Rising Tide Foundation

For all paid subscribers, this Sunday's RTF lecture featuring David Gosselin will tackle some extremely red hot topics. Access the live interactive event here https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/rtf-invitation-from-aeschylus-to

Is Homer's Odyssee based on fiction or reality? Check out Gerry Therrien's brilliant new grand hypothesis of the reality underlying the legendary story https://risingtidefoundation.net/2026/08/04/re-discovering-the-odyssey-of-homer-was-it-history-or-a-myth-updated-edition/

The recording of the Gladio Masterclass featuring Mats Nilsson is now available on our Youtube channel here https://youtu.be/KaPB8pkkmaI

For those who missed Nick Jones' last RTF lecture, it is finally online and can be viewed here https://youtu.be/4UybAsKOeyE?si=v4_6SkgVzqkUQ21_

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In a few minutes, I will be hosting a live lecture for all paid subscribers delivered by Sam Labrier on the American system, Lincoln's greenbacks and the clash between American and British systems. Tune in here https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/rtf-invitation-the-attack-on-the

This Sunday June 14 at 2pm ET, you are invited to attend the Rising Tide Foundation’s live seminar featuring American System expert Sam Labrier who will deliver the first of a two part lecture on Lincoln’s Greenbacks, the clash of British vs American system paradigms on the world stage and the efforts led by the British Empire (and their American stooges) to destroy the Greenbacks in the years after the US Civil War. https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/rtf-invitation-the-attack-on-the

A fantastic exposition on a challenge set up by Plato in his Lesser Hippias dialogue on the nature of intention, context and moral values... https://athomewithholmes.substack.com/p/greek-realizations-homers-man-to/comments

For RTF/CP Subscribers: There will be no RTF lecture this Sunday due to my busy schedule. We will be back on schedule next Sunday June 14 at 2pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Gh-D7J6zE A beautiful journey through the musical soup of the silk road

Matt Ehret joined up with Peyman Askari on In Lay Terms to delve into the important role that Ideas play in shaping Universal History, and also the outline of the new RTF spring anthology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vePVuP5LvRs

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https://risingtidefoundation.substack.com/p/rtf-spring-2026-anthology-now-available

Artificial intelligence dominates headlines, attracts billions in investment and has convinced much of the world that it thinks. China expert, analyst and cultural critic Frans Vandenbosch argues that it does not, and offers the evidence to prove it. Drawing on years of direct, hands-on experience with both American and Chinese AI platforms, Frans presents a sober and at times startling assessment of where these systems truly stand in 2026. He examines the fundamental philosophical divide between American AI, built around conversational general intelligence, and the Chinese approach, which treats AI as a practical engineering tool for industry and governance. He reviews the leading platforms on both sides, from OpenAI and Claude to Deepseek, Qwen and Doubao, assessing their real strengths and their frequently overlooked weaknesses. At the heart of the lecture is a disturbing finding from a landmark Tencent study: when tested on tasks requiring genuine in-context learning rather than mere information retrieval, ten leading AI models achieved an average success rate of just 17.2 per cent. Bigger models, it turns out, do not learn better. They simply make more errors with greater confidence. Frans also exposes the entrenched geopolitical bias embedded in all current AI systems, the illusion of openness surrounding proprietary platforms, and the specific conditions under which AI collapses into what the industry calls hallucination, generating fluent, authoritative and entirely fabricated nonsense. This lecture will leave you better equipped to use AI wisely, deeply sceptical of those who claim it is on the verge of human-level reasoning, and rather less impressed by the hype than you were before you arrived. https://youtu.be/7oKpr4o1-ow

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A little clip from the new RTF film written, narrated and directed by David Gosselin which can be watched here https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/reclaiming-the-mysteries-20-mystery?t=1.722516

What does Charles De Gaulle have to teach us to restore world peace, prosperity and security as well for the renewal of the West in the 21st century? Answer - A lot. The true genius architect of blitzkrieg and successful armored war. His own French generals ignored him : Guderian and the German generals studied his work avidly. He knew who had killed John Kennedy and why as soon as it happened. He saved the entire British Army and made Dunkirk possible by his underestimated attack o at Arras in 1940. Join me on Sunday April 5 at 2pm Eastern Time where I’ll be hosting the brilliant Martin Sieff the speaker for this week’s Rising Tide Foundation’s seminar https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/rtf-invitation-le-grand-charles-charles

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