The BRICS Currency Project Picks Up Speed
Several nations look to develop a gold-based currency to bypass the US dollar. The world shall see after the BRICS nations meet next month how successful they are.
Several nations look to develop a gold-based currency to bypass the US dollar. The world shall see after the BRICS nations meet next month how successful they are.
Like many colonial ventures, Belgium's involvement in the Congo had some successes—and many failures.
Michael and Walter Block discuss the Ukrainian conflict, reparations, immigration, and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
It's fitting that the G7 recently met in Hiroshima because the policies they are following are blowing up the world economy.
Postwar Germany was occupied, in ruins, with an economy in chaos. Germans were reduced to using cigarettes supplied by American GIs as money.
The recent declaration of the G7 sounds more like "we want to rule the world" than "we want peace." Other nations are tired of the West's phony Rules Based Order.
Leftists claim that developing nations are poor because Western nations once practiced colonialism. The truth is that empires do not foster economic growth.
As geopolitical tensions rise, the Chinese political leadership tells the US government to desist pushing its "color revolutions."
Ryan and Tho take a look at the legacy of Daniel Ellsberg's heroic leak of the Pentagon Papers and the evils of government secrecy.
Congress is silent – or compliant – as we lurch forward toward disaster for no discernable US strategic goal. Biden – or whoever is actually running the show – is forging straight ahead.