Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. WEF’s Klaus Raus Klaus Schwab, founder and leader of the World Economic Forum, is “beginning the process” of stepping down from his duties as chairman of the board of […]
The reactions to my USAID piece over the weekend have been fascinating, with many thoughtful responses, but two in particular perfectly demonstrate its core thesis about manufactured binaries and recursive loops. One friend expressed genuine horror that questioning USAID might endanger humanitarian aid worldwide – apparently missing my earlier points about how philanthropy has often served as […]
In Part I of this series on the overlap between the worlds of Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, we examine Combs’ early years, his mentors and the industry figures who ensured their, as well as Combs’ own, commercial success. Ties to organized crime and intelligence are readily apparent and point toward a truly sinister […]
Stop Trump’s Destruction of Our National Parks! explains that Eric Hanson shows in the video below the impact for all Americans of Trump’s cuts to the parks. Eric is a freelance journalist, photographer, and filmmaker specializing in outdoor adventure and travel. He is the host of Epic Trails, a TV and digital series designed to […]
It was disgustingly called “Kidflix” and contained almost 100,000 videos A massive darknet international pedophile child porn network calling itself “Kidflix” has been discovered and shut down by Europol. Investigators stated that site shockingly had more than 91,000 child porn videos on it, with around three new videos being uploaded to its servers every hour. Users […]
“Genocide, ecocide, mass infanticide, rape, sexual assault, torture, slavery, sniping children, bombing hospitals, executing aid workers,” said one critic. “We are funding an endless nightmare and it should haunt us forever.” As Israel Defense Forces bombing continued to kill and maim large numbers of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip over the weekend and into Monday, the discovery of the […]
We do not have free speech to talk about the weather. Our Founders, particularly James Madison who drafted the Bill of Rights, understood that our rights are not privileges granted to us by government. No, it was understood at the founding that these basic natural rights outlined by Madison were granted by our Creator and […]
International Man: Under the previous administration, we saw an aggressive push against so-called “disinformation”—fact-checkers, censorship, and suppression of views outside the mainstream narrative. At the same time, there was a strong focus on social justice, gender ideology, and migrant protection. What’s your perspective on that era and its impact on free speech? Doug Casey: It’s no longer […]
It’s Not Intelligent It’s Artificial First off I would like to apologies for the lack of articles for the past few weeks, a case of bronchitis swept through my family and knocked us all for six. Today I would like to start off with a fascinating story of a man you may never have heard […]
A Democrat president can be as tyrannical and murderous as he wants and liberals will just brunch away in cheerful obliviousness, content with their knowledge that their team is holding the trophy. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The other day I shared a short post about a video that was going […]