Author: nick
[ad_1] In this age of social media and A.I. illusions, an old Russian scam provides the best lens to understand America’s two most recent presidents. In eighteenth-century czarist Russia, a fake village was built by a Russian governor named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin to deceive Catherine the Great about the condition of the peasants she ruled. “Potemkin Village,” according to Time magazine, “signifies any deceptive or false construct, conjured often by cruel regimes, to deceive both those within the land and those peering in from outside.” In Washington a few years ago, the media partnered with the Biden administration to concoct…
[ad_1] Rome and the Vatican on my mind, I’m descending the stairs of my house for an early morning jaunt as a male appears to my left in the bike lane, a tune oozing from a curious device. I reach the bottom as he arrives directly in front of me, and I realize he’s a dead ringer for the historical Jesus. He turns to me and says he’s been wandering the streets, lost, searching for something. I try to find out what through the ethereal music which seems to illuminate him…form a feeble aureole around his head. It instantly vaporizes…
[ad_1] I spent my entire career helping progressives get elected. Then I watched my party abandon everything it claimed to stand for, writes Evan Barker. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Businesses need democracy to thrive, argues the founder of the business coalition Leadership Now. They should step up to defend it. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] How will Washington get Tehran to accept intrusive inspections beyond the JCPOA when Saudi is offered enrichment with no IAEA inspections? Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. A few points on the shocking U.S.–Saudi nuclear deal announced. 1. This reflects a weaker American bargaining position, not a stronger one. The broader context is China. The Biden administration pursued a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, as part of a broader expansion of Trump’s Abraham Accords, in part to pull Riyadh closer to Washington and away from Beijing. But Washington’s position has deteriorated since then. The credibility of the U.S.…
[ad_1] Takimag The Lingering Miasma of Marxism No matter how many times it’s defeated, the politics of resentment always has an audience. TakiMag Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Marxists are an insidiously clever bunch. They know that the power they want can never be achieved via the ballot box, so they decided long ago to spread left-wing cultural ideas about the evils of Western society by winning over and corrupting the youth. The greatest of philosophers, Socrates, was put to death under the same charge. That accusation was definitely a false one, but Socrates happily drank the poison,…
[ad_1] Last month I wrote about some disturbing links between the wars in Ukraine and Iran and the specter of a perilous American conflict spanning Eurasia and the Middle East. This weekend brought a new development on that front: The two wars started converging into a perilous American conflict spanning Eurasia and the Middle East. On Saturday, Ukraine said it had struck ships transporting Iranian-linked military cargo in the Caspian Sea. The next day, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi alleged that Ukraine had actually struck “an Iranian commercial vessel, killing a sailor.” Araghchi and other senior Iranian officials warned that…
[ad_1] Over the past decade or so, I have written quite a bit about Supreme Court leaks. For a time, Joan Biskupic had the inside scoop. Indeed, Barrett relayed in her books that she had private conversations with the Justices. I’ve heard that Chief Justice Roberts, in particular, felt burned that Biskupic published information that was supposed to be off-the-record. So it goes. But after Justice Ginsburg’s death, Biskupic’s information largely dried up. Of course, Josh Gerstein at Politico got the Dobbs leak, but that was a one-off. Gerstein has not published any more inside information. More recently, Jodi Kantor of…
[ad_1] The Democratic Socialists of America don’t like being called Communists, though many members might echo the sentiment of leftist influencer Hasan Piker when he says, “I don’t have an issue with an end goal of communism.” Yet however the group self-identifies, its agenda is openly revolutionary. Its plans call for, among other things, abolishing the United States Senate and making the executive branch and the Supreme Court subservient to the House of Representatives. Like many a revolutionary organ, the DSA acts as a party within a party, and it increasingly represents the youth wing of the Democrats. Elected officials…
[ad_1] As she lays the groundwork for a campaign, Harris again risks a trap of her own making [ad_2] Source link