By Andrew Wallace  

August 17, 2026

The Title is an accurate near-term forecast of our situation. Our circumstances are so dire that eating will be problematic, and we won't have the money to return the body bags of 174,400 troops being sacrificed in 80 countries because we could not defend them. Even before an Economic Collapse we could not defend troops in wars or stationed overseas. Our Military is being used as Unconstitutional Mercenaries for the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC) aka Donors.

That's $68 billion more than they said three months ago. Meanwhile, tariff revenue came in below zero, and interest now costs more than the military.  

By Lau Vegys
Snafu Investing  

August 17, 2026

If you needed any more evidence of just how far gone the U.S. government's finances are, look no further than the Treasury's own latest projections.

You may have already seen the headlines.

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Donald Jeffries

Recently, Tucker Carlson interviewed Hunter Biden. It was a friendly interview. Extremely cordial. Bizarrely cordial. Like two old boys from the upper crust sitting down together. Which they are. Hunter was talking about the disparity of wealth like he was Huey Long. A crack addicted Huey Long with no real convictions. He's clearly strapped for cash.

Tucker did broach the subject of Hunter's laptop, very gingerly.

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com 

August 17, 2026

I anticipated these developments earlier this year when I wrote a short story entitled "The Peculiar Death of Mr. Garcia."

That the latest rogue AI agent incident is called the Hugging Face Breach invites a moment of reflection: not just about the trajectory revealed by the breach, but the absurdity that the phrase "hugging face" is repeated with a straight face.

By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack  

August 17, 2026

If either the U.S. side or the Russian side uses a nuclear weapon against the other side, that will precipitate a global nuclear war in which no side will stop, short of unleashing all of its weapons. There is no such thing as a "tactical nuclear weapon" - a phrase that was invented by the U.S. side in 1951 in order to fool the public to believe that there is such a thing and that it is smaller than the nukes the U.S.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

August 17, 2026

Reiner Fuellmich was kidnapped in Mexico by the German Domestic Intelligence Service and BKA, the German equivalent of FBI. He was flown to Germany and arrested when landed after his kidnapping by German authorities. No grounds for arrest in Mexico. No grounds for deportation from Mexico. No grounds for arrest in Germany.

In Germany the senior prosecutor, Reinecke, who was handed the false case against Fuellmich took a close look at it and threw the case out on the grounds that no crime had occurred.

By Jonathan Newman
Mises.org  

August 17, 2026

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently took to X to celebrate what he called one of the "highlights of the Warsh Fed." His post didn't have anything to do with what kind of monetary policy a Warsh-chaired Fed will do. It was about the humiliation of mainstream financial journalists-which is fine by me, but let me digress on "Fed independence" between mouthfuls of popcorn.

Les gens qui ont des aux convictions de gauche sont des "ennemis de la civilisation" a déclaré Miller dans un discours faisant largement écho au maccarthysme.

Source : Sharon Zhang, Truthout
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Lors d'une série de discours à caractère fasciste prononcés jeudi, le secrétaire d'État Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, figure influente de la Maison Blanche, et d'autres hauts responsables de l'administration Trump ont qualifié la gauche politique de menace "terroriste" et se sont engagés à utiliser tous les moyens à leur disposition pour détruire systématiquement les groupes de gauche.

Par Karim pour BettBeat Media, le 13 août 2026

Pourquoi un système mortifère et destructeur redoute les défenseurs de la Palestine.

La police anti-émeute bahreïnienne a dispersé une manifestation en octobre 2023 et a déféré six hommes devant le parquet. Human Rights Watch a recensé des dizaines d'interrogatoires à travers le royaume, dont certains ont impliqué des mineurs.

Par The Grayzone & Wyatt Reed, le 12 août 2026

Le banquier libanais ultra-sioniste Antoun Sehnaoui est l'homme de l'ombre derrière les négociations de normalisation entre Beyrouth et Israël.

Alors que l'occupation israélienne meurtrière du Sud-Liban se poursuit, Antoun Sehnaoui, banquier fabuleusement riche reconverti en "philanthrope", a mis sur pied à Beyrouth et à Washington un réseau d'acteurs du monde des affaires et des médias - ainsi qu'une brigade de voyous chrétiens fascistes - dont la mission est d'accomplir le sale boulot d'Israël.

Par Diana Buttu

Le génocide perpétré par Israël est en train de détruire le système de santé à Gaza et en Cisjordanie, laissant les patients palestiniens atteints de cancer avec peu, voire aucune possibilité de traitement.

Um Mahmoud (*) se considère comme "l'une des rares chanceuses".

Originaire de Gaza, elle a reçu un diagnostic de cancer en 2020 après avoir souffert pendant des années de douleurs dorsales souvent invalidantes.

Par Dominique Muselet

Le film de Hüseyin Aydin Gürsoy, Une affaire turque, remporte les suffrages des spectateurs mais pas ceux de la critique officielle. Si le film traite bien de deux des sujets favoris de cette dernière : le racisme et l'immigration, il n'en fait pas les ressorts du film et, surtout, il ne les approche pas de manière manichéenne (le racisme c'est mal, l'immigration c'est bien), comme l'exige la bien-pensance stipendiée.