In this book Cynthia Chung pieces together the events that led up to the Ghost Dance which exposes a much darker and sinister account of this history than has ever been recorded before leading us down a deep rabbit hole that will reveal the role that the Jesuits, the Scottish Rite, the Mormons and the…
The Curse of Game Theory: Why It’s in Your Self-Interest to Exit the Rules of the Game
By Cynthia Chung FOR THE AUDIO VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE REFER HERE. Game theory, the mathematical theory of games of strategy, was developed by John von Neumann in several successive stages in 1928 and 1940-41, according to his book “Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour” which he co-authored with Oskar Morgenstern. The crux of the…
C.S. Lewis vs H.G. Wells: A Journey out of the Deep Black Void
C.S. Lewis is famously known for his work ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ as well as his impassioned defense of Christianity in an age of accelerating materialism, but he is less known for his work in science fiction. Although not often appreciated as these works deserve, Lewis’ sci-fi trilogy (Out of the Silent…
Prometheus and America: The True Story of the American System by Anton Chaitkin
In this second presentation of the series “A Harmony of Interests: Inquiries into the True Nature of the American System“, sponsored by the Rising Tide Foundation, historian Anton Chaitkin (author of Treason in America [1984] and The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush [1991]) introduces his upcoming book and guides us through a powerful sweep of…
Clash of the Two Americas: Ellen Brown Interviews Matt Ehret
Legendary economist and lawyer Ellen Brown (President of the Public Banking Institute) took some time to discuss the new book The Clash of the Two Americas vol. 1: The Unfinished Symphony with Matthew Ehret. This conversation moves through many side topics, from public banking, history, principles of science, creativity and even the fraud of artificial intelligence. To…
Kirk Douglas, Trumbo and JFK: When Hollywood Patriots Resisted the Deep State
By Matthew Ehret In recent decades, barring a few exceptions, Hollywood (just like much of the mainstream media) has become a branch of the CIA and broader military industrial complex. While fake news agencies as CNN spin false facts to the intellects of mushy-minded Americans, Hollywood prepares the fertile soil for those false seeds to…
A City on a Hill: Winthrop’s Grand Design
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Sam Labrier introduces the international geopolitical environment during a time of global upheaval in the early 17th century as platonic humanists in Europe sought more fertile soil far removed from the corruption of the old world wherein a new type of society could be founded upon republican principles of…
The Father of Modern China Was Inspired by Lincoln
By Matthew Ehret China today is a paradox for many people. On the one side, it is a nation based upon centralized government, yet it also has a vast private sector, entrepreneurial culture and market economy. Its leaders call this “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” but there is a larger history at play, going back to…
America’s Forgotten Fight for Universal Progress (Anton Chaitkin RTF Lecture)
Does the United States hold within it the moral fitness to survive? If this question is to be answered in the affirmative, then it will be due to the rediscovery and application of the founding political economic traditions that gave rise to the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and economic identity as a nation premised on…
C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength: A Tale of Transhumanism, the Occult… & Merlin?!
