By Peter Zeihan on March 18, 2022 This newsletter is an adapted excerpt from Peter’s upcoming book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning. Think the Europeans will need to get by without Russian crude? You are 100% correct. But you are not thinking anywhere near big […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 18, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an early warning to foreign powers at the outset of his invasion of Ukraine: Russia’s considerable nuclear arsenal was ready to deliver a crushing blow against anyone who would meddle in Moscow’s attempt to bring Kyiv back into […]
By Katy Hull A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar period. In the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of families and communities, and the decay of […]
By Rainer Zitelmann Mises Institute Was Hitler really “right wing”? The German-British publicist Sebastian Haffner, who wrote one of the most notable essays on Adolf Hitler, has pointed out that the only opposition which could really have become dangerous for Hitler came from the Right: “From its vantage, […]
By Samo Burja, City-Journal Since Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian Armed Forces to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Western countries and their close allies have hit Russia with a raft of sweeping and unprecedented sanctions. Several major Russian banks were cut off from the […]
By Bernadette Hogan and Carl Campanile Gov. Kathy Hochul is now proposing a sweeping public safety package including changes that will make more crimes bail eligible in New York after weeks of being accused of ignoring the city and state’s crime wave, The Post has learned. The 10-point […]
Free Thought Project (Birch Gold Group) — In an article I published in April of 2018, titled World War III Will Be An Economic War, I outlined a number of factors that portend a large-scale conflict between East and West and why this war would be mainly economic in […]
LOL. What the hell do these harpies know about anything? I generally agree with Tucker Carlson and Tusli Gabbard (and Noam Chomsky) on foreign policy, though not necessarily on other things. Although Carlson and Gabbard are a little too deferent to Z-force for my tastes. I guess they […]
By Matt Taibbi Neoconservatives think they’ve been vindicated by Ukraine, and their new Democratic allies agree. On America’s most improbable and undeserved political comeback. Neoconservative intellectual, former Reagan speechwriter, and onetime Jeopardy champ John Podhoretz penned a triumphant column the other day. Titled, “Neoconservatism: A Vindication,” the Commentary […]
From 2018. On the various coalitions of nutters Donbass has inspired. By Aaron Lake Smith Harpers Magazine Birtherism and 9/11 Truth, it turned out, were merely the prelude to the apotheosis of American paranoia. Global conspiratorial thinking now touches all our lives. On the right, schizo-fantasies such as […]
Krystal and Saagar react to their interview with Jon Stewart and discuss the fundamental flaws in the mainstream media business model
Krystal and Saagar examine the decision by former President Trump to cut ties with former VP Pence over 2020 election grievances as Trump endorsed candidates face setbacks in GOP primaries
George Wallace: We need to expand Social Security and Medicare to help the poor and combat homelessness. Rick Scott: Raise taxes on the poor and cut Social Security and Medicare, who cares if mommy and her 5 kids have to sleep on the sidewalk.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the most striking case of retaliation against Russians for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as demands by made for world #1 tennis player Medvedev to explicitly denounce Putin or be banned from competing in tournaments
I remember the current head of the Church of Satan Peter H Gilmore saying “We don’t really believe in a Devil or God. We’re basically a bunch of atheists who are really into Halloween.”
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen react to reporting that Hunter Biden paid off a significant tax liability.
Krystal and Saagar look at the questions posed to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki by media reporters who are thirsting for a full-scale world war with Russia due to their invasion of Ukraine
He gets all sorts of interesting people from all walks of life on for long, open, free conversations. Whether you like Rogan as a person or not, there are very few places where you can get that. Most people watch for the guests, not for Rogan. Anyone who […]
Democratic Senate candidate for Missouri, Lucas Kunce, criticizes Big Oil for profiteering off of the war in Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar cover the ongoing peace talks happening with Russia and Ukraine as the war between the two countries rages on and the world tries to stop the carnage
New variants are always gonna come now time to just move forward and live our lives.
NY Assemblyman Ron Kim reacts to new revelations that the NY Health Department concealed half of all nursing home Covid deaths between April 2020 and February 2021.
Saagar makes his definitive case against the legislation passed by the Senate that would make daylight savings time permanent and end the practice of moving clocks twice a year
This reminds me of what happened during Jimmy Carter’s presidency. We all know what happened after the next presidential election.
Robby Soave details the backlash to a conservative speaker at Yale Law School.
