Looking toward 2026, Mexicans and foreigners residing in Mexico are preparing to navigate an uncertain future regarding new laws that require biometric identification for certain services. In July 2025, several new laws took effect in Mexico that greatly increase opportunities for government surveillance and coerce the population into registering…
A corrupt Brazilian court has neutralized the former president Jair Bolsonaro. his summer, the Trump family ally and former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his role in the January 8 protests by a modified Brazilian Supreme Court panel, handpicked to ensure…
Long before she ran a newsroom, Bari Weiss was already running a campaign. The target was anyone she perceived as a threat to Israel. In the mid-2000s, at Columbia University, she helped found a student effort that marketed itself as a defense of Jewish students and Zionist speech in…
At times I have expressed doubts whether Americans have enough sense to continue to survive as a people, and they keep proving my doubts justified. The London Daily Mail reported yesterday that San Francisco voters elected a mayor who has just sneaked through a reparations bill that gives each black resident…
I awoke Monday morning to alarming news: Ukraine had tried to assassinate Putin. Media reports claimed a drone swarm had targeted the Russian president’s residence in the Novrogod region. Russia said they shot down all the drones and that the response “would not be diplomatic.” To underscore…
Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong says everywhere you look there is big trouble bubbling out of control. Armstrong sees the perfect storm closing in from all sides. Let’s start with the war in Ukraine. It looks like peace was possible until Russia claimed Ukraine attacked Putin’s…
Every few weeks, like clockwork, another so-called “civil war” breaks out on the right. It’s always framed as some moral emergency, some existential crisis that absolutely must be addressed right here and right now. And almost every time, when you peel back the layers, it’s the same story and…
Welcome to A.I. turning the net into an infernal machine bent on erasing meaning, culture and History – and sowing deep intellectual confusion. Exactly like Techno-Feudalism wants it. A.I. is fast expanding as a plague all along the internet spectrum. That’s quite predictable, considering the Big Tech model for…
It will be no secret to readers that more and more people are coming to the realization that the economic, political, and social problems in the world are becoming quite pronounced – worse than at any other point in their lifetimes. Increasingly, such people are turning to publications such…
After failing to protect Lahaina from the known fire risk, County administrators put Kihei’s vacation apartment owners in the crosshairs. In September 2023, I posted an essay on this newsletter in which I presented evidence that the August 8, 2023 Lahaina, Maui fire was a Predictable & Predicted Disaster. That…
