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Mentally Unstable Ordinarily, July 4 would be a time to celebrate the virtues of America. But whatever virtues we once possessed, Donald…
Adam Johnsonās new book, How to Sell a Genocide, is going to piss off a lot of liberals, and especially Democrats. In…
Introduction In March 2022, cinema-goers across India watched in tense silence as a young Hindu woman sobbed hysterically on screen, recounting graphic…
What makes the current age feel particularly unnerving, even desperate, is that peopleās apolitical pleasures and pastimes are colonized to an unprecedented…
The criminal US/Israeli war of aggression against Iran has killed upwards of 3,500 Iranians (Al Jazeera, 4/19/26; BBC, 4/23/26), injured more than 32,000, razed 22 schools, and…
Americans usually think about confrontation with Iran in terms of sanctions, warships, nuclear sites, and diplomatic ultimatums. But an equally important front…
On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the āmainstreamā media, portraying him as a ādecentā man who…
The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is…
At the end of May, Greg Bovino, the former chief of the US Border Patrol, was the keynote speaker at a “Remigration Summit” in…
The ideology of the modern state is Hobbesianism – the notion that the state is a rational secular institution whose existence is…
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