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PRIVATE BLOG – Will the Ceasefire Hold?

PRIVATE BLOG – Will the Ceasefire Hold? Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please...

Europe Begins Energy Rationing as the Crisis Moves Into Daily Life

Europe is now removing any doubt about the seriousness of this crisis, because governments do not tell millions of people to stay home from work unless there is a...

Why America’s Money Always Follows War

When you strip away the propaganda, foreign aid is rarely about charity. It is about strategy, war, and buying influence. The latest long-run data show that from...

Digital Iron Curtain Expands as Russia Adopts China’s Surveillance Model

The Russian police has launched a mass-campaign of pulling people over and checking their phones to see if they have “illegal VPNs” installed...

No One Wants War — But No One Wants to Think Either

Mindless sheep exist on both wings of the bird. I often criticize the Democrats for their far-left views, but we are now witnessing the dark side of blind party...

The Iran War Update

I believe that Benjamin Netanyahu is a highly dangerous psychopath, which is defined as a person characterized by traits such as a lack of empathy, remorse, or...

Market Talk – April 8, 2026

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 2,878.86 points or 5.39% to 56,308.42 • Shanghai increased 104.833 points or...

Egypt Goes Dark Amid Energy Crisis

Egypt is now offering a real-time example of what happens when an energy crisis moves from theory into reality, and it is not unfolding in some distant or abstract...

The Oil That Is Already on the Water Is the Only Thing Buying Time

The problem with an oil crisis is that the public never feels it all at once because oil does not move by magic. It moves by ship, and ships move slowly. That delay...

Poland Considers Using Gold to Fund Defense as War Pressures Rise

Poland represents a critical development in the evolving role of gold because it illustrates how quickly central bank strategy can shift from accumulation to...