By Matthew Ehret It has come to my attention in recent years, that the world financial system is one giant bubble sitting atop a hyperbolically growing aggregate of unpayable debts that can do nothing but default at a given moment. Looking at the world from the point of view of the inevitable collapse of the…
Category: History
The Sword of Damocles Over Western Europe
By Cynthia Chung This is Part 2 to a three-part series “Iran’s Century and a Half Fight for Sovereignty”. Part 1 is a historical overview of Iran’s long struggle with Britain’s control over Iranian oil and the SIS-CIA overthrow of Iran’s Nationalist leader Mosaddegh in 1953. Here we will resume our story… An Introduction to…
The Hidden Story Behind Lincoln’s Assassination
By Matthew Ehret Not that long ago the United States came close to total dissolution. The financial system was bankrupt, speculation had run amok, and all infrastructure had fallen into disarray over the course of 30 years of unbroken free trade. To make matters worse, the nation was on the verge of a civil war…
Kropotkin, the Anarchist International and the Assassination of Czar Alexander II and President McKinley
On January 25 and February 1, The Rising Tide Foundation hosted a series of two lectures by renowned journalist/historian Martin Sieff. In these presentations, Martin unveiled the true causes for the murders of both Russian Czar Alexander II (aka: The Great Liberator) and American President William McKinley which went far to derail the flow of…
How a Quaker Medical College in Pennsylvania Trained the First Women Doctors in the World
Though the story is quite remarkable many have never heard of the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania which was built in 1850 and became the first medical school for women in the world that had the authority to award its female students a medical degree. The creation of the medical college would come two years…
Marie Curie and the Women who Discovered Atomic Physics
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Magdalena Therrien tells the true story of the incredible women who discovered atomic physics starting with Madame Marie Curie who overcame insurmountable odds to find herself among the greatest minds in science which history has ever seen. Along her path, Marie Curie broke through several glass ceilings (or Iron…
FDR, Stalin and the Untold History of the New Deal
Very shortly, The Clash of the Two Americas will be available to a Russian audience as one giant 600 page behemoth. As part of the promotion for the Russian edition, DenTV and Nashe Zavtra publishing have arranged a series of interviews tackling different aspects of my research. In this week’s discussion with eminent scholar Dionis Kaptari,…
Why the American System Matters: Franklin, Lincoln, FDR and You [Anton Chaitkin RTF Lecture]
In this RTF lecture, historian Anton Chaitkin shines light on the forgotten Promethean traditions of the United States with a focus on the life, thought and struggle of four great personalities: Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and John F Kennedy. Anton demonstrates that the system of political economy that these statesmen devoted their lives…
Will The Turkish Earthquake Unleash Science From The Shackles Of The Statisticians?
By Matthew Ehret “Can we forecast earthquakes? No. Neither the United States Geology Survey (USGS) nor any other scientists have ever predicted a major earthquake. We do not know how, and we do not expect to know how any time in the foreseeable future.” -United States Geology Survey website On the morning of February 6, 2023…
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…