America First Hijacked

Keith Preston explains how pro-Israel networks build leverage across parties, institutions, and continents. In this episode of El Niño Speaks, I sit down with political analyst Keith Preston to unpack how America First’s original non-interventionist and paleoconservative impulse is being absorbed, rebranded, and redirected by neoconservative and pro-Israel power…

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The Price of Peace

So. Let’s talk about how the global reserve currency system got another hit this weekend because the American president didn’t get a prize. I’m not making this up. According to reports this morning, Trump is pursuing Greenland – the world’s largest island, population 57,000, zero interest in becoming American…

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What Heritage’s Terrible Ad Says About the State of Conservatism

The influential think tank settles on bourgeois domesticity and ‘Judeo-Christianity’ as America’s true identity. The Heritage Foundation released an advertisement last week called “America the Beautiful.” The AI-generated commercial is really bad. It’s very obviously AI and lacks all good taste, human emotion, and proper sense of aesthetics. It…

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Narrative Control Made Easy: Us vs. Them

Those in charge of narrative control are suffering from the delusion that they’re making sense. Everything is under control until it isn’t. The name of the game in controlling the populace is narrative control, the current term for setting the context, priorities and agenda so the populace complies without being…

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Nationalists are Being Purged from MAGA

A year ago, I would have agreed with this take: the Alt-Right or Dissident Right was losing coherence, our ideas and beliefs were becoming integrated into mainstream conservatism, we needed to shift from our metapolitical focus on “moving the Overton Window” to practical politics. Christopher Rufo:…

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U.S. Economic Warfare Has Strangled Iran and Venezuela

You can’t understand recent events without paying attention to America’s use of crippling sanctions. The U.S. will “keep on blowing boats up,” White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said, “until Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he will.” He didn’t.  The U.S.

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Understanding Iran

At the time of this writing, the Trump Administration appears to have walked back from threatened military strikes on Iran. Despite a significant amount of pressure from the pro-Israel set of American foreign policy, especially the neocons who love war, cooler heads seem to have prevailed – for now.

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Reparations Don’t Work

Reparations have become a central and highly emotive issue in American politics. What was once framed as a moral or symbolic demand has now entered the realm of concrete policy. California has moved further than any other state. In December 2025, lawmakers voted to create a…

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America’s Woke Revolution

The American Revolution Directed and produced by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt ◆ Produced by Florentine Films ◆ Distributed by PBS “From a small spark, kindled in America, a flame has arisen, not to be extinguished.” So opens Ken Burns’s 6-part, 12-hour documentary series The American Revolution,…

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World Economic Forum 2026

On January 19, 2026, the World Economic Forum (WEF) will reopen its doors in Davos. The global elite will gather in the Swiss mountains to discuss the future of the world and the so-called greatest global threats, or rather, to push their own agendas. This time, special attention will…

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