Trump’s grasp of reality seems increasingly tenuous as egomania devolves to megalomania. Eighty years ago, when World War II ended, U.S. rulers’ belief in war and empire was understandable. The U.S. had won the war at relatively low cost compared to the carnage and devastation in Europe and Asia.
The house of cards of mainstream psychiatry is coming closer to falling. Increasingly, patients and their relatives, and even an atypical journalist, are becoming aware that the psychiatric leaders have systematically lied to them. One of the big and very harmful lies is that it is rarely a problem…
Oh look, another American’s been beheaded by a Mexican. This week’s beheader is Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, an illegal alien who, according to the Department of Homeland Security, decapitated 37-year-old Megan Bos, then stashed her body in a bleach storage container. Arrested for the crime…
Having recently listened to Fox News after perusing another fixture of the Murdoch media empire, the New York Post, I found my usual distaste for these outlets turning into disgust mixed with amusement. Although I’ve no more fondness for New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s politics than do former George…
The US media and entertainment industries line up with Israel. Who says politicians can’t be funny? Nearly everything that President Donald Trump says cannot be taken seriously which means it is intended to be a joke and now it is also being reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
How the All-In crowd swapped globalism for techno-nationalism—and took the state with them. In 2003, a group of suited men with elite credentials stood before the world and insisted that history could be bent toward freedom—if only America would use its unmatched power to reshape the Middle East. They…
Under massive pressure from his MAGA base, President Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to release grand jury testimony regarding the Epstein case. For a whole bunch of reasons, don’t expect anything of substance to come out of this order. It’s a smokescreen to try and mollify MAGA…
Travel back in time to the year 2021 and you might find yourself in the middle of a bizarre debate over the virtues of “cancel culture”. At the time the political left was aggressively trying to secure long term power within the US through a multi-pronged psychological offensive –…
Stop listening to people who are telling you not to trust your own eyes. For the last two or three weeks, I’ve been working on a story about Pizzagate, QAnon, Jeffrey Epstein, and the role conspiracy theories play on the new right. It’s sprinkled with some anecdotes about my…
It is a peculiar feature of the age that the most intelligent people are often the most incapable of seeing the contradictions that govern their lives. The European citizen of 2025 does not live under tyranny in the traditional sense. He possesses bank accounts, passports, and broadband access. He…
