That would greatly complicate Russia’s goal of demilitarizing Ukraine and thus imperil the peace talks… The US and Ukraine finally signed their minerals deal after amending the draft agreement to remove a proposal for Ukraine to pay back past US military aid. A clause was added though whereby future US military aid,…
The New York Times runs a jaw-dropper: Elon Musk may be stepping back from running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, but his legacy there is already secured. DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system for the Trump administration — the likes of which we have never…
The Osama bin Laden Show had been a masterpiece of psychological warfare conjured up from the televisions upon an unexpecting American people. It produced the pervasive and permanent fear among the soft and pliable citizenry that hardened them into a unanimous support for the Endless War that they never asked…
“The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology.” — Harmeet Dhillon, US Assistant AG for the Civil Rights Division When a claque of deep state shills such as Norm Eisen, Chuck Schumer, Bill Kristol, David Brooks, and Larry Summers holler about Mr. Trump’s…
If you are a Twitter user, one of the things you may have noticed is that the site is increasingly difficult to use as intended. The “slop accounts” fill the site with posts intended to game the payment system. It is also infested with “influencers” who, like the slop…
Probably just a coincidence… Just days after Germany’s ‘Alternative fur Deutschland’ (AfD) party topped the polls… Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has formally classified the party as a right-wing extremist movement, granting authorities enhanced powers to monitor the party as a potential threat to democracy, due to the “extremist character of…
A cashless society truly is a scary world. Picture everything that you’ve read about in history books within other totalitarian regimes, and you’ll get a taste of what is to come.) Cash is one of the last man-made means of protection that he or she has against governments that…
About a month or so ago on March 23 I posted on this website my memoir of my time in the Reagan administration which had just been published in The Independent Review, a readable quarterly. I expected to hear more than I did in response to my memoir, because I spelled…
The Republican-majority United States House of Representatives demonstrated this week, through votes on several relatively modest bills, that it will just keep demanding more US government spending and control. Republican representatives often claim to support limited government and frugality, but mostly they, and their Democratic Party colleagues, keep acting…
Ahnaf Ibn Qais argues that the Canadian Elections mark a turning point, away from Populist, Patriotic, & Nationalistic forces across the West, & back to their Technocratic & Managerial opponents; ‘Elites’ who are successfully outlasting said Revolutionary foes. Mark Carney is but a harbinger of things to come… Carney…
