By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
August 15, 2026
As Trump's "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth demands a fifty-percent increase to the war budget-topping an eye watering $1.5 trillion-it may be instructive to remember that war spending has always and everywhere been the primary enemy of sound money. Some advocates of the warfare state like to lay the blame on social spending, but it has historically been wars that end up ruining currencies and blowing the top off the public fisc.
Bruna Frascolla
From 16th-century Angola's nganga-ia - transvestite priests with unchecked power - to Brazil's Supreme Court equating transphobia with racism, history echoes.
In 1591, a slave named Duarte was harassed by a colleague, Joane, who wanted to be used by him as a woman. The dialogue between Duarte and Joane, which took place in Bahia, Brazil, was conducted in the language spoken by blacks, which their Jesuit owners did not understand.
Enrique Ravello Barber
Source: enriqueravello.com
Les Écossais revendiquent la paternité du rugby, un élément de discorde de plus avec leurs voisins du sud.
En 1872, un match se tint dans l'Inde britannique entre des militaires anglais et écossais à Calcutta. C'est l'origine de la Calcutta Cup, le plus ancien trophée du monde que se disputent chaque année ces loyaux ennemis.
par Yeni Şafak
La sécheresse historique de l'été 2026 fait baisser le Danube à des niveaux records. Près de Prahovo, en Serbie, des dizaines de navires allemands sabordés en 1944 réapparaissent. Environ 200 épaves reposent encore sur le fond, dont certaines chargées de munitions. L'Union européenne finance le retrait de 21 d'entre elles d'ici 2028. Le fret fluvial et la production d'énergie subissent déjà les effets de l'étiage record.
By Wendy Williamson
WendyWilliamson.com
August 13, 2026
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." - attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild
There is a narrative circulating today-let us call it the Promethean narrative-that offers a seductive explanation for global chaos. It tells its followers that the world is run by a shadowy financial cabal centered in the City of London.
George Austerfield
Thomas Paine warned: "The people are not to be confounded with their government." Today, the EU's opaque machinery makes that divide absolute.
"They serve to demonstrate how necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess."
- Thomas Paine http://www.newsnet.fr/1
When Thomas Paine stated that "[t]he people are not to be confounded with their government", he must have expected an outburst for never before him have government and people been thought of as opposites.
By Drago Bosnic
Infobrics
August 10, 2026
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui issued a rather generic condemnation of nuclear weapons, but never even mentioned the US for dropping the atomic bomb that killed over 160,000 Japanese civilians in Hiroshima alone. Instead, he went out of his way to condemn Russia. If Japan is so concerned with civilian dying, it should accept its own historical responsibility for the brutal genocide it committed against tens of millions of Chinese who suffered under Japanese occupation throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
Quand des artistes africains détournent de grandes œuvres
Série (4/5) - Au début du XIXe siècle, Théodore Géricault peint une épouvantable tragédie liée à la colonisation du Sénégal, Le Radeau de la Méduse. Deux cents années plus tard, frappé par le drame des migrants en Méditerranée, le plasticien béninois Roméo Mivekannin réinterprète l'œuvre devenue iconique.
par Nicolas Michel
Giacomo Gabellini
In che modo la fase conclusiva della Seconda guerra mondiale ha influenzato la definizione delle aspirazioni egemoniche degli Stati Uniti
Tra il 1942 e il 1942, le forze armate statunitensi ottennero considerevoli successi nella battaglia del Pacifico. La conquista di Guadalcanal al termine di ferocissimi scontri contro le truppe giapponesi preluse alla cacciata delle truppe nipponiche dalla Birmania ad opera degli anglo-indiani e all'occupazione delle Isole Marianne da parte dei marines, che si posero così nelle condizioni di concentrare l'attenzione sulle Filippine, conformemente ai disegni del generale Douglas MacArthur - e contrariamente alle raccomandazioni di Chester Nimitz, che premeva affinché la priorità fosse data a Taiwan.