in World by Pieter Friedrich 08/01/2025 I was in New Delhi when it all started. It was August 2018. For several months, I’d been aware of US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s strange intimacy with India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and her effusive praise of BJP Prime Minister Narendra Modi, […]
Michael Tracey Jan 14, 2026 Tulsi Gabbard on October 23, 2025 There’s only so much grist one can get from pointing out over and over again that Tulsi Gabbard has systematically flouted the deeply-held convictions she once claimed to hold. After a while, it starts to get redundant, […]
TELL THE U.S. SENATE: After the Senate voted 52 – 47 to advance a bipartisan resolution to stop Trump’s illegal war on Venezuela, Trump claimed that he canceled a second wave of airstrikes. The final vote in the Senate is tomorrow and we must ensure that the slim […]
TELL CONGRESS: Pam Bondi’s DOJ broke the law and failed to release the Epstein files. The Trump administration says it’s made less than 1% of the files publicly available, many with heavy redactions. Trump and Bondi must release the full files now!! Sign the petition: Hold Pam Bondi […]
View in browser TUESDAY, JANUARY 13 ICE SHOOTING DISPUTES COULD SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENT Some lawmakers are escalating widespread calls for disciplinary action against the ICE agent who shot Renee Good and increased oversight of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Others are rejecting the effort. The disagreements in Congress […]
WEB VERSION January 12, 2026 The Last in a Line Before John Updike became a world-famous novelist, he was a letter-writer—a self-consciously stylish and confident correspondent. Writing to his family, to friends, to former and future lovers, to adversaries and rivals, Updike honed and mastered his literary legerdemain […]
Ilhan Omar’s Dangerous Neo-Confederate Rhetoric By Tyler O’Neil The Minnesota radical provides the latest echo of Confederate contempt for federal law. Read More Senator Sues Pete Hegseth By Virginia Allen Sen. Mark Kelly sues the secretary of war over a call to punish him for advising servicemembers to […]
The Titan’s Hammer Smashes the Overton Window Arktos Journal and Malen Manya Jan 13, 2026 Malen Manya argues that Elon Musk’s recent statements and role are like a battering ram and megaphone for the New Right, unleashing the discourse to address the mass migration, crime, and tyrannical censorship […]
View in browser THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 HEALTH DEPT ‘QUIETLY’ REFUNDED PLANNED PARENTHOOD The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “quietly released” tens of millions of dollars in previously frozen Title X family planning funds to Planned Parenthood affiliates and other abortion facilities in December, Politico […]
Recently: What’s America need allies for? + Why didn’t the U.S. stop Pyongyang from going nuclear? Joel S. Wit’s new book, Fallout: The Inside Story of America’s Failure to Disarm North Korea. Today: The regime in Tehran has killed thousands in two weeks. And it’s still not clearing […]
Lithium, Chabadniks, television, politics and geopolitics. Events in Ukraine Jan 12, 2026 ∙ Paid A most interesting headline appeared in the NYT on January 8. A multi-billionaire by the name Ronald Lauder has gained control of an important Ukrainian lithium deposit. But there is so much missing in […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now The Edward Institute: A Post-Mortem – #SolutionsWatch The Corbett Report Jan 13 READ IN APP SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://corbettreport.com/the-edward-institute-a-post-mortem/ The Edward Institute for Village Studies has come to an early end. I’ll allow you a moment to collect […]
View in browser MONDAY, JANUARY 12 FED CHAIR JEROME POWELL TARGETED WITH CRIMINAL PROBE Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is under a criminal investigation initiated by the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia. The probe focuses on Powell’s congressional testimonies about a renovation at the central […]
Drawing on a lifetime of experience in the law—as prosecutor, defense attorney, and constitutional scholar—William Watkins Jr. offers a bold, independent examination of the most important legal document in modern history. In America today, the President topples regimes over the weekend without so much as a nod […]
Drop Site Daily: January 13, 2026 Drop Site News Jan 13, 2026 More children die from exposure to cold in Gaza amid winter storms. Destroyed buildings collapse and crush tents and makeshift homes west of Gaza City, killing at least four Palestinians. Gaza’s doctors are without proper medical […]
Troy Southgate Jan 13, 2026 IT is now exactly six years since the death of the English writer and philosopher, Roger Scruton. Whilst he was clearly no Anarchist, his Thinkers of the New Left (1985) certainly made some crucial observations about the authoritarian nature of those who have […]
