Dialog, the exclusive forum co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel and entrepreneur Auren Hoffman, is planning a permanent Washington headquarters as the PayPal co-founder’s investment portfolio gains deeper federal government ties through companies like Palantir. The invitation-only network is scouting real estate to build a “campus in the D.C. suburbs,” according to reports,…
It seems that Putin has indeed succeeded in finding an exit out from the imposed western cordon sanitaire. Trump’s ascent to a portion of the ‘Mythic’ has become only too evident. As John Greer has observed: “It’s becoming difficult even for the most dyed-in-the-wool rationalist to go on believing…
In the afternoon I occasionally experience a bit of a concentration slump, so I go to the New York Times to see the latest inanities it is presenting to its stupefied readership. A few minutes ago I logged on and saw the following story.
The Trump administration’s deployment of more than 4,000 sailors and Marines to the southern Caribbean—reportedly to combat drug cartels—marks a dangerous escalation in its policy toward Venezuela. While President Donald Trump is right to identify transnational criminal networks as a threat to the health and safety of the American people,…
How an obscure British eccentric named Jonathan Bowden became a legendary figure on the online right. In February this year, I published a biography of a portly, penniless university dropout who lived in a trailer park on the outskirts of a dreary English industrial town. The biography …
There are many evils emblematic of American society. In the wake of almost a century of American hegemony, such evils necessarily extend to the constellation of satellite, puppet states under the heel of the American Empire. Facilitated by America’s status as a lone super power, waning though that position…
A new University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll (UMD CIP) has found that Americans are more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis, a historic shift in US public opinion that comes as the US government continues to support Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. The poll found…
There is nothing more tragic than a life devoid of purpose. Without meaning, souls wither away. Anybody who has interacted with drug addicts whose only “purpose” is to secure another “fix” knows this to be true. The human part of those so afflicted steadily disappears as the body is overtaken by a…
Yesterday on his program Dialogue Works, Nima had two guests: Larry Johnson, formerly of the CIA, and me. I come in at about the one hour mark at the close of the program with Larry. I recommend that you take advantage of the double feature. https://www.youtube.com/live/Tw0wfYs-kOQ Nima and I discuss…
Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page, Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement, University of Missouri Press, 2011, 164 pp., $28.00 (softcover) Abraham Lincoln is revered as one of the greatest heroes of American history. His face…
