He was supposed to be the Rock. Peter’s successor. What we got was a slippage, a sigh, a soft decomposition dressed in white. The Vatican ceased to be fortress and became refugee camp, gates swinging wide for every stranger, every non-believer, every voice demanding entry with protest and self-righteous…
Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli agent tasked with blackmailing U.S. politicians and business people by providing them with under-age girls. Virginia Giuffre, then 17, was on of those victims. Epstein was jailed and, on August 10 2019, found dead in his cell. I headlined: Epstein Suicided…
One might well ask how a group composed of little more than 3% of the US population has managed to gain control of the nation’s foreign policy, its legislature and executive branches, its media, its entertainment industry, its financial institutions, and its elite universities while also making the…
This question came to mind from reading Edward Curtin’s essays, “At the Lost and Found,” (Clarity Press, 2025), in which he shares with readers his intellectual encounters with the rising criminality of the governments of the United States since the 1960s. Edward Curtin is a decent person with a sense…
From the outset of the Ukraine -vs- Russia conflict I have been saying this is “world war Reddit”. CTH awakens today to this photo, blasting across the geopolitical landscape. I want you to look carefully at this picture; think about it and elevate yourself to understand exactly what this picture…
Not a day seems to go by without some activist lower court judge issuing an overreaching injunction blocking part of President Trump’s agenda. Throughout Wednesday and Thursday alone, judges across multiple venues handed down decrees barring numerous executive actions taken by the president since returning to office.
Words are important, because the words we use play a major role in shaping the ideas we allow into our minds. In March of 2020, once the infamous campaign of rampant worldwide grotesquery was upon us, I sensed instantaneously that the terms that were being promiscuously thrown around were…
So, predictably, Captain Chaos did blink first. As much as he – and his sprawling media circus – could not possibly admit it. It all started with “tariff exemptions” – from smartphones and computers to auto parts – on products imported from China. Then it veered…
How much is enough? In our “growth for growth’s sake” economy, the answer is “there is never enough” because continuous expansion of consumption is necessary to drive “growth,” without which the global economy will collapse into a Depression of great suffering. The underlying assumption of “growth for growth’s sake” is…
Red counties in Oregon are looking to leave. Matt McCaw never wanted to leave Oregon. The problem, he explains, is that Oregon left him. “The state went off the rails during the COVID pandemic,” the 46-year-old textbook salesman tells me. “The authorities immediately closed down our schools and churches.
