US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager who worked for George Soros, insists, “Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream”. The Donald Trump administration knows its tariffs will result in higher inflation. Products will become more expensive as the US tries to economically decouple from China. Ben Norton explains.Read moreClose How America [...]

In recent years, global energy markets have experienced a dramatic shift, largely due to the European Union's sanctions on Russian energy exports. These sanctions were intended to cripple Russia’s economy, but the results have been quite the opposite. Instead of weakening Russia, these measures have sparked economic instability in Europe, driving up oil and gas prices and contributing to severe [...]

Global economic collapse is accelerating, with debt, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions pushing us to the brink. In this video, we examine the three critical driving forces behind this crisis: unsustainable debt, market speculation, and rising global instability. Learn how these interconnected cracks threaten the entire global economy and, more importantly, how you can safeguard your wea [...]

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is surging, with breakthroughs in regional and EU-wide elections. Party leader Alice Weidel says her goal is national power, eyeing the 2029 federal elections. Despite its growing support, the AfD’s vision of foreign policy remains little known around the world. So in this new special report, DW takes a forensic microscope to the party’s blue [...]

Meet Jan Öberg, a social scientist and the visionary behind the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research. He’s making bold predictions—claiming the American empire could collapse within just five years! In this video, Öberg dives deep into why Western democracy seems to be crumbling and shares his thought-provoking take on how the world might actually thrive without the U.S. as [...]

Two years later, Daniela Cambone returns to Italy for an exclusive, in-depth interview with Frank Giustra, delving into pivotal global issues: the approaching U.S. presidential election, skyrocketing U.S. debt, the rise of BRICS, and the transformative power of AI, and more. Giustra delivers a stark warning: “Eventually, we're going to see a complete reset of the global monetary system.” He [...]

The BRICS alliance has unveiled a groundbreaking intra-bank system, causing major ripples in the global financial sector. This new initiative is a strategic push toward de-dollarization and an alternative to the US-controlled World Bank and IMF systems. With the inclusion of new members and the development of BRICS Pay and financial messaging systems, the global balance of power is shifting fast. [...]

On September 18th, the US dollar will face its most significant test in the last 80 years as the Fed slashes interest rates. The Fed has admitted we are now in a US dollar bear market. Get ready for increased inflation, more layoffs, and a devalued dollar. The Collapse of America & Everything Wrong With Society Today (+ A Hopeful Way Forward) | Ray Dalio How Elites Will Collapse America [...]

In this video, I share with you insights from the best historians of empire about whether we are living through an end of empire moment? Even Boris Johnson says the collapse of Western hegemony could be near? Will the US empire collapse? Will defeat in Eastern Europe bring on a Suez Crisis for the USA? Are We Living Through The End Of An Empire? – Second Thought Richard Wolff on the declin [...]

Today on Real Talk, we speak to Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, about the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the US elections. We delve into why he believes we are “at the end of empire”, whether Trump or Harris would have different Gaza policies, the rise of Christian nationalism in the US, and his thoughts on Joe Biden’s presidential legac [...]

BlackRock & Larry Fink CANNOT be trusted. This is the latest warning out from Whitney Webb. In her latest interview, Whitney Webb breaks down why AI is a slippery slope, and why if AI is given enough data & falls into the wrong hands, it can be used as a tool of unprecedented manipulation. Make sure to stick around to the end of the video, where Whitney breaks down why power needs to be ta [...]

For customers, fintech promised the best of both worlds: The innovation, ease of use and fun of the newest apps combined with the safety of government-backed accounts held at real banks. The collapse of middleman Synapse has revealed fintech’s promise of safety as a mirage. More than 100,000 Americans with $265 million in deposits have been locked out of their accounts. [...]

The Congressional Budget Office has admitted that the US national debt cannot be repaid. So what's the solution from the US Government and Federal Reserve, will this weigh on the election, and what will the result be for the stock market? "All HELL BREAKS LOOSE" (In the Next Few Months) says FED Insider, Danielle DiMartino Booth   [...]

Gerald Celente explains how the US and its allies have dug themselves into a hole from which there is no escape on all fronts: economically, politically, and militarily. Gerald breaks down the ignorance that got us here, how BRICS is rising to fill the power vacuum, why gold will be money once again, and much more. “No one is ready for what’s COMING in 2024” Gerald Celente warns Warnin [...]

Prior to the unfortunate dismantling of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was one of its most prominent republics, even rivaling Russia itself in numerous aspects. In many ways, it was a sort of “Soviet California”, as approximately 30% of the USSR’s massive industrial and scientific might was situated precisely in Ukraine. Much of Soviet shipbuilding, advanced electronics, rocketry, chemical indust [...]

The definition of a failed state according to some experts is: A failed state is a political body that has disintegrated to a point where basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government no longer function properly. Another characteristic of a failed state includes a central government so weak or ineffective that it has an inability to raise taxes or other support and has little pra [...]

China and Saudi Arabia just dealt a knock blow to the U.S. dollar. This week we got our clearest sign yet that America is in serious economic trouble after China and Saudi Arabia filed new agreements on oil and trade. But the biggest problem came from the Crown Prince who said he was done trying to please The United States. The new world order is beginning. Why does the US military have 800 bas [...]

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers? America, China, and the Global Order. The costs of sustaining the US's new 'Empire' will become apparent to its public only when these costs directly accrue to them. This will happen, as this article suggests, only when (i) other nations stop subsidizing the US's imperial adventures by colluding in them and (ii) the dollar loses its role as the world's reserve cu [...]

Mark Petrakis shared an Ayn Rand quote on Facebook today that left me thinking for hours, especially as I watched the spreading waves left behind by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. The quote describes how you can tell when your society is doomed. I certainly read the orchestrated bank crisis that will unfold after Silicon Valley Bank as a sign that the parasite class has decided that opposit [...]

Betrayal by politicians of their compatriots, the very people who trust them, who may have voted for them and who pay with their taxes for their wages and livelihoods, must be one of humanity’s most miserable crimes. It is so “low”, there is no word that adequately describes the absolute absence of ethics, morals, and souls of such people. Other than they are soulless, without ethics and wi [...]

As physiology, the science of life has proven many times, all things, when driven to the limits of excess – and beyond – will collapse. History is living proof. Empires of the past disappeared because of greed for power and possession had no limits. It looks like we are reaching this point now quickly. This time on a worldwide basis. The western empire, led by Anglosaxonia, is intent on becom [...]

“Throughout “all of this scheming,” the source said, “some working guys in the CIA and the State Department were saying, ‘Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.’” “This is not kiddie stuff,” the source said. If the attack were traceable to the United States, “It’s an act of war.” (How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline, By [...]