PAUL EDWARDS—The American Empire, long in the tooth, sclerotic, unconsciously moribund, is bound and determined to force a showdown war on reluctant and prudent Russia and China. As erstwhile hegemon, it can’t abide the idea of not being, as in days of yore, Number 1.
With that intent, it has directed vast sums to its owners, the giant War Machine mafias, to build what our Presidents always swear is the most powerful military in the history of the world.
PG— For the record we reproduce here ABC News’ episode of Jan. 4, 2026, covering via blatant lies and other distortions the lawless abduction of Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro from his residence in Caracas.
CALEB MAUPIN—The video delves into a fundamental contradiction within the capitalist mode of production, focusing on the concept of “glut”—a phenomenon where markets crash due to overproduction amid insufficient purchasing power. This crisis has never existed before capitalism because prior economic systems did not produce wealth on such a scale. Maupin explains that under capitalism, products are created using materials, transportation, and human labor, but workers are paid less than the value of their labor, allowing capitalists to extract profit from this difference. Crucially, the total wages paid out (C1) are always less than the total value of the products (D), creating a systemic shortage of buying power among workers to purchase what they produce. This discrepancy leads to overproduction or glut, triggering economic crashes and boom-bust cycles.
JUDGE NAP—In this in-depth conversation between Judge Andrew Napolitano and Tucker Carlson, a wide range of critical political and social issues are explored with a focus on freedom of speech, U.S. foreign policy, and the erosion of foundational American principles. Carlson opens by addressing the recent Senate efforts led by Chuck Schumer to censure him for his podcast interview with Nick Fuentes, framing it as symptomatic of a bipartisan assault on the core American value of free speech. He emphasizes that freedom of speech is divinely ordained and non-negotiable, warning of the dangers posed by identity politics and tribalism, which he argues lead inevitably to societal destruction and violence, drawing parallels to historical atrocities like Rwanda.
GODFREE ROBERTS—Guam, Okinawa, and Japan hold most U.S. strike aircraft—yet all lie inside China’s 1,500-mile missile envelope–to be unleashed by the PLA Rocket Force, which can fire 5,000+ ballistic and cruise missiles in the opening hours. As Ely Ratner testified to Congress in 2021: “U.S. bases in the Western Pacific are within range of thousands of precision Chinese strikes—complicating any rapid response.” If the US responded to the loss of all its forward operating bases with a missile salvo, what could it target? Certainly not the Chinese Mainland.
