More Being Exposed: Doug Casey on the JFK Assassination - Why It Matters Today

Doug Casey on the JFK Assassination: Why It Matters Today

International Man: Why does the assassination of JFK still matter today?

Doug Casey: Assassination has always been part and parcel of the political landscape since at least the days of the Egyptian pharaohs. Sometimes, assassinations can change the course of world history.

Two outstanding examples are that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC, which precipitated Rome’s change from a republic to an empire, and that of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, which ignited World War I.

Assassins come in two main flavors. Sometimes, it’s simply an individual or group with an ideological difference of opinion, a grudge, or a wish to make a point. That was the case with Ferdinand. Sometimes however, the assassins want to grab the reins of power. That was the case with Caesar.

Which was it with JFK? Was Lee Harvey Oswald a solo actor? Or was he part of a greater conspiracy? I’m partial to the latter view. Even assuming that Oswald was even the assassin—which is unlikely.

International Man: In his first week in office, President Trump issued an Executive Order to release the remaining JFK files. After a lengthy delay, the government finally made the files public nearly two months later.

Tucker Carlson recently remarked: “There is active pressure on elected officials to stop this disclosure… now, in 2025. Who is powerful enough to intimidate people into delaying this release? What force is influencing the new administration to prevent the disclosure?”

What are your thoughts?

Doug Casey: The Deep State in general, and the CIA in particular, are powerful institutions with lots of money, force, and cultures that tend to close ranks when under attack. Their members are intensely loyal not just because, on the upside, the institution treats them well and fills their rice bowls, but can give them immense wealth and privileges. Betraying them is dangerous.

That’s why members of the praetorian agencies like the CIA and NSA are typically much more loyal to their employer and coworkers than the government or even the country itself. They’ll defend the institution that they’ve built their lives around.

There are dozens of armed entities within the US government. The most intimidating include the 17 comprising the so-called Intelligence Community, as it’s officially known. They resemble the Praetorian guards of the Roman Empire. It’s perversely amusing doublespeak that they’re referred to as a “community,” which sounds friendly and benign. Tulsi Gabbard is unlikely to have any success reining them in. It’s more likely that she’ll either be evicted or co-opted by them.

They have unit cohesion. They have armed forces. They have cultures of intense secrecy and large “black budgets.” They’re used to circulating in the halls of power, which puts them in a position to understand and, therefore—quite naturally—disrespect the people who are the country’s nominal rulers.

The front-facing politicos are dangerous enough. But the powers behind the throne are the real danger. Especially the CIA, because of its history and traditions and the fact that the things it does are largely kept secret by law. “National security,” you know…

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Legacy Media in Free Fall

Legacy Media in Free Fall Amid Mass Firings, Loss of Trust

Alex Newman

Organizations once referred to as the “mainstream media,” perhaps more accurately described as establishment or fake media, are losing public trust at warp speed. Many outlets are letting go of employees quickly even as salaries are reined in.

At the local level, big shifts are happening too. With leftwing local newspapers struggling, folding, and being bought out by huge conglomerates, a new startup company, yourNEWS, threatens to roll up what’s left of that sector, too.

With its innovative business model and technology allowing advertisers and journalists to target consumers down to the zip code, the firm or another like it may soon dominate. 

In short, the media landscape is in the midst of a dramatic transformation that has major implications for investors, consumers, advertisers, and citizens.

According to recent Gallup polling, only 31 percent of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of trust in mass media, while 33 percent said they did not have very much trust and 36 percent had “none at all.”

Studies also found youth are the demographic least likely to trust the talking head media. Only 26 percent of 18–29-year-olds have a “great deal/fair amount” of trust. The 65+ age demographic responded with 43 percent exhibiting faith in the media.

According to the data, the rapid decline in trust from the American people began in 2015-2016, during the presidential election that resulted in the victory of Donald Trump. This was the beginning of the end for the “mainstream media.”

Even during the election, far more people were following Alex Jones on Youtube than most of the major establishment outlets — combined. Shortly after that, Jones was banned everywhere.

The media’s death received fame and political energy when then president-elect Trump held his first post-election press conference in New York City. Among other jabs, he famously put down CNN reporter Jim Acosta and his organization as “fake news.”

The remainder of Trump’s first term consisted of consistent and heavily publicized war between Trump and the media, decorated with a plethora of spun-up hoaxes and smear campaigns.

Fast forward to 2019 and the beginning of COVID-19. Public trust in media had risen back to pre-Trump levels. Gallup’s study records 41 percent of Americans saying they had trust. After months of so-called scientific “experts” flooding media warning every American to get vaccinated, stay home, and wear masks, the trust began to fade, again.

By the end of Joe Biden’s presidency, the public shifted beyond the 2015-2016 levels of distrust, with only 31 percent of Americans believing their TV, radio, and newspapers.

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AI Is Shifting The Balance Of Power:

The Elite Already Control Almost All The Wealth – So Why Will They Need Us Once AI Can Take Over Nearly All Of Our Jobs?

Michael

Is your job in danger?  We live at a time when the development of artificial intelligence is growing at an exponential rate.  AI can already perform lots of tasks better and far more efficiently than humans can, and it appears to be just a matter of time before AI can do virtually everything better and far more efficiently than humans can.  So once we get to that stage, why will the elite need us?   Throughout human history, the wealthy have needed the labor of the poor.  But if AI will soon be able to do almost all of the labor that we have been doing, what use will we be?