In this third and final lecture unravelling the multifaceted layers of C.S. Lewis’ penetrating mind and playful style contained in his ‘science fiction trilogy’, Rising Tide Foundation President Cynthia Chung tells the tell of ‘That Hideous Strength’ as it has never been told before. In her presentation, Cynthia reviews a tale which serves as a…
The Epistemological Lessons of Frank Herbert’s Dune and Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy
Many have read Frank Herbert’s famous series of science fiction books titled ‘Dune’ (or at least watched the film versions of the story) and many have read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy. Few have come to recognize the layers of geopolitical and epistemological insights bubbling under the surface of these works. On Wednesday February 1st 2023,…
New CP Film Release! The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs EPISODE 3
The New Age of the Sorcerers: UFOs, MK Ultra and the Cold War In this third episode of ‘The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs’ we reveal the architects behind a new world religion premised around alien deities, psychoactive drugs and psychological warfare. The human-made origins of UFOs are examined with a look towards German and Italian…
The Anglo-Venetian Roots of the Deep State (A Highwire special with Del Bigtree)
During the recent moral trainwreck sometimes called ‘the Paris Olympics’, I was asked by Del Bigtree to explain the occult messaging which flashed in front of millions of peoples’ faces for several hours. That episode had such an amazing response from so many people that Del asked me to join him in studio for a new…
Two New Documentaries: The Unfinished Symphony and International Dimensions of 1776
What were the core principles of the republic and how were those moral principles of natural law subverted over the course of a 250 year struggle to establish on this earth a system of representative government founded upon the consent of the governed, unalienable rights of all mankind, and the General Welfare? What grand design…
The Occult Roots of Fascism: What you weren’t taught in school
In this RTF presentation, I dived into the origins of fascism as the ‘miracle solution to the great depression’ and the occult proclivities of leading occult agencies that didn’t disappear after WW2 but simply re-branded themselves under a new strategy to undo the system of sovereign nation states, normalize eugenics (in the form of Transhumanism)…
Jules Verne vs H.G. Wells: Science Fiction Devoted to Good or Evil
In this week’s RTF Sunday Lecture, Martin Sieff delivers a presentation on the two opposing schools of “science fiction” as reflected in the world views and creative innovations of French sci fi pioneer Jules Verne on the one hand and cynical oligarchist devotee H.G. Wells on the other. Buy Martin Sieff’s books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B002T3QW26
The Dark Side of the New Age
On Sunday June 30, 2024 the RTF weekly meeting featured guest speaker Courtenay Turner Courtenay delivered an interactive lecture followed by a Q and A on the extremely important topic of the roots of the New Age, how it started, how to understand the Theosophical roots of the new age movement, what it says it…
Why Sergey Glazyev’s Memorial to the Legacy of Lyndon LaRouche Matters
On September 11th, 2022, the brilliant Russian economist, grand strategist and leading architect of the emerging new multipolar financial architecture Sergey Glazyev delivered a remarkable memorial address on the life and work of his friend and ally Lyndon LaRouche (1922-2019) who’s 100th birthday was celebrated on September 8th). Within the powerful 13-minute address, Glazyev outlines the root causes of…
Understanding Today’s War Danger and its Remedies [An Afternoon with Ray McGovern]
As the nations of the world are pulled into a storm unlike anything ever experienced by humanity, various futures are opening up over the horizon. Some of those futures are beautiful and others darker than you can possibly imagine. However without understanding the nature of the battle fronts in either the Pacific, Ukraine or elsewhere…
Lincoln, Railroads and China [Anton Chaitkin RTF Lecture]
Why did President Lincoln decide to launch the world’s greatest rail project in the midst of the Civil War? What ideas of US-China relations governed this planning? and what role did Lincoln-admiring patriots in China, Japan, and Russia play in shaping a new anti-imperial world order during the end of the 20th century? In this…
How the British Empire Created and Destroyed Orwell [Martin Sieff RTF lecture]
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Martin Sieff unveils a side of George Orwell that you’ve never seen.
Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Fight for an American Classical Renaissance
In this lecture by Magdalena Therrien, she will discuss the life and inspiration that is Paul Laurence Dunbar, who became the acknowledged “poet laureate of the African American people,” while living throughout a politically tumultuous time, when the old South fought a battle to restore the old “Slavocracy” in alliance with Wall Street and abolish…
The Battle over Closed vs. Open Systems
By Matthew Ehret The world is now moving through an epoch-shifting transition, and a new system will be brought online as the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives time bomb that has cancerously taken over the western economy crashes. Now, this may not be a bad thing, as the system created over the dead bodies of JFK and…
The Strategic Importance of the Alaska-Canada Railway
By Matthew Ehret In my recent film ‘The Arctic: Platform for War or Global Cooperation’, I outlined the fact that in the early hours of September 26, 2020, President Trump sent out the announcement that a gigantic continental project long thought dead and buried will be revived: The 2570 km Alaska Canada Rail connection, which will move…
BRICS+ VS. the WEF: The Clash of Two Green Paradigms
By Matthew Ehret On February 4, 2022, Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin unveiled a 5,000 word Joint Declaration on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development. The words “sustainable development” tied to “international relations” have obviously caused more than a few concerned citizens of western nations to gasp in fear that…
Is A Harmony of Cultures Possible? Part III
By Cynthia Chung [This is the third installment to a lecture I gave to the Rising Tide Foundation in January 2023. For Part I refer here. And Part II here.] We left off in the second installment of this lecture discussing how Lessing’s play “Nathan the Wise” by 1779 was banned in Vienna. This is interesting since…
Humanity at a Crossroads: Cooperation or Extinction
By Matthew Ehret We hold in our hands vast power to both create and destroy the likes of which has never been seen in history. Up until the turn of the 20th century, the only forces capable of wrecking extinction-level havoc onto the biosphere remained comets and asteroids travelling 18 km/second which periodically slammed into the…
Harmony vs. Struggle: Frederic Church’s and Alexander von Humboldt’s Legacy in the Age of Darwin
Join Alex Dimitrios of Space Commune (spacecommune.substack.com) to explore the dramatic clash between art and science in the 19th century as we explore the worlds of Frederic Church and Charles Darwin as they took two divergent paths from the work of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. This presentation delves into how Church, a master…
Open vs Closed Systems Collide- Ellen Brown and Matt Ehret discuss VOL 2 of Clash of the Two Americas
The Rising Tide Foundation’s Matthew Ehret speaks with public banking advocate and lawyer Ellen Brown about American history, national banking, open vs closed systems and volume two of Clash of the Two Americas. TO BUY THE CLASH OF THE TWO AMERICAS VOL. 1 and 2, CLICK on the image below:
Why Today’s Crisis forces a Re-Evaluation of “Value”
By Matthew Ehret Today’s international crisis has caused the world to confront a major blind spot in thinking which has gone unchecked for far too long: The belief that money holds intrinsic value. Not only has the reality of insufficient medical infrastructure across European and American nations cause a sudden alarm (despite the trend occurring…
How to Overcome Today’s Crisis: A Lesson from 1933
As the world is swept up by a two fold crisis led by a global coronavirus pandemic and financial collapse, it is no wonder that America’s great president Franklin Roosevelt is on everyones’ mind. Faced with the collapse of the cultural, economic and social fabric of society after 4 years of depression, President Roosevelt launched…
The Eastern Economic Forum Accelerates a Grand Strategy of Win-Win Cooperation
By Matthew Ehret The battle lines for the future of humanity were made explicitly clear during this week’s Eastern Economic Forum held in Vladivostok under the theme of “Opportunities for the Far East in a World Under Transformation”. President Putin set the tone of the event by noting: “The strategic vector for the development of the Far East is towards a new economy,…
Canada’s Potential Eurasian Future: A Vision for the 21st Century and Beyond
In the following report, a strategic overview is laid out with the explicit purpose to inform and activate leading citizens and policy makers towards the strategy needed to re-align our nation from the shackles of the rules-based order’s collapsing monetarist system, towards the new paradigm exemplified by the BRICS/New Silk Road orientation of win-win cooperation…
The Russia-China Polar Silk Road Speeds Ahead
By Matthew Ehret Since China’s Arctic extension of the New Silk Road was first unveiled in a January 2018 white paper, a process of Arctic development has been unleashed which represents one of the most important and under-appreciated developments on Earth. Not only will 10 days be saved by goods moving between China and Europe via…
Iran’s Century and a Half Fight for Sovereignty
By Cynthia Chung It all started in 1872, with Nasir al-Din Shah having granted to the British Baron Julius de Reuter, rights to Iran’s entire economic estate. Reuter not only controlled Iran’s industry, farming, and rail transportation, but also held the right to issue currency and to set up a national bank, called the Imperial…
