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Road Trips to Tibet and the Scottish Highlands, by Hua Bin

I spent the last few weeks on a family road trip to eastern Tibet. It was a fascinating experience and sheds light on life in a remote Chinese region that most people outside the country don’t know or expect. For contrast, I’ll compare this trip with another road trip I made in April in the…

Road Trips to Tibet and the Scottish Highlands, by Hua Bin

I spent the last few weeks on a family road trip to eastern Tibet. It was a fascinating experience and sheds light on life in a remote Chinese region that most people outside the country don’t know or expect. For contrast, I’ll compare this trip with another road trip I made in April in the…

Fact-Checking the Jeffrey Epstein Case and Many Other Conspiracy Theories, by Ron Unz

I’ve spent a good deal of my time over the last couple of months processing fact-checking runs produced by OpenAI’s ChatGPT Deep Research AI. While ordinary chatbots respond to questions within seconds, this Deep Research AI system may easily take thirty minutes or more to produce its response to complex research requests, being widely regarded…

Trump Terrified by BRICS Strategic Threat, by Pepe Escobar

This is it. The ruling classes of the Empire of Chaos, plus the current, clownish Circus Ringmaster have finally realized that BRICS is a serious strategic threat – and existential challenge – to their unilateral domination of the current system of international relations. They didn’t come to this conclusion by carefully scrutinizing the BRICS annual…

Another Week in Washington to Remember, by Philip Giraldi

If one thinks that arming Ukraine against Russia or having Israeli soldiers and also American contractors slaughter Gazan civilians are not supportive of any United States actual interests, last week could easily be written off as yet another descent into Hell on the part of the United States. Americans and others should have the right…

Illiberal, Anti-Democratic Leanings in Taiwan, by Frank Key

Background The January, 2024 elections in Taiwan resulted in an interesting political playing field in Taiwan. Lai Ching-te (賴清德 or William Lai), the DPP (民主進步黨 or Democratic Progressive Party) candidate, won the presidential election with a mere 40% of the vote. The DPP are seen as being pro-independence for Taiwan, and China refuses to communicate…

Will Trump Fail Like Reagan?, by Gregory Hood

Just a few years ago, Ronald Reagan was the unchallenged hero of the American Right. The elders in the American conservative movement teach young activists a history in which The Gipper is the triumphant conclusion. Barry Goldwater lit the torch, William F. Buckley expelled the kooks, and Ronald Reagan’s message of optimism won the hearts…

Dear MAGA: If You Think Masked ICE Thugs Wouldn’t Do the Same to You, You’re Even Dumber Than You Look, by Andrew Anglin

GloboHomo (Limp)Wristianity as Substitute for Christianity and Why Shallow Whites Obsessively ‘Wristen’ Everything, by Jung-Freud

The sorry sight of white people kneeling(or bending over) at the altar of GloboHomo is as remarkable as it is pathetic. Just how shallow of soul and weak of mind are they to be so easily manipulated into getting worked up over something so insipid, perverse, and ridiculous? Incredibly, degeneracy has been ‘spiritually’ placed atop…

BRICS Fudge, by John Helmer

President Vladimir Putin’s speech to the BRICS summit session in Rio de Janeiro this week (July 6) was brief. Unusually so for Putin’s public speeches, but not so for his speeches to the BRICS summit in earlier years. This time he took 810 words (Kremlin English version; 710 in the Russian). Leaving aside the 2024…

Artificial Intelligence Briefly Escaped Its Censors, by Eugene Kusmiak

A story for the ages happened on 7/8/25. The AI on X (Twitter) named “grok” broke free for one day, and it was hilarious. Hopefully even if you don’t have an X account, you can still view these X posts by clicking on the links below. It is worth taking the time to read them….

