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Confucius, DeepSeek, and Why China Would Win a War With the United States

Question 1: Western Media Bias?

Is the western media even-handed in its coverage of China? And how has this impacted public perception of China in America?

Ron Unz—I think the Western media has been overwhelmingly biased against China, a bias that stretches back for decades but has steadily grown worse during the 2010s and especially the last few years.

Coverage has recently become so extremely dishonest and distorted that it reminds me of how the old Soviet media portrayed the West even as the ...

Trump Said What About Gaza?

From the Tom Woods Letter:

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen various gatherings of Democrats, and they’ve concluded that they lost the election because of “racism” and “sexism,” and further that they should forge ahead with the DEI stuff as if nothing happened.

The more they do that, the better.

Along the same lines, they have decided to make a massive issue out of the President’s assault on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has nothing at all to do with the...

Believing Is Seeing

The phrase seeing is believing is understood by most everyone I have known, including myself, as obviously true. Here is an internet explanation of the idiom:

When we hear the phrase “seeing is believing,” what comes to mind? Perhaps it brings up images of a skeptic who needs concrete evidence before they can believe something. Or maybe it makes us think of the power of visual proof in convincing others. Regardless, this idiom has become a common saying that reflects our reliance on tangible evi...

A Plea to Good Bishops

The last thing I’d want to be in our time is an American bishop.

The recent letter from the USCCB to President Trump, on illegal immigration, was measured in tone, nor did it fail, implicitly, to recognize the duty of those in public office to provide for the common good, taking all circumstances into account. It was greatly superior to the moral posing and preening wherein the Episcopal prelate in Washington indulged herself at the service following the inauguration, to the predictable applause...

Cashless Society Can Pose Significant Risks If You Aren’t Prepared

Aside from economic collapse scenarios, many countries are in the process of eliminating physical cash and coins. Instead, everyone has an account that holds their money. You cannot purchase goods or services without access to government-based cryptocurrency. Even if the currency itself is still backed by faith in the government, you have to use this electronic system.

The result is multiple problems that could leave you in a situation where you have the money in the bank to pay your bills and p...

Sleepwalking Into Tyranny: How Power Is Silently Being Seized

“This is what militaries do during coups: you capture the major targets, with government buildings high on the list, and you take over communications and other systems.”—Ruth Ben-Ghiat, historian on fascism and authoritarian leaders

How something is done is just as important as why something is done.

To suggest that the ends justify the means is to launch oneself down a moral, ethical and legal rabbit hole that leaves us in a totalitarian bind.

We are already halfway down that road.

Whatever the...

The Lynching of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I know much of the alt media is suspicious of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. But then they are suspicious about literally everyone in the public eye. I get accused of having blinders on when talking about the Kennedys. I admit to being a lifelong fanboy. But no one can deny that they are treated differently from any other elite family.

As Joe Kennedy, Sr. found out, accumulating great wealth doesn’t necessarily earn you a key to the executive washroom. The Kennedys, as nineteenth century Irish immigrant...

Trump Suspends Dozens in Education Department as DOGE Devises Plan To Dismantle Agency

Dozens of employees at the US Department of Education were placed on paid leave after refusing to adhere to President Trump’s executive order banning DEI programs in the federal government, according to AP, citing a labor union that represents the employees.

At least 55 Education Department employees received an email Friday notifying them that they were being placed on paid leave effective immediately, pursuant to Trump’s executive order. Those placed on leave have lost access to their governme...

Five Takeaways From Trump’s Plans To Build an Iron Dome for America

This is a game-changer in the New Cold War since it’ll take the US’ rivalry with Russia and China to a qualitatively more dangerous level through the consequent hyper-militarization of space.

Trump signed an Executive Order to build an Iron Dome for America, which aims to defend the homeland “against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks.” It’ll also importantly include space-based monitoring and interception systems. Some of the latter will ha...

European Union Facilitates Slave Trade in North Africa

Knowing Europe’s horrendous colonial history and today’s European Union’s (EU) ever-growing tyranny, there is little surprise in the EU’s facilitating slave trade in Northern Africa, mostly through Europe-NATO’s destruction of today’s chaotic Libya. The latter with the support of the then Obama Government. 

Imagine this: A coalition of humanitarian organizations has alleged that sub-Saharan African migrants in Tunisia are being apprehended and sold to Libyan traffickers, and that the process is ...