Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney plays hardball with Trump. Hardball Canadian Style Please note Canada’s Carney Tells Trump ‘I Meant What I Said’ in Davos Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke to President Trump and told him he stands by his remarks last week issuing a call-to-arms among smaller powers against economic coercion. “To…
A crypto lobby group said it found “increased hostility” from British banks, casting a shadow over the global cryptocurrency leadership the country said it is vying for. What to know: U.K. banks are increasingly blocking or limiting customer transfers to crypto exchanges, even those platforms registered with the Financial Conduct Authority. A survey by the…
Federal immigration agents have shot and killed two American citizens in Minneapolis in a matter of weeks, causing an uproar among the citizens in Minnesota. Could Minneapolis be the birthplace of the next civil war? Weeks after the death of Renee Good, and just one day after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by U.S….
The above quote is from William Gouge, commenting on the Panic of 1819. The panic had been caused when the First Bank of the United States had first expanded the money supply dramatically by offering loans, then contracted the money supply by tightening its requirements for new loans, causing a crash. This is a useful…
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed The gaping maw of the AI data centre beast is threatening to devour all energy and water on the planet. Awakened to this threat, people are organizing. This is the story of the fight against the data centres. Video player not working? Use these links to watch it somewhere else! WATCH…
Remember the Freedom Truck Convoy in Canada? Almost exactly 4 years ago, the Freedom Convoy in Canada started as a series of protests and blockades across Canada, initially organized to oppose COVAIDS-19 lethal injection mandates for cross-border truck drivers. The movement quickly expanded to protest all COVAIDS restrictions and mandates. Beginning on January 22, 2022,…
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In October 2025, Europe was faltering. Inflation was eroding savings, war raged on its borders, and trust in governments was crumbling. Amid this turbulence, Brussels quietly moved forward with a project that sounded, at first, almost routine—a technical reform, harmless on paper. Its name, the “28th regime,” suggested little more than…
Private credit or direct lending soared in popularity after the 2008 recession when regulators cracked down on banks, but now, companies backed by direct loans are beginning to fail. Fears surrounding private lenders and their legitimacy are coming to a head. Private credit is lending outside the traditional banking system. It exploded because regulation crushed…
Are you traveling to the EU? Soon, your travel details and biometrics could be sent straight to the United States. Last December, the Council of the European Union approved a plan to start negotiations with the United States on a new Enhanced Border Security Partnership. The goal of the partnership is to create a common framework for…
Forged under the pressure of the Cold War in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, is in critical condition. It has been brought to the brink of death by Donald Trump’s threat to take Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, a founding member of NATO. Trump has called acquiring Greenland “an absolute necessity.” He insists that he…
