Posted originally on May 18, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Well, here we are at the 15th, right on schedule. Your model turns up, and it looks like no deal. Would you care to comment?
Uri
ANSWER: Putin said their purpose would be “to remove the root causes of the conflict and move towards creating a long-term, durable peace in a historical perspective”. Zelenskyy said he was prepared to attend, but only if Putin also showed up, because “everything in Russia depends” on the Russian leader as if that is not the case in Ukraine. Trump also was not attending.
Zelensky is a Neo-Nazi and he takes orders from the EU and NATO. He wants every Russian dead. What would he do if Russia left the Donbas? He has outlawed them from speaking Russian, denied them any right to vote, outlawed Orthodox Christianity, and outlawed them from even celebrating Christmas. The Ukrainian people have a choice. Either to die for the Neocons, or rise up and overthrow Zelensky. Contacts in Romania realize the EU is trying to orchestrate them into war with Russia. The strategy here is to send the Eastern Europeans in to kill as many Russians as possible, and then Macron can invade Russia like Napoleon.
Our model peaked intraday in the last quarter of 2024, with the third quarter of 2024 as the highest quarterly closing. The correction was to be into the first Quarter, and then the second quarter was a Directional Change. We will now head into the third quarter of 2025, which should reflect the failure of any peace deal because any ceasefire is only to regroup and rearm Ukraine. There is no resolution to this, and the EU will NEVER allow Ukraine to have peace.
There was a peace deal. Putin withdrew his tanks around Kiev, and Boris Johnson flew to Ukraine and instructed Zelensky not to sign any peace deal. More than one million Ukrainians are now dead. My sources in the US military confirm that all the claims that Russia has lost 1 million are fake news. This is all to push for war. Europe does NOT want peace. They are broke, and without war, the people will be storming their parliaments with pitchforks to hang these politicians on the street, for everything they were promised will vanish in a sovereign default. They NEED a distraction, and that is war with Russia, the same as Carney ran against Trump in Canada and avoided all domestic economic damage carried out by the Liberal Party.
Posted originally on CTH on May 17, 2025 | Sundance
There has been a lot of discussion about who was running the Biden administration against the backdrop of numerous revelations about his cognitive incapacity while in office. However, one key point keeps being overlooked about the DOJ during his tenure.
Merrick Garland was not selected to be Joe Biden’s Attorney General because the crew in control of the events wanted Merrick Garland as Attorney General. Garland was removed from his position as DC Circuit Court Justice in order to make room for Ketanji Brown-Jackson to take Garland’s place, get Senate confirmed and then await the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Bryer. {GO DEEP}
As a standalone Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson would have been a radical pick. Judge Brown-Jackson was a known activist in the DC District Court; however, by removing Garland as chief circuit justice and replacing him with KBJ, who needed Senate confirmation as chief circuit justice, she could get through a later Senate confirmation easier and then sit on the Supreme Court for thirty years. Garland was removed to make room for KBJ. It was a strategy.
Garland was a U.S. Attorney General in name only. The actual lead of the DOJ was from Obama’s crew, Deputy AG Lisa Monaco.
WHY?
Back in 2009 President Obama selected Eric Holder to be Attorney General. AG Holder’s role was to lead the Lawfare ‘fundamental transformation’ we have seen in the 16 years since. In the 2010 midterms, Obama was “shellacked,” that triggered AG Holder to ask the Treasury Department to participate in a “special research project.” {Go Deep}
The IRS was asked for the Schedule-B’s of groups who were registered as “patriot” groups (Tea Party Patriots) and other names associated with the political uprising against Barack Obama and the takeover of federal healthcare, ie Obamacare. The Cincinnati field office of the IRS then sent the DOJ a batch of CD-ROM’s containing the names of the individual donors listed on the IRS 501-c (3)(4) forms. That list was then compiled and used by the federal government to target the donors and supporters. A whistleblower came forward; the IRS controversy swirled in 2012.
On September 25, 2014, the Justice Department said Attorney General Eric Holder would resign as soon as his successor is confirmed. Holder was succeeded by Loretta Lynch on April 27, 2015. Lynch was selected because she was the bridge to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016. Remember the Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting? It’s all connected.
[Sidebar – the reporter who broke the story of the Arizona Clinton/Lynch tarmac meeting later died from “suicide.”]
