POLITICS

‘Between Two Fires’: Retaking Eastern Ukraine With UA’s 24th Mechanized Brigade

TORETSK-- A familiar story has played out over most of eastern Ukraine over the past half-year. Under the cover of brutally intense artillery barrages, Russian forces have attempted one assault after the next. Sometimes they...

Zelenskyy Praises US and European Private Equity Investors Prioritizing Gender Diversity

Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with private equity on Friday, praising the "trust" that the UK-headquartered and women-led Horizon Capital has placed in rebuilding efforts for the nation. "It is very important to believe in our joint...

Food Shortages and Cut Electricity: Armenians Reflect on Horrors of Azerbaijan’s Karabakh Blockade

ARMENIA/NAGORNO-KARABAKH BORDER-- The road to Nagorno-Karabakh stands nearly empty. The crossing point from Armenia, usually bustling with vehicles on a Thursday afternoon, instead hosts just a handful of cars and a couple of downtrodden...

Moldova Leader Accuses Putin of Coup Plot Involving Serbian and Montenegrin Protestors

In the aftermath of Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita's resignation, Moldova's President Maia Sandu accused Vladimir Putin of orchestrating a coup plot involving protestors from Balkan states Serbia and Montenegro.   Sandu said that Moldovan authorities had confirmed intelligence offered...

Zelenskyy Makes the Case in London For Fighter Jets. US Doesn’t Rule Out Possibility

Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared in London to make the case for supplying Ukraine with fighter jets. “I appeal to you and the world with simple yet most important words,” Ukraine's President told a joint session of...

Has the ‘Confessional’ Zeitgeist Arrived in Political Narratives? Alex Jones ‘Hell’ Text Messages Indicate...

Alex Jones, by his own admission, lives "in Hell" and "a black hole." “We are such a sick joke,” the Infowars host texted his father in 2020 following an arrest for a DWI. These moments have...

AFGHANISTAN FRONTLINES: How the Taliban Government Made Suicide Bombings a Formal Military Strategy

KABUL, Afghanistan – As I sipped tea in a garden on an unassuming Friday morning in September, a mammoth explosion detonated blocks away, followed by gunshots and police sirens. A pillar of black smoke...

We Are All Hunter Biden Now 

“The Hunter hard drive is like an ocean,” a reporter who was passed its contents by Rudy Giuliani tells me. “There is so much material… We are constantly excavating and making new discoveries. Something...

Wheat Prices Soar as Russia Exits Grain Pact, Flashing Back to Stalin’s Forced Starvation

Wheat prices are soaring as Vladimir Putin threatens déjà vu in Ukraine: Forced starvation.  Russia over the weekend withdrew from an agreement allowing grain exports from Ukraine through the Black Sea. The Kremlin has called...

Did George Bush Reveal Lacan’s ‘Big Other’ With Iraq-Ukraine Snafu? 

In a viral snafu blasted from branded political stage through social media pathways, George W. Bush compared Russia’s attack on Ukraine to the United States’ invasion of Iraq.  “The result is an absence of checks...