Posted originally on Jun 24, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
While the Democrats will scream and yell, Obama was a pawn of the Neocons. He wanted to invade Syria and got the Nobel Peace Prize. When the Neocons started the civil war in Ukraine, instructing the UNELECTED interim government installed by Victoria Nuland, who was then directed to attack the Donbas, it was Obama who wanted SWIFT to expel Russia. They refused. Bide did that one. But it was Obama who instructed that Russia should be removed from the G8 in a classic RULE #1 in the Neocon Handbook, to make sure that there could be no peace discussions with Russia, only – WAR, WAR, and more War.
The Neocon handbook has Rule #1 – DO NOT TALK TO THE ENEMY. This is what we see with all the world leaders refusing to talk with Putin, for that just might lead to peace, and that would stop their agenda. This is why all the European leaders have been stabbing Trump in the back because he broke the rules and engaged in communication with Putin.
President Donald Trump opened his time at the G7 summit in Canada, lambasting the heads of state, saying that Russia and possibly China should be included in the group. They were squirming in their seats, fearing that they would be scolded when they returned by NATO for daring to listen to him. Trump said, referring to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:
“The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in.”
Trump said that Russia would not have entered the war with Ukraine if it had been allowed back into the group by previous U.S. and world leaders.
“And I would say that was a mistake, because I think you wouldn’t have a war right now if you had Russia in, and you wouldn’t have a war right now if Trump were president four years ago.”
Obama expelled Russia from the G7 in 2014 after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine, following the Neocon Handbook. The Obama Administration was deeply involved in the entire Globalist-Neocon agenda. The mainstream media tries desperately to ignore the connections and the facts.
The Democrats were linked to advising Trudeau to help him get elected. James Carville, the famous “Ragin’ Cajun” Democratic strategist (Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign), did provide advice to Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party. His involvement was primarily during Trudeau’s leadership of the Liberal Party before the 2015 election, specifically around the time of Trudeau’s leadership win in 2013 and the subsequent party rebuilding phase. He provided strategic counsel on messaging, campaign structure, and voter engagement.
Trudeau’s team actively sought advice from Obama’s successful campaign veterans. Figures like David Axelrod (Obama’s chief strategist) and David Plouffe (Obama’s 2008 campaign manager) also met with Trudeau’s key advisors (like Gerald Butts and Katie Telford) in 2013-2014. They shared lessons learned, discussed data-driven campaigning, and offered informal strategic perspectives. Like Carville, they were advisors but did not take PAID positions, so they were not officially running the Canadian campaign. Obama was part of the whole Neocon group, and they saw Trudeau as essential to their objectives.
OBAMA Spied on Trump – Confirmed by Special Counsel
The question of whether the Obama administration “spied” on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election involves complex investigations and significant controversy. The official findings and investigations established:
Surveillance Did Occur on a Campaign Advisor: The FBI did conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign. This was done under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), requiring court approval. The FBI sought FISA warrants based on concerns about Page’s prior contacts with Russian intelligence officers and suspicions he might be acting as an agent of a foreign power (Russia). The initial application and renewals were approved by the FISA court. Investigations later found serious flaws in the FISA application process regarding Page. I was in the middle of the Neocon/Democratic attempt to take over Russia and their blackmail of Yeltsin in 2000, trying to install their crony, Boris Berezovsky. I refused to put in $10 billion to fund this takeover.
Special Counsel John Durham Report (May 2023), concluded that the FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation without sufficient predication based on the raw, unanalyzed information they had at the time. He was highly critical of the FBI’s reliance on the Steele dossier and the handling of the FISA applications. The broader investigation (Crossfire Hurricane) was officially opened due to purported concerns about Russian attempts to interfere in the election and potential links to Trump campaign associates, triggered by information about George Papadopoulos.
The Obama Administration’s efforts to prevent Trump from becoming president were consistent with similar attempts under the Biden Administration. Both were pawns and in cahoots with the Globalist-Neocon Agendas. Obama’s engagement is best described as a counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference falsely targeting Trump and his campaign associates, but which was significantly marred by serious procedural failures and faulty applications for surveillance warrants against one individual. We have witnessed similar events targeting the disruption of elections in Romania, and they have also sought to undermine Bolsonaro in Brazil. Anyone who stands in the way of the Neocons has been targeted.
Posted originally on CTH on June 18, 2025 | Sundance
For the sake of urgency I’m going to talk in direct and bold terms about the targeting of Tulsi Gabbard. The IC system is attempting to remove her as a disruptive influence by using Iran as a wedge to get her out, but the issue they have with Director Gabbard has nothing to do with Iran.
