* When criminals show their true face, believe them. Here’s George Bush at a black tie dinner 20 years ago for Radio and TV journalists, joking to sycophantic applause about the elusive WMD in Iraq. Those WMD being the casus … Read More »
Nicolás Maduro two days ago in DEA released footage How can a man as savvy as Richard Murphy is on economics be so clueless on geopolitics? I’ve been asking myself that for four years while watching the man intone the … Read More »
Above and below, US strikes on Caracas – El Pais, January 3 * It’s a measure of the immaturity of the gadfly Andrew Korybko that his response to today’s news, of the criminal act of a criminal empire, was not to … Read More »
The document attempts to make the argument that in the two months leading up to the Bondi attack there was an epidemic of antisemitic “hate speech” online, absurdly insinuating that those of us who were criticizing Israel and its abuses … Read More »
EIR, Xmas Eve 2025 The “protection” of free speech has become its subversion: authorities intervene to safeguard the principle by employing the very discretionary powers that hollow out speech in practice. Liberalism survives as ritual and language, but not as … Read More »
Merry Xmas one and all. Yesterday on Xmas Eve ‘offensive realist‘ Professor John Mearsheimer met up with Judge Andrew Napolitano on his Judging Freedom show for a half-hour discussion of US foreign policy – if that’s not too grand a … Read More »
On December 5 – Venezuela: follow-through or dial-down? – I provided in single paragraph summaries the arguments for and against the likelihood of American piracy in the Caribbean escalating into full-on war to effect regime change in Caracas. I concluded … Read More »
Given the plethora of information now available to anyone taking a little effort, and possessed of the capacity to join the dots and reflect on that information, it is unacceptably naive – yet for reasons beyond my scope here dismally … Read More »
An opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post yesterday: December 21, 2025. Bondi massacre was not about free speech – it’s the cost of normalizing antisemitism It’s written by one Sharon Pardo, who begins: The Hanukkah attack in Sydney was a terrorist … Read More »
Screengrab: Novara Media on fake, AI generated podcasts * For several weeks I’ve been aware of fake videos purporting to be talking head podcasts from pundits who, while I have my differences with them, get my respect as useful contributors … Read More »