Category: Geopolitics

‘The Geological Scandal’ Re-Erupts

Recently at The Signal: This week’s member’s despatch + Nicholas Kumleben on how AI is changing global energy consumption. … Today: What’s driving the terrible conflict in Congo? The 2025 Oscar-nominee Johan Grimonprez on a history of violence and the costs of global competition over critical minerals.. … Also: Matthias […]

Congo is the Nucleus of Africa

If Congo were a person, it would be the most cherished, most respected, most protected individual on Earth. It is the backbone of modern technology, the lifeblood of the global economy, and the nucleus of Africa’s wealth. But instead of being honored, it is looted, sabotaged, and kept […]

Requiem For The West

Trump and Vance have put a stake in the heart of the free world. Andrew Sullivan Feb 21, 2025 Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan listen to the American national anthem at Kensington Palace Gardens after his arrival for the G7 summit on June 4, 1984. (Bryn Colton/Getty Images) […]

Speaking Russian in Riyadh

We thrive when we feel connected, when we feel centered, when we’re spending our time on things that help us spend time well. Unfortunately, that’s not what contemporary media is designed for. How does it want us to spend our time? Engaged with it as much as possible. […]

Has the Imperial Presidency Arrived?

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025 This summary of Lew Rockwell’s contributions to the liberty movement will show that Lew has done more to spread libertarian ideas than anyone else not named Ron Paul.Norman Singleton, “Lew Rockwell, Champion of Liberty” (2025) – Norman Singleton, “Lew Rockwell, Champion of Liberty” [2025] HORNBERGER’S […]

The Message from 1938: Dissolve Ukraine!

by Karl Richter Arktos Journal Feb 20, 2025 Karl Richter argues that the German media’s comparison of current Ukraine negotiations to “Yalta 2.0” is misplaced, emphasizing instead that the real parallel lies with the Munich Agreement of 1938, as both situations involve rectifying historical injustices related to national […]

Power Surge

Week VIII, MMXXV Brought to you by Congo Clothing Company Recently at The Signal: What’s the Trump administration doing to the U.S. federal bureaucracy? Francis Fukuyama on the real drivers of waste in the American civil service and the democratic peril in attacking it politically. … Today: How […]

Zelensky’s Downfall

by Alexander Dugin Alexander Dugin Feb 19, 2025 Alexander Dugin describes the Riyadh negotiations as a significant breakthrough, highlighting that the new American administration’s openness has allowed Russia to clearly present its stance on Ukraine, ultimately leading to the political elimination of Zelensky. The Riyadh negotiations are, unequivocally, […]

The Magma of Global Capitalist War

The Magma of Global Capitalist War In this reply to Maurizio Lazzarato’s “Why War?” and “Political Conditions for a New World Order,” Edgar Illas argues that the intertwinement of global war and capitalism signals the collapse of the systematic potential of materialist political analysis. Maurizio Lazzarato’s articles “Why… […]

J.D. Vance Reads Europe The Riot Act, Hezbollah Begins to Rebuild, Jake Sullivan’s “Catastrophic” AI Warning, The Fateful Nineties, Is the Wilderness Too Wild

J.D. Vance Reads Europe The Riot Act, Hezbollah Begins to Rebuild, Jake Sullivan’s “Catastrophic” AI Warning, The Fateful Nineties, Is the Wilderness Too Wild? Niccolo Soldo Feb 17, 2025 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because […]

The Russian Depopulation

View this email in your browser The Russian Depopulation by Peter Zeihan on February 17, 2025 Today’s video was originally released on Patreon 1 week ago. If you want to see the videos as soon as they come out, join the Patreon! You’ll get early access to videos and newsletters, […]

Russia After Russia

View this email in your browser Russia After Russia by Peter Zeihan on February 18, 2025 Today’s video was originally released on Patreon 1 week ago. If you want to see the videos as soon as they come out, join the Patreon! You’ll get early access to videos and newsletters, […]

Is Fascism on the Rise in Germany?

By William T. Hathaway The German establishment is in crisis. Is has ruled for 80 years by charting a middle course between progressive and conservative policies. Labor and business have cooperated to achieve social and economic stability. But that consensus isn’t functioning anymore. The standard of living is […]

Why Jews Are Fleeing the West

By Joel Kotkin February 14, 2025/in Urban Affairs Jewish history has long been defined by migratory movements away from trouble and towards safer places. Over the past half millennia, the safest harbours for ‘the world’s foster children’, as David Mamet put it, have generally been English-speaking countries, first […]

Dress It Up

Sponsored by Classical Pursuits In our February 13 issue, Blair McClendon reviews “Edges of Ailey,” the Whitney Museum’s show about the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey, curated by Adrienne Edwards. “If Ailey’s dances come across as pleasurable rather than noxiously pandering to a received idea of blackness, it is not solely […]

Vance and Multipolarity

Arktos Journal Feb 15, 2025 The speech JD Vance delivered in Munich carries the same explosive potential as the one Vladimir Putin gave there eighteen years ago. I am convinced that, after the bipolar and unipolar phases, the world community is now entering the multipolar phase. As a […]

Retreat from Europe

We’re happy to debut the member’s despatch, a weekly briefing on global current affairs, critical debates, timely books, new music, and more.   The idea of the despatch—which goes to the idea for The Signal as a whole—is to help our members stay oriented to what’s going on […]