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When Law Becomes Variable, Trust Hardens into Silver and Gold — as the World Discovers the Cost of Weaponized Finance

When Law Becomes Variable, Trust Hardens into Silver and Gold — as the World Discovers the Cost of Weaponized Finance

by | Dec 29, 2025 |

Gold at $4,546 an ounce. Silver printing $79+, with a peak around $80 in the last ten days. That isn’t a metals rally blip. It’s the sound of the market dragging a metal detector across the foundation of the post-WWII order and hearing a hollow thud. Because this is not really about inflation hedges or safe havens in the tidy textbook sense. This is about trust, the rarest commodity on Earth, and how quickly the illusion evaporates once governments treat finance as a battlefield and law as an...

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Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty

Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty

by | Dec 29, 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. Many Americans who live in one of the 40 states that have legalized medicinal marijuana use...

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Trump and Netanyahu Meet Again

Trump and Netanyahu Meet Again

by | Dec 27, 2025 |

As has been reported, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will yet again be in Washington on Monday December 29th. It is a visit that initial media reports claimed had been requested by Trump, which would underline the value of the relationship to the US president. Nevertheless, there have also been some suggestions that Netanyahu, working through his Embassy in Washington and employing the considerable resources of the domestic US Israel Lobby, might have been the real force behind the...

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Netanyahu’s New Slant to Lure Trump into War with Iran

Netanyahu’s New Slant to Lure Trump into War with Iran

by | Dec 26, 2025 |

In these last days, the Trump Administration has boarded or seized three tankers either loaded with Venezuelan oil or destined for Venezuela (such as the Bella1). The most egregious seizure – in terms of illegality – being a Chinese-owned, Panama-flagged vessel reportedly destined for China – and on no one’s sanctions list. In a different zone of conflict, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) last Friday claimed that it had struck a Russian so-called “shadow fleet” tanker, the Qendil, with...

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Taking Christmas Seriously

Taking Christmas Seriously

by | Dec 26, 2025 |

We all know that God works in mysterious ways. Recently, I was deeply moved at a theatrical production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge from a rasping, grasping old miser into a lovable, generous old man who, late in life, becomes determined to make amends for all his extreme selfishness and his public denunciations of charity. After tossing and turning in bed on Christmas Eve night, during...

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Europe’s Panic Economy: Frozen Assets, Empty Arsenals, and the Quiet Admission of Defeat

Europe’s Panic Economy: Frozen Assets, Empty Arsenals, and the Quiet Admission of Defeat

by | Dec 24, 2025 |

When a prime minister tells her own staff to rest because next year will be much worse, it is not gallows humor. It is not exhaustion speaking. It is a slip of the mask, the kind of remark leaders make only when the internal forecasts no longer align with the public script. Giorgia Meloni was not addressing voters. She was addressing the state itself — the bureaucratic core tasked with executing decisions whose consequences can no longer be disguised. Her words were not about a mundane...

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Trump Morphs From Asset to Liability for Israel

Trump Morphs From Asset to Liability for Israel

by | Dec 23, 2025 |

Leading Israeli commentator, Anna Barsky, in Ma’ariv (in Hebrew) writes: “Let [Trump’s] plan in Gaza – fail.” An Israeli ‘waiting ploy’ is being formulated: not to hurl out a frontal rejection … [but rather] to bet that reality in the region will take its course.[Yet], the fault line [over] Trump’s Gaza Plan is real … Israel demands a clear order: First, the disarmament of Hamas, i.e., first its actual removal from power, and only after that – reconstruction, international power and Israeli...

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Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty

A Christmas Gift to the War Machine

by | Dec 22, 2025 |

Late last week, Congress passed and President Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill marks the first time the US military budget officially passed the one trillion dollar mark. Of course, when you add in other military-related spending such as interest on the debt, veterans’ affairs, and military components of other government agencies, the true number is at least one and a half times that amount. To paraphrase the famous 1953 President Eisenhower speech,...

