“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”— Friedrich Nietzsche One week after posting a profanity-laced Easter message threatening to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, Donald J. Trump, the 47th president of the United States, spent…
Keanu Reeves’ Most Hated Movie Predicted a World Run by Corporate Greed and Nobody Listened Because The Matrix Looked Cooler. I was going back and forth with a reader in the comments about the movie Hackers (1995, Angelina Jolie before she was Angelina Jolie, rollerblading hackers saving the world,…
Policymakers have not understood that the Iran War is more akin to Vietnam than Iraq. The near constant refrain has been that they’ve been at war against us for 47 years, and now we are (finally) hitting back. It isn’t always obvious whether this claim is, in the late…
In the aftermath of Israel’s Gaza genocide, some of the richest Jews in America have united to crush the one Republican who dared say no to their blank check, turning Kentucky’s May 2026 primary into an existential referendum on whether any anti-Zionist can survive in a Jewish-dominated political order.
Peter Magyar, the winner of the Hungarian elections, has announced that his government will seek an amendment to the constitution to prohibit outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán from running for a new term. In an apparent attempt to strengthen his grip on power in Budapest, Péter Magyar, the leader…
In a bold diplomatic signal, China reaffirmed its backing of Iran amid escalating volatility around the Strait of Hormuz. Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun said Beijing is closely watching the situation and stressed its commitment to “peace and stability” in the Middle East, while insisting that Chinese vessels continue…
Stuart Varney Just Spent Ten Minutes Convincing Your Grandmother That Billionaires Are the Real Victims of America and I Am Begging You to Get Mad About It. I was making coffee this morning. I don’t know how my television ended up on Fox News. I don’t remember turning it…
Scott Ritter on the dangerous game Trump is playing with Iran and the peace negotiations. This is not a New York State real estate deal, he cautions.
Illusion, dependency, and the misreading of global order. The current sluggishness of Japan’s response is not merely a delay in policy judgment. At a much deeper level, Japan has mistaken its own position. A defeated nation situated in Asia perceives and conducts itself as though it were a natural…
Quoting racist extremist Randy Fine is beyond diabolical. What on earth was the BBC thinking? Earlier today, former Trump ally Tucker Carlson was interviewed by the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire on its flagship politics programme. Derbyshire put to him allegations of antisemitism, including from Republican Senator Ted Cruz – and…
