Failing Starmer was overwhelmingly spurned by British citizens From a landslide victory to an absolute rejection by voters. Failing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer remains one of the western world’s least popular ‘leaders’, despite his efforts to paint himself as a relevant and world-respected head of state. And his poll numbers continue to sink, as…
Pope Leo XIV/Photo courtesy of Vatican Media. In a desperate effort to drive a wedge between Catholics and the Trump administration, the fake news circulated a story implying that the Department of War (DOW) threatened the Vatican. According to the initial report in The Free Press and amplified by outlets such as The Daily Beast, Catholic…
More than one hundred United States-based international law experts have warned that American strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes. These violations come only a few months after the U.S. committed obvious war crimes when it bombed civilian boats in the Caribbean, accusing them of “narco terrorism.” Experts were citing violations of the United…
China has just taken another decisive step toward the future of money, and once again, the West is pretending this is simply about “payment efficiency.” The People’s Bank of China has now expanded its digital yuan program by adding 12 additional banks, bringing the total number of participating institutions to 22. China launched the digital yuan back…
Guest Post by Mark Keenan There are moments in history when systems of control begin to lose their effectiveness—not because they are dismantled, but because they are no longer believed. We may be entering such a moment now. The signals are contradictory. On the surface, the world appears increasingly unstable—conflicts escalate in the Middle East, economic…
The X posts in this article are dated April 6-9. “There are really no dead except those who are not awake . . . These are the living dead. All of us have come up from that state. By degrees we come out of our dream into a greater state of reality. Those that…
Bruce Springsteen in concert at Manchester, England, screen image via Instagram, May 14, 2025. Bruce Springsteen, who is rumored to be worth a billion dollars or more, blasted rich American men for abandoning the world during his resist, hate-Trump tour recently. This is what the American left is now. They are possessed by a political…
Credit: Getty Images When the state of Maryland legalized the sale of marijuana a few years ago, they decided that they would set aside a few dollars from each sale to go into a reparations fund which would pay for all sorts of social programs. Now the fund has $35 million in it but almost…
Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of a drive to restrict human rights and “tear up the social fabric.” Amnesty’s new 95-page report (in Spanish, with an English summary), criticizes governments across the political spectrum for attacking what it calls “civil society…
There is a moment—subtle, almost impossible to locate precisely—when a society begins to feel different. Not dramatically. Not in a way that triggers immediate alarm. But in small, almost negligible shifts: prices that no longer make sense, opportunities that seem harder to reach, institutions that respond slower than they used to. At first, these are…
