Honestly, doesn’t it befuddle you? I mean, don’t you think we humans are kinda mad? And worse yet, at some deep level, we simply can’t seem to stop. All too often, we just can’t curb our urge to destroy. Looking back, the desire to make war and obliterate our “enemies” is a deeply ingrained and repetitive pattern in our history. Each individual example can, of course, be explained (away) in its own fashion, but the overall pattern? Hmmm… I mean, you can certainly “understand” the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Depending on your politics, you can explain it in terms of…

Under the control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) there is no rule of law. Executives of foreign corporations and investment firms that invest in China must know this fact. Yet so many have taken the risk, enticed by profits and confident they can stay in the good graces of the ruling dictatorship. But how safe are investments in China? At what point will foreign corporate leaders realize they have fallen into a trap? That trap is the shifting landscape of Chinese policy and law, which the CCP manipulates to ensnare unsuspecting enterprises. Though domestic companies frequently fall prey, corporations…

Washington has much to learn from new research chronicling the US massacre of the Moros in the Philippines in 1906 In March 1906, U.S. forces attacked a group of Moros and killed more than 900 men, women, and children at the top of Mt. Dajo on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines. Even though the death toll was higher than at well-known massacres committed by American soldiers at Wounded Knee and My Lai, the massacre at Bud Dajo has been all but forgotten outside the Philippines. Recovering the history of this event is the subject of an important…

Despite having been targeted by the most powerful, pro-Israel political organization operating in America, libertarian-minded Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie stomped his two Republican primary challengers on Tuesday -- and then used social media to mock his Israel-first detractors.  Massie cruised to victory, amassing 76% of the vote, while his two would-be vanquishers roughly split the difference, with Michael McGinnis edging Eric Deters by about 1%. With no Democratic opponent even bothering to take on Massie in November, he's set up for a six term representing Kentucky's 4th congressional district, which stretches all along the northernmost part of the state.   "Tonight's victory is a referendum…

The headlines are telling us “Ukraine is in serious trouble” and this means the empire has given the media the green light to report the truth. Russia’s defence industrial base is reportedly firing on all cylinders and producing weapons and ammunition at a rate the west cannot match. It’s now clear Russia’s main reason for taking its time was to build up stockpiles and transition to a wartime economy. It has now made that transition, having nullified Ukraine’s counter-offensive and regained ground it lost. The momentum has shifted massively in favour of Russia which has returned to pre-war strength. Russia is…