The breaking news this morning is that Iran fired at a US “patrol boat” near the Iranian port of Jask. Jask is a small port town (pop. ~ 16K) situated on the Gulf of Oman, outside the Strait of Hormuz. Initial reports claimed that the US “patrol boat” (?? …
Canada’s Boring Banker Just Became The Most Dangerous Man To Trump, Putin, and Xi On Earth — And Europe Is Begging Us To Make It Official. While Donald Trump was busy threatening Greenland, picking fights with Germany, pulling 5,000 troops out of a NATO ally, bombing Iran,…
Russia’s Special Military Operation against Ukraine has entered its fifth year. No one anticipated that this conflict would last this long, or end up impacting global geopolitics to extent it has. I have been travelling to Russia off and on since April 2023. Since that time I…
BBC’s Andrew Neil Destroyed the “Debate Genius” Myth. Now Shapiro’s Media Empire is Facing Layoffs After Years of Selling America Fast Words, Weak Arguments, and Endless Pro-Israel War Narratives. Ben Shapiro, who is an Israeli Asset, built his image by overrunning college students, not by surviving serious…
Powerless Wishes Are for Children, Not Grown Men. “Can We Return to Demographic Spring?” I asked as I set out the measures which would need to be imposed in order to end the Demographic Winter and restore the birth rate to replacement level (see below for link).
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was challenged on Wednesday during a House Armed Services Committee hearing over remarks he made on March 13. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) brought up something the secretary of war said during a press conference: “You said, ‘We will give them no quarter, no…
It wasn’t only that Trump’s war for Israel against Iran killed 180 children with an attack on a girl’s school. The Trump regime did the same thing to an Iranian Navy ship that Israel did to the USS Liberty. Trump attacked a disabled and unarmed Iranian ship in international waters…
Forget ExxonMobil. Forget Lockheed. Forget Facebook, Raytheon, Pfizer, BlackRock, every villain you’ve been trained to point at for the last thirty years. Those companies are dangerous the way a loaded gun on a table is dangerous — inert until somebody picks it up, and usually somebody does, and…
Neoliberalism Is Dead—Say Hello to Techlordism. A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it…
Legislation introduced by two AIPAC funded representatives. This one slipped under the wire. Tucker Carlson talked about it the other day, but beyond that, it is flying sans transponder. On February 29, New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer and New York Republican Mike Lawler introduced “a bipartisan resolution…