A Breakable Regime Plus: Wealth tax barely understood by its proponents, Jerome Powell investigated, why sobriety sucks, and more… LIZ WOLFE Iran’s death toll: Hundreds of protesters have been killed in Iran, as the government tries to crack down on what look like some of the country’s largest […]
Troy Southgate Jan 14, 2026 AS I explained two days ago, Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was fully aware of Germany’s Conservative Revolutionary movement and, in particular, the ideas of Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) and Otto Strasser (1897-1974). At the same time, he would have done well to acquaint himself with […]
Troy Southgate Jan 12, 2026 THE more one looks into the life and work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), the more it becomes clear that he was not the run-of-the-mill Marxist that many people make him out to be. Not only did he strike up an interesting correspondence with […]
Will Iran Fall? Plus: Border Patrol’s recruitment problems, social media getting boring, RFK Jr. goes after food stamps, and more… LIZ WOLFE Protest movement continues to gain traction: “We can see from the news and from some government reactions that this regime is terrified to its bones,” a […]
January 12, 2026 | Read Online Stay One Scoop Ahead of the New Year In partnership with Ontario teen says he’ll live in ‘modular home’ invention for a year to prove it can end homelessness He’s already invented a wooden car. Ribal Zebian is going to […]
The U.S. intervention in Venezuela has ignited a fierce debate over liberty, war powers, and executive authority. Jan 13, 2026 The U.S. military operation that culminated in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026 — code-named Operation Absolute Resolve — has ignited a fierce […]
On Iran, Venezuela, Greenland, and Keeping America’s Hands Off the World Ahmad Ibsais Jan 13, 2026 The worst thing that could happen to the Iranian people right now is American “help.” Donald Trump says the “USA stands ready to help” as protesters fill Tehran’s streets demanding an end […]
Paul Cudenec Jan 14, 2026 [Plus audio version] In recent essays I have been setting out quite plainly how our world today is controlled by a judeo-supremacist mafia. Not everyone wants to hear this and every time I make this observation, two or three readers unsubscribe from my […]
0:00 British Empire Oil Exploitation 1:28 Prime Minister Mossadegh 3:00 1953 Coup d’état 7:56 Democracy transformed into Police State 9:43 The Shah’s Downfall 12:53 Cold War Context 14:26 Israel’s Doctrine of Periphery 15:45 Iranian Revolution 16:19 U.S. Miscalculations 19:26 Hostage Crisis 20:18 Iraq-Iran War (1980-89) 21:59 U.S. Role […]
Caitlin Johnstone Jan 14, 2026 Reading by Tim Foley: You’ve seen this all before. They run the same script over and over again. You know all the beats. The formula never changes. “Oh no, the people in the targeted nation are being oppressed! They need freedom and democracy!” […]
Released on Patreon on Jan 6, 2025 To get early access to all the videos and newsletters, as well as other perks like the news digest, join our Patreon JOIN THE ANALYST TIER (PATREON) With renewed American activism in the Western Hemisphere, Venezuela has become just the first […]
Drop Site Daily: January 12, 2026 Drop Site News Jan 12, 2026 Israel launches weekend attacks in Khan Younis, the Al-Bureij refugee camp, and Gaza City, killing at least two Palestinians on Saturday and seven more on Sunday. Two more children freeze to death in Gaza. Grave and […]
“Since I left Iran in 2011,” Amir Ahmadi Arian writes today on the NYR Online, life in exile has been marked by “a permanent anxiety, a compulsive worry about the safety of loved ones who are hard to reach.” Never, he continues, “is this feeling sharper than when the […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Truth Jihad Radio Zionist Attack! 0:00 1:14:36 Listen now Zionist Attack! Ongoing attacks on and by US are made-in-Israel Kevin Barrett Jan 13 READ IN APP Rumble link Bitchute link False Flag Weekly News link Watch the fiery […]
Released on Patreon on Jan 7, 2025 To get early access to all the videos and newsletters, as well as other perks like the news digest, join our Patreon JOIN THE ANALYST TIER (PATREON) Venezuela’s pseudo-newish-kinda leader, Delcy Rodríguez, just offered President Trump 30-50 million barrels of Venezuelan […]
Caitlin Johnstone Jan 12, 2026 Reading by Tim Foley: I hate this. I hate waiting for the next imperial act of war. I hate having to be aware of sunrise time in Iran so I can relax knowing they made it through another night without US airstrikes. I […]
Released on Patreon on Jan 5, 2025 To get early access to all the videos and newsletters, as well as other perks like the news digest, join our Patreon JOIN THE ANALYST TIER (PATREON) Russia is rapidly depleting its stock of prewar vehicles and losing soldiers faster than […]
Senator says warrantless data collection has quietly expanded under both parties—with little accountability and almost no public debate. Jan 14, 2026 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) delivered a stark warning about the scope of America’s surveillance apparatus during a wide-ranging, unfiltered conversation on The Joe Rogan Experience, arguing that […]
And Other Notes Caitlin Johnstone Jan 12, 2026 Reading by Tim Foley: The regime change supporter’s favorite trick is to pretend the people in the targeted country are an ideological monolith. All Iranians hate their government, all Venezuelans wanted freedom from Maduro, etc. They do this constantly. Thing […]
by Weltanschauung Italia Arktos Journal Jan 14, 2026 In the panorama of 20th-century music and subcultures, few phenomena have been so misunderstood and embodied such striking contradictions as black metal. From Nihilism to Transcendence: Black Metal as a Spiritual Phenomenon explores how this movement of rebellion, rejection, and […]
Minnesota Not So Nice Plus: Solitary confinement for teens, the Disneyfication of protest, Alito asks about gender, autistic Barbie, and more… LIZ WOLFE Agents in the streets: In Minneapolis, where the death of 37-year-old citizen activist Renee Good at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has […]
Drop Site Daily: January 14, 2026 Drop Site News Jan 14, 2026 Gaza officials say there have been at least 32 recent deaths from the cold, diseases, and collapsing shelters. U.S. plans for a Gaza governance framework to be released by Wednesday, with Gaza’s postwar planners reportedly tied […]
We’ve all seen the video of ICE killing Renee Good from virtually every angle. We know what happened.1 It wasn’t self-defense. It was cold-blooded murder. But the Trump administration is lying to the public and smearing Renee Good’s reputation in order to cover up this heinous crime. They’re […]
Poklad: ex-con mafiosi spy chief. Business, family, killings. Kyiv deep politics. Yermak. Events in Ukraine Jan 14, 2026 ∙ Paid That organized crime group included the notoriously infamous Poklad — ‘the Strangler,’ who personally strangled detainees with his bare hands. They say it gave him a feeling of […]
Paul Singer is the embodiment of Jewish plutocracy. José Alberto Niño Jan 12, 2026 Share Paul Elliott Singer stands as one of the most influential figures in global finance. The Jewish billionaire hedge fund manager has amassed a fortune estimated at $6.2 billion to $6.7 billion […]
Epstein leveraged his friendship with the chief of DP World to pitch Israeli logistics infrastructure and cybersecurity investments to the UAE. Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim Jan 14, 2026 The UAE has been making an ambitious play over the past decade for regional dominance stretching from their own […]
Troy Southgate Jan 14, 2026 TO make my own position clear, I do not support the so-called ‘protests’ that are currently taking place in Iran as they are a direct consequence of an attempted Zionist coup by which hundreds of Mossad agents are seeking to return the country […]
State leaders say one-size-fits-all AI regulations favor Big Tech while suffocating startups and local innovation. Jan 14, 2026 A growing coalition of states is pushing back against new federal artificial intelligence regulations, warning that Washington’s expanding rulebook could smother small businesses, entrench Big Tech dominance, and undermine America’s […]
January 14, 2026 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, This week, Ivan Eland argues that, although President Trump frequently compares himself to Andrew Jackson, his presidency more closely resembles that of […]
Caitlin Johnstone Jan 14, 2026 Reading by Tim Foley: Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. Every normal person will tell you they want peace and abhor mass-scale violence. Then the mass media start doing what they always do and churning out stories about atrocities in an empire-targeted […]
Caitlin Johnstone Jan 14, 2026 Reading by Tim Foley: Is there anything more undignified than “leftists” and “anarchists” who cheer on the fall of empire-targeted governments even as the empire moves war machinery into place? Ooh look at me I’m sticking it to the man by supporting the […]
When progressives echo State Department talking points, “anti-imperialism” becomes empty lifestyle branding. José Alberto Niño Jan 14, 2026 Share The anti-war Left in the Anglosphere has collapsed, and the protests in Iran have exposed the corpse. What remains are progressive politicians mouthing platitudes about human rights while systematically […]
By Alexander Morse Shepard For the last several weeks, news of Iranian protestors and the government’s violent crackdown has dominated the news cycle. Every day—every hour, every minute—there are updates about the ongoing situation. These protests have resulted in a wide array of reactions. Many voices are expressing […]
Iranian protesters are good. Minnesota protestors are bad. Huh?
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