Persistent Delusion Among the American and NATO Defense Establishment

Iran escalation, fragile debt markets, and gold flashing warning signs. Mark Thornton explains why this bubble won’t end gently.

Germany's Energy Crisis And The National-Conservative Turn Submitted by Thomas Kolbe If the Union had been waiting for a favorable moment to save face and quietly escape the energy-policy fiasco, that moment has probably arrived. On Thursday, the European Parliament formed a broad coalition of the Union-backed EPP faction with the national conservatives. The goal: initiate a migration turnaround, prevent citizen chat controls, and soften the grotesque Supply Chain Act. Among the national-conservative parties in the EU Parliament is also the AfD faction, showing that the firewall against this party is a...

Pope Leo Says 'I Am Not Afraid Of Trump' - Amid War Of Words Over Iran Conflict An open public clash between the Pope and President Trump was perhaps bound to happen given the Vatican's increasingly vocal criticism and condemnation of US military action in the Middle East. The Vatican has been consistently anti-war especially going back to the Iraq invasion and US occupation under the Bush administration.  While recent years and decades have seen successive popes move a bit leftward on general matters of moral theology (particularly the last one,...