In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Manufacturing of a Cold War
By Cynthia Chung “She [the United States] has seen that probably for centuries to come, contests of inveterate power, and emerging right [will persist]…But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy…She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own…she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in…
An Officially Concealed Genocide- British Malthusianism & the Truth of the ‘Irish Potato Famine’
How is it possible that a disease which spread across potato crops of Ireland led to over 2 million deaths in Ireland in the mid-19th century? Ireland was renowned for a diverse array of crops including what, oats, barley and livestock, so how is it possible that the loss of one crop caused such death?…
Lincoln vs the Money Power
On Sunday September 18, 2022, The Rising Tide Foundation hosted a lecture featuring legendary historian and Anton Chaitkin who spoke to a live audience on the topic of Lincoln vs. the Money Power. This presentation centered on the February 1862 Legal Tender Act which gave rise to the powerful greenback system; plus an exploration of…
Is a Harmony of Cultures Possible? Part II
[This is the second installment to a lecture I gave to the Rising Tide Foundation in January 2023. For Part I refer here.] Before we go further into Lessing’s and Mendelssohn’s role and what they were intervening on philosophically, scientifically, artistically and politically in Germany, Austria, and Europe more broadly, I want to go over this…
From Trance to Transcendence: Lessons for Saving a Dying Republic
In this Rising Tide Foundation presentation, David Gosselin (editor of the New Lyre and Chained Muse Poetry journals) expands upon the thesis of breaking the spell of mass hypnosis which has been used by social engineers over the course of several generations to induce western civilization to abandon its moral traditions while walking into an…
“To Hate All Things Russian”: Russia’s Contributions to the Treasure-trove of World Civilization
By Prof. Alexandra Kostina and Prof. Valeria Z. Nollan In his article for The Atlantic of July 24, 2022 “Don’t Blame Dostoevsky,” Mikhail Shishkin makes a false start right away.[i] He rationalizes hate for a nation and its culture in the first sentence: “I understand why people hate all things Russian right now.” From the outset he tells…
A Discussion on “Energy Wars” with Cynthia Chung
Check out my discussion with Emerson on UPThinking Finance! I really enjoyed our conversation which covered various topics from our RTF Docu-Series “Escaping Calypso’s Island” to the importance of classical education and how to approach a solution orientation towards the feeling of being lost as a youth. I think there is a lot of heart…
The ABCs in Energy: Do We Actually Understand How Energy Works?
By Cynthia Chung Europeans are presently being told that the energy crisis they are entering, with natural gas prices now four times higher than last year, stems from a longer winter, competition with East Asian countries for gas, and problems on the supply end with delayed maintenance and less investment. These gas prices are in…
Is a Harmony of Cultures Possible? Part I
By Cynthia Chung [This is a transcript of an RTF lecture I delivered in January 2023.] For those who are not aware of who is Gotthold Lessing, I will speak of him as a person and his contribution to German culture later on, but he is considered the father of German classical literature. And “Nathan…
Some Additional Words on Today’s Pythagorean Revival- From Bussard’s Polywell to the Safire Project
By Matthew Ehret In my last report, I introduced two opposing schools of scientific thinking that have been at odds with one another since the days of Plato’s Academy at Athens. One system sits dominant upon the throne of today’s western science wearing the garb of “standard model quantum theory” and “standard model cosmology” and…
A Look Into Halton Arp’s “Peculiar Galaxies” and its Implications for the World We Live In
By Matthew Ehret National Geographic Magazine recently covered a widely publicized scientific study which supposedly proved how and when our universe would die. National Geographic stated: “Physicists believe that countless billions of years from now, after all the stars have burned out, the universe will be a cold, dark expanse where nothing of interest happens,…
Leibniz Discourse on Metaphysics- Study Group
In this series of readings of the Discourses on Metaphysics (1686), we are introduced to the deeper philosophical and scientific ideas of the polymath genius Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). This reading will cover the essential concepts of the nature of the Creator and creation of which we as self-conscious reasoners are integral components possessing both…
Vladimir Vernadsky’s ‘Scientific Thought as a Planetary Phenomenon’
Over the past two months, The Rising Tide Foundation has hosted a series of workshops exploring the powerful mind, works, discoveries and political effects of the great Russian biogeochemist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945). We began by working through Vernadsky’s 1938 Scientific Thought as a Planetary Phenomenon in three sessions followed by three additional sessions of…
The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?
