In the Realm of the Banality of Evil, saying yes is always easy. The hard part is saying no, for reasons that have nothing to do with getting ahead. The Epstein files have unleashed a flood tide of bleatings of innocence and accusations of guilt by association. This is just what we’d […]
A Calculated Spark: The U.S. and Israel’s Opening Move As the war against Iran unfolds, the Middle East stands at the precipice of a conflict unlike any other. The catalyst is not a miscalculation born of desperation, but a calculated act of aggression. A scenario emerges where, driven by what […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sounded more like a populist leader than a former central banker during his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20. Bemoaning the “fading” of the rules-based order, Carney delivered a surprisingly blunt speech. “The old order is not coming back,” he declared. “We […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire The public story of Jack and Caroline Lang was supposed to be a triumph of culture and enlightened politics in the Fifth Republic. The private record now emerging from the Epstein files reads more like the biography of a dynasty that treated power as a family asset and […]
The Philippines is preparing for a Taiwan war. That’s known. But the costs of that “inevitable war” are not. It’s time to address them. In August 2025, President Marcos Jr. said that “a war over Taiwan will drag the Philippines, kicking and screaming into the conflict.” Pushing for preparation, the government […]
North Korea has vowed to further its nuclear buildup, promising to increase its nuclear arsenal. Pyongyang’s ruler Kim Jong-un has outlined the strategy during a weeklong congress of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea. He declared North Korea’s nuclear-armed status “irreversible and permanent.” Kim said he will continue to add […]
You won’t hear this on the nightly news, but the unprecedented violence currently tearing through Mexico is not some random, isolated cartel uprising. It is the catastrophic and entirely predictable blowback of the U.S. government intentionally arming, funding, and protecting the very narco-paramilitary death squads that are now setting Jalisco […]
“Donald Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself… President Trump has never been a man to ask what he can do for his country. In his second term, as in his first, he is instead testing the limits […]
Russia has drawn a line in the sand, issuing a warning if European nations arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons. Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Vassily Nebenzia, denounced the plan as “irresponsible.” Russia has specifically warned France and the United Kingdom that alleged plans to provide Kiev with nuclear […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire He told us he was done with politics. After the 2020 debacle, after the meltdown in the Trump campaign offices, after the headlines about firearms and marital collapse and that bizarre arrest in Fort Lauderdale, Brad Parscale retreated to the Christian broadcasting circuit, got himself baptised, […]