The Murder That Changed Germany
Every so often, a crime occurs that so shocks the public, while perfectly playing to the political zeitgeist, that it radically alters debates—and ultimately politics. For Germans of the baby boom...
View ArticleLiberal Nazi Hysteria Is Helping Trump Bigly
This was the week that President Donald Trump finally went too far. Our transgressor-in-chief overdid it, as was bound to happen eventually. His hardline on immigration, which did so much to get him...
View ArticleA Divided America Does Not Mean Civil War
Civil war is in the air this steamy summer—at least according to the opinion polls. Many Americans are unhappy to the point of despondency about our political divisions, which have been mounting for...
View ArticleThis Is How Vladimir Putin Manufactures Conflict Between Nations
As Helsinki’s one-on-one presidential summit looms, with foreign policy mavens fearing that Vladimir Putin will run circles around a clueless Donald Trump, it’s time to examine what makes the Kremlin’s...
View ArticleWhy Is Trump Trying to Start a War He Cannot Win?
I’ve been a hardliner regarding Iran my whole professional life. During my time in the Intelligence Community, I favored aggressive approaches to countering Tehran’s misdeeds abroad. What I witnessed...
View ArticleThe Hidden Russian Hand Behind Germany’s Violent Right-Wing Riots
This week, Germany has been convulsed with rioting in the eastern city of Chemnitz, where right-wing protesters have clashed with police for days. The murder of a German man on Sunday, reportedly by...
View ArticleIn 2018 America, everybody you don’t like is ‘extremist’
It has become a totem of liberal faith in the Trump era that America is crawling with secret brigades of far-right extremists who are ready at a moment’s notice to emerge from their mothers’ basements...
View ArticleIn Moscow, There’s No Longer Any Line Between Spies, Lies & Terrorists
These days there’s no term more likely to attract the nut fringe than “false flag.” Citing it is a surefire way to rally online monomaniacs who believe that nothing in the world is as it seems to be....
View ArticleWokeness eats the Virginia Democrats
If there’s one word which symbolizes American progressivism in 2019 it’s wokeness. Asking what it means constitutes proof that one is not woke. Although wokeness can best be viewed as the pop-cult wing...
View ArticleGhosts of the Balkan wars are returning in unlikely places
Why is the Christchurch far-right terrorist obsessed with the crazy-haired Serb that the UN just sentenced to life in prison? How Balkan war criminals became idols to Western extremists is a bizarre...
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