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...
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...
White Lotus Is Just Schadenfreude Porn for the Professional Managerial Class
"You make money. They exploit me. I exploit you," the manager of the White Lotus resort tells an underling in Season One.
HBO's White Lotus is the latest entry in a formula line which...
Was Foucault a Libertarian? Nick Gillespie Explains Why Philosopher’s Greatest Protégé Was the Free...
"Michel Foucault" and "libertarian" appear an unlikely pairing.
The French philosopher interrogated power structures, establishing the postmodern tradition treating truth as the product and weapon of ideological regimes. Capitalism, one could argue, is the ultimate super-structure,...
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...
U.S. Intelligence Agency Warns of ‘New Pandemic’ After COVID
A new global pandemic could emerge after COVID, according to U.S. Intelligence agencies.
"Countries globally remain vulnerable to the emergence of a novel pathogen that could cause a devastating new pandemic," writes the Office of...
Hacking, Crackdowns, and FOMO: Paradox Politics’ 2022 Crypto Predictions
2021 was the year crypto went mainstream.
NFTs minted Beeple and Bored Apes into cultural reference points. Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook 'Meta' to reflect plans to dominate the Metaverse. And El Salvador recognized Bitcoin as...
Meta Bans Israeli ‘Cyber Mercenaries’ That Targeted Journalists, Palestinians, and Activists
Meta has banned from its platform four 'cyber mercenary' firms headquartered in Israel, which the company says conducted surveillance on human rights activists, journalists, and "critics of authoritarian regimes."
“These companies are part of a...