Summary so far: Obama appointed Holder to lead and create the weaponized Lawfare transition within Main Justice. Eric Holder did just that, and also created the DOJ-National Security Division (to use FARA investigations against DC operatives as leverage). Holder then left the DOJ, took the special research project data, and went to work in California. Loretta Lynch was then appointed as the transitional AG between Obama and Hillary Clinton. That was the plan. The DOJ/FBI would protect Clinton’s interests, and that’s exactly what they did in 2015 and 2016.
Eric Holder was then hired by the State of California right after the surprising and unexpected election result of 2016 [LINK]. Eric Holder then began constructing the BETA test for what was to come later. Eric Holder organized the motor-voter rolls in California to auto-register illegal alien voters. The California legislature passed a law permitting illegal aliens to get drivers licenses. Eric Holder’s program linked those drivers licenses automatically to voter registration. Do you remember the 2018 mid-term election in California?
For weeks after 2018 election day in California, the new process of mail-in ballots changed the entire election day outcome. California was the BETA test for the national 2020 mail-in ballot fraud system. It all links back to the California ballot and illegal alien voter registration operation carried out by Eric Holder.
Eric Holder was Obama’s weaponized Attorney General (2009-2015). Loretta Lynch was the Attorney General in place to facilitate the transition to Hillary Clinton (2015-2016). Merrick Garland was Biden’s Attorney General (2021) to pave the way for Ketanji Brown-Jackson to be a U.S. Supreme Court Justice (2022). Lisa Monaco was the person running the day-to-day DOJ operations (2021-2025).
KBJ was put into the planning book back in February 2020, yes, 2020!
It was February 25th, 2020, to be precise, just four days before the South Carolina Democrat primary. South Carolina Representative James Clyburn went backstage at the presidential debate and told Biden, “You’ve had a couple of opportunities to mention naming a Black woman to the Supreme Court,” Clyburn lectured his friend of nearly half a century, like a schoolteacher scolding a child. “I’m telling you, don’t you leave the stage tonight without making it known that you will do that.” {link}
Unbeknownst to Biden at the time, just two days earlier Barack Obama and James Clyburn came to an agreement and created the most consequential alliance of the 2020 Democrat campaign. Barack Obama the figurative and ideological leader of the movement known as “Black Lives Matter”, and James Clyburn the figurative and ideological leader of the political construct within the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, had struck a deal.
Obama and Clyburn really had no choice but to come to an agreement and form the alliance. If they did not act fast, Bernie Sanders was gaining momentum, and they could not have Sanders at the top of the 2020 ticket, because he was too outside the club system which was now almost exclusively focused on racial identity as a tool for political power.
A Bernie Sanders -vs- Donald Trump general election would have been a disaster; and it would be almost impossible for the racial operatives in the key precincts [Atlanta (GA), Philly (PA), Clark County (NV), Wayne County (Mich), Madison (WI)] to feel inspired enough to risk themselves and commit fraud to help Bernie win.
To get rid of Sanders, BLM and AME aligned. This was the actual moment when Hillary Clinton was cast into the pit of irrelevance in Democrat politics.
Within the agreement, Obama and Clyburn selected Biden as the tool they could easily control to deliver on their larger, progressive, leftist intentions.
A few days later, James Clyburn then endorsed Biden while Barack Obama began making phone calls telling each of the other candidates to drop out in sequence and support Biden or else the club would destroy them. The only one told not to drop out yet was Elizabeth Warren, as she would be needed as the insurance policy, the splitter against Bernie Sanders.
Each of the candidates was promised the traditional indulgences for toeing the party line, and the rest is history. Joe Biden wandered around doing what everyone told him to do, which was mostly stay in his basement and let the club work on his behalf, until the club delivered the nomination.
Inside that process, the strategic map was modified to ensure Ketanji Brown-Jackson would advance to the Supreme Court.
With Biden installed, he would select Merrick Garland as his Attorney General. Judge Garland was an important judge on the important DC Circuit Court. Garland’s replacement would need to be a Senate confirmed seat for that Circuit Court assignment. Brown-Jackson would be put into Garland’s open spot, and the Senate could not deny her the SCOTUS confirmation, having just confirmed her months before. {Go Deep}
It was always the team around -and including- Barack Obama operating in the background of Biden.
