People like Dominic Cummings, chief advisor to former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have a habit of revealing things we’re not supposed to know about how government operates. They often expose the motives and acts of what many these days call the deep state. One of the most reasonable definitions of the “deep state” was […]
President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic. This is what it means to weaponize the government. When the government turns its […]
Israeli strikes killed Hossam Shabat, a reporter for Al Jazeera, and Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today TV On Monday, the Israeli military killed two journalists in Gaza in separate attacks, continuing the IDF’s rampant targeting of Palestinian reporters. Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today TV, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on a home […]
“What is the alternative to presidential oversight and management of the agencies listed in this branch of government? They run themselves? That claim means nothing in practice.” —Jeffrey Tucker Surely you know the old joke: “What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea?” (Answer: “a good start!”). There’s a reason […]
The court condemned Ukrainian authorities for failing to prevent a fiery 2014 massacre in which dozens of anti-Nazi activists were burned alive – but the judges’ political bias meant victims were implicitly blamed for their fate, and their families received a paltry 15,000 euro payout. The European Court of Human Rights has found the Ukrainian government […]
On Sunday night, a huge crowd of opposition supporters gathered outside Istanbul’s city hall to protest the detention of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a prominent challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Earlier that day, a court ordered Imamoglu’s arrest on corruption charges, leading to the largest protests in Turkey in over a decade. For five consecutive […]
In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Steve Witkoff (image, above), Special Envoy to the Middle East for US President Donald Trump, appeared to have acknowledged that the recognition of the status of Crimea, and the four new regions under Russian control—though he struggled to name them—as the main obstacles in the continuing conflict between […]
Meet the new Trump, same as the old Trump Well, the bloom is off the Trumpenstein rose. It was a giddy start to his second term, where it seemed like perhaps he was finally going to fulfill some of his many promises. With people like RFK, Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel in his […]
If peace is on the way, why are they feverishly preparing for World War III? It appears to me that NATO countries are convinced that something really big is coming. Is there something that they know that they aren’t telling the rest of us? As I discussed yesterday, things in the Middle East are really heating […]
Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) examines the initiatives undertaken by Israel and the United States aimed at undermining international law and the institutions designed to support it. She also addresses the complicity and duplicity of their allies, as well as the attempts to […]