February 2022

First casualty of war is truth ? Amazing how Covid is retreating from front pages. Onto a new war to bolster Biden ratings. This is a provocative essay.  Walter Karp and Smedley Butler would approve.  While I have zero reason to like Putin or practically any world leader for that matter, the media tone of […]

As of this writing, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is hunkered down in his bunker somewhere in Kiev, as the sound of the encroaching war gets closer and closer. A grim scene, to be sure. All the US and EU kisses and roses leading up to this end have turned to dust and barbed wire, as a no-doubt deeply

Game-changing news has emerged out of Iceland. As of this week, Iceland is the first country in the world to completely drop ALL Covid measures. There will be no lockdowns or social restrictions. There will be no mandatory Covid testing and if you happen to catch Covid you do not have to isolate. There will

Update (1517ET): The State Department is now warning all US nationals inside Russia to consider leaving the country immediately as more and more European airspace around Russia is being closed by the orders of Western allied governments as part of severe sanctions measures aimed at isolating Russia and its economy. “US citizens should consider departing Russia

Events in Ukraine are happening very fast, and if I tried to predict what will happen there, my prediction would soon be overtaken by events. But one thing is certain. We need to understand the background of the crisis, and we also need to remember the basic principles that should guide American policy. To understand

The Geopolitics of Degrowth holds that real power flows not from waste, centralization and coercion but from decentralization, relocalization and the free flow of value. Conventional geopolitics is all about more: more military power, more sanctions, more coercion, more influence. The Geopolitics of Degrowth is all about the the power of less: wasting less, consuming less, needing less from other nations,

We’re all Canadian truckers, now. Utterly betrayed by all of our institutions, all we truly have left is our humanity. And this is our ultimate weapon against the psychopaths who are crashing our world. Carlo Maria Viganò is an archbishop of the Catholic Church who served as the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from

The Ukraine blow-up is more a humiliation for “Joe Biden” and his faction than for the US per se, for the truth is that we have scant interest in that corner of the world and what goes on there is none of our business, and never was…. It is fair to say that the “Joe

This is what happens when a bunch of ragged hyenas, jackals and tiny rodents poke The Bear: a new geopolitical order is born at breathtaking speed. From a dramatic meeting of the Russian Security Council to a UN history lesson delivered by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the subsequent birth of the Baby Twins – the People’s

Up until February 23rd, 2022, the powerful countries of the world played a very rarified game. Too many people try to analyze geopolitics like it is a game of chess. Move, counter-move. Push a pawn? Threaten a knight, that type of thing. It’s easy to understand and makes for good copy. In the past I’ve