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The Geopolitical Imperative Behind US Policy Toward Venezuela

The Geopolitical Imperative Behind US Policy Toward Venezuela

by | Dec 21, 2025 |

In the intensifying great-power competition of the 21st century, Venezuela has emerged as a pivotal battleground in the Western Hemisphere—a proxy arena where the United States confronts the encroaching ambitions of China and Russia to preserve its historic regional dominance. Conventional explanations for Washington's unrelenting pressure on Caracas, citing resource acquisition or counternarcotics imperatives, crumble under scrutiny amid America's strategic primacy, energy independence, and...

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Trump and Netanyahu Meet Again

Netanyahu Wants To Attack Iran Again, Will Lobby Trump In Mar-a-Lago Visit

by | Dec 20, 2025 |

Many analysts agree that the last round of fighting between Israel and Iran last June was not the final conflict the two regional powers will face. Despite President Trump having declared that the Islamic Republic's nuclear program had been completely obliterated in the US knock-out strikes against three nuclear facilities which came at the end of the 12-day war, Israel suspects the Iranians are still conducting nuclear development activity in secret, and are busy reconstituting and expanding...

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Britain’s Ruling Class Loves to Cosplay as a Titan

Britain’s Ruling Class Loves to Cosplay as a Titan

by | Dec 19, 2025 |

From the podium, it’s Churchillian thunder: prepare for war, deter Russia, stand tall, lead the free world. Back in the engine room, it’s Whitehall with a calculator, sweating through its suit because the numbers simply don’t work. The Financial Times reports Starmer has delayed the Defence Investment Plan over “affordability,” kicking it into 2026, because the military’s wish list collided with the Treasury’s reality. Translation: the rhetoric is premium, the balance sheet is...

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Trump’s Road to Peace Runs Up Against Ukraine Law

Trump’s Road to Peace Runs Up Against Ukraine Law

by | Dec 19, 2025 |

President Donald Trump is making a valiant effort to peacefully end the tragic Russia-Ukraine war. He has put forth an innovative plan. The plan includes promptly holding a presidential election in Ukraine. On December 8 Trump told Politico, "I think it is an important time to hold an election." One problem with that is the Ukrainian statutory law that governs martial law. Its Article 19 forbids elections during a time of martial law. Since the 2022 Russian invasion Ukraine has been ruled by...

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CIA is Broken… Can it Be Fixed?

CIA is Broken… Can it Be Fixed?

by | Dec 19, 2025 |

Sy Hersh’s latest Substack article on the prospects a successful outcome of the US attempt to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is important because it reveals the pathetic incompetence of the CIA. It appears that Sy reported what senior Trump officials told him about the on going negotiations with the Russians and Ukrainians, and that those officials were sharing their understanding of the capabilities of Russia and Ukraine based on intelligence reports and intelligence...

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A Battered America Awaits Trump’s Next Move

A Battered America Awaits Trump’s Next Move

by | Dec 19, 2025 |

President Donald Trump’s end of year speech to the American public that took place on December 17th was full of conceits over how the United States under the new regime in power is moving ahead on all fronts to benefit the American people. The reality is somewhat different with a struggling economy, inflation and growing unemployment as well as wars and rumors of wars. The only economic sector that appears to be doing just fine is the “military industrial complex” (MIC), or should one...

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Trump’s Geo-politics: Correcting the Imperial Model & Shaping the Incoming Economic Architecture

Trump’s Geo-politics: Correcting the Imperial Model & Shaping the Incoming Economic Architecture

by | Dec 18, 2025 |

In his speech in Riyadh in May, President Trump set out his rationale to his transactional mode of policy formulation – making peace through commerce, rather than war. The language in the 4 December US National Security Strategy (NSS) takes this several steps further: It is couched in the terms of “regions of influence,” rather than hegemony, and of managing stakeholder financial interests. It abandons the phraseology of a rules-based order and eschews appeals to democracy and Western values....

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Julian Assange: Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado

Julian Assange: Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado

by , | Dec 18, 2025 |

The Swedish government violated its own laws by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado, according to an explosive legal brief filed by Julian Assange, the Wikileaks co-founder and former political prisoner who was hounded across the globe, confined in harsh conditions, and subjected to physical and psychological torment over the course of a decade by the US and its allies. The Nobel committee’s decision to award Machado the Peace...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

by | Dec 25, 2025

On March 26, 2022, then United States President Joe Biden boasted in a speech in Poland that “unprecedented sanctions” targeting Russia that had been put in place over the last...

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