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We Need Fair Accountability in the Israel-Hamas War February 22, 2025

As the world holds its breath to see if the Israel-Hamas ceasefire will stick, some are using the possible end of the war that has devastated a civilian population to boost their social media profile. One activist claimed on X he “survived the Israel...

Israel

Gaza City

Hamas

media

Outside of Fiction, Socialism Has Never Worked February 22, 2025

The year is 1980, and 44 years have passed since Britain’s socialist revolution. A new generation has grown up, which has no active memories of capitalism, and only a hazy concept of what ‘capitalism’ even was. ...

socialism

economics

Cruellest Thing About Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s Right February 21, 2025

And just like that, we are back in 2017. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is posting ridiculous hyperbole on his socials and mouthing off from Mar-a-Lago, as he always has....

Ukraine

Poland’s Path To Remarkable Prosperity February 21, 2025

Browsing social media, I recently came across a map showing all the countries with GDP per capita higher than Poland’s back in 1990 and in 2018. The difference was striking. While 35 years ago there were quite a few such countries, not only in Europe...

Poland

Why Elbridge Colby Matters February 21, 2025

Elbridge Colby is Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as under secretary of defense for policy, but Sen. Tom Cotton is thinking about derailing his nomination. Colby not only has the president’s support, he’s also been defended on social media by the lea...

neoconservatism

Fighting Back Against Digital Authoritarianism February 21, 2025

social media

Could Ukraine Have Avoided War With Russia? February 20, 2025

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is, according to a President Donald J. Trump social media post on Wednesday, a “dictator without elections”! Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Trump’s statement was “utterly despicable.” Is the Senator’s anger justif...

Ukraine

Ukraine Must Be Involved in Peace Talks February 18, 2025

Last week, various news outlets reported that senior officials from the Trump-Vance administration would be meeting with their Russian counterparts to discuss an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The negotiations are expected to take place this...

Angry Farmers Push Poland Away From Ukraine February 17, 2025

After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, protests by Polish farmers are opening up social and political fractures in a once-unshakeable alliance. ...

Poland

The Munich Attack Reveals a Terrorized Germany February 17, 2025

No nation should be expected to put up with this. The Munich attack yesterday, in which a Mini Cooper ploughed into a trade-union march, injuring nearly 40 people, was the fifth time in nine months that Germans flicked open social media or turned on ...

Iran Diplomacy Can’t Wait February 13, 2025

President Donald Trump says he wants a deal, not a war, with Tehran. “I would much prefer a Verified Nuclear Peace Agreement, which will let Iran peacefully grow and prosper,” he wrote last week on Truth Social. ...

To Stop Antisemitism, Find the Source February 10, 2025

People aren’t born antisemetic; they learn to hate Judaism from their surrounding culture. To counteract the rapid spread of antisemitism in the West, we must identify the source of its influence in our societies. Here are a few points to understand ...

U.S. is Reasserting Their Superpower Role February 04, 2025

As I have written elsewhere, I have always been suspicious of the idea of an emerging multipolar world order. This does not mean that it will never happen, but there is a difference between inevitable and imminent. At the time of writing the United S...

United States Senate

Bolivia’s Lithium Window Is Closing Rapidly February 03, 2025

In 2023, Bolivia signed multi-billion dollar deals for lithium extraction with Chinese and Russian state-owned companies, including the CBC consortium and Rosatom/Uranium One. Since then, despite these deals expanding further, very little progress ha...

Germany’s Crumbling 'Firewall' Could Help the AFD February 01, 2025

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens domination of migration policy. After winning a Bundestag motion to reinstate border controls with votes of the far-right Alterna...

Germany

Close Friends, Closer Enemies: The West’s Diplomatic Quagmire With Qatar September 17, 2024

A Wahabi Islamic state which eschews every principle of democracy while actively and openly supporting half a dozen proscribed terrorist organisations, Qatar lies on that fine line which divides America's ‘Axis of evil’ from America’s ‘Major Non-NAT...

Qatar

Middle East

NATO

The Economic Record of Socialism September 17, 2024

With a radical far-leftist in serious contention for the presidency in our upcoming election, it is worthwhile to check in on the record of leftism and socialism in other countries. ...

socialism

Forgotten Wars: The Essequibo Crisis September 12, 2024

This is part III of a series of articles on lesser known conflicts throughout the world. Part I highlighted The Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis and Part II covered The Civil War in Myanmar.The historical roots of the conflict between Venezuela and Guyana go...

What’s at Stake in the Censorship War September 11, 2024

The censorship war has hit a flashpoint. Late last month, Brazil banned Elon Musk’s social media site, X, after Musk refused a government order to suppress seven dissident accounts. Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes responded by res...

censorship

Beijing’s Play for Taiwan’s Young Voices Intensifies September 05, 2024

In early June, Taiwanese celebrities and influencers offered a rare window into a little understood way that China is seeking to exert influence on the island’s information space. Within the span of just a few days, multiple singers, actors, and YouT...

The Drift Toward Unfreedom September 03, 2024

Every generation in a democratic country has had to decide the right balance between individual liberty, national security and community wellbeing. ...

free speech

Brazilians Feel Impact of Social Media Blackout September 03, 2024

The showdown between Musk and Brazil’s highest court is quickly gaining world attention as millions wait in anticipation to see if the Tesla and SpaceX founder will stand his ground as a free speech absolutist against Brazilian Supreme Court Chief Ju...

Brazil

Venezuela Is a Disaster Because of Socialism August 02, 2024

The New York Times blames ‘brutal capitalism’ as the root cause of the socialist regime’s economic woes and political chaos....

socialism