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The Ukrainian Border War Folly

Someone should tell the European ruling elites to take a long jump off a short pier. Their endless whining about the Ruuskies and Putin is just plain pathetic because—

It’s not justified—Russia bears no hallmarks of an expansionist imperial power.The Russia-Ukraine conflict is none of western Europe’s business—since its essentially a territorial and civil war within the borders of historic Russia.If EU officialdom is really concerned about the purported Russian threat why do they spend just a...

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The Unofficial WW3

A number of disparate elements are coming together, demanding resolution. But the western alliance is not as battle ready as Russia. The former has not innovated weapons sufficiently and doesn’t possess the hypersonic missiles of Russia, China and her allies. And the Europeans, including Britain, are too socially degraded as cohesive nations to recruit sufficient troops for their depleted armies. Talk of recruitment or even national service in these nations is unrealistic. It is not an exaggerat...

The Art of the Submarine

Walk through any art museum and you’re likely to see a mix of the classical and contemporary, impressionist and surrealist, refined and raw, beautiful, eerie, and provocative. Looking at art allows me at least a few moments of relief from the “that’s just the way it is” attitude of our hyper-consumerist, hyper-militarized, hyper-nihilist nation. I can step outside my day-to-day life and accept an invitation, however briefly, to boundlessness! I can experience invention, creation, and re-creation...

Can the Vatican Ban the Latin Mass? Catechism Says ‘No’

Lately in Rome, the city where rumors are often reliable news, murmurs have been circulating that the Vatican may soon impose a more rigorous edict of suppression for the Traditional Latin Mass, and perhaps for other rites as well (e.g., the sacraments and divine office).

Should such an edict appear, it will once again raise two major questions of “practical theology” for universal debate, namely: (a) Does the Roman Pontiff have authority to prohibit the offering or attendance of the traditional...

What Would Happen if This Event of 41 Years Ago Happened Today?

On the night of September 25-26, 1983, the siren blared at 0:15 local time at the Soviet missile defense center near Moscow. The early warning system reported the launch of a US intercontinental ballistic missile.

The officer on duty, Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, only had a few minutes to assess the situation. In line with the logic of deterrence in force at the time – “Whoever shoots first, dies second!” – the Soviet leadership had less than half an hour to unleash a devastating counterattack.

Pe...

How America’s Billionaires Have Made Their Government Inaccessible to the Public

America’s approximately a thousand billionaires donate at least half of all of the money in the U.S. that funds political campaigns in both of their Parties. Moreover, each of the political Parties is unaccountable to its voters because it is a private club, a tax-free ‘non-profit’ or ‘charity’ which appoints its own members, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) or the Republican National Committee (RNC), which consist of representatives of their supporting billionaires’ corporations and thei...

The Covid ‘Vaccine’ Had No Benefit. Zero. Zip. Nada.

Executive summary

Official US government data, “gold standard data,” shows that the vaccine didn’t save any COVID lives at all. None.

In fact, if anything, the data shows that the vaccine made you more likely to die from COVID.

To the estimated 21 million people who were killed or seriously injured, you should know it was all for nothing.

The single most stunning data point that nobody can explain

The single most stunning piece of official US government data is the US Nursing home data. I first ...

‘We Need Icebreakers’ – And More Strategic Partnerships

The U.S. “containment” of the Russia-China strategic partnership is already unravelling in real time.

The St. Petersburg forum offered a wealth of crucial sessions discussing connectivity corridors. One of the key ones was on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) – or, in Chinese terminology, the Arctic Silk Road: the number one future alternative to the Suez canal.

With an array of main corporate actors in the room – for instance, from Rosneft, Novatek, Norilsk Nickel – as well as governors and minister...

Reparations for the Common People

I wrote the book Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All. It received more critical praise than any of my books, from the likes of Arthur Blaustein, a former Chair of the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity.

Look at the book’s Amazon page. It has a long list of impressive blurbs under the “Editorial Reviews” section. These were people I largely have never communicated with. It was heady stuff ...