Krystal and Saagar interview comedian and political commentator Jon Stewart about the mainstream media, Russiagate, war in Ukraine, burn pits, corruption, and a whole slate of issues in a wide ranging discussion
I generally hate the media worse than I hate the ruling class itself. You can have some respect for the Machiavellian cynics in the deep state and upper strata of the power elite, the Rockefeller-Kissinger-Brzenzski-Copeland types. But the sniveling dogs who constitute the “press corps” are beyond contempt. […]
Krystal and Saagar analyze the Saudi Arabian threats to Biden over moving away from the petrodollar and towards the Chinese Yuan as their regime refuses to produce more oil
It’s all right for Pat. He doesn’t have to worry about death when he’s already dead.
Kim Iversen details the mounting pressure placed on Russians to denounce Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar explore the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates to fight inflation and whether it could cause an economic recession to come in the near future
Jen could’ve done a better job explaining to these people the circumstances. Like, “Hey guys do you want the world to be destroyed? Because the questions you guys are asking almost make it seem like that’s what you want.”
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to President Biden’s approval of an additional $800 million in aid for Ukraine.
Krystal breaks down the lies being told by big oil companies and their political allies about why gas prices are so high as was described by legendary comedian Bill Burr in an epic rant
By Andrew Korybko, One World Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine gives this civilization-state a chance to defend its independence and sovereignty that are under existential threat by the US-led West. In preserving his Great Power’s geostrategic existence, President Putin is actually attempting to retain some semblance of […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to President Biden’s approval of an additional $800 million in aid for Ukraine. Kim Iversen details the mounting pressure placed on Russians to denounce Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Ryan Grim breaks down mounting pressure from the White House press […]
Krystal and Saagar break down the military aid sent to Ukraine by the US, peace talks moving forward, federal reserve raising rates, Trump cutting off Mike Pence, cancellation of Russian athletes, warmongering in the media, oil companies causing high gas prices, the debate on daylight savings time, and […]
By Laura He, CNN Business Hong Kong (CNN Business)China is quietly distancing itself from Russia’s sanction-hit economy. The two states proclaimed last month that their friendship had “no limits.” That was before Russia launched its war in Ukraine. Now, with Russia’s economy being slammed with sanctions from all […]
By Heather Mac Donald City Journal Compelled speech is becoming routine in academia. On campuses, faculty candidates for hiring and tenure increasingly must attest to their dedication to diversity to be considered for a job or a promotion. At least one university requires professors to post a “land […]
By Stephen Bartholomeusz Sydney Morning Herald Senior business columnist The power of the US dollar has been on full display as the core of the West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Will the “weaponisation” of the dollar, however, sow the seeds for its eventual demise? The sanctions […]
By Shawna Masiello PopTopic Hundreds of members of the “Volunteers For Ukraine” subreddit who joined the “Reddit Legion” to defend the former Soviet republic after President Zelenskyy extended an open invitation were shelled and shot after the Kremlin warned they would be treated as mercenaries and war criminals. […]
After checkmating the powerful North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) through veiled threats of nuclear weapons, is Russia now losing the battle on the ground in Ukraine? Is President Vladimir Putin losing more popular support both abroad and in Russia, after hits on civilian facilities? Their initial analysis of […]
Censorship of free speech by corporations is as bad, if not worse, than by government.
By Rachel Treisman, NPR First Eurovision, then the Paralympics and now … cat exhibitions. Fédération Internationale Féline (FIFe), an international cat federation with members in about 40 countries, is banning Russian cats from its competitions for the next three months, joining the growing global backlash to Russia’s invasion […]
By Philip Giraldi The neocons and their allies might be making it happen Well, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle and there is no easy way to encourage it to return. Thanks to a relentless flow of propaganda, the American public has become increasingly […]
By Ron Paul As the Russian invasion of Ukraine moves past its third week, there are slight hopes that negotiations between the two sides may soon produce a ceasefire. But with the shrill warmongering talk in Washington, it almost seems like the US government would hate to see […]
By Arjae Red Workers World Starbucks workers across the country celebrated a major victory with three new stores voting in favor of unionization. The NLRB counted ballots March 9 for three stores in the Buffalo, New York, area, with a close but decisive vote in each case. This […]
By Don Surber It looks like retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor was right a week ago when he told a disbelieving Stuart Varney that Russia would take Ukraine. Macgregor said, “The first five days, Russian forces I think, frankly, were too gentle. They’ve now corrected that. So I would […]
The third week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is covered in the fog of war and that can be confusing. In this episode we investigate some of the Russian claims of victories and advances around the country to avoid falling into a cognitive bias trap. I suggest […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 17, 2022 Apologies to all for having not written much in the past three weeks. The Ukraine War has been unfolding with such unforgiving speed and complexity that I’ve just not had time. While the pace hasn’t exactly slowed, the conflict is setting into […]
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