Remember way back in the year 2000, when the Taliban took over large swaths of Afghanistan and set about eradicating the nation's poppy crop that feeds the world opium supply? Of course you do. Well, guess what? It's happening again. That's right. After Uncle Sam's...
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The Looting Conspiracy
If you've been following the news, you'll know that shoplifting and looting have been on the rise across the US in recent months, with retailers from San Francisco to Portland to Washington, D.C., forced to close up shop in the face of mounting losses from the spate...
The Global Uprising Against CBDCs Has Begun!
Stop the presses! Here's my hot take for the day: CBDCs are a bad thing. OK, maybe that take is not so hot. After all, I don't even need to spell out "Central Bank Digital Currencies" for my well-informed, switched-on readers to know what I'm talking about when I...
The Dutch School of Understanding – #SolutionsWatch
Tjeerd Andringa joins James on #SolutionsWatch to discuss his cancellation from his former position at the University of Groningen and, more importantly, how that prompted him to create the School of Understanding. Designed as a small-scale, decentralized, effective,...
Meet J. P. Morgan, Bankster-in-Chief
If you had met him as a boy, you might not have expected John Pierpont Morgan to amount to much. He was a sickly child, for starters, constantly beset by rashes, headaches, rheumatism, scarlet fever and a panoply of other ailments. What's more, growing up in the...
The Revolt of the Pawns
In early 1980, as the diplomatic fallout from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan began to play itself out on the grand chessboard, then-US President Jimmy Carter sent his National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to Pakistan to rally the mujahideen fighters...
Your Guide to the Grand Chessboard’s Pawns
The observation that the great geopolitical struggle between nations is akin to a grand game of chess is hardly a novel one. After all, Khosrau II, the ancient Sasanian king, saw the connection over 1,400 years ago: "If a ruler does not understand chess, how can he...
The Internet Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.
Have you heard the latest? Canadians are losing their access to online news thanks to a new bill that would make tech companies liable for so much as linking to news stories. French President Macron is mulling a social media shutdown in the name of quelling France's...