Ever since being named deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, Michael DiMino has found himself in the crosshairs. On January 22, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin, citing a tweet condemning the former CIA analyst’s critique of the “ironclad...
Since assuming the presidency, Donald Trump has quickly put Latin America on notice. From threatening Mexico and Colombia with tariffs for not adequately dealing with illegal immigration in a way that satisfied the president, to Trump’s threats to take over the Panama...
President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, relocating Palestinians and building the Riviera of the Middle East on the land where they lived, managed the rare trick of offending almost everyone. Objections fell along tracks worn into trenches by long warfare. Leftists...
For more than half a century, the global economy has operated under a monetary system divorced from gold. The 1971 collapse of the Bretton Woods system, where the U.S. dollar’s convertibility to gold was suspended, ushered in the fiat money era, a regime in which...
On January 6, Indonesia formally entered BRICS as a full member. It was an important geopolitical shift that went largely unreported and little discussed in the mainstream western media. BRICS is an international organization whose primary purpose is to balance U.S....
The newly born Reform Party UK, with its freshmen five members of Parliament, recently attempted to introduce a bill that would prohibit quantitative easing (QE) except for emergency situations. This was done through a procedure the British parliamentary system calls...
If you’re like many people, you’ve always thought a numbered-triangle symbol on the bottom of a plastic container tells you it’s recyclable—giving you peace of mind that when you toss it into a blue bin, it will be turned into something else. That’s not true. Those...
Don't get accustomed to me praising Donald Trump, but exceptions will occur now and then. Trump is no principled friend of liberty, not by a long shot. Judging by most of his actions and words, he recognizes no impenetrable boundary between the government and the...
