Postponing the World’s Financial Winter - For How Long?, by Michael Hudson - The Unz Review

 Today’s world is threatened with a more economic kind of global collapse. Iran is defending itself against the prospect of U.S. and Israeli military attack by threatening to destroy OPEC’s oil and gas trade if its survival as a sovereign country is endangered.

“This threat is confronting the world with a fateful choice: Either countries will suffer a deep depression if Trump follows through on his threat to destroy Iran and seize its oil – in which case Iran’s retaliation will destroy OPEC’s energy trade on which many countries have become dependent – or they must actively move to prevent the U.S. attack.”

https://www.unz.com/mhudson/postponing-the-worlds-financial-winter-for-how-long/ 

What Do Pirates Eat? - Kwiatkowski

 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/karen-kwiatkowski/what-do-pirates-eat/ 

The US-Israel war on Iran is an air and naval onslaught of destruction, by the side that expected a few days of bombing would prevail against a country known for thousands of years as the place other empires go to die.  The “enemy” is a country filled with scientists, mathematicians, teachers and philosophers, in addition to being renown defenders of Islam and of Iran proper. While past and present US administrations were assaulting the Middle East and the rest of the world, riding on the fraying US dollar and a lot of political hot air, the Iranians were learning, studying, preparing.  It is a wise path for all of us, in a post-US imperial world.

The wars of Trump and Hegseth are however serving valuable purposes, despite the bloodshed, global economic strain, and waste of our national credibility.

First, as the Trump Squad actively destroys both US military capacity and command discipline, we Americans will have an unparalleled shot at truly altering the composition and design of the US military from an unaffordable expeditionary colonial force to a defensive people’s army.  The new composition will be designed, in part by those Trump is currently failing to rescue, arm and feed right now.  In other words, the new Pentagon will be able to pass audits, and its budget and its mission will be spare and tight.The Natural DMSO Heali...Quinn, AverlyCheck Amazon for Pricing.

Second, Trump’s wars, and his social media presence, is forcing the very decentralization of global power and finance he fears. His systematic attacks on and seizures of global oil production, and intended control of waterways and military markets are all aimed at preserving dollar dominance, in a world that knows better.  The dollar era is over. Trump is inadvertently sharing this news with the world by the minute.

Third, future war with China is unlikely, rather than imminent. The current and future condition of the US – its overweening and expensive bureaucracy, impossible-to-pay national debt, and massively consumer-oriented economy – means we need China and we like China, notwithstanding the latest National Security Strategy.

Fourth, Israel as the cheerleader and contriver of regional wars, is now seen by most Americans as a danger to the US, a lying murderous country that expects support that it refuses to earn.  What Israel has done and is continuing in Gaza, and now in southern Lebanon, is criminal devastation funded by an unpopular president and more unpopular US Congress.   It is inevitable that Israel will be cut loose from both US politics and military co-dependency in coming years. As things get worse for the average American, he and she will seek savings and scapegoats, and treating Israel like every other ignoble country we deal with gives a lot of bang for that buck. Netanyahu and Trump deserve an award for doing what no previous President and Prime Minister could do – and even a well-timed assassination here or there will not change the future in this regard.

I’m still concerned about what our pirates will eat, until Trump channels Vizzini, and realizes his dream of US and Israeli empire in Asia is a dead end.  I’m thinking that raid of the cargo ship seized off the Coast of Oman will be focused on edibles and drink, and they will find very little.

Someone wrote a book on what the Buccaneers of America ate back in 1678.  It might be a good read for what is left of our Navy leadership in its new role as global buccaneer.  And we already know what the DC pirates eat – shorts bought 20 minutes before the next Trump tweet.

The Consequences of Incompetence - Real Scott Ritter

https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-consequences-of-incompetence 

The US and Israel launched a surprise attack against Iran using the full strength of their respective air forces.

And they failed.

Today, Iran stands ready to receive a combined US-Israeli strike which will match, but not exceed, the destructive power of those initial attacks.

And Iran will respond with missile and drone attacks which will exceed by an order of magnitude the targeted destruction of its previous retaliatory strikes.

The US and Israel launched a surprise attack against Iran using the full strength of their respective air forces.

And they failed.

Today, Iran stands ready to receive a combined US-Israeli strike which will match, but not exceed, the destructive power of those initial attacks.

And Iran will respond with missile and drone attacks which will exceed by an order of magnitude the targeted destruction of its previous retaliatory strikes.