The elite certainly don’t need our money, because they already control almost all of the wealth.

In America today, the top 50 percent own 97.5 percent of all the wealth and the bottom 50 percent own just 2.5 percent of all the wealth…

The richest half of American families owned about 97.5% of national wealth as of the end of 2024, while the bottom half held 2.5%, according to the latest numbers from the Federal Reserve.

Much of the country is just barely surviving from month to month, and meanwhile the percentage of the wealth that is owned by the top 0.1 percent has risen to a brand new all-time record high…

The top 0.1% expanded their share of total wealth to a record 13.8% at the year’s end, up from 13% in the same period of 2020.

For a long time, the rich needed the poor to work in their factories and run their businesses.

But now AI is taking over.

In fact, Bill Gates says that humans will soon not be needed “for most things”…

Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed “for most things” in the world, says Bill Gates.

That’s what the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist told comedian Jimmy Fallon during an interview on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” in February. At the moment, expertise remains “rare,” Gates explained, pointing to human specialists we still rely on in many fields, including “a great doctor” or “a great teacher.”

But “with AI, over the next decade, that will become free, commonplace — great medical advice, great tutoring,” Gates said.

In this particular case, Bill Gates is quite correct.

We are creating ultra-intelligent entities that can absorb vast quantities of information in the blink of an eye.

Gates believes that we are entering an era of “free intelligence” in which many doctors, lawyers and teachers will simply become obsolete…

In other words, the world is entering a new era of what Gates called “free intelligence” in an interview last month with Harvard University professor and happiness expert Arthur Brooks. The result will be rapid advances in AI-powered technologies that are accessible and touch nearly every aspect of our lives, Gates has said, from improved medicines and diagnoses to widely available AI tutors and virtual assistants.

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Russia Threatens Britain and France With ‘Bloodbath’ Warning as Ukraine Support Talks Kick Off in Paris

Russia Threatens Britain and France With ‘Bloodbath’ Warning as Ukraine Support Talks Kick Off in Paris

Oliver JJ Lane

‘Coalition of the willing ‘leaders are meeting in Paris to discuss supporting Ukraine but Moscow continues its bid to undermine these attempts, accusing France and Britain of provoking “direct military confrontation” between NATO and the Russian Federation.

Governments of over 30 nations and entities are represented at the ‘Coalition of the Willing’, so called, talks in Paris on Thursday, called to discuss sustaining military and economic support for Ukraine. Also on the table is the suggestion of security guarantees for Ukraine and even, as frequently discussed by the United Kingdom and France, the possibility of European peacekeepers in Ukraine to monitor any agreement achieved by the Trump talks.

The purpose of this is to “deter, in order to send that message to Putin that this is a deal that is going to be defended”, Britain’s Starmer said today.

Russia, meanwhile, which clearly would not benefit from a ceasefire being guaranteed by NATO troops on Ukrainian soil and, consequently, a nuclear tripwire for any future bids to expand territorial holdings in the country has long agitated against such notions. That process continued this morning, with the spokesman for the Russian Foreign Minister Maria Zakharova warning of bloody violence if Europe tries, and accusing the United Kingdom of trying to inveigle Europe into an “Anglo-Saxon” plot to fight Russia against their own interests.

Zakharova said: “We understand why they are doing this. They need to provoke Europe into a bloodbath [with Russia]… They themselves, London, let me remind you, left the European Union at one time. And now the golden dream, after they have disrupted the economy of the European Union, is to push together the European continent as a whole. And they will join the Anglo-Saxon coalition.”

That there is an “Anglo-Saxon” conspiracy to destroy Russia is a frequent Kremlin trope.

In other comments, the Foreign Affairs representative also said: “I’d like to note again that Russia resolutely opposes a scenario fraught with a direct military confrontation between Russia and NATO”.

Further bids to undermine European confidence in the safety of supporting Ukraine came from Russian Member of Parliament Sergey Mironov, whose comments were amplified by Kremlin media on Thursday, who enunciated a hypothetical situation where the weapons now being handed to Kyiv may one day find their way back to Europe in the hands of terrorists. He said: “The West has been flooding Ukraine with weapons, and EU countries are willing to do so even to the detriment of their own security”.

Macron’s 'Coalition of the Willing': A Stealth Move for NATO Expansion?

Macron’s 'Coalition of the Willing': A Stealth Move for NATO Expansion?

Sputnik

Media reports earlier claimed that French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer were trying to convince 37 countries to form a coalition — dubbed the Coalition of the Willing — that would deploy peacekeepers in Ukraine and provide security guarantees to Kiev.

The French president’s push for the Coalition of the Willing aims to impeach the peace deal between Trump and Putin, Alexis Poulin, a leading EU policy analyst and Co-Editor of Le Monde Moderne magazine, told Sputnik.

“They pretend to come as a coalition of European forces to protect Ukrainian cities. But in fact, this is clearly an advance post for NATO forces,” Poulin pointed out, warning of the risk of an escalation.

He insisted that European leaders along with the North Atlantic Alliance are trying to build up a force on the ground in Ukraine, “not saying it's NATO, but clearly it will be NATO.”