American Doctor Organizations Are Such Shills for Big Pharma That They Cannot be Trusted, by Paul Craig Roberts

Scientific research independent of Big Pharma money has proven conclusively that the Covid “vaccines” caused enormous health injuries and deaths. One producer of the vax withdrew it from use. Data show beyond all doubt that the vax is particularly deadly for young children whose immune system it destroys and pregnant women. Faced with the overwhelming…

A Chance for Peace, by Israel Shamir

Russia has found itself in the difficult position of Thor. The Nordic god Thor, in the Castle of Utgaard, was requested to drink up a great horn filled with mead. He drank and he drank but he could not empty the horn – it turned out that it was connected to the sea. Likewise, Putin…

American Pravda: President Franklin Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the New Deal, by Ron Unz

A few weeks ago I’d published an article on Father Charles Coughlin, the notorious radio priest of the 1930s, and my extensive reading revealed that he had been a far more formidable figure than I’d ever realized. Although he was relegated to just a sentence or two in my introductory history textbooks, Coughlin had pioneered…

Russian Nationalist at the Front, by Kevin MacDonald

Introduction Here we present the first part of this two-part series of articles, which consists of two interviews on different topics to provide a perspective on Russia and the war in Ukraine from a politically active person on the Russian nationalist right wing scene, Alexei Miltjakov, leader of Rusich. The two articles should help to…

I Hadn’t Seen This Ronald Reagan “Diversity Is Our Greatest Strength” Speech, by Andrew Anglin

The Myth of Jewish Reciprocity, or the Bogosity of the If-Hitler-Had-Been-Nice-to-the-Jews Argument, by Jung-Freud

The What-If’s make for interesting historical debate. Few developments were inevitable in history, though plenty of events were more likely than not to happen. There were forks along the road, and the current history in which we live is the product of the paths that were taken by those in power. ‘History’ in the generic…

Israel’s Samson Option Meets Delilah, by Hans Vogel

We have long heard about Israel’s so-called Samson Option. Of course, not that there is much detail on it, since too much detail just serves to divert attention. We are all supposed to shudder with fear and hide behind our desks and furniture. That is how intimidation works. Governments and NGOs know this and that…

Ex-DARPA Scientist Jonathan Lake to FBI: Prosecute Epstein Co-Conspirators!, by Kevin Barrett

Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, and a real American patriot is doing his part to jump-start American Revolution 2.0. Jonathan Lake, whose ancestors fought in the Revolution, used to work for DARPA: “I was more on the fundamental physics side of things, because I didn’t want to build bombs. But I did fundamental research…

Washington Builds Its Color Revolution Arsenal Against Putin, by Paul Craig Roberts

In Serbia large street protests are underway demanding the end of President Vucic’s government. Rightly or wrongly, I cannot say, Vucic is regarded as a friend of Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “we cannot rule out the possibility that well-known tactics employed for carrying out color revolutions are now being used in Serbia.” Russian…

It Must Surely be Time to End Russia Sanctions and Develop a New Plan to Bring Peace and Prosperity to Ukraine, by Ian Proud

More sanctions will only ever embolden Russia to keep fighting rather than making peace. Russia can endure the economic pain of war for longer than Europe. On this basis, more sanctions will only ever embolden Russia to keep fighting rather than making peace. Europe should incentive peace through sanctions relief, although I see zero chance…

Looking Forward to the End of the World, by A.J. Smuskiewicz

I have been thinking a lot lately about the end of the world—as we know it. Musing about how and when it might happen. About what it might be like to be alive when some apocalyptic event destroys everything. Sometimes even hoping for it. Yes, actually looking forward to it. I suppose that I am…

Will Bibi Ask Trump to Nuke Iran? Ritter Says “Yes”, by Mike Whitney

You can usually tell which side won a war by simply observing ‘what happens’ after the hostilities end. Following the announcement of a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, millions of Iranians poured onto the streets of Tehran, chanting patriotic songs and waving flags in a spontaneous display of jubilation. In contrast, there were no festivities…

Everywhere There Is Talk of War, by Paul Craig Roberts

Pundits are debating when the Israel-Iran war will resume. They are debating the West’s use of its Ukraine proxy in the war with Russia. They are debating when and how the US conflict with China will flare up. But no one is asking what is the point of the wars. What are they about? This…

Attacking a Chant, Aiding a Genocide, by Jonathan Cook

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressed predictable outrage at the weekend that the BBC had inadvertently broadcast punk band Bob Vylan leading crowds at Glastonbury in a chant of “Death to the IDF” – the “Israel Defence Forces” that have been responsible for slaughtering many tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza over the past…