With all of the tension taking place in Belarus, the Russian newspaper Pravda notes that Russia is very concerned about the potential loss of Belarus to “the West”, and says that it poses a military threat to the survival of Russia. If Belarus goes to the West, then, militarily, Russia will lose control over long-range […]
As the world has focused on Erdogan’s power grabs and expansion, a less-discussed aspect of his attempts to re-create a new Ottoman Empire has been serious problems in the Turkish economy. The Turkish lira has seen continual instability since 2018, but according to Zero Hedge, is now in a full-blown currency crisis as there are […]
I have noted in passing that there is a “national lumber crisis” taking place due to the effects of COVID-19, which have disrupted supply chains for the foreseeable future. This information has largely come from individuals working in the industry as well as those involved in shipping lumber who have shared data about purchases. According […]
By Theodore Shoebat The one event that really marks the beginning of the international nationalist phenomena that we have been witnessing is 9/11. 9/11 quickly led the US to commence its invasion of Iraq; this invasion had a ripple effect, causing instability throughout the Middle East, and this chaos, inevitably, caused a wave of migrations […]
There are any number of jokes and comments about groups at church, most of them about the ideas of how they are anything but sinister and are just a bunch of average people from average families trying to help other average people. For example, the idea that a mom’s group at church would be secretly […]
As a part of the communist Chinese government’s crackdown on Christianity, the Christian Post reports that an eighty-four year old Christian man was ordered to stop worshiping Christ, remove his cross, and pray to an image of President Xi. Authorities in China replaced a cross in the home of an elderly Christian man with an […]
If World War I was defined by the machine gun and poison gas, and World War II by the atom, World War III will be defined by the electron and AI, and how to exploit them best for conflict. The nation with the best supertechnology will emerge as the winner, and with the world moving […]
For several years now, I have warned about a possible increase in the number of suicides among Millennials, especially women, and this logically extends to Zoomers, albeit on a modified schedule, because of the decline in relationships. With people unable to form families for a variety of reasons, and because women have a limited “window” […]
In what is nothing less than a major political move, Trump is suspending student loan payments through the end of 2020 according to CNBC. On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders and memoranda, bypassing stalled negotiations in Congress and calling for an extension in pandemic relief for tens of millions of […]
By Theodore Shoebat Donald Trump has affirmed that religious freedom for Christians in the Middle East is a prerequisite for any peace agreement between Israel and Islamic countries in the Middle East. As we read in the Jerusalem Post: Protecting Christians in the Middle East is an important part of the nascent peace deal America […]
There are no Americans alive today who remember as older adults the Great Depression. I speak of working men in their thirties or forties already on jobs here. By comparison, the Great Depression was very short, since from the decadence of the 1920s to the crash of 1929, and then twelve years to the entrance […]
Many times when one hears about racial discrimination in the US, there is an assumption it is “Whites against (fill in race here)”. However, this is unfair, as racism is not privy to one group, but the potential exists in all men for this, regardless of the group. In an interesting ruling from the Justice […]
If there are two cities that one could say “run the world’, without question they are London and New York, for both are major financial, economic, cultural, heavily populated centers whose influence by direct action or indirect effect is felt in every home around the world. It is true the cities go through “good and […]
The German news site Deutsche Welle reports that COVID-19 is ravaging Germany right now, and infections continue to increase in what is now a three-month high. German Health Minister Jens Spahn has called on people living in Germany to remain vigilant as the country’s public health agency on Wednesday reported a jump of 1,226 in […]
By Theodore Shoebat Looking at the recent alliance formed between Israel and the UAE, is is very obvious what is happening: Israel and the Arabs of the UAE need to join forces to combat Iran. As we read from a report from Reuters: Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will […]
By Theodore Shoebat Medical researchers are now warning that coronavirus could become just as fatal and destructive as the 1918 influenza epidemic. As we read from a report by CNBC: The coronavirus is at least as deadly as the 1918 flu pandemic and the death toll could even be worse if world leaders and public health […]