CTH approaches this after being very concerned about Tulsi Gabbard’s ability. Not because of intent, but rather we doubted her understanding of the scope of the IC opposition aligned against an effective Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Tom Cotton, the disassembled National Intelligence Council and a host of Intelligence Community embeds would like to see Gabbard removed. DC wants to see her removed because the traditional role of the DNI has been a willfully blind tool of the Intelligence Community; Gabbard is not that.
In the past few weeks, ever since she began intercepting the ICIG issues and using her own personnel to monitor the IC network, she has been targeted with several direct smear campaigns. It is obvious the targeting is coming from inside the intelligence apparatus, and perhaps even the orbit around/under CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
Tulsi Gabbard did make a strange video about nuclear weapons contrast against the horrific outcomes in Japan, but that seemed to be more of a personal video entry expressing a deep concern about nuclear weapons from her own perspectives. I said it was weird when I saw it, but I put that expression into the context of ‘surfboard Tulsi‘, the DNI peacenik. No biggie.
However, with the Israel -v- Iran conflict encompassing the White House, there is a transparent objective to weaponize Tulsi Gabbard’s activity as a contrast against President Trump supporting military conflict in Iran.
This contrast is being stimulated by the same elements who want to see her removed for the reasons noted above.
The latest narrative du jour in the files includes:
WASHINGTON DC – […] Trump has increasingly mused about nixing Gabbard’s office completely, an idea he floated when he gave her the job. In the White House there have been discussions about folding its mandate into the CIA or another agency, according to one of the people familiar with his response to the video and two others familiar with the matter — though it’s unclear what that would mean for Gabbard. The Director of National Intelligence serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser and oversees the sprawling U.S. spy community. (link)
First, “nixing Gabbard’s office completely” is exactly what the bad elements of the Intelligence Community would love to see. Second, “folding its mandate into the CIA” is like a dream come true for the darkest elements of the IC and Senate enablers. And Third, “serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser” is false. That’s the job of the National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio.
If there is one hope amid this looming and increasing drumbeat to remove her, it is that Marco Rubio likely can see exactly what the motives and intentions are from his former colleagues. The elements targeting DNI Gabbard all come from SSCI Chairman Marco Rubio’s old tribe.
SoS/NSA Rubio might save her, as too may Vice President JD Vance. Both of them are at the perfect distance to see the assembled drumbeat against Gabbard for what it is, a coordinated Intelligence Community operation. At least that is my hope.
I am not confident they will succeed removing her. However, what I am confident about is that if DNI Tulsi Gabbard is removed, she will not be replaced, and that’s as good as a win for the bad actors trying to target and survive Trump.
President Trump has no more juice or influence in the Senate. That time is over. Trump has exhausted all of the political capital he held in the upper chamber. Every Republican Senator now smiles, nods and does whatever the heck they want regardless of how it impacts President Trump. This is especially true for the SSCI who would control confirmation of a DNI replacement. They Republicans do not have to pretend any longer, Trump’s juice is gone.
If President Trump allows the Brutus crew in his orbit to isolate, ridicule and marginalize Tulsi Gabbard, he will be putting a significant part of his administration at risk. This is the Six Ways from Sunday crowd.
Posted originally on Jun 20, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
I repeatedly warned that the headlines would blame Trump tariffs for the incoming inflationary wave. Jerome Powell stated that “uncertainty is unusually elevated” as a result of tariffs, adding, “someone has to pay for the tariffs.”
“Ultimately, the cost of the tariff has to be paid, and some of it will fall on the end consumer,” he told reporters, noting that many retailers are only now replacing pre-tariff inventory. “We do expect to see more of that over the course of the summer.” This is a complete misread of the economic landscape based on antiquated economic principles.
Tariffs are taxes that are passed on to consumers. However, Powell is confusing a one-time price adjustment with a monetary-driven inflationary wave that began after the pandemic. The Fed is looking at the situation through a domestic lens while ignoring the international monetary crisis that is unfolding. We are experiencing a drastic shift away from public confidence worldwide, and that is causing capital to lose confidence in governments that are already deeply indebted.
The Fed is terrified of crashing the bond market if it hikes too fast, and equally terrified of sparking a dollar collapse if it cuts too soon. Government debt is no longer viewed as a safe haven. The computer has been warning that the sovereign debt crisis cannot be ignored for much longer. The Fed can no longer control inflation through interest rates. That was a Keynesian principle established when the government was not the largest borrower. Raising interest rates can have no impact on demand, as the government will simply borrow more, and the central banks simply have no say.
There is no limit to what the government will spend with “money” that simply does not exist. Governments continue to borrow perpetually with no real intention of paying back their debts. This is one piece of the Sovereign Debt Crisis that will implode like a nuclear bomb the likes of which we have never witnessed. The business cycle cannot be manipulated, and what’s more, the Keynesian model cannot account for declining confidence in both government and the economy.
