By Joel Kotkin December 23, 2025/in Demographics ‘For many states that were once great have now become small; and those that were great in my time were small formerly. Knowing therefore that human prosperity never continues in one stay.’ So wrote Herodotus in his Histories, in the fifth […]
The WSJ just published a major report on how Epstein and Maxwell recruited girls for abuse for years from Mar-a -Lago. Staff warned each other about how he would make sexual advances and expose himself to young girls and women working at the spa. Trump’s wife Marla Maples […]
Caitlin Johnstone Dec 31, 2025 Reading by Tim Foley: Israel has banned 37 aid groups from working in the Palestinian territories, citing plainly spurious reasons. Among the aid groups banned are Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Oxfam. Israel banned the aid groups from Gaza for the same reason […]
December 31, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, Thank you to all our readers who have followed our stories throughout this year! Before we wade into 2026, here are our […]
Free speech, gun rights, and executive power cases line up. Dec 31, 2025 WASHINGTON — Conservative legal organizations are laying the groundwork for a wave of major Supreme Court challenges expected to reach the high court during the 2026 term, with cases targeting free speech restrictions, gun-control enforcement, […]
Making Anti-Globalism Global Arktos Journal Dec 31, 2025 As 2025 draws to a close and the dawn of 2026 is just ahead, Arktos is celebrating 16 years of making anti-globalism global and assembling the world’s leading dissident library. In 2025, we brought out as many as 344 publications […]
“There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to peace, peace is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.” -Thich Nhat Hanh Happiness IS the way. This quote has been appearing in my mind a lot […]
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Debt, deficits, and market stress are forcing policymakers to blink—again. Dec 31, 2025 For more than a year, the Federal Reserve has insisted it can shrink its balance sheet without breaking the economy. That promise is quietly falling apart. Behind the official statements and carefully chosen talking points, […]
Troy Southgate Dec 31, 2025 I RECENTLY discussed how Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) believed that it was possible to use criticism of art as a unique cognitive medium in the wider search for truth. This is achieved by a reflective process that relates each artistic work to matters such […]
Vincent van Gogh: Corridor in the Asylum, 1889 The year 2025 opened, in the pages of The New York Review of Books, with two stiff drinks. Our first issue, dated January 16—two weeks into the extended hangover between New Year’s Eve and Donald Trump’s second inauguration—featured on […]
2026: the battle for the south. The Kramatorsk/Sloviansk pincers. 9 frontline sectors, 2024-25. The meaning of Kursk. Attrition levels. Events in Ukraine Dec 31, 2025 2025 has ticked on by. The year has seen many promises of the war’s imminent end. So far, it’s easier to imagine another […]
Making sense of the “Putin assassination attempt” Kevin Barrett Dec 31, 2025 I awoke Monday morning to alarming news: Ukraine had tried to assassinate Putin. Media reports claimed a drone swarm had targeted the Russian president’s residence in the Novrogod region. Russia said they shot down all the […]
A Newsletter from Sean Gabb View this email in your browser Latest from the Libertarian Alliance Please feel free to repost or republish (Creative Commons Licence), though do give the original source Dear All, As we say farewell to yet another ghastly year in the modern history of […]
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Emma is channeling the Viking in her blood.
Class solidarity is what will defeat these bourgeois monsters, comrades.
Nearly half of all U.S. states will be increasing their minimum wage in 2026, but the federal minimum wage will stay at $7.25, the same as its been since 2009. #MinimumWage #Economy #Jobs
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claims President Trump said the female victims of Jeffrey Epstein didn’t do anything to deserve a visit to the White House. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
CNN’s Scott Jennings said that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has turned into a ‘lib.’ Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
Alumni and benefactors revolt as conservative students and faculty face growing censorship on elite campuses. Dec 30, 2025 A growing revolt is underway among major university donors as free-speech crackdowns, ideological enforcement, and selective discipline trigger what critics describe as an unprecedented backlash against higher education’s ruling orthodoxy. […]
View in browser TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30 US CUTS AID FUNDING TO UN, PRESSING FOR REFORMS The U.S. announced yesterday that it will pledge $2 billion for UN humanitarian programs, a reduced level of funding compared with recent years, as the Trump administration continues to cut overall foreign assistance […]
A reflection of writing through the genocide of my people in 2025, and how we get to freedom in 2026 Ahmad Ibsais Dec 30, 2025 There is something unbearable about sitting down to write a year-end reflection when it seems the last few years have not ended, when […]
Now available! Telos 213 (Winter 2025): China Keywords I Defining China, From Within and Without Telos 213 (Winter 2025): China Keywords I is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online formats. Dear Telos community, Today we are releasing Telos 213, […]
While legacy outlets stay silent or run interference, we continue exposing the crimes Dec 30 Yesterday, President Trump met with Benjamin Netanyahu and openly endorsed the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. He called it “voluntary” even as Israel enforces a medical siege, blocks food and fuel, and […]