In this new film, the Arctic is presented as you’ve never imagined it: Both as a strategic battleground over the future of the human species today, and as pivot of world history shaping the Russia-USA partnership that saved the Union during the Civil War. This film showcases how the Arctic represents either a domain of…
New Forum for East-West War Avoidance
The Rising Tide Foundation is proud to announce a new collaborative initiative with the American University in Moscow where we will host a new international dialogue speakers series featuring well-known foreign policy experts who will provide insights into the causes and solutions to the global threats plaguing today’s crisis-ridden planet. At a time when the…
The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship
In our age of decadence, it is a rare thing to encounter educational reformers who knew how to balance the two fold trap of teaching broad moral philosophy devoid of practical application on the one hand or utilitarianism devoid of moral principles on the other. In this five part workshop, Dr. Quan Le introduces the…
Of Minds and Men- On Universal History and the Creation of Aristocratic Men (Dr. Quan Le Lecture)
RTF advisor Dr. Quan Le sheds light on the struggle to create a culture of truly sovereign citizens stretching back from ancient times to our current age with a focus on both Plato and the Confucian traditions (which must be understood, as Quan explains, to involve a process that actually stretches farther before and after…
Schiller’s Aesthetical Letters in the Context of Confucian and Platonic Philosophy
It has become a modern truism to say “politics is downstream from culture”… but few people take the time to really do justice to that truth by pondering its profound implications. What does culture DO when it is working? What does it look like? What attributes does it cultivate in the hearts and minds of…
Taiwan and the Opium War Part 1 – Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s United Front
By Gerald Therrien The Qing government tries to end the Opium War Recently, I began to read a fascinating story about the opium wars in China – ‘Lessons in ambivalence: The Shanghai Municipal Council’s opium policies, 1906–1917’, by Yong-an Zhang and Yilun Du, as I try to piece together a glimpse into the modern history…
Bandung (Asian-African) Conference- The Voice of the People
This week’s Rising Tide Foundation lecture featured Cynthia Chung’s brilliant elaboration of a major historic fight that occurred amidst the heat of the Cold War in Bandung, Indonesia. This conference saw world leaders from the emerging non-aligned movement, and global south, featuring Pan African, Pan Arab and other anti-colonial forces who stood in defiance to…
Russia and the United States: The Forgotten History of a Brotherhood
by Cynthia Chung “A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it”. – Frederick Douglass (former slave who would later become a great American statesman and diplomat) It has always been an utmost necessity to exercise…
A Harmony of Interests: Inquiries into the True Nature of the American System
What ideas will shape the next centuries of human civilization as our species begins to confront the reality of our collective self-interest living on the earth? The use of the atomic for either peaceful or warlike purposes has given our species for the first time in history the dual potential to destroy all life as…
Poe and Beethoven Debunk Artificial Intelligence Cult
Edgar Allan Poe and Beethoven were not only artists, but both men expressed an extremely matured sense of creative identity that transcended the bounds of all deductive-inductive forms of logic, and embraced a rigorous use of metaphore and irony that no computer could ever approximate. In this RTF Lecture, Matt Ehret showcases the roots of…
Mary Shelley’s Fight Against Romanticism: A New Look at Dr. Frankenstein
