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Aftermath of an Afghanistan Debacle, by Pat Buchanan

In Afghanistan, the mission failure appears complete. The trillion-dollar project to plant Western democracy in a Muslim nation historically fabled for driving out imperial intruders has crashed and burned after 20 years, and the Taliban are suddenly back in power. After investing scores of billions in training and arming a force of 350,000 Afghani troops,… […]

The Ability to Win Wars, by James Thompson

The Rand Corporation had a look at the factors which led to effect war fighting, and found that ability was a key factor. Thanks to commentator Mac Tonight for the link. Determinants of Productivity for Military Personnel: A Review of Findings on the Contribution of Experience, Training, and Aptitude to Military Performance Jennifer Kavanagh Prepared… […]

The US and UK Have Failed to Grasp Something Key About Afghanistan, by Patrick Cockburn

The American way of dealing with a lost war is to withdraw its forces. The Afghan way of dealing with it is to change sides as quickly as possible. The Afghan way of war has created confusion among foreign political and military leaders in the past 20 years, but never more so than during the… […]

America Lies, Destroys, Breaks Promises Then Runs, by Linh Dinh

Promising freedom, democracy and prosperity, America brings widespread destruction and death, but it’s all good, for the war profiteers. Since each Uncle Sam misadventure is a bonanza for them, the more, the merrier. Bring it on! On April 21st, 1975, I was still in Saigon. As the Vietnam War neared its end, there was much… […]

Feds Steal $500,000 from Nick Fuentes Because He Said the Election Was Fake, by Andrew Anglin

China Warns Taiwan That the Fate of the Fake Afghan Government Will Soon Come to Their Fake Government, by Andrew Anglin

For allied nations of the US and the shills that enable them, the fall of Afghanistan is similar to the fall of Christopher Cantwell for fed-backed neo-Nazis and other shills. When Cantwell went down, I told all of the neo-Nazis and Oath Keepers: “this is the fate that awaits you – the feds don’t care… […]

White Privilege and White Racism Are Hoaxes, by Paul Craig Roberts

As part of the false reality that The Matrix has created for us, white people are privileged because of their skin. Allegedly, this privilege creates in white people the impression that they are superior to all others, and this makes them racists. This dogma has become immune to all evidence. For example, when Americans elected… […]

US Embraces a Diversity China Fears, by Pat Buchanan

The first returns from the delayed census of 2020 are in, and they have made for celebratory headlines in the mainstream media. Big takeaway: Between 2010 and 2021, the white American population declined in real and relative terms, with more deaths than live births, as the white share of the U.S. population fell from 63%… […]

Israel’s Lawyer Speaks Up, by Philip Giraldi

America’s foreign policy is a funny thing, except for the fact that it is no laughing matter. Given the recent sentencing of whistleblower Daniel Hale for revealing to the media that the US military’s drone program kills innocent civilians including many children 90% of the time, one has to wonder what the “humanitarian” Joe Biden… […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Back with a Bang, by Pepe Escobar

In the end, the Saigon moment happened faster than any Western intel “expert” expected. This is one for the annals: four frantic days that wrapped up the most astonishing guerrilla blitzkrieg of recent times. Afghan-style: lots of persuasion, lots of tribal deals, zero columns of tanks, minimal loss of blood. August 12 set the scene,… […]

Afghan Intelligence, by James Thompson

Estimates vary, and fall short of basic data quality. The highest estimate I can find for Afghanistan is IQ 83, and it is just that: an estimate. Say IQ 86 for Iran and Iraq, IQ 83 for Pakistan and IQ 86 for Turkey and we need not quibble about individual points, but the general range… […]

Fake Afghan President Fled with Huge Sacks of Cash, by Andrew Anglin

Where did the cash come from, I wonder? Hint: it wasn’t from the Afghani taxpayer. RT: This news being made public is further humiliation of the Western system: no one in Afghanistan supported it because they really believe in true democracy values and really want women to rule over them. They did it for the… […]

China Notes That Transfer of Power in Afghanistan Was Smoother Than in United States, by Andrew Anglin

Chinese people are noting that the transfer of power in Afghanistan was smoother than the transfer of power in the United States. This is just a stone cold fact of reality. Whereas there was an election hoax in the United States, and many big problems surrounding it, the Taliban just peacefully rolled into Kabul, and… […]

