During the late nineteenth century, under the aegis of a colonial order supervised by the French and British and German Empires, the constitutional monarch of Belgium, a tiny country in Europe, created an imitation empire that became the world’s evilest regime. In 1876, Leopold II, King of the Belgians, a grandson of the last King of France and a cousin of both Queen Victoria and the German-born Prince Albert, founded the International African Association for humanitarian improvement of the “dark continent.” Three years later, in 1879, the Association sponsored Henry Stanley, who had...

On January 22, 2026—367 days after Donald Trump’s second inauguration and 352 days after his announcement of a plan for America to “Raze and Rebuild Gaza” and the day he launched his “Board of Peace” to “oversee” Gaza—Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner took the stage at the World Economic Forum at Davos to explain how “Raze and Rebuild” worked in practice. A video of this speech shows Kushner, on a podium to the left of the members of the Board of Peace including Trump, speaking as is his wont at a rapid gait and appearing almost boyishly earnest. A Power Point to Kushner’s right showed “a...

On the evening of Tuesday, January 13, 2026, ten days after the Donald Trump administration’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, The Wall Street Journal ran an exclusive report asserting that “the support of the Venezuelan opposition led by Maria Corina Machado for U.S. action to oust Nicolás Maduro helped President Trump’s legal case to overthrow him.” The report cited “people familiar with the matter” who in turn cited redacted portions of a December 23, 2025 opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) which the Justice Department had released that Tuesday afternoon....

With President Donald Trump’s deposition of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and Israel’s and Argentina’s adoption of the Isaac Accords to promote “commercial development,” the contours of a new Latin America may be coming into focus. This is a Latin America where the stick of American imperial intervention (waved first at Venezuela but possibly also at Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico) will be alternated with the carrot of investment from Washington and Tel Aviv, based mostly on the intercessions of Zionist operators. What will this new region look like? A clue comes an ocean away in a mostly forgotten...