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  • Unfriendly Fire – a History of False Flags

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Sep 24th 2022 12:50pm EDT (Archive)

    According to the BBC, “a false flag is a political or military action carried out with the intention of blaming an opponent for it. Nations have often done this by staging a real or simulated attack on their own side and saying the enemy did it, as a pretext for going to war. The term […]

  • Cadillac Desert – The American West and Its Disappearing Water

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Aug 29th 2022 10:24pm EDT (Archive)

    Prior to 1900, the western United States comprised less than 5% of the country’s total population. By 2000, that number had quadrupled to over 20%, and was on track to continue growing as a percentage of the total until only recently, where the southern states have begun outpacing it in term of number of people […]

  • Assassination – After Dark

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Aug 5th 2022 10:42am EDT (Archive)

    With the alleged assassination of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri by US forces and the shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the past few weeks, conspiracy theories abound as to the motives behind potential realignment in global politics and the media news cycle. Also in the news is economist Jeffrey Sachs making […]

  • Exxon Mobil – Peak Oil and its Consequences

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Jul 10th 2022 1:47pm EDT (Archive)

    Since the industrial revolution and the advent of fossil fuels in place of manual labor powering nearly all aspects of civilization from agriculture to transportation to manufacturing, human productivity and population have exploded, going from under 1 billion in 1750 to a projected population of 10 billion in 2100. In the 20th century, oil became […]

  • Sunset of the Ottomans

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Jun 24th 2022 12:46am EDT (Archive)

    From the 14th through the early 20th century, the Middle East consisted of a hybrid civilization composed of various tribes and peoples stretching from the Balkans down through the Arabian Peninsula under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire. To its promoters, Constantinople administered a multicultural society that balanced ethnic and religious differences into a harmonious […]

  • The Rise of Goldman Sachs

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Jun 8th 2022 3:20pm EDT (Archive)

    As a $60 billion a year investment bank engaged in market making and asset management for equities, fixed income, commodity and derivative securities for large institutional clients, Goldman Sachs, having been founded in 1869, is arguably the world’s most recognizable name on Wall Street. Known for attracting some of the best financial talent, it is […]

  • Food Security, Supply and Shortages – with James LaFond

    Myth Of The 20th Century - May 6th 2022 7:32pm EDT (Archive)

    With a spate of recent news stories about fires and other incidents forcing closures of over 20 food processing and distribution centers in the United States, Canada and Europe this year, people have started wondering if there has been a concerted effort to undermine food security in and around the industrialized world. Comparing to previous […]

  • The End of History and the Last Man

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Apr 26th 2022 6:11pm EDT (Archive)

    Published in 1992, political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ described a world in which he saw the 70+ year struggle between the authoritarian styles of government meeting an unequivocal end with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. What triumphed – principally the American system of ‘liberal democratic […]

  • Boeing – Troubled Skies

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Mar 31st 2022 12:06am EDT (Archive)

    In 2019, Airbus surpassed for the first time Boeing as the largest aerospace company in the world, as two crashes of Boeing’s 737-Max airplane forced a grounding of the fleet and a halt in sales, eventually costing it $20 billion in associated fines and delays. While Boeing maintains a relatively strong overall safety record as […]

  • The Ukraine Crisis – After Dark

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Mar 18th 2022 6:46pm EDT (Archive)

    Following our interview with Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson on the crisis in Ukraine, we wanted to do a brief follow up on the potential long-reaching supply chain implications of the broader conflict between the West and East. Russia, being targeted now by nearly all Western nations with sanctions aimed at its financial payments infrastructure, telecommunications, […]