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by Murray N. Rothbard via Mises.org The first libertarian intellectual was Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism. Little is known about his life, but apparently he was a personal acquaintance of Confucius in the late sixth century BC and like the latter came from the state of Sung and was descended from the lower aristocracy of […]
by Daniel Lacalle via Mises.org There are numerous articles mentioning that Saudi Arabia may use the yuan, China’s domestic currency, for its oil exports. How much does Saudi Arabia export to China? According to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, the kingdom’s main exports are to China ($45.8B), India ($25.1B), Japan ($24.5B), South Korea […]
by Nick Giambruno via International Man “It’s possible to have more than one reserve currency.” These are the recent words of Jerome Powell, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. It’s a stunning admission from the one person who has the most control over the US dollar, the current world reserve currency. It would be as ridiculous […]
by Nick Giambruno via International Man The rules-based international order… The liberal international order… The international community… You undoubtedly have heard the media and politicians use these strange and vague phrases. They are describing the current world order or architecture for international political relations between countries. World orders are nothing new. It’s how the big […]
by Fast Rope Apparently not too much. According to a recently released study from the Department of Defense (DOD) written in 2013, the Chinese Communist Party believes that United States’ preoccupation with multiculturalism can be exploited and will ultimately lead to the demise of the U.S. Chris Menahan of Information Liberation explains that although the […]
by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE The COVID pandemic is rife with cover-ups, starting with China intentionally allowing the outbreak to spread by saying there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission In 2019, Dr. Anthony Fauci and a former director of the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) hinted at a pandemic being a […]
by Bruno Venditti and Pernia Jamshed via Visual Capitalist Visualizing China’s Dominance in Clean Energy Metals This was originally posted on Elements. Sign up to the free mailing list to get beautiful visualizations on natural resource megatrends in your email every week. Renewable sources of energy are expected to replace fossil fuels over the coming […]
What China lost and what it still has. by Austrian China via Substack View from China with an Austrian School of Economics Perspective In our next post, Man Tianmai (漫天霾) reflects on what China lost in 2021 – too many goodbyes, as he puts it. Due to a long list of unfamiliar references, this can […]
by Doug Casey via International Man International Man: Lee Kuan Yew, the former leader of Singapore, once said: “The size of China’s displacement of the world balance is such that the world must find a new balance. It is not possible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the biggest player […]
by Patrick J. Buchanan Our great challenge in the 21st century is not Russia. Indeed, in the long term, we want Russia on our side in the long struggle between the U.S. and the West, and Communist China. While all facts are true, not all facts are relevant. And what are the relevant facts in […]
by Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: The US and its allies are pushing the world toward nuclear armageddon. The US and its allies armed Al Qaeda in Syria. The US and its allies are carrying out a literal genocide in Yemen. The US and its allies are deliberately starving children by […]
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE The kind of society the technocratic elites are pushing us all toward is one that emulates China’s authoritarian rule, where total submission to government is the only option if you want to live There’s evidence suggesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is behind the unscientific denial of the SARS-CoV-2 […]
by Omri Wallach and Raul Amoros via Visual Capitalist View the full-size version of this infographic The World’s Biggest Startups: Top Unicorns of 2021 Many entrepreneurs start businesses around the world, but only the most successful new companies become “unicorns”—the biggest startups with a valuation above $1 billion. Some unicorns are little-known companies making quiet […]
by Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article. A Republican senator who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee stated on a Tuesday Fox News appearance that he strongly supports keeping US military action on the table if Russia invades Ukraine, up to and including a first-use nuclear attack. “I would not rule […]