Antoine Dresse and Arktos Journal Dec 30, 2025 Antoine Dresse (”Ego Non”) revisits Alexis de Tocqueville’s prophetic insights into the unstoppable march of democratic equality. Writing nearly two centuries after Tocqueville’s journey to America, Dresse examines how the French aristocrat’s “religious terror” at witnessing democracy’s advance has proven […]
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Released on Patreon on Dec 23, 2025 Need a gift this holiday season? Purchase a membership to Peter Zeihan’s Patreon page for someone who needs it… GIFT A MEMBERSHIP HERE Global oil markets are nearing a massive shock as the shadow fleet edges towards collapse. With mounting pressure […]
None of them are even in the Middle East. Get ready for a bloody 2026. Kevin Barrett Dec 30, 2025 Donald Trump, the supposed “America first” president, was elected by voters who are sick of pointless wars—especially pointless wars for Israel. This week he scrooged those voters and […]
Caitlin Johnstone Dec 29, 2025 Reading by Tim Foley: My name appears at the top of a list in a document the Israeli government released earlier this month in order to draw false associations between the Bondi Beach shooting and online criticism of Israel and its atrocities. The […]
News Updates From CLG CLG News Dec 29, 2025 All links and summaries are here. Ukraine launched 91 kamikaze drones at Putin’s state residence – Lavrov | 29 Dec 2025 | The Ukrainian military fired a barrage of 91 long-range kamikaze drones overnight at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s […]
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TELL CONGRESS: ICE prisons like Alligator Alcatraz and Camp East Montana run on abuse, inhumane conditions, and cruelty. The death of another ICE prisoner and the record 66,000+ people in brutal ICE detention facilities call for immediate action. Sign the petition: Investigate and shut down ICE prisons! ADD […]
Bryan Malinowski was a lifelong collector and airport executive. The ATF treated him like a criminal—and he never came out alive. Dec 29, 2025 Do you have a hobby? What do you think would happen if your hobby caught the attention of ATF agents? Bryan Malinowski was a […]
Epstein advised on U.S. role in Israeli energy as Ehud Barak sought foreign partners to save gas monopoly. Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim Dec 29, 2025 Thanks to all our readers for a great year. A quick note before the story: Ryan Grim was on Tim Dillon’s final […]
by Alain de Benoist Arktos Journal Dec 29, 2025 Contemporary critics obsess over “domination” while ignoring a far more insidious phenomenon: alienation. Unlike domination, which implies a clear divide between oppressor and oppressed, alienation ensnares everyone—exploiters and exploited alike—in a system of unconscious servitude. Drawing on Rousseau’s insight […]
Right wing blogger and philosopher Curtis Yarvin, known as “the philosopher behind JD Vance”, talks to Newsnight about President Donald Trump as well as Yarvin’s belief in a system of monarchy in the US. Interview by Nick Watt. #politics #uspolitics #politicalnews Newsnight is the BBC’s flagship news and […]
Joseph Jordan Dec 28, 2025 Most dismiss Vladimir Putin’s assertion that the West is arming and funding Jewish Nazis to mass murder Russians for Sorosite liberalism as Kremlin schizophrenia. But the strange bedfellows coming together to honor the recently deceased Russian Volunteer Corps (RKD) commander Denis “White Rex” […]
Key to understanding why the Heritage American concept ruffles so many feathers is recognizing the equally unique nature of American nationality. Dec 28, 2025 Former Republican presidential candidate and current Ohio governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy re-ignited the “Heritage American” debate in a column for The New York Times […]
How financial cleansing supplanted ethnic cleansing in the United States Ohio Barbarian Dec 28, 2025 Once upon a time, the once mighty Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe, but not before inculcating who owned the land, and how land should be used, into both its historic residents and […]
How two competing ideological strands both called Eurafricanism shaped both the European far Right, and the Post colonial Left, center left, and center right murica Dec 27, 2025 Introduction — Eurafrica as Europe’s Suppressed Political Unconscious Europe tells a comforting story about itself. It says the age of […]
Jonathan Pollard, the former Israeli spy who spent 30 years in a US prison, sits down for a rare and candid interview about his decision to run for Knesset, his views on October 7, Israeli security policy, and the future of Gaza. Pollard speaks about his time in […]
A “feel good” Bad Idea Kenneth Schmidt Dec 30, 2025 I have a great deal of sympathy for Nigerian Christians. It always pains me to see Christians persecuted anywhere in the world, as I am one myself. The bombing of ISIS militants in that country ordered by […]
Recessions and Depressions are no more than a massive transfer of wealth from the lower and middle classes to the ultra-wealthy.
Robby Soave gives his radar on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz facing heat over the allegations of widespread fraud in his state. #TimWalz #Minnesota #Fraud
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Philosopher, author, and co-host of Dystopia Now podcast joins Bad Faith to discuss his coverage of Noam Chomsky & the Epstein files, before engaging in a broader conversation about big tech titans’ emphasis on a dystopian transhumanism that’s rooted in eugenics and an unfounded faith in their own […]
Trump wanted his name on everything until it came to the Epstein files.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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