Iran will change the cycle of escalation by going straight for the jugular.

And Trump won’t know what hit him.

The consequences of incompetence are real.

Something Trump and the American people are about to find out in real time should the US go forward with the threats to resume bombing Iran in the next few days.

Desperation in Defeat - Vox Popoli

 Clown World appears to be losing any sense of perspective as its grasp on global power continues to slip away. None of these reports can be considered highly reliable, but there do appear to be some signs that we may be on the verge of finding out if nukes are real or not.

1. In the last 24 hours, the U.S. military blasted out nearly 100 Emergency Action Messages (EAM’s) on its High-Frequency Global Communications System (HFGCS). These are the encrypted orders sent to nuclear submarines, strategic bombers, and missile launch crews. On a normal day, you get about 10. The Pentagon has issued ZERO public statement.......

https://voxday.net/2026/04/21/desperation-in-defeat/ 

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1. On Saturday night, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force general Dan Caine stormed out of an emergency meeting with Trump. Insiders indicate that Trump wanted to evoke the nuclear codes as a deterrence against Iran during the ceasefire talks in Islamabad. But General Caine refused and invoked the US Uniform Code of Military Justice, the UCMJ, claiming specifically Article 92, covering Failure to Obey. Inside the military we call that the “duty to refuse” clause, that if given an unlawful order, we have a duty to refuse… Apparently, the Joint Chiefs of Staff went ahead and invoked the Article 92 clause.
2. The US military has abandoned its last base in Syria and Russian warships are now docking in Syria.

Could be legit, could be cover for invoking the removal of the Short Fat Trump, could be both, or it could be fake. Either way, things do appear to be moving toward some kind of short-term resolution in the next month.

Why Diet Is the Foundation of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer

 The dietary foundation is not an “adjunct” to the metabolic protocol—it is the central pillar that determines whether the rest of the strategy works or fails.

At its core, the multi-axis framework is designed to impose coordinated metabolic stress on the tumor: lowering glucose availability, suppressing insulin/IGF-1 signaling, activating AMPK, inhibiting mTOR, and destabilizing mitochondrial function. A high-carbohydrate diet directly counteracts each of these mechanisms.

https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/why-diet-is-the-foundation-of-the?publication_id=5737269&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

Trump, Sanity, and Obedience - Ed Curtin

 It takes a system to wage war, and civil and military obedience to support it. That system – what former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has adroitly named MICIMATT: The Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank system – is so deeply woven into American society and therefore the hearts and minds of its citizens and military personnel that one can only hope against hope that Trump’s orders will be disobeyed by many. It is a desperate hope, I realize....

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/edward-curtin/trump-sanity-and-obedience/ 

....‘What has happened to the country that we love?’ But how many look in the mirror and ask, “Am I a guilty bystander or an active supporter of the United States’ immoral and illegal wars all around the world that have been going on for so many years under presidents of both parties and have no end? Do I support the new cold war with its push for nuclear war with its first strike policy? Do I support, by my silence, a nuclear holocaust?’

The questions still linger. Let Thomas Merton and the twenty-two years-old Bob Dylan have the last words:

For since man has decided to occupy the place of God he has shown himself to be by far the blindest, and cruelest, and pettiest and most ridiculous of all the false gods. We can call ourselves innocent only if we refuse to forget this, and if we also do everything we can to make others realize it.

Why Did the Government Lie About the COVID Vaccines?

 Story at a Glance:

•Like many vaccines before it, the safety and efficacy of the COVID vaccine was oversold to the public to create the vaccine program.

•As more and more issues emerged with the vaccine, rather than acknowledge them or change course, the government, media and medical press chose to hide all of it to protect the vaccine program.

•Because of this, there has been a profound loss of trust in the medical system never seen before in history, and as extensive polling shows, vaccines have gone from being something almost all of the public blindly supports to something a majority of Americans are skeptical of.

•Senator Johnson, who since 2020 has been relentlessly fighting for COVID transparency and accountability recently obtained records proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CDC and FDA were aware the COVID vaccines were causing myocarditis and strokes but nonetheless concealed this from the public to continue pushing vaccines.

•This article will present exactly what Johnson uncovered, the extensive polling data which shows the unprecedented loss of trust in the medical system and explore how we can best make use of the unique moment we have arrived at.

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-did-the-government-lie-about?publication_id=748806&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email