Guest Post by Matt Bracken
Some folks are seriously discussing a “ground operation” in Iran, and Kharg or Qeshm Islands seem to be their preferred targets. This sounds plausible in the abstract, but when you dig into the nuts and bolts, it looks to me like a suicide mission for the troops to be landed.
I hope that wiser heads prevail, and refuse to plan or conduct a new Pickett’s Charge, Alamo, or Custer’s Last Stand.
Continue reading “TRUMP’S PICKETT’S CHARGE”
Guest Post by MN Gordon
If it’s not a bizarre new geopolitical crisis, it’s a terrifying headline about the safety of our food supply.
This, no doubt, is an age of constant, low-grade dread. Every time you open your phone, there’s a fresh, steaming pile of bad news waiting to greet you.
But while the mainstream media loves to keep your anxiety levels on a gentle simmer, we prefer to look at the bigger picture. The absurdity of modern life is what we’re after.
Lately, two seemingly unrelated outbreaks have been competing for the spotlight. There’s a microscopic parasite making its way through America’s salad bowls. A healthy lunch has suddenly turned into poison.
Continue reading “How Demographics are Driving America’s Long-Term Fiscal Illness”
Plymouth, Minnesota – Automotive journalist Joel Feder and his wife were detained by multiple police officers in a coordinated stop while driving a Jaguar Land Rover press vehicle, after Flock Safety’s automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras flagged the car based on a flawed database entry.
According to Feder’s detailed account in The Drive, officers boxed in the $155,000 Range Rover in a Kohl’s parking lot after the vehicle triggered alerts via Flock’s network. Police had been tracking it for days, believing the New Jersey manufacturer plate (34 10 DTM) was stolen. Officers approached with hands on their weapons, ordered the couple out of the vehicle, and conducted pat-downs before verifying the car’s legitimacy through Jaguar Land Rover. Feder subsequently obtained and published the body camera footage of the encounter.
Guest Post by Madge Waggy
Technology has an unusual habit of revealing itself twice. The first version appears quietly, almost unnoticed, inside research papers, patent filings, laboratory demonstrations and corporate presentations that attract little attention beyond specialists. The second version arrives years later, polished into a consumer product that suddenly convinces everyone the breakthrough happened overnight. History repeatedly favors this illusion. By the time society begins discussing a technological revolution, thousands of engineers have already spent years solving problems the public never realized existed. That gap between discovery and public awareness has become one of the defining characteristics of the twenty-first century, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the race to build machines that no longer resemble machines at all.
Continue reading “THE EXHIBIT THAT ARRIVED BEFORE THE FUTURE”
Will the next 90 days determine the direction of the world?
In this conversation, renowned financial forecaster Martin Armstrong argues that three major elections—in Russia, Israel and the United States—could shape the future of geopolitics, financial markets, energy prices and global stability.
The discussion covers:
• Why the Russian Duma elections could have far-reaching consequences.
• Whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future could influence the Middle East conflict.
• Why the US midterm elections may redefine America’s foreign policy.
• The evolving Russia-Ukraine war and its impact on global markets.
• Rising tensions in the Middle East.
• Why oil prices could become a major economic risk over the coming years.
• How leadership changes can alter the course of international conflicts.
Guest Post by Todd Hayen
Humanity is unravelling. In the span of just a few generations—scarcely a century—we have witnessed a precipitous decline in the quality of our shared life. What was once a world of craft, connection, and quiet moral coherence has given way to machine-made uniformity, moral drift, environmental squalor, widespread addiction, and a pervasive spiritual emptiness.
The symptoms are everywhere: drugs flooding communities, garbage choking landscapes, ethics treated as quaint relics, families dissolving, and relationships reduced to transactions. Many sense the rot but struggle to name its root. The cause, at bottom, is simple yet profound: we have ceased to value what is real. We have traded conscious relationship with soul for mere stuff.
Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson
During the 12-day war in June 2025, Iranian missiles and drones struggled against sophisticated Israeli and American electronic warfare. GPS jamming and spoofing repeatedly disrupted their guidance systems, limiting their effectiveness during the intense 12-day conflict. Fast-forward to early 2026, and the battlefield dynamics had shifted dramatically. Iran’s precision strikes began threading through advanced air defenses, hitting high-value targets across the Gulf with surprising accuracy.
Intelligence analysts pointed to one key factor: Iran had ditched GPS for China’s Beidou satellite navigation system.
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The great fire of Rome breaks out and destroys much of the city beginning on July 19 in the year 64. Despite the well-known stories, there is no evidence that the Roman emperor, Nero, either started the fire or played the fiddle while it burned. Still, he did use the disaster to further his political agenda.
Continue reading “THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Nero’s Rome burns – 64”
“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.” ― Homer, The Odyssey
“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” ― Homer, The Iliad
“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” ― Homer, The Odyssey
“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” ― Homer, The Iliad
Guest Post by Gold & Geopolitics
A drone crashed into an oil tanker at Basra on Thursday morning.
No fire. No damage. Or so they said. Nobody got hurt.
And just because nothing happened, Iraq suspended loading at every export terminal it owns.
Until further notice.
The day before, Washington had reimposed its naval blockade of Iran and during seven hours was blasting the same hangars and inflatable launchers they already “love-tapped” thrice before.
West Texas crude closed twenty-six cents higher.
… Just because.
You are excused if you didn’t know that there’s a frickin’ war going on…
NOTHING makes any sense any longer.
The closer you stand to the actual stuff, the less you believe its price.
“We have absolute confidence in the Titanic. We believe that the boat is unsinkable.”
– Philip Franklin, Vice President, White Star Line https://t.co/3axVMHej77 pic.twitter.com/AjRGY98bhC
— John P. Hussman, Ph.D. (@hussmanjp) July 17, 2026
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Valuations Matter!
Print this chart and place it next to your computer when anyone suggests these markets are at a great price to invest. They are wrong!
We are now in the most expensive market in history when accounting for all valuation metrics that matter.
Source: Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/A5JErVNuNv
— JTheretohelp1 (@JTheretohelp1) July 17, 2026
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Guest Post by Michael Snyder
The cost of living has become absolutely suffocating for millions of Americans. For years, the bureaucrats in Washington have been feeding us numbers that show that the rate of inflation is low, but it is obvious to everyone that what they are telling us is simply not true. Many of the items that I regularly purchase at the grocery store have more than doubled in price over the past decade.
Some have more than tripled in price. When I get to the register to check out, I feel like asking the cashier which organ I should donate to pay for my groceries.
J.B. Shurk (American Thinker) — College campuses are catnip for crazies.
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Over at Twitchy, a publication that curates the news in funny yet insightful ways, a headline reads, “Head of Medical School Tells Congresswoman the Vast Majority of Pregnancies Occur in Women.” Sure enough, Twitchy is telling the truth.
During witness testimony before a congressional committee examining the impact of forced “diversity,” preferential (non-merit-based) admissions, and “woke” ideology upon the quality of medical schools, the chancellor of UC San Francisco testified under oath that not all pregnancies come from women. That chancellor, Samuel Hawgood, is not some administrative bureaucrat with a made-up bachelor’s degree in the discriminatory effects of man-made “climate change” upon “transgender” Pakistanis (and an obligatory master’s in why American taxpayers must foot the bill for all “sex change” surgeries around the world). No, Hawgood is an actual pediatrician who previously served as UCSF’s dean of the School of Medicine. A man who did his residency at the Royal Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Brisbane cannot tell us how babies are made.
Kuwait was bombarded overnight in one of the fiercest Iranian retaliatory strikes since the US-Iran conflict erupted in late February, with missiles and one-way drones targeting power infrastructure and other critical energy assets.
Local outlet Kuwait News Agency reports an unspecified site of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation suffered “significant material losses” as the week-long flare-up in Gulf tensions has derailed any near-term normalization of tanker flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
There was a report that the Al-Subiya power station was struck. This marks the second attack on Kuwaiti power infrastructure in just days, after a transformer at the Zour South electricity and desalination complex was hit on Friday.
Authorities disconnected several power-generating units as a precaution and urged residents to conserve electricity. A Kuwaiti army base was also struck during the latest escalation, injuring several personnel.
Guest Post by Brandon Smith
The US Constitution is perhaps the most significant historical and governmental document in a millennia. It established the modern conception of the western Republic, along with true representative government designed to answer to the people rather than rule over the people.
The Bill of Rights outlined clear restrictions on federal and state powers to legislate away the inherent and God given freedoms of the citizenry; an accomplishment which had been attempted in the past but was never truly realized until the war for independence and the creation of the United States. Until that moment, the idea that common men answer to authority and authority answers to no one was the accepted norm.
It’s a document and an ideal that gave birth to an epoch.
Continue reading “Election Integrity: Is Representative Democracy A Foolish Fantasy?”
