US Reinstates Funding to Propaganda Outlet NED
National Endowment for Democracy weaponizes “democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as “democracy promotion,” the NED channels government funds to opposition groups, meddling in […]
Economy
What Should We Do to Get Government Spending Under Control?
That’s the question I was asked today. 12 Ideas. A Spending Conversation on X What Do I Propose? The short answer is fiscal discipline by Republicans and better tax code and trade policy. Currently, the inevitable Congressional result is more of this for more of that. Democrats and Republicans are both in on it. Mish […]
Empire
US Reinstates Funding to Propaganda Outlet NED
National Endowment for Democracy weaponizes “democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as “democracy promotion,” the NED channels government funds to opposition groups, meddling in […]
Activism
From the Heart Under the Keffiyeh
Schiller Institute moderator asked me to whittle down my talk to 10 minutes. Not eloquent, but from the heart under the keffiyeh. ← Russia-Ukraine and an Emotional Trump This Week’s Intelligence Roundtable → Recent Posts Search Search for: Recent Posts
Health
A scary new “Covid” variant? What year is this?
There’s a new Covid variant “surging through” Asia, according to this headline. It has already spread to the US and Europe as well, according to this article. I’m guessing the word “surging” was in the circulated memo, because it appears in almost every article about this. All of which makes me ask… This might seem like a […]
Tech
The Eliza Effect 2: Electric Idiocracy Zombie Apocalypse Boogaloo
Most people have heard the adage, “If you don’t use it, you lose it.” What happens when people start outsourcing their brain’s ability to synthesize information and think critically (or even just think period) with a middle man that doesn’t even think at all? What happens when entire generations of young people don’t hone any […]
Crypto
GameStop Buys $513 Million Worth of Bitcoin
Video game retailer GameStop has purchased 4,710 Bitcoin worth approximately $513 million. Video game retailer GameStop has purchased 4,710 Bitcoin worth approximately $513 million, marking another major corporate entry into Bitcoin treasury holdings as the trend of companies adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets accelerates in 2025. The company announced the acquisition via X on Wednesday but did not […]
