If you criticize Israel on the American right today, expect to be labeled a Qatari shill by a network of pro-Israel commentators who have turned accusations of Gulf Arab money into a political weapon while ignoring the elephant in the room of Jewish influence in American foreign policy. This campaign has intensified dramatically since October...

My (b.1959) generation, the tail-end boomers giving way to GenX, took our boomer elders as guides. I was about to write: “Big mistake.” But coincidentally, at the exact instant I put the period on this essay’s first sentence, the piped-in music here aboard the Rusadir, a cruise-ship-size ferry plying the Mediterranean between Malaga and Melilla,...

Caitlin and Tim discuss this strange dark future we’ve all tumbled into and the things that make life worth living. Available in audio as well. This conversation can be found on every major podcast platform. Please send us your questions, comments and feedback so we can answer them in the next show. Audio version: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/podcast-talkin-about-dystopia-paintin-687

Iran is the first country to stand up to Israeli-American hegemony and force both would-be-hegemons to stand down. China and Russia have issued words in support of Iranian sovereignty and have used words to condemn the Israeli-American aggression against Iran, but have done nothing to aid Iran in withstanding the Netanyahu-Trump joint aggression against Iran....

The COVID-19 pandemic is long over. The headlines have shifted to a relentless cycle of bloody invasions and political scandals. It is very tempting to file the years of lockdowns, vaccine tyranny, and assaults on freedom into a folder of “unfortunate history” and never open it again. Most have. But the victims and a few...

The tensions between the US and Iran remain very taut after both sides exchanged of fire late on June 2 (early morning June 3 in the Persian Gulf). It apparently started when a US helicopter tried to stop an Iranian tanker headed for the port of Bandar Abbas. The US helo launched a hellfire missile...

The “wipe Israel off the map” quote is a deliberate mistranslation—one the media has used for decades to manufacture hostility toward Iran. It has often been claimed by the Western news media, usually in the context of Iran’s nuclear program, that Iran has threatened to “wipe Israel off the map”. Specifically, the quote is attributed...

Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast. The postwar economic boom had put more disposable income in more pockets than any previous generation had known. Vacation culture was expanding, domestic air travel was becoming accessible to the middle class for the first time, […]

INTRODUCTION Few people realize how very Jewish the government of the Soviet Union was in its first two decades. Given the realities of publishing in today’s world, those who wish to learn more could read numerous books, encounter a blizzard of unfamiliar Russian names, and never realize that many of the crucial figures were actually...

The JFK assassination has attracted all manner of conspiracy theorizing from virtually all corners of humanity. After the 1963 assassination, it is noteworthy how many people close to the slain President, including his own brother Robert F. Kennedy and his personal secretary Evelyn Lincoln, were “conspiracy theorists”. Interestingly, so was Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother, Marguerite...

Do you remember Margaret Thatcher? And Indira Gandhi? Have you ever heard of Golda Meir? All three were “Iron Ladies” who as leaders of their countries and staunch defenders of national interests, truly made a difference. One may or may not agree with their political philosophies and opinions, but there is no denying these women...

I. Introduction The Church has never wanted for accusers. From the first centuries she was charged with atheism for refusing the gods of the city, with hatred of mankind for holding herself apart from its feasts, with novelty by men who trusted nothing that could not show its age. The charges have shifted with the...

The bodycam footage from the murder of Henry Nowak has been released and it is worse than anyone could have imagined. The chilling image of a pale white hand, drained of blood and handcuffed by agents of the state, captures the entire situation faced by Western Civilization. This is a moment for action. Millennial Woes,...

When a celebrity writes a memoir, one can expect a certain scrubbing of the public image, but Bill Gates’s memoir of growing up, Source Code/ My Beginnings (Vintage Books, 2025), is refreshingly free of that. Maybe it’s because the book ends just before he’s made his first million. Or maybe it’s because he makes a...