It’s not been burned, just looted, rifled. A moaning, by the walls half muffled: The mother’s wounded, still alive. The little daughter’s on the mattress, Dead. How many have been on it? A platoon, a company perhaps? A girl’s been turned into a woman, A woman turned...
Asia
Following the BRICS Road to Multipolarity
by Ted Snider | Aug 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The five members of BRICS promised that their fifteenth annual summit, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, would be an important one for BRICS’ development and that it would mark a significant moment in the changing international architecture. The political West...
Pyongyang Test Fires Two ‘Tactical’ Ballistic Missiles as US Flies Bombers, Conducts War Games
by Connor Freeman | Aug 30, 2023 | News
Hours after the US flew bombers in separate joint air drills with Tokyo and Seoul, North Korea test fired two short-range ballistic missiles. This comes as Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), has warned that increased...
Hong Kong Was Always Doomed to Be Under Beijing’s Thumb
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 29, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On midnight July 1, 1997 a century and a half of British colonial dominion was brought to an end with the handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China (hereafter PRC). This was in accordance with the 1984 Sino-British Declaration. That treaty, which had...
WaPo: Trump Plans Massive Tariffs If Re-Elected
by Connor Freeman | Aug 23, 2023 | News
Former President Doanld Trump privately met with his top economic advisors last week and discussed plans for major tariff increases, three people familiar with the meeting told the Washington Post. One of the ideas which was floated involves a “universal baseline...
Kim Jong Un Oversees Cruise Missile Test, as Washington and Seoul Launch Joint War Games
by Connor Freeman | Aug 21, 2023 | News
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a cruise missile test while aboard a naval ship on Monday. Concurrently, the US and South Korea began yet another series of military exercises which Pyongyang views as rehearsals for war and regime change. According to the...
Ep 023 “Afghanistan: The Soviet Debacle 1978-1989”
by Bill Buppert | Aug 21, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes The defeat of the USSR in Afghanistan was part of a broad tapestry of disasters that eventually brought the Russian communist state crashing down. The shattering of Soviet forces by the indigenous rebels aided by foreign fighters and sophisticated...
Ukraine Is More Than Wounded
by Ted Snider | Aug 21, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Getting a count of Ukraine’s dead that isn’t the output of someone’s propaganda machine is difficult to do. But the number of dead is indisputably a horror. Measuring the maiming of Ukraine solely in deaths, though, is an injustice to the depth of the Ukrainian wound....
Blog
Fat Amy Performs as Expected
The F35 continues to shine as a boondoggle and taxpayer nightmare fuel. Taiclet’s boasts to investors about the program were quickly tempered by real world events the same day when video circulated of an out of control Air Force F-35 tumbling to a fiery crash in...
Big Surprises in Ukraine You Didn’t See Coming! New Episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show
Jon Hoffman, Ph.D., and Kyle Anzalone discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine, providing insightful analysis on recent developments. They touch on the potential for peace talks and the latest Russia-Ukraine war update. Stay informed with their expert opinions on the...
Scott Horton : Netanyahu Compares ‘Free Palestine’ to ‘Heil Hitler’ – New Episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show
Scott Horton breaks down the latest foreign policy news with host Kyle Anzalone.
The Continuing Erosion of US Dominance in Peer Combat
The predominance of Western military superiority in weapons systems is unraveling and the increasing dissonance in the US military complex coming to grips with existential changes in how peer competition in war is evolving is causing tremendous reduction in both both...
The Global Censorship Complex and the Local Voice of Liberty with John Weeks
The Global Censorship Complex and the Local Voice of Liberty with John Weeks John Weeks (@weeksjf) examines the evolution of free speech, the nature of state power, and the rise of what he calls the "global censorship complex." Drawing from anthropology, political...
163rd Anniversary of Stonewall Jackson’s Victory in the Battle of Front Royal
This is reprinted from Jim Bovard's blog and expands on a post originally from 2023. Today is the 163th anniversary of the battle of Front Royal, Virginia (the town near where I was raised). On May 23, 1862, almost all the Yankee soldiers in Front Royal were captured,...
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