Iran won the war. There are consequences for being on the wrong side of the power equation, a reality that the US and its Gulf Arab allies are learning the hard way. It is a bad time to be a Gulf Arab State. The United States…
For so many years I failed to understand how real Satan is—and how actively he’s involved in the affairs of this world. He always seemed less like a real adversary and more like a cartoon bogeyman meant to scare us away from Ouija boards and vampire cults. (In…
The pause we’re talking about began with the so-called “ceasefire”. That heralded an end to the bombing campaign—and Iran’s missile campaign—but also the beginning of Operation Economic Fury: a pivot to a naval blockade. It was widely expected that Trump would make good on his threats by attempting…
Some fifteen years ago I wrote that western reliance on its lens of secular rationality was no longer adequate as a means to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was becoming obvious — even then — that the future of the region would be one of wars increasingly defined by…
The shadow architect of the Iraq War. Few individuals embody the conflict between American national interest and the demands of world jewry as sharply as Douglas Feith. Throughout his career, Feith has operated as a consummate advocate for the Jewish state, positioning himself within the highest echelons…
A Non-MAGA Republican Explains The Greatest Con Job In American Political History To The People Who Got Conned. That was always the goal. Every moment that made you cringe, every policy that made you feel like a stranger in your own political home, every story that made…
The most important contemporary political phenomenon in Europe is the rise of so-called “populism” (sometimes also called “sovereignism”), which stems from what the mainstream media label as “the far right”. In practice, ‘populism’ is generally used simply to denote a demagogic form of politics in which a leader,…
And Most People Haven’t Even Realized the Rules Have Already Changed. There are periods in history when people sense that change is not merely political or economic, but structural and civilizational. The feeling is difficult to explain because nothing appears dramatically different on the surface. Cities function.
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) has jumped to a new record high in a recent poll conducted by the opinion research institute Insa. In the poll, the AfD increased its lead over the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU). According to the “Sunday…
The account of the Iranian situation by Simplicius is reasonably accurate. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/us-secretary-of-navy-resigns-or-is?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1351274&post_id=195186287&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=dx5km&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email Trump has revealed time and again that he took us to war against Iran for Israel. Trump thinks no oil price is too high to pay to protect Israel from an alleged “Iran threat.”…
