9/9/25. In addition to marking out today’s geopolitical dangers, Ferguson in this Charlie Rose interview also explains why he does not believe January 6 was a coup, and also why he converted from atheism to Christianity. Sir Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow, Scotland, combined his education in history, politics, and economics at Oxford with his… Read More Historian Niall Ferguson on Where Trump Stands Today
So-called ‘Liberals’ have a philosophical problem in this country and beyond. On the one hand they heartily indulge and enjoy the sexual anarchy granted by the succeeding regimes since the 1950’s and 1960’s; on the other hand they tend to deplore the lawlessness of American foreign policy / imperialism / warmaking. They do not see… Read More When the State is Ultimate
Opinion. By Karel van Wolferen.* In a famous exchange between a high official at the court of George W. Bush and journalist Ron Susskind, the official – later acknowledged to have been Karl Rove – takes the journalist to task for working in “the reality-based community.” He defined that as believing “that solutions emerge from your judicious… Read More Through The American Looking Glass. “We Create Our Own Reality,” He Said
MIC Fleecing of American taxpayers Matthew Hoh Two press reports stood out to me this morning: the release of the names of two US Navy SEALs who drowned two weeks ago in the Arabian Sea and the Air Force’s production authorization for the B21 Raider bomber. Both stories symbolize an imperial inertia that defines American… Read More Americans Are Paying A Massive Price To Maintain Empire
John Waters, Ireland: ‘The biggest lie is that Russia is intent upon rebuilding the Soviet Union. Instead, Putin is building a new civilisation, based on Christianity, tradition, nationhood and family…‘ — view of John Waters, Ireland, Substack Putin is said to have liberated the Russian Orthodox Church. Solzhenitsyn thought well of him mostly, if not… Read More Vlad the Perplexing
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