How American pressure turned Venezuela into a strategic foothold for U.S. rivals. On December 10, 2025, Coast Guard personnel fast-roped from Navy helicopters onto the deck of an oil tanker in international waters near Venezuela, seizing what the Trump administration called the Skipper, a vessel allegedly involved…
Accusations of genocide in Gaza are present everywhere except where most people get their news — mainstream media — but is it fair to call the military action in Gaza a genocide? Is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intentionally trying to kill every Palestinian, women and children included,…
The footage coming out of Australia is hard to watch. A violent Islamic terror attack happened during a public beach gathering celebrating Hanukkah. It was total chaos, with bullets flying, people being shot, and others running for their lives, and in the middle of it all, many moments…
Italy’s decision to stand with Belgium against the confiscation of Russian sovereign assets is not a diplomatic footnote. It is a moment of clarity breaking through the fog of performative morality that has engulfed Brussels. Strip away the slogans and the truth is unavoidable: the seizure of Russian sovereign…
At this point, online adult entertainment is something that has inserted itself into our culture. Whether it’s out in the open or hidden, pornography usage can reveal a lot about a society, and when fifteen of the top twenty OnlyFans cities are American, it tells us less about…
Iran is likely trying to assess whether this alliance might one day be weaponized against it by its two members’ shared US patron and probably also wants to strengthen ties with Turkiye’s Pakistani ally in an attempt to reduce the Turkish-led “Organization of Turkic States’” threat assessment of…
Every other group is playing the game. You’re losing because you refuse to play. There is a peculiar pathology that afflicts white Americans and white Europeans alone among all the peoples of the earth. It is the belief that identity politics is beneath them; that engaging in…
Oh crikey, is this another boring post trying to make philosophy relevant? No, it’s a post about survival of the fittest, as what we “know” will lead us straight off the cliff in a state of delusional confidence. What we “know” is a mix of what we accept as known and…
Artificial President Volodymyr Zelensky has chosen to continue the war. His luckless and equally unpopular European sponsors support this decision. The battlefield situation does not favor the ill-fated Ukrainian Armed Forces. They must have a plan for victory, and they do. Using looted Russian money, Europe…
The Trump administration needed to show the people and our representatives out in flyover country that redistricting is about protecting us. It failed. The corporate press has consistently depicted the Indiana Senate’s Thursday vote against creating more pro-Republican congressional maps as a sign of “loyalty” or “betrayal”…
