Corrupting a MiG-31 pilot armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles into defecting, only to then shoot him down near what’ll be NATO’s largest airbase in Europe, risked sparking World War III. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) accused Ukraine and the UK of plotting a spectacular false flag provocation that could have…
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The U.S. Empire Keeps Getting Creepier
Secretary of War™ Pete Hegseth said during a speech on Friday that the US is at “a 1939 moment” of “mounting urgency” in which “enemies gather, threats grow,” adding, “We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing.” Everything’s getting darker…
Orwell Watch: The Great Canadian ‘Ostrich Cull’
On Friday, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation anchor Andrew Nichols tossed to correspondent Caroline Barghout in Edgewood, British Columbia for one of the most uncomfortable on-site TV reports ever. Barghout spends an agonizing minute and six seconds searching for creative ways to deliver a story about the Canadian government gunning down…
Why ‘Capitalism’ Isn’t Working
Before you can build an economy, you must first have a nation. Not just lines on a map or a government bureaucracy, but a people unified by faith, blood, tradition, and a shared destiny. A real economy requires a protected home market, a common legal framework, and above all,…
How a German Domestic Spy Agency Classified a Random Man as a ‘Potential Right-Wing Extremist’ for No Reason
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has published an amazing story about an anonymous professor in Hessen and his run-in with the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution. This is one of the sixteen state divisions of the German domestic intelligence apparatus whose agents I refer to affectionately as the constitutional…
Gen Z: From Liberal to Far-Right
Gen Z has witnessed a political revolution across the span of our lives that is likely to define the trajectory of humanity. Where we go is still undetermined. But we know we’re certainly going somewhere. Because it looks to be that our civilization is gearing up for a battle.
Invading Panama and Deposing Noriega in 1989 Was Easy, Right?
Comparisons to potential action in Venezuela fall apart and furthermore, we took the wrong lessons from 35 years ago anyway. On Dec. 20, 1989, the U.S. military launched “Operation Just Cause” in Panama. The target: dictator, drug trafficker, and former CIA informant Manuel Noriega. Citing…
‘Regime Collapse’ is Not a Serious Approach to the Venezuela Problem
In a recent column in Foreign Policy, Ryan Berg, the director of the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, suggests that the Trump administration can accomplish its goal of removing the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro from power without hazarding American lives by implementing a strategy of “regime…
The Forgotten Jewish Origins of the Anti-Woke Crusade
Long before “wokeness” became a culture war buzzword, a cohort of Jewish thinkers who had come of age as socialists, Trotskyists, and New Deal liberals began warning about identity politics, racial grievance, and threats to Israel. As the radicalism of the 1960s engulfed American politics, these figures became what…
The Genocide of Native Europeans
Clare Ellis, The Blackening of Europe, Vol. 3: Critical Views, Arktos Media, Ltd., 244 pages, $22.95 paperback, $6.99 e-book Clare Ellis is a Scottish-born Canadian who earned a doctorate at the University of New Brunswick in 2017 with a dissertation on multiculturalism and mass immigration to Europe. Her thesis…