Posted originally on Jun 20, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
The American people do not want war. The Iranian people do not want war, nor do the Russians, Ukrainians, or Israelis. Politicians lead nations on paths of death and destruction. The military-industrial complex succeeds, the neocons succeed, governments topple one another in search of power—but the people always lose.
King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who defeated the Romans at the Battle of Asculum (279 BC) but suffered massive, irreplaceable losses. He reportedly said:
“Another such victory, and I am undone.”
Kings and politicians have been waging wars for thousands of years. They seem to have no problem sending people to their deaths, all for some strange reason that appears to be the same human trait that wages sports, and we have to beat the other team to pound the chest and hold up the trophy. The French King Louis XIV, on his deathbed, lamented that he loved war too much.
The Prince of Savoy fought in many wars, and even Napoleon regarded him as one of the best generals in history. He fought for many kings and was wounded 13 times. Yet, the Prince of Savoy considered that he was the real father of our Second Amendment. He came to see that standing armies were evil, for they were easily used due to the expense of maintaining them. He came to realize that there should be no armies, and that was the only way to reduce war. His brilliant insight greatly influenced Montesquieu, as it laid the foundation for the right to bear arms, as enshrined in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that the people have the right to bear arms and form a militia in time of war. The underlying idea was to eliminate standing armies that feed the cycle of war.
Every war is government vs government, but they villanize the entire population of the enemy nation to justify their war games. The GOP may be cheering for war, but I have heard several Trump supporters express disappointment as they voted for the candidate who they presumed to be the least likely to bring America into a global conflict. I repeatedly warned that Trump could only prolong the inevitable cycle of war.
Americans are loudly stating that they do not want war. A new pollconducted by the Economist and YouGov found that only 16% of Americans believe the US should be involved in the Israel-Iran conflict, 24% are undecided, while an overwhelming 60% do not believe this is America’s battle to fight.
YouGov noted that 65% of Democrats, 61% of Independents, and 53% of Republicans are wary of intervening in Iran. Less than a quarter of Americans actually believe Iran’s nuclear program is a serious threat to US national security.
Half of Americans see Iran as an enemy nation, with a quarter labeling them as “unfriendly.” American mainstream media solely portrays the world through the lens of an American. Even Sky News, for example, is drastically different in its coverage compared to Fox. Images of Iranian flags and messages invoke fear and disdain. What most do not realize is that the Iranian people disapprove of the current regime and have been living in deteriorating conditions.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been in power for 36 years. President Masoud Pezeshkian was elected in 2024 following the death of the previous president, but Khamenei has sole authority over every branch of the government, military, and judiciary.
Iran was a different nation prior to the 1979 revolution. Pre-revolution pictures show women unveiled and living normal lives. Sharia law is now strictly enforced. The hijab is now non-negotiable for girls as young as 12. Half of the population was instantly silenced. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij militia have dismantled any attempted protest or disobedience. There were protests earlier this year but the people cannot speak out without the threat of execution. The major nationwide protests that occurred in 1999, 2009, and 2022 were completely dismantled by Iranian forces. The people live under a complete dictatorship.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei views America as the antithesis of Islamic culture. Relations with the West could expose Iran to cultural and political influence and ideology. His rhetoric has been anti-American for decades, no different from other adversaries, and he demonizes America to justify a stranglehold control over the nation. Ayatollah must exert power to protect his people from a hostile foreign nation. Sound familiar? Every government feeds its people similar lies.
The United States was Iran’s largest supplier of arms prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. US companies were significantly investing in the Iranian economy. US-Iran trade was blooming and the nations were discussing nuclear cooperation. The CIA did dismantle and install Iran’s government back in the 1950s after all, but that is a topic for another time. Relations deteriorated after the revolution. By 1995, US trade embargos blocked all trade with Iran and have remained in place for the past 30 years with transitory exceptions.
Fast forward to 2025, and Iran is facing a serious economic crisis after years of government mismanagement at the hands of a corrupt dictator. The currency has fallen by 50% in the past year and inflation is expected to soar from 35% to 50% in 2025. Poverty has become widespread as purchasing power has sharply declined. Infrastructure is failing, electricity outages are common, and basic goods are unaffordable. Some blame Western sanctions, while others blame the Iranian leadership for limiting economic growth and isolating Iran from the global markets.
The Iranian people are living under a harsh dictatorship that has resulted in a shrinking economy and a low quality of life. It remains to be seen whether Iran was close to becoming a nuclear power, but the concern did not exist until Israel’s attack on Iran. Is Iran the enemy? The one clear aspect is that the Iranian people are not the enemy, nor are the Russians, Ukrainians, Israelis, Chinese, etc. As Plato wrote in “The Republic” – “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
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