The Good Intentions License for Tyranny

“He who saves his country violates no law,” tweeted President Trump in February. He was echoing a line often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte. His supporters were electrified by Trump’s tacit invocation of a right to boundless power.The more power a person seeks, the less credit his unverifiable intentions…

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The Angel of History as a Symbol of Resistance

The unforgiving war will be long and bloody. Yet the Angel of History seems to have caught a second wind. It’s one of the most mesmerizing passages in the history of knowledge. In the 9th of his Theses on the Philosophy of History, Walter Benjamin – Jewish, tragic figure, solitary genius…

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President Trump’s Plan for the Middle East

In discussion yesterday with Nima on Dialogue Works about the Israeli-Iranian-Trump-Netanyahu ongoings, I suggested a bold and innovative plan for the Middle East that Trump should present to the world in a speech to the UN General Assembly.  I even offered to write the speech. https://www.youtube.com/live/L-8j_NSxC14  I formed the plan…

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Trump vs. Musk: ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Feud Sparks Overnight Political Firestorm

Elon Musk on President Trump this morning: REPORTER: "Are you going to deport Elon Musk?"TRUMP: "We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat…

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Peter Thiel Names the Enemy: Liberal Globalism is the Antichrist

Peter Thiel in NYT interview has identified correctly main dilemma of contemporary world: Antichrist vs Armageddon. Antichrist means liberal globalism, World State, “One World or none”. Armageddon means multipolarity, Greater Power World Order. MAGA, Putin, China, Bharat. Why multipolarity leads to WWIIi (Armageddon)? Thiel asks. Because of Antichrist’s camp…

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FBI Announces $15 Billion Healthcare Fraud

Stunning scope of crime, spanning 50 federal districts, is further evidence that American health care has lost its soul. Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino just posted the following communique on X: Update: Public corruption will not be tolerated as the Director and I vigorously pursue bad…

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Talking Epstein in Amman

[Amman, 6/30/25] I’m catching on. To drink coffee around dawn, I must walk up half lit steps into the lowest heavens. (According to some cranks, earth must be the highest hell.) When I entered the third floor Jerusalem at 5:40AM, this guy asked if I wanted to smoke shisha?…

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On Suffering, and the Sham of ‘Self-Help’

When you say that you are lost, buried, pummeled badly, in wretched shape, that you are unlikely to recover, that you will soon perish, that nothing shy of a miracle could possibly save you, you are seldom believed. People think you are merely being grandiose and melodramatic. Or worse,…

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The No-Win Bubble ‘Wealth Effect’: Either Way We Lose

I have endeavored to explain how our economy has changed dramatically over the past 50 years beneath the surface. Nothing that’s going to happen in the future will make sense unless we understand this, so refill your beverage of choice and let’s go through what changed.Wages gained ground 1945 –…

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Gaza’s Hunger Games

Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic Palestine. Israel’s weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan…

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