In this wide-ranging and provocative interview, economist and forecaster Martin Armstrong shares dire warnings about the future of global finance, governance, and geopolitics. Armstrong argues that we are headed for a massive economic and governmental collapse by 2032, driven by unsustainable debt, declining confidence in institutions, and a manufactured climate crisis used to justify authoritarian control.
He warns that elites are using wars, digital currencies, and manipulated narratives to maintain power while suppressing dissenting forecasts. Armstrong also draws parallels between modern political chaos and historical cycles, highlighting how economic breakdown is often the catalyst for societal transformation. The interview touches on volcanic activity, potential population decline, central bank digital currencies, false flag events, and the dangers of Western interventionism—especially in Ukraine and Europe.
Posted originally on May 8, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Ukraine, Palestine, Pakistan, Syria, Haiti – war is indeed a contagion. Yet, certain wars are orchestrated years, if not decades, in advance, as those who read “The Plot to Seize Russia” will understand. Few realize that the war on Gaza was also carefully orchestrated years ago.
“Hamas was encouraged and really started by Israel and the United States to counteract Yasser Arafat.” – Ron Paul
Yasser Arafat was the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, and President of the State of Palestine from 1989 to 2004. Arafat founded the Fatah political movement after the Suez Canal Crisis, which operated as a nationalist group and did not embrace the collaborative ideologies of Arab nations at that time. He rebuked donations from other Arab governments, although he did seek to form alliances.
Hamas originated in December 1987 at the start of the first Palestinian intifada. Unlike the PLO, Hamas was rooted in Sunni religious ideology and viewed the battle against Israel as a religious jihad. The PLO and Arafat recognized Israel’s right to exist in 1988; Hamas did not. Hamas declared Arafat was “a creature of Israel” and vehemently opposed his two-state stance.
When Egypt lost Gaza to Israel after the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, the Muslim Brotherhood moved to Gaza. Sayyid Qutb, a leader of the Brotherhood, was executed, and wheelchair-bound Sheik Ahmed Yassin became one of the top leaders in the organization. The Wall Street Journal interviewed a senior Gaza official in 2009 who explained how Israel saw this as an opportunity:
“Israel’s military-led administration in Gaza looked favorably on the paraplegic cleric, who set up a wide network of schools, clinics, a library and kindergartens. Sheikh Yassin formed the Islamist group Mujama al-Islamiya, which was officially recognized by Israel as a charity and then, in 1979, as an association. Israel also endorsed the establishment of the Islamic University of Gaza, which it now regards as a hotbed of militancy. The university was one of the first targets hit by Israeli warplanes in the [2008-9 Operation Cast Lead].”
Yassin’s coalition eventually became Hamas, which the Washington Post called “Israel’s Taliban: an Islamist group whose antecedents had been laid down by the West in a battle against a leftist enemy.” Israel imprisoned Yassir for 12 years, but the funding to his organization continued.
Israeli authorities, under the guidance of the United States government, supported the origination of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1970s and 1980s, which later spawned Hamas. The Brotherhood established a large network of NGOs, mosques, charities, and other social organizations to influence Palestine and funnel money into their organization.
Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s, told the New York Times that he assisted in financing the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” against the PLO, which had gained popularity and international recognition. “The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”
Bill Clinton attempted to facilitate peace through the 1993 Oslo Accords which acknowledged the two-state solution. The PLO was seen as cooperative at this stage and not in defiance of Israel’s right to exist. It is difficult to overtake a nation on a national scale when they are playing by the rules.
We arrive at 2000 when former President Bill Clinton attempted to draw the “Clinton Parameters,” a proposed peace deal that would permit Israel to annex highly populated settlement blocs containing 80% of Palestinian settlers. The Old City and holy sites would become Israeli territory, and the nation would maintain control over the Temple Mount. Palestine, in turn, would be awarded 1% to 3% land swaps with Israel, and a $30 billion international fund would be created to compensate Palestinian refugees.
Both nations initially agreed to the idea, but Clinton insisted that they reach an agreement before he left office. The deal fell through in an embarrassing defeat for the Clinton Administration. George W. Bush was then elected and proposed a road map for peace, entailing a two-state solution. Bush had his sights set on other areas of the Middle East, as we know, and the US encouraged Palestine to hold an election.
