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The United States and Israel have a tendency to celebrate “firsts”, and these “firsts” can be good or bad things. In something that is a “first” in Israel, for the first time, the sitting Israeli Prime Minister and veritable beloved of many American Evangelical Boomers, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been indicted on three charges of public […]

The Japanese are a serious imperial power throughout history. Just like the Americans, Russians, Germans, French, British, and Ottomans, when they do something people need to pay attention. Unlike the Chinese or Indians, whose history is one of being conquered and overrun while talking in a strong voice, it is these nations who do the […]

From 1936 to 1938, the Soviet Union conducted the Great Purge in which many supporters and former supporters of the October Revolution were mass murdered at Stalin’s order to consolidate his power and satisfy his own personal fears of a rebellion. It is estimated that one million people, with about a quarter-million either way, were […]

The plaque on the Statue of Liberty reads “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This phrase, which attracted the interest of so many people to migrate […]

The term “hate crime” is a misnomer because one does not commit crimes for love. The idea of a “hate crime” is a political thing, because one is able to emphasize certain crimes or in some cases, “crimes” more than other ones, leading to the creation of legal favoritism. Likewise, the concept of “potential crime” […]

By Theodore Shoebat The Mongol empire butchered around 40 million people. According to History.com: “While it’s impossible to know for sure how many people perished during the Mongol conquests, many historians put the number at somewhere around 40 million. Censuses from the Middle Ages show that the population of China plummeted by tens of millions […]

By Theodore Shoebat Islamic terrorists in Nigeria kidnapped a Christian university student, and one of the terrorists — a child soldier — executed the Christian and then declared: “we are telling all Christians around the world, we have not forgotten and will not stop.” As we read in a report from the Christian Post: The […]

By Theodore Shoebat Donald Trump just authorized $375 million to protect churches and other places of worship. As we read in the Christian Post: The Trump administration has authorized millions in federal grants for churches and other houses of worship and nonprofit organizations for the purpose of defending against violence amid rising hostility to religion, […]

African swine fever devastated pork supplies in 2019, causing a death in 25% of the world’s pigs and 50% of all pigs in China. This is geopolitically a very significant event, since the Chinese rely on cheap pork imports along with soy to support their large population which they cannot feed due to gross agricultural […]

During the 2016 election, a lot of extreme statements were made. Some were true, some were false, and some were unproven. One statement that Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia made recently claims that in a conversation with then President Obama, that he called Trump a “fascist” and that Trump should be kept out of the […]

The coronovirus spreading in China and across the world has hampered economic activity in many nations. Russia, a nation which depends on high oil prices as she has no economy outside of the sale of largely raw or minimally processed materials and the export of cheap weapons to questionable government, is set to see some […]

In the years leading up to and after the economic crisis of 2007, there was a significant interest in all things about “prepping”, what was called in years past “survivalism”. While such things are not an inherent sign of problems, nor are they absolute solutions, the interest in such things and especially among the wealthy […]

Vladivostok is the easternmost major city in Russia, sitting near the borders of China and North Korea, and across from Japan by way of the Sea of Japan. Russia and Japan have had their disputes with each other over the centuries, and concerns are emerging again with talk of a Japanese remilitarization. It is of […]

The US Embassy in Baghdad was recently attacked by three rockets. It has not yet been confirmed who fired the rockets, although some have speculated it may be related to Iran. What has been officially confirmed is that at least one person was injured: Three rockets struck the US Embassy compound in Baghdad on Sunday, […]

The economic reports about American claims of prosperity and better conditions do not match with reality, for no amount of propaganda can cover for how people have to work more for less money they can purchase less with at increased prices. This has naturally worsened home life stress, strained family ties and communal bonds, and […]