Author: nick

[ad_1] They will blow the whole wad on one last attempt to turn the tide of affairs. I believe there is a coalescing faction in Washington that is pushing to get out of this war without further delay. Militarily, it is a lost cause. Yes, I understand how many people think I’m nuts for saying such a thing, but that reality is becoming more apparent to more people with each passing day. Even so, I am inclined to conclude that the empire is into this gambit way too far to turn back now. Negotiation of a deal from their current…

[ad_1] Palantir’s Western supremacist empire is reaching all corners of the globe, as Australian Sen. David Shoebridge explains to CN Live! Guest: Sen. David Shoebridge. Interviewers: Cathy Vogan and Elizabeth Vos.  Producer: Cathy Vogan.   Time: 35:12. Palantir Technologies is an American company that handles and analyses big data for various governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement and corporate entities. They have included J.P. Morgan, various hedge funds, News Corp and Bank of America. Founded in 2003 as a private entity, Palantir nevertheless spent the first six years of its life within the C.I.A., which then became its principal client. The 4th…

[ad_1] The esteemed liberal bourgeois and Russophobic historian and “Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) democracy expert” Timothy Snyder’s anti-Trumpism/anti-fascism is the anti-fascism of his fellow Democratic Party capitalist-imperialists, not the anti-fascism of decent people who want to live in a world beyond exploitation and oppression. “Superpower Suicide” “I’ve been thinking about how best to characterize what the United States is doing to itself on the scale of the world,” said Snyder on his Substack two weeks ago, “and I think ‘superpower suicide’ is probably the best term.” (Snyder said the same thing to his CFR comrades the day before.) Snyder…

[ad_1] While watching Mortal Kombat II, a cheesy ’90s throwback that’s essentially a family-friendly fantasy picture with copious R-rated gore, I couldn’t help but recall the controversy surrounding the original Mortal Kombat video game. The game was released in the early 1990s, and it was both a runaway hit and a mass cultural panic that approached the level of a national emergency—a matter of congressional inquiry and, eventually, a literal Supreme Court case.  The game was first released to arcades in 1992, but shortly after it was released for home consoles the following year, Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat from…

[ad_1] With a history dating back well before the Christian era, the nation known to the West as Persia officially adopted its native name of Iran in 1935. Despite having survived centuries of historical challenges, the current aggressive and treacherous actions of the United States and Israel represent an unprecedented threat to its sovereignty. In the 20th century, Iran defied America’s hegemonic ambitions in West Asia when, after millennia of authoritarian monarchical rule, the country underwent an historic popular revolution, deposed the Shah, felled a political apparatus thought unassailable, and birthed the Islamic Republic. Since the 1979 Revolution, in which…

[ad_1] This morning, by a vote of 4-3, the Virginia Supreme Court declared the ballot initiative supporting a partisan gerrymander of Virginia’s congressional districts to violate the Virginia Constitution. The majority opinion by Justice Kelsey begins: On March 6, 2026, the General Assembly of Virginia submitted to Virginia voters a proposed constitutional amendment that authorizes partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts in the Commonwealth. We hold that the legislative process employed to advance this proposal violated Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia. This constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy. The opinion…

[ad_1] “By facts, I mean what Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan meant: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.” By reality, I mean what the science fiction novelist Philip Dick meant: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” —Charles Murray, Facing Reality The lifelong agnostic Charles Murray has found God, and he would like to walk us through his journey from agnosticism to belief in his latest book, Taking Religion Seriously. Since I take religion seriously I was curious to see if I would read a work of apologetics that has…

[ad_1] The few days have been fun. On Thursday, I attended a double investiture at the Supreme Court of Texas for the two newest members. Justice James P. Sullivan was sworn in by (Retired) Judge Tom Griffith. Judge Griffith gave a fascinating discussion on the value of the oath. We should all focus on the meaning of “help” in “So help me God.” We are wiser for his insights. Justice Kyle Hawkins was sworn in by Justice Samuel A. Alito. The Justice relayed a funny story from Kyle’s term. Justice Alito circulated an opinion in a non-controversial case that he…

[ad_1] Hard right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni denouncing Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo. (Screengrab from video posted to YouTube.) Donald Trump’s second term in office has been a disaster for U.S. national security, European security, and the entire international scene.  Trump’s war with Iran has led to the use of thirty-thousand pound bombs and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz; his complicity with Israel has allowed Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue a genocidal campaign in Gaza and Zionist expansionism in southern Lebanon and southern Syria; and the displacement of Palestinians on the West Bank—a continuation of the Nakba from…

[ad_1] Barack Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comment during the 2012 election, part of a larger argument that successful entrepreneurs ultimately derived their wealth from public investments, was widely considered a gaffe at the time. In retrospect, the former president sounds downright capitalist. A decade and a half of leftward drift in the Democratic Party has given us the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.), who argues that not only did you not build that, but if you’re rich enough, you actually stole it. The New York congresswoman went viral yesterday for comments she made on comedian Ilana Glazer’s podcast…