The January 25, 2006, election resulted in Hamas securing the majority of votes. The United States and Europe had already deemed Hamas a terrorist organization by this point, and the election marked a significant turning point in relations with Palestine.
“I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake. And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win,” Hillary Clinton said in 2006, after the election. Who’s to say that the US and Israel did not interfere? Hillary Clinton said that she would have met with Netanyahu during her first month in office if elected president. Bernie Sanders repeatedly called out Clinton’s desire for war with Palestine during the 2016 U.S. presidential debates. Time Magazine has published Hillary’s speech to AIPAC, which has successfully lobbied 95% of US politicians.
What is clear is that both Israel and the US continued to fund Hamas. The US, Israel, UN, and Qatar agreed after the 2014 Gaza war to send $30 million to the Gaza Strip each month. Around $10 million was intended to purchase oil from Israel, another $10 million to pay government employees, and the remaining $30 million to be distributed in $100 stipends to 100,000 Gazan families in poverty. The belief then, according to the press, was that Hamas was fueled by greed and would back away from warfare if paid off. Yet, Hamas is rooted is jihadist religious ideology—it was never about money.
“The PA [Palestinian Authority] said it would no longer agree to fund Hamas, and rather than let the terror group collapse, Israel decided on an alternative route for its funding,” says Dr. Udi Levi, who was the Mossad official charged with fighting the funding of terror until 2016. “That was part of Israel’s policy to buy quiet. Hamas demanded that the $30 million per month would be delivered directly to the ruling faction. It was naïve to believe Hamas would provide the money to the population in Gaza.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu penned a letter to Qatar in 2018 in which he asked the Qatari leadership to continue funding Hamas. Funding to Hamas continued long after the 2006 election by both the United States and Israel.
USAID had a budget that surpassed the budgets of the CIA and State Department, the recent DOGE investigation revealed. USAID spent millions on the Islamic Relief Agency, another NGO affiliated with Gaza whose members include Ghazi Hamad, an outspoken Hamas terrorist who promised to repeat the events of October 7 “time and again until Israel is annihilated.” Islamic Relief, better known at the Muslim Brotherhood, had known ties to Osama Bin Laden who attempted to take responsibility for the worst terrorist attack on US soil. USAID gave the Unlimited Friends Associated an untold sum despite one of their goals being to “cleanse” the land of “impure Jews.” The Qassam Brigades received between $7 and $30 million from USAID through the Mercy-USA NGO.
The American Near East Refugee Agency (ANERA), founded in 1968 after the Six-Day War, was one of USAID’s main recipients. The organization received a $12.5 million grant from USAID in 2024 alone. ANERA has only partnered with the Bayader Association and Hamas. They funded the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), which was created by Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin.
The US government was well aware of ANERA’s involvement in terrorism. The Israel Law Center published a report in 2017 that found ANERA used USAID funds to support Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) kindergartens that actively indoctrinate children in hatred and killing of Israeli civilians, as well as other PIJ and Hamas organizations, thus enabling them to finance terrorist activity, which is forbidden by U.S. law.” Ten years earlier, the Washington Times reported that “USAID continues to fund multimillion-dollar programs through American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), which is building a high-tech facility” for the IUG.
Western Islamism, a publication of the Middle East Forum (MEF), published a study entitled “Terror Finance at the State Department and USAID.” US taxpayers spent $164 MILLION on grants through USAID to Islamist groups, including $122 million designated to known terrorist organizations. The data in ‘Terror Finance’ paint a clear picture: USAID is complicit in financing jihad,” said Sam Westrop, director of Islamist Watch, who is calling for “a public vetting process of U.S. government grants to exclude any organization with even the most indirect link to an extremist movement.”
It is no secret that US intelligence agencies have funded terrorism to destabilize the Middle East. The Deep State knew 9/11 was going to occur, no different from how they knew Hamas would manage to penetrate the Iron Dome and attack Israel.
Hamas was intended to counteract Yasser Arafat and portray Palestine as a terrorist-led state. There is a reason that billions have been funneled into supporting Hamas. Palestine is fully controlled by a terrorist organization, which gives Israel and the US leverage to invade. The two-state proposal was a temporary solution to grander goals.
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