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The EU’s lab rats: The Dutch are about to test a virulent strain of modern politics

The EU’s lab rats: The Dutch are about to test a virulent strain of modern politics

The Dutch are voting again. No big deal, you may well say. Recently, they do so boringly often, and, anyhow, the Netherlands is a small country with a...

29.10.2025 30

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The US has exported democracy again. Not with bombs this time, but that doesn’t make it better

The US has exported democracy again. Not with bombs this time, but that doesn’t make it better

Argentina has produced a surprise. After a string of economic and currency crises, failures, scandals, and humiliations, Javier Milei –...

29.10.2025 30

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Germany is doing to itself what even its defeat in WWII couldn’t

Toward the end of World War II in Europe, the US government pondered a plan to not only demilitarize but also disintegrate and deindustrialize postwar...

27.10.2025 50

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Why the Putin-Trump summit cancelation is terrible news for Ukraine

Why the Putin-Trump summit cancelation is terrible news for Ukraine

There was – or seemed to be – hope for peace for a brief moment. And how deceptive it turned out to be. I was among those cautiously optimistic...

25.10.2025 50

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When Tomahawks become boomerangs

When Tomahawks become boomerangs

Leave it to Mr. Unpredictable, aka Donald Trump, President of the United States, to pack a policy U-turn, a harsh unfriending, and some fuzzy...

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Germany is getting slapped in the face by its ‘allies’, again and again

Germany is getting slapped in the face by its ‘allies’, again and again

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk just couldn’t resist an opportunity to bait the Germans and rub it in just how humiliated they are now. And not...

19.10.2025 90

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The EU isn’t at war with Russia – it’s at war with the minds of its own citizens

The EU isn’t at war with Russia – it’s at war with the minds of its own citizens

Among other things, this particular moment in history will be remembered – whether in whole books, mere chapters, or (if we are lucky) forgotten...

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Germany has a new Berlin Wall

It’s been more than a third of a century since the German unification of 1990. Between Hamburg and Munich and Cologne and Frankfurt-on-Oder,...

13.10.2025 80

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This president took a chainsaw to his BRICS prospects, and look where it got his country

Argentina is on the brink of bankruptcy. Because that’s the name for where you are when you desperately need a promise of a bailout to buy time,...

09.10.2025 80

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Israel has once again proved it has perfect impunity – for now

The long-expected if perfectly criminal has happened again: Israel’s navy has intercepted the Gaza-bound Sumud Flotilla by force, stopping almost 50...

03.10.2025 50

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It’s not enough to recognize Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Those with eyes to see and ears to hear – including this author, as it happens – have known it for a very long time already. Yet the findings of...

20.09.2025 70

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Macron is in a political death spiral

The France of President Emmanuel Macron, who is really the egomaniac-in-chief, is somewhere on the spectrum between “spiraling political crisis”...

20.09.2025 80

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‘Unite the Kingdom’ is a harbinger of a Western European cataclysm

Seen from its former empire, riots in Great Britain may look wretchedly atavistic. Not to speak of a tiny bit of Schadenfreude. For the Times of...

15.09.2025 70

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Kaja Kallas personifies the void inside the EU’s decline

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s de facto foreign minister (and former prime minister of Estonia), is unusually, grotesquely incompetent, even for...

11.09.2025 90

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Why is Germany covering for the terrorists that attacked it?

Once upon a time, long, long ago, scandals had consequences even in the West, at least sometimes. In the ancient US of 1974, Richard ‘Tricky...

10.09.2025 70

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The West has a big problem: it can’t stop lying. Even to itself

Power and truth are not natural allies. Indeed, every person and institution – be it a government, a company, a university, or a “think tank”...

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The West has just been given a rude awakening

Oswald Spengler, eccentric German arch-conservative, brilliant author of “The Decline of the West,” and proud pessimist extraordinaire...

04.09.2025 90

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Cut welfare, give billions to Ukraine, suppress opposition: The German leader’s checklist to success

German chancellor Friedrich Merz has made a moderate media splash and ruffled some feathers in his own ruling coalition with the Centrist Social...

28.08.2025 70

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Russia is learning. The West is running in circles

In some important ways that Western information warriors love to miss, Russia and the West are quite similar. Like the West, Russia has a typically...

27.08.2025 80

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Peace in Ukraine will destroy the EU establishment

The prospects for an end to the Ukraine War have never been so good despite continuing if dwindling Western European attempts to play spoiler, and...

21.08.2025 80

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The Alaska summit was a success. The challenge is to make it last

Do not expect Western mainstream media, NATO-EU Europe’s politicians, or the Zelensky regime and its surrogates to admit it, but there is no doubt...

17.08.2025 80

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Here’s why all the critics of Alaska summit are wrong

The problem with the future is that it is both unpredictable and inescapable. You can never know with certainty what tomorrow will bring, but you must...

13.08.2025 50

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Get a rare glimpse into the sick minds behind the EU’s warmongering

In the world of Western mainstream media political commentary, not everything is fun. In fact, mostly, things are grimly serious, the sort of...

12.08.2025 50

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Listen to Lavrov: Here’s why Russia won’t take crap from the EU anymore

Like him, hate him, Otto von Bismarck – Prussian aristocrat, arch conservative, user of German nationalism, maker of wars, and then keeper of the...

07.08.2025 80

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The art of the kneel: How Trump’s ‘deal’ brought Brussels to heel

In history, some things become clear only in hindsight. For instance, German unification all over again – good thing or bad thing? That jury is...

31.07.2025 90

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‘Russiagate’ is officially dead, but its rotten corpse has done its toxic job

Be real: It is not hard to see that America – as it really exists, not the ‘dream’ version