Despite the US-backed ceasefire in Gaza having held for weeks at this point, Turkey is once again lashing out at Israel, and appears ready to push official relations to breaking point. Turkey has long supported the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrants against top Israeli officials, but has this week issued warrants of…
Joakim Andersen argues that while the woke movement may have passed its public peak, it remains entrenched in key institutions and continues to shape left-wing ideology under the guise of populism. He suggests this shift is tactical rather than genuine, preserving woke values within managerial and bureaucratic structures. It…
Bolsheviks, on the other hand, are shunned. If you are a screenwriter looking to break into the movie business, you’ll want to avoid setting your story in Russia during the Bolshevik Red Terror, 1918-1923. Bolsheviks just don’t sell in Hollywood. It’s a shame, really, because the Red Terror was…
Poland has more to lose from this than Hungary does, but it’s happy to let Hungary feel the heat for impeding Ukraine’s plans, unless Orban is ousted next spring and Poland is then compelled to replace its role. The EU is making a renewed push to speedily grant Ukraine…
Research indicates that we can reasonably distinguish between the “Extreme Male Brain” and the “Extreme Female Brain.” The former is interested in logic and systematizing to the neglect of emotion and how people feel. The latter is focused on the emotions of others, on empathy, and on ensuring everyone…
Even the big banks that welcomed the revolution are finding that the cost of managing security could rise out of control and exceed the labor cost of the analogue system. Wells Fargo warns: “In today’s digital world scammers are using advanced tools like AI to make impersonation scams harder…
The American think tank, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, has published an article that offers the most realistic assessment of the causes of the war in Ukraine I’ve seen since its escalation in the West in 2022. Because the author understood the causes of the war, he was able…
Revolutions are funny things. They start out almost imperceptible. The final straw itself may be as inconsequential as a single voice in the crowd whose words unleash a tidal wave that sweeps aside the seemingly intractable old order forever. Even as the cracks in the Eastern Bloc began to…
The Jeffrey Epstein headache just won’t go away. For years there has been a lot of consternation about the refusal of federal agencies such as the CIA and FBI to disclose what they know about Jeffrey Epstein (as well as about the assassination of JFK, the 9/11 terrorist attacks,…
There are four dynamics that define the entire socio-economic-cultural-political system. To answer the question, is the Everything/AI bubble the last one, we need to start with an even larger question: has the current system reached its limits? If so, reforms–regardless of their nature–won’t save it.The context here is the way that socio-economic-cultural-political…
