It is hard to say how I learned this news—I think my husband Peter was the first person to tell me—because I got a large number of texts and email messages from my friends and supporters almost immediately. This also happens any time the New York State Attorney General…
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John Russell: From Guadalcanal to Hollywood
The Academy Awards annually remind Americans how far out-of-touch most of Hollywood is with the average American. Older generations know just how deeply Tinseltown has sunk. The overabundance of unmanly male actors, writers, and directors pushing cultural Marxist agendas is a recent development. There was a time when a…
Trump’s ‘New Dawn for Cuba’ Regime Change
The administration figures Cuba will be an easier nut to crack than Iran. The Trump administration has declared a two-week deadline on Cuba to release two “high-profile” prisoners, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Castillo Pérez (aka Maykel Osorbo), described as dissident artists from the San Isidro movement (Movimiento San…
The Map They’re Not Showing You
This doesn’t look like panic. It looks like a pivot. I woke up at 4am on Saturday morning and made the mistake of opening a live shipping map after reading a social media post that had been forwarded to me. Not one to take someone else’s word for it,…
Who’s Up for a Fundamental Reassessment of U.S. Security Strategy?
Americans are aware of two things about the ongoing US-Israel war against Iran: It’s costing tons of money, and all things considered, our leadership has chosen the wrong strategy. To win any war based on contrived motivations and shaky assumptions, we would have to compensate with an extremely elegant…
Palantir to lead U.S. Farm Food to Tokens
The $300 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Palantir Technologies is not a direct “tokenization” contract in the blockchain sense, but it is a major federal data modernization initiative that will consolidate and secure USDA’s farm program data into a single, unified…
Mike Johnson’s Crusade to Renew Warrantless NSA Spying on Americans Culminates This Week
The House Speaker, who once told me FISA abuses “keep me up at night,” now fights to renew the domestic spying law with no reforms. And he has key allies in the White House and Democratic leadership. House Speaker Mike Johnson is on a crusade. He is determined to pass…
Israel Has Turned America Into a War Criminal
John Helmer has published a disturbing report of a US submarine attack on an unarmed Iranian frigate, IRIS Dena, returning from participation in an Indian exercise in the Indian Ocean. https://johnhelmer.net/the-murder-of-the-iris-dena-first-public-testimony-by-the-surviving-captain-and-first-officer/ Washington knew the Iranian ship was unarmed, because only unarmed ships were permitted to participate in the exercise. Seeing an…
Bombshell Report on Trump War Battle Damage: ‘Far Worse’ Than Trump Team Said
NBC News dropped a bombshell report on Saturday that multiple government officials say damage to U.S. military bases was much more extensive than President Donald Trump’s officials have publicly disclosed. The president is preparing to speak at his first White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) in office on Saturday night, as will…
Donald Trump Goes to War
Using America’s sons and daughters to devastate the world . Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army the big developing story was the Roman…