All of the Evidence Is In: the Covid Vaccine Is a Failure, by Paul Craig Roberts

In my efforts to provide good information in place of Big Pharma-serving propaganda about Covid and the vaccine, I have reported to you from the official databases the large number of deaths and health issues associated with the vaccine. For some age groups the vaccine is more dangerous than the virus. I have also reported… […]

Covid: to Vaxx or Not to Vaxx, by Ron Unz

Beginning late last year, several of our regular columnists became vocal anti-vaxxers with regard to the new Covid vaccines, and as a result our website was swarmed by their zealous adherents, who soon began pushing their determined message on entirely unrelated threads. This greatly irritated me, and I made increasing efforts to drive them away…. […]

Andrew McCabe Says That Asking Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Is a Terrorist Threat, by Andrew Anglin

Everything is getting way, way out of control. Donald Trump is now talking a lot about Ashli Babbitt, and the way the media/intelligence establishment are responding is difficult to process, even for me. Andrew McCabe just went on TV to defend the cop who murdered Ashli, and to denounce Donald Trump for saying he shouldn’t… […]

Game On: Pathfinder, by James Thompson

Does the world need another IQ test? There are many well-validated tests, and also a number of short tests suitable for large scale surveys, many of which take less than 10 minutes, and several useful ones which take less than 5 minutes. However, if you are searching for a good measure of the manifold panoply… […]

A Saigon Moment Looms in Kabul, by Pepe Escobar

August 12, 2021. History will register it as the day the Taliban, nearly 20 years after 9/11 and the subsequent toppling of their 1996-2001 reign by American bombing, struck the decisive blow against the central government in Kabul. In a coordinated blitzkrieg, the Taliban all but captured three crucial hubs: Ghazni and Kandahar in the… […]

Integration Betrayed, by Paul Craig Roberts

Readers might remember that I reviewed on this website the memoirs, From the Cast-Iron Shore, of my colleague, Professor Francis Oakley, an historian of the medieval era who served for some years as President of Williams College, America’s pre-eminent liberal arts college whose graduates were snapped up by Ivy League graduate programs. I wrote two… […]

Who Lost America’s Longest War?, by Pat Buchanan

In April, President Joe Biden told the nation he would have all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack ever on the continental United States. Given the turn of events of the past week, that 20th anniversary may be celebrated by a triumphant Taliban, now on… […]

Pink Police State: FOIA Documents Show FBI Surveilled Conservative Christian Women’s Group for Their Beliefs, by Eric Striker

Congressman Jim Jordan has dispatched a letter demanding answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray after Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents revealed that the Bureau targeted a conservative women’s non-profit in 2016. Wray was given until August 24th to respond. The group in question, Conservative Women for America (CWA) is a non-profit started in 1978… […]

Medical Information Is Being Suppressed to Cover Up for the False Covid Narrative, by Paul Craig Roberts

Dear Readers: There is no longer any doubt that scientific information provided by renowned experts is being suppressed in order to protect the false Covid and vaccine narratives. The medical bureaucrats, politicians, and presstitutes tell us that the Covid vaccine provides a high level of protection and that the new cases or “delta variant” are… […]

Empire Warns Brazil: It’s Our NATO Way or Huawei, by Pepe Escobar

The Empire of Chaos could never be accused of deploying Sun Tzu subtlety. Especially when it comes to dealing with the satrapies. In the case of Brazil, former BRICS stalwart reduced to the status of a proto-neo-colony under an aspiring Soprano-style “captain”, the Men Who Run the Show applied standard procedure. First they sent the… […]

Washington Is the Center of Evil In the Universe, by Paul Craig Roberts

Those of us who are aware that the entirety of the Western media is unreliable rely on RT and Sputnik for news, but often RT and Sputnik sound like the unreliable Western media. I have noticed this for a long time. Often I thought I should write to someone, but have always been too busy…. […]

Rand Paul Gets Suspended from YouTube, Defends Right of Private Companies to Do Anything to Anyone, by Andrew Anglin

After Rand Paul this week came out effectively calling for a Derp Revolution, he was given a suspension by YouTube for different comments he made earlier in the month about masks. Responding to the ban, Paul said: How can they be a private company and also a monopoly big enough to be the arbiter of… […]