He’d sacrifice his political career, his envisaged legacy in Ukrainians’ eyes, and part of his country’s economic sovereignty, but he’d avert a much worse scenario than if he rejected this deal. Trump warned last weekend that Zelensky will have “some problems – big, big problems” if he “tries to back…
While everyone focuses on conflicts between nations, few look at the problems shared by nations. Richard Bonugli and I discuss both sets of problems in our latest podcast.The conflict sphere is dominated by the trade wars that are bubbling up here in the first inning of the global rebalancing of national interests…
I wanted to believe it so badly. But the story was too delicious, too outrageous to be true. We are talking about the recent conspiracy theory according to which Brigitte Macron, the wife of Emmanuel Macron, is in fact a man. However far-fetched it may sound, it…
In this “Age of Rage, it is common for people to become the very thing that they despise in others, jettisoning their most cherished values to strike out at those they hate. Since the election, Democrats have shown that very self-destructive quality of rage in adopting anti-immigrant, anti-free…
The Sceptred Isle has been colonised without a shot being fired. And people get colonised for a reason. It’s how the British and other imperialist nations were able to conquer Africa, India and China: the native populations were weak, not only economically and technologically, but in their politics and,…
The most popular and encouraging part of the upheaval unleashed by the Trump presidency may be the administration’s fierce determination to break the grip that wokeness, the new racialism, and gender ideology have had on all levels of government, as well as on the commanding heights of civil society.
There is nothing more dangerous than an incomplete picture of history. A hundred years from now, if the powers-that-be have their way, the few children still allowed to be born (due to carbon controls) will be regaled with school lessons about the “Dark Ages of Nationalism” – When humanity…
For more than 60 years, U.S. officials have claimed that to release their secret JFK-assassination-related records would threaten “national security.” That was their position during the Warren Commission hearings in 1964 and during the House Select Committee hearings in the 1970s. That’s what they told the Assassination Records Review…
The thing about abuse is you get used to it. Eventually, it becomes normal – having been normalized. For instance, this business of the president starting wars. Just deciding it’s time to lob bombs on other countries. This is not the president’s constitutional prerogative, which is the relevant point. Not whether the country…
For more than two centuries since the Monroe Doctrine, the United States has considered Latin America its backyard and, under various pretexts intervened in the affairs of the countries of the region and conducted military interventions. These consequences are still being felt today, from the actions of Washington-oriented puppet…
