All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame

In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran

by Ellen Brown

The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” —Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope (1966)…

The Internet’s Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

by Kate Knibbs

This month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under the Trump administration. The story is one of countless examples of how the Wayback Machine, which crawls and preserves web pages, has helped preserve information for the public good. It was also, Wayback Machine director Mark Graham says, “a little ironic.”

USA Today Co., the publishing conglomerate formerly known as Gannett that runs both its namesake paper and over 200 additional media outlets, bars the Wayback Machine from archiving its work. “They’re able to pull together their story research because the Wayback Machine exists. At the same time, they’re blocking access,” Graham says…

The $50,000 puppy: Why the pet debt crisis is reaching a breaking point in 2026

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Etienne Note: The issue isn’t the rising cost of owning a puppy, the issue is the rapid loss of purchasing power of the organized crime monetary system. Please see our special report on inflation: The Greatest Theft in Human History at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation

by Emma Sutton-Williams

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When we talk about the cost of a pet, it’s about more than the “price of admission.”

Whether you pick up your dog from a specialized breeder or choose to adopt, both can cost you a fortune. I was just joking with my husband about how much our Mini Sheepadoodle, Lucy, actually costs us, but the joke isn’t that funny; she is a financial strain, and I wouldn’t trade her for anything…

US Property Taxes Rose 3 Percent On Average In 2025, Outpacing Inflation

Property taxes are rising across the United States and, on average, have outpaced inflation.

Etienne Note: The BLS is lying about the rate of inflation as we document in our investigation into: The Greatest Theft in Human History at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation AND the rise in home prices that are jacking American’s property taxes are part of the same scam that we document in the same investigation. This is economic warfare against the population using the crooked monetary system.

by Tyler Durden

Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Property taxes are rising across the United States and, on average, have outpaced inflation.

Homeowners in 2025 paid a total of $396.8 billion in property taxes on more than 89.6 million single-family homes, a 3.7 percent increase from 2024, an April 9 report by real estate property data provider ATTOM states…

So you want to blockade Iran . . .

It may prove a bit more difficult than blocking the Strait of Hormuz

by Matt Bracken

For the record, I am not pro-woodchipper, or pro-porcupine, or pro-Iran. I am trying to keep the potentially coming Great Energy World War sea battles in the realm of reality, and not a recurring fantasy of our Navy’s glory days of WW2.

This coming sea war will not be Tom Cruise in Top Gun slapping around Grenada, Panama, Libya or Venezuela. Iran can bite back…

Simplicius Iran Update: Masterful 5D Stroke: Trump’s Blockade Charade Deflects From Ceasefire Flop

As expected the Iran-US talks in Pakistan have led to a deadlock—or, in other words, failed.

by Simplicius

As expected the Iran-US talks in Pakistan have led to a deadlock—or, in other words, failed.

The entire foundation on which the talks were premised was phony because the US is agreement-incapable and does nothing but lie at every stage of the process.

First, it had come out that the US had been begging Pakistan to intervene and force Iran into talks for weeks. Then when Iran finally agreed, it had come out that the US was involved in the drafting of the Pakistani announcement which specifically stated that Lebanon was to be included in the ceasefire. But as soon as the ceasefire took effect, and Israel brazenly ignored the new restrictions, the US immediately changed its tune and claimed that the Iranian side had “misunderstood” the agreement, and that Lebanon was never part of the equation…

California Lawmakers Introduce The “Stop Nick Shirley Act”

It would appear that independent journalist Nick Shirley’s expose on medical subsidies fraud in California

by Tyler Durden

After making waves in Minneapolis by revealing rampant daycare fraud run by Somali migrants feeding on millions in government subsidies (and likely funneling some of that cash to Democrat politicians), Nick Shirley traveled to the Golden State only to find more fraud, including voting scams and medical care scams.

The investigation has apparently led to at least 21 arrests associated with medical fraud just after Shirley published his report, though no official sources have confirmed a direct connection.

This brand of taxpayer theft is an ever present problem within blue states where Democrats and migrants seem to work hand-in-hand. But the real giveaway is the fact that Democrats, NGOs and leftist activist groups respond with such hostility to any efforts to expose migrant fraud.

In Minnesota, the state government and NGOs enabled violent leftist mobs in order to distract from the Somali fraud issue and prevent ICE agents from making arrests. This is how important these scam networks are to the political left…

FLASHPOINT China DEFIES Trump’s blockade of Strait of Hormuz as US-sanctioned tanker brazenly sails through waterway unchallenged

CHINA has brazenly breezed past Donald Trump’s Strait of Hormuz blockade – with its US-sanctioned tanker passing by American warships unchallenged.

by Nick Parker , Foreign Editor | Joe Mannion , Foreign News Reporter | Robin Perrie , Chief Foreign Correspondent

CHINA has brazenly breezed past Donald Trump’s Strait of Hormuz blockade – with its US-sanctioned tanker passing by American warships unchallenged.

The US Navy’s blockade of the vital trade route began yesterday, as Trump looks to pressure Iran’s top brass into accepting his nuclear demands.

But today China’s Rich Starry tanker – which has been sanctioned by America since 2023 for dealing with Iran – passed through the waterway in what appeared to be a challenge to Trump.

The vessel did not enter the blockaded area – which only prevents travel to and from Iranian ports – but sailed by a US fleet which would have had the capability to halt the sanctioned ship…

The Iran war could cost the American taxpayer $1 trillion, says Harvard academic

After the first six days, the war in Iran racked up costs of $11.3bn, according to the Pentagon.

by Joseph Wilkins

Key Points

After the first six days, the war in Iran racked up costs of $11.3bn, according to the Pentagon.

But one academic believes the total cost will prove much higher, potentially reaching $1 trillion over the next decade.

Such outlays will exacerbate the proliferating U.S. fiscal deficit, says Professor Linda Bilmes…

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