I expressed concern that if President Trump loses the existential conflict between Mega Americans and the corrupt anti-American Establishment, a return to power of the Democrats will mean oppression for traditional white ethnic Americans. Not in America, they said. But, yes, especially in America.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
April 25, 2025
It's been three months since Vice President Vance cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary. The Deep State worked hard to scuttle Hegseth's nomination in December and January with a steady drip of news stories calling his character into question, but President Trump and his trusted veep stood by their man and applied enough pressure on wayward Republican senators to secure his confirmation.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
April 25, 2025
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." - Ayn Rand
130 executive orders in under 100 days.
Sweeping powers claimed in the name of "security" and "efficiency."
Par Seymour Hersh, le 24 avril 2025
Le président Donald Trump est au pouvoir depuis quatre-vingt-quinze jours, et il a déjà chamboulé Washington et en Amérique tout entière : droits de douane, arrestations massives et expulsions illégales, licenciements en masse de fonctionnaires fédéraux, un cabinet de sycophantes, une majorité républicaine apeurée au Sénat et à la Chambre des représentants.
Les États-Unis affirment que les droits de douane imposés à la Chine vont baisser «substantiellement». Un expert avertit que Washington rencontre des difficultés pour atteindre ses objectifs initiaux, car le harcèlement n'est pas viable. Toujours aussi impassible, la Chine contemple l'agitation du gouvernement des États-Unis, tandis que les boursicoteurs continuent un yoyo qui n'a plus aucun sens, et que les menaces de récession sont bien réelles.
Alastair Crooke
The key MAGA issue is not foreign policy, but how to structurally re-balance an economic paradigm in danger of an extinction event.
Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form of an 'industrial concern' infused with Deep State ideology, centred primarily on preserving U.S.
By Dr. Joseph Sansone
Mind Matters and Everything Else
April 24, 2025
The Trump administration is apparently adopting a foreign policy that is much more aggressive than advertised when campaigning. Candidate Trump reminded voters that he had not started any new wars in his first term and suggested that he would cut the Pentagon Budget in half.
The reality is that Trump has just proposed the first trillion-dollar DOD budget and in March started a bombing campaign in Yemen.
By Thaddeus Kozinski
Children Beware of Idols
April 24, 2025
It was a very, very, very small minority of human beings that were not complicit in the Scamdemic Holocaust (defined by the Oxford Dictionary as a "destruction or slaughter on a mass scale"). Most human beings were either active perpetrators of or passive consenters to it. In 2020, a small minority of very evil human beings conspired to create Hell on Earth, with a large majority of dwellers, many of whom were perfectly happy in their new dwelling place.
By Jeff Thomas
International Man
April 24, 2025
Americans were taught about Paul Revere's ride in school. He was said to have ridden from his home in the North End of Boston, to Lexington and Concord, to warn the people there that Federal troops had landed in Boston Harbour and would soon reach the townships.Of course, the story was tarted up a bit for the history books. First, it's unlikely that he shouted, "The British are coming," since, at the time of the ride, in 1775, he was in fact British - a British colonial - and would have regarded himself as British, as would the townspeople.
By Milan Adams
Preppgroup
April 24, 2025
Do you know how to survive a gun fight?
Here's the situation: some people want your stuff, or they just plain out want to kill you. Whatever the cause of the escalation might be, all you've got is a gun lying on the ground next to you. What shooting techniques and tactics would you use and how would you survive a gun fight?
So first, you've picked up the gun, pulled out the magazine and checked how many rounds you've got spare.
By Jim Quinn
The Burning Platform
April 24, 2025
I must have dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street
Now, did you read the news today?
They say the danger has gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
They're burning into the night
There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go around
By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
April 24, 2025
For a few days during the early weeks of the current Trump administration, it appeared that the Trump team might actually try to rein in the Federal Reserve. Trump and Elon Musk hinted that they would push for an audit of the Federal Reserve, and they even suggested that they would bring in Ron Paul to serve as an advisor on the matter. More recently, though, it seems that a meaningful critique of the Fed is going the way of that imaginary trillion dollars that the Department of Government Efficiency has already given up on cutting from the federal budget.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
April 24, 2025
There cannot be a peace deal when President Trump only proposes that Russia keep Crimea, which Russia did not take in war but in an unanimous vote of the population in Crimea to be reunited with Russia from which Crimea had been torn.
Trump has not included in the deal Russian Donbas, which also voted to be returned to Russia or the other Russian areas that Russian forces have liberated and have been reincorporated into Russia.