The following essay is based on a lecture delivered to the Rising Tide Foundation and which can be viewed here: A New Look at Dr. Frankenstein By Gerald Therrien Most of us think of Mary Shelley as the devoted wife of her late husband, Percy Shelley, who would patiently and methodically collect, organize and publish…
TRAILER: Calypso’s Island Ep. 3: Energy Wars
I am immensely happy to present to you all Ep. 3 “The Eye of the Storm: ENERGY WARS” of our Rising Tide Foundation ongoing Docu Series. I think this is our best episode thus far and its content is extremely important since it discusses the future well-being of us all. Out of all of the…
Why Rules-Based International Order Has Failed and Will Always Fail:The Case of Africa
This Sunday, Africa Expert Lawrence Freeman will grace the Rising Tide Foundation with a geopolitical-historical presentation on the breakdown of the rules based international order in Africa and the rise of a new potential for a Pan-African renaissance. Lawrence Freeman has been involved in Africa for 35 years. You can read all of his articles…
Cheikh Anta Diop’s Dream of a United Africa: The Economic Vision for an African New Silk Road
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Nicholas Jones explores the strategic thinking of Africa’s great renaissance philosopher/scientist/statesman Cheikh Anta Diop and his vision for a modern, technologically advanced Africa liberated from the yoke of colonialism. Nicholas additionally lays out various elements of the evolving Belt and Road Initiative on the continent which are bringing Diop’s…
The Eye of the Storm: ENERGY WARS
Ep. 3 of RTF Docu Series “Escaping Calypso’s Island” I am immensely happy to present to you all Ep. 3 “The Eye of the Storm: ENERGY WARS” of our Rising Tide Foundation ongoing Docu Series. I think this is our best episode thus far and its content is extremely important since it discusses the future…
Connecting the Dots with Matt Ehret and Cynthia Chung: On Escaping Calypso’s Island RTF Docu Series
Episode 3 Launch Coming Up THIS WEEK! Cynthia Chung discusses her documentary series ‘Escaping Calypso’s Island’ with Matt Ehret on TNT’s Connecting the Dots. The trailer to Episode 2: The Curse of Game Theory is played within the first few minutes of the video. Watch episodes 1 and 2 of Escaping Calypso’s Island below:
Escaping Calypso’s Island Episode 2 The Curse of Game Theory Trailer
Refer below to watch the full episode: To watch the full Docu Series refer here.
Escaping Calypso’s Island: A Journey Out of Our Green Delusion
RTF Docu-Series Is it truly the case that in order to live in harmony with nature, industrial activity must be eliminated? Can green energy systems support our current world population and is it possible to have an advanced growing thriving world civilization while also enjoying growing, thriving ecosystems? In this ongoing six part docu-series, The…
How China and Russia Revived Nuclear Energy
This Sunday February 25 Alex Dimitrios (author and editor at Space Commune) will be delivering the weekly Rising Tide Foundation lecture where he will demystify the science (and myths) surrounding nuclear energy, while exploring the role of Russia and China in saving this vital form of energy as the basis of an anti-Malthusian program of…
The Truth About Environmentalism in China The Pagan Origins of Ecology (Fox Green RTF Lecture)
This Sunday February 18, 2023, Fox Green (analyst, editor, filmmaker and founder of SpaceCommune.com) delivered a lecture called ‘The Truth About Environmentalism in China and the Pagan Origins of Ecology’ which traced the roots of the death cult that infused itself into both Capitalist and Communist thinking over the course of the past 150 years….
Two New Canadian Patriot Books! Forlorn Hope and The Coming Storm by Gerald Therrien
Far too many historians have attempted to construct narratives of North American history from artificially narrow filters and assumptions which deny the objective reality of an oligarchy, or the principled conflict emanating from opposing ideas of Man, God and Law which have shaped world history for millennia. From ancient history through the collapse of Rome…