Mars Ascendant

By William S. Lind, Traditional Right By “Mars Ascendant,” I do not mean the little green men who pole their gondolas along the planet’s peaceful canals are about to invade and conquer earth. I refer to a different Mars, Mars the god of war. I think he is […]

The dam breaks in Afghanistan

W. James Antle, The Week The horrific bombing in Kabul on Thursday was a stark reminder of why the United States has remained at war in Afghanistan for 20 years. When terrorists murder civilians or American troops, there must be justice, punishment, and deterrence. But after a particularly heinous attack, […]

Give me horse paste or give me death?

By Ryan Cooper, The Week Nine months after several highly effective coronavirus vaccines started to become available in America, and three to five months after they became available in pharmacies across the country, the pandemic is now as bad as it’s ever been in many states. In Louisiana, Mississippi, […]

The ‘War On Terror’ Scam Continues

By Caitlin Johnstone ISIS has reportedly claimed credit for an explosion near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. As of this writing there are around 90 dead including 13 US military personnel, though to read western mainstream media reports you’d think only US troops died and not scores of Afghans as […]

Are the Taliban Burkean Conservatives?

By Ulick Fitzhugh, The Burkean A Historicist Revolt in Jurisprudence “The Guilty Have No Past” – Death in June Edmund Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ cemented, in the eyes of conventional scholars and lay people alike, his place as the father of modern conservatism. Although frequently […]

Escape From Afghanistan

By George Packer, The Atlantic Even those with a visa must endure harrowing conditions on their way to freedom. or the past 10 days, thousands of private citizens have been working around the clock, through informal networks of friends and colleagues, to organize evacuation flights from Afghanistan to […]