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Cali, not Bogotá, hosted Colombia’s August 7, 2026 presidential inauguration. Abelardo de la Espriella gave his first address as Colombia’s president from a military garrison and set the terms of his next four years. “I reaffirm my intention to defeat without truce narcoterrorism—the criminal organizations that threaten Colombia’s freedom,” he said. He then sent the armed forces after criminal structures and closed his predecessor’s negotiations, telling the country that “the option of dialogue is completely exhausted.” That vocabulary was not new here. Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa proclaimed an internal armed conflict on January 9, 2024, designated twenty-two gangs terrorist organizations, and…

Photo by Andriyko Podilnyk Nothing inspires confidence in the silliness of the human species than its efforts to understand the workings of others.  This, at least, makes an improvement from wanting to biblically subjugate, enslave and eat members of the animal kingdom.  But when efforts are made to understand what the domestic cat (surely an oxymoronic category) is up to, humankind is bound to come up short. The issue of imposing curfews upon cats as if they were disobedient, wandering children is one such symptom.  While the feral cat is an apparatus of mass killing when it comes to wildlife, Felix catus, that oddly…

Whether immigration is good for a country’s economy and public finances is a subject of intensifying debate in Britain in recent years. The most consequential domestic policy issue of the year is whether the government goes ahead with its plans to extend the qualifying period for new migrants to receive permanent settlement, welfare entitlements, and eligibility for citizenship from five to 10 years. Extending this would save the British taxpayer billions of pounds, according to the government, by avoiding handing welfare access to the Boriswave of migrants—drawn largely from countries like India and Nigeria on low salaries. A large amount…

Everyone talks about the health insurance crisis in America, but rarely do we talk about the other crisis: people with decent insurance coverage who simply cannot access healthcare. There’s more to this than single payer versus private coverage. Health insurance is meaningless if patients cannot actually obtain timely medical care. This week I helped a friend access healthcare in America. She has health insurance from a national provider. She is a recent legal immigrant (from a place with good national health care) but had little idea how getting a doctor here actually works. She had come down with a terrible…

August 17, 2026 Orin Domenico Amerika’s saga from our genocidal inceptionto Hiroshima & Nagasaki to our carpet-bombing ofwhatever poor dark folks we choose as recipients todayis one of ceaseless, unmitigated, relentless violence,for murder is us, Gus allwhile wearing  a good guy’s lily white Stetson! & you can bet that we ain’t gonna changethat we will remain deranged murderers.We are the planet’s nationalized Mafia w/ ademented-imbecilic  Don our Capo-de-Capos.A coast-to-coast mad-insane-asylum.Stack the corpses up, pile ‘em high. Let’s have a good ol’ fashioned tie-dye noose -partyw/ Spin & Marty as our noose-masters ‘causein Amerika we do everything better when we are…

Even as the Trump administration doubles down on its failed Iran war, it’s also laying the groundwork for military action much closer to home, in Cuba. The Trump administration claims Cuba is a nefarious presence in the Western Hemisphere and a local proxy for Russia and China. Now it seems intent on toppling the Havana government. The Pentagon has reportedly been weighing military options for the island, while the State Department recently released a fever dream of a report alleging that Cuba is behind a decades-long campaign of subversion to bring down the United States. All of this comes on…

When it comes to assessing and preventing threats, we humans often act against our best interests. A lot of people avoid going to the doctor because they don’t want to get ‘bad news’—even if that means not catching something serious sooner. In six weeks I will turn 53. During most of that time on this planet I’ve been hearing about the dangers of global warming —later relabelled as ‘climate change’, supposedly because it is more scientifically accurate, although I suspect because it was less alarmist. In the 1980s barely anyone cared about this problem, because (a) it was either considered…

Woke 2.0 Trades Identity Politics for Israel Bashing Source link

Former President Harry Truman famously kept a The Buck Stops Here sign on his White House desk. But the current president, Donald Trump, often veers from that motto of taking responsibility. Source link

It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly stating that Israel will neither adhere to a ceasefire nor withdraw its forces from Gaza. During a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu stated with unambiguous language: “Israel rejects the 15-point document published by the Board of Peace for Gaza”. In a previous conversation with lead envoy Nickolay Mladenov, Netanyahu set conditions – such as demanding unilateral operational freedom for the Israeli military to strike inside Gaza at will – that render a genuine peace agreement structurally impossible. The…