Anti-American conservatives

In which Overgrown Hobbit demonstrates that she is far too short and dishonest for this ride. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Moammar Gaddafi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Sarah D’Almeida de Almeida Hoyt to the logical conclusion that the contemporary United States is not a nation, but rather, an idea that belongs to all nations and that immigration to […]

Mexico goes full Trotsky

It’s not enough to say that the victorious Mexican presidential candidate AMLO is a socialist. To be more precise, he is a socialist of the Trotskyite world revolution variety. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has won the Mexican presidential election. Lopez Obrador, better known by his initials AMLO, will be the first candidate from the left-wing […]

The Asian century

Myanmar is aggressively dealing with the problem of its Muslim invasion by repatriating the invaders. The US and the EU are trying to simultaneously pretend they don’t have problems of their own while condemning Myanmar for solving theirs. History suggests that the Western posturing will not merely prove irrelevant, but foolish and hypocritical to boot. […]

A brief flicker of optimism

Of potentially great significance. The four points of agreement: President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following: 1. The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new US-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity. 2. The United States and DPRK will […]

The GitHub purchase

It’s not as if GitHub isn’t already moderately converged, but the Microsoft acquisition of it is unlikely to make things any less subject to converged policing: AFTER A WEEKEND of rumors, Microsoft officially announced Monday that it will acquire the code repository site GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. The platform is an important resource […]

FBI spy ID’d

The mysterious professor who spied on the Trump campaign for the FBI is identified: In mid-July 2016, a retired American professor approached an adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign at a symposium about the White House race held at a British university. The professor took the opportunity to strike up a conversation with Carter Page, whom […]

One-sided war

This is not what “winning the moral level of war” looks like: Israeli snipers kill scores of Palestinians and wound 2,400 as 35,000 protesters rally against the US Embassy opening in Jerusalem overseen by Trump’s Middle East envoy Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka. A 14-year-old was among 52 shot dead along the Gaza border on […]

Did the Littlest Chickenhawk leak Salem email?

The CNN report features leaked emails, including an excerpt of one from Boyce to Shapiro: One of the emails CNNMoney obtained was sent by Boyce in June of 2016, responding to what he said was Shapiro’s request for guidance on the company’s position on Trump. Boyce wrote that “Salem has not taken an official position,” […]

Is Plan B in effect?

The Saker appears to have correctly predicted the recent increase in hostilities between Iran and Israel in one of his recent articles. Risks with Israel’s plan “B” Think of 2006. The Israelis had total air supremacy over Lebanon – the skies were simply uncontested. The Israelis also controlled the seas (at least until Hezbollah almost […]

The current state of the IDF

This recent interview of military historian and Castalia House author Martin van Creveld by a French magazine is particularly interesting in light of the recent Israeli airstrike on Syria, to which Iran has threatened to respond. Read the whole thing there. Can you give us an overview of the actual situation of the Israeli armed […]