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Is Germany Still Occupied?

Germany, a nation often lauded for its economic strength and political influence within Europe, may not be as free and independent as it seems. Two provocative books—Peter Orzechowski’s “Besatzungszone: Wie und warum die USA noch immer Deutschland kontrollieren” and Bruno Bandulet’s “Beuteland: Die systematische Plünderung Deutschlands seit 1945”—unveil the shadowy forces and historical machinations that suggest Germany’s sovereignty is more fiction than fact. This is...

The Silent Takeover

Where cash ends, control begins—and your money is no longer truly your own. As the dream of a cashless society quickly becomes reality, a new form of economic control settles over citizens. The disappearance of cash is not merely a shift in how we pay—it is the final erasure of our last refuge of financial freedom. Once physical money is gone, every cent you own...
Rothbard

Egalitarianism as a revolt against nature

Rothbard’s “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature” displays a remarkable organic unity: the book is much more than the sum of its parts. Points made in the various essays included in the book mesh together to form a consistent worldview. The system of thought set forward in these essays, moreover, illuminates both history and the contemporary world. In the book’s initial essay, whose title has been adopted for the whole book, Murray Rothbard raises a basic challenge to schools of […]...

Progress Is the Wrong Word

50,000 jobs gone. Volkswagen. Germany. The commentators are busy explaining it — American tariffs, energy costs that no longer compute, a Chinese electric vehicle industry that appeared from nowhere and somehow produces a car for less than the cost of its components in Stuttgart. The explanations are probably accurate. They are also, entirely, insufficient. Because the story of what is happening to German industry did...

The Glass Bead Game

Gelegentlich ergreifen wir die Feder and schreiben Zeichen auf ein weisses Blatt, Die sagen dies and das, es kennt sie jeder, Es ist ein Spiel, das seine Regeln hat. —Hermann Hesse. Das Glasperlenspiel From time to time we take our pen in hand and scribble symbols on a blank white sheet. Their meaning is at everyone’s command; It is a game whose rules are nice...

The Invisible Hand Left Fingerprints

Economics textbooks describe a market driven by thousands of competing actors. In 2011, three physicists decided to check. ⬥ ⬥ ⬥ They were not looking for a conspiracy. Stefania Vitali, James Glattfelder, and Stefano Battiston worked in the Systems Design department at ETH Zurich — the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Their method was network analysis. Their question was architectural: how does control actually flow through the global economy? They mapped the ownership structures of 43,060 transnational corporations. The dataset […]...
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German Gold: The Predictable Return of Repatriation Calls – Chains That Bind

Yesterday, fresh voices in Germany—economists, FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, and others—urged the Bundesbank to bring home the remaining 1,236 tons of gold (valued at around €164 billion) still stored in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The reason cited? Donald Trump’s return to power and his “unpredictability,” making reliance on U.S. vaults too great a geopolitical risk in uncertain times.This is not new. It...
The United Nations

The Threat of the United Nations

The history of how the United Nations was created is a classic case of diplomacy by deception. The United Nations is the successor to the defunct League of Nations, the first attempt to set up a One World Government in the wake of the Paris Peace Conference which gave birth to the Treaty of Versailles. The Threat of the United Nations. The peace conference opened...

Does the Energy Crisis Serve a Purpose?

The Persian Gulf. July 24, 1987. Two in the morning. A supertanker the length of four football fields moves through darkness. 414,000 tons. Kuwaiti oil in her belly, the freshly painted flag of the United States on her hull. Her name is the Bridgeton, and flanking her in the black water are five warships of the most powerful navy on earth — a destroyer, frigates, cruisers — sent to make sure she arrives. Iran has been laying mines in these […]...

Inflation: The True Meaning

Inflate a balloon. More air enters. The balloon grows. Each breath shares the space with every breath before it. More. Bigger. Each unit inside: worth a little less than before. The Romans did it with coins — shaving the edges, adding cheaper metals, more coins in circulation. Medieval merchants did it with grain — more grains in the bucket, each grain buys less at the...
Expulsion of the merchants Caravaggio

The real Money Power

“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day, but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.” — Thomas Jefferson    American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the...

Robin Hood: How the State Hijacked History’s Greatest Tax Rebel

“The most successful theft is one where the victims celebrate their robber as a hero while condemning those who would protect them from robbery.” – Ancient wisdom, modern application The most successful theft occurs when victims celebrate their robber as a hero while condemning those who would protect them from robbery. This ancient wisdom finds troubling relevance in our modern world, where truth becomes malleable and history serves as a canvas for the powerful to paint their lies. The legend […]...

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