Category: Geopolitics

Where Are All the Russian Hackers?

by Peter Zeihan on May 2, 2023 Today’s video was recorded in Wānaka, New Zealand, during my yearly backpacking trip. Since the onset of the Ukraine War, everyone’s been checking under their bed and looking in their closet for the boogeyman – a.k.a Russian Hackers – but they […]

New World Last Week

The Corbett Report Apr 30, 2023 by James Corbett corbettreport.com April 30, 2023 Let me guess: you’re sitting there in your Corbett Report T-shirt and your (brand spanking new) Media Monarchy baseball cap with your beverage of choice by your side, constantly refreshing The Corbett Report home page […]

Dismantle the Cuban Embargo

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023 There never was a good war or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Josiah Quincy [1773] HORNBERGER’S BLOG April 28, 2023 Dismantle the Cuban Embargo Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Vietnam with the aim of establishing closer relations with that […]

Theology and Global Order

David Pan Because they are tied up with the attempt to establish an overarching basis for human relations, questions of global order lead into theological discussions of the human relationship to God and the sacred. In our podcast discussion of Carl Schmitt’s reflections on global order, John Milbank […]

Contradictions and Corruption

No one wants to hear the truth. Rolo Slavskiy Apr 24, 2023 It is baffling to see the strange ideological coalitions that have formed in the West (and East) in support of Ukraine. Consider the following contradictions: Ukrainians are probably more intolerant of homosexuality than even the Russians […]

The Empire Of Hypocrisy

Caitlin Johnstone Apr 22, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The US is raging about Russia jailing a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges, while the US is: Jailing Julian Assange for doing good journalism. Threatening to imprison Matt Taibbi. […]

America’s empire is bankrupt

The dollar is finally being dethroned BY John Michael Greer Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, enjoyed about a third of the world’s energy resources and […]

Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2023 Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy [2006] HORNBERGER’S BLOG April 20, 2023 Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies It was always inevitable that the Pentagon’s and the […]

The Mega-Prison of El Salvador

by Peter Zeihan on April 20, 2023 Coming to you from just above Glendhu Bay at Lake Wanaka in Southern New Zealand. Today we’re talking about El Salvador’s new ‘mega-prison’ that will be filled with gang leaders, drug traffickers and the worst of the worst. In theory, this […]

Understanding Russian Conservatism

David Pan The human rights project struggles continually with the problem of cultural difference. In the first place, contrasting moral judgments about issues such as abortion, sexual preference, and polygamy create divisions across cultures that undermine the expansion of human rights claims. Yet even fundamental questions, such as […]