The Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam, when President Ngo Dinh Diem was as lionized as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. All the wars they support and fund are “good” wars. All the enemies they fight, the latest being Russia’s…
Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag following news that BlackRock will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. The world’s largest investment management firm will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and McDonald’s upon the now-omnipresent blue and yellow flag. “I understand…
The counter-revolution at the counter of a storePeople buy the things they want and borrow for a little moreAll those wasted yearsAll those precious, wasted years Who will pay?— RUSH, “Heresy” There is no bigger heresy at this point in history than to suggest the US is not the main source of great evil in the…
After the Second World War, modern international law was established with the idea of countering “war propaganda” (United Nations General Assembly Resolution 110 of November 3, 1947 [1] and Resolution 381 of November 17, 1950 [2]). International legislators, i.e. sovereign states, soon agreed that war could only be fought against by ensuring the “free flow of ideas”…
Zelensky believes faking an attack or creating an environmental calamity will repeat history. But he is woefully misinformed as he is ignorant. When the lights go out, the water no longer comes and there isn’t even a scrap of wood to keep Ukrainians warm, Zelensky will need Sean Penn’s Oscar for help. How long has…
During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter of death and the expiring world of La Belle Époque haunts Proust’s work. He wrote it as he was dying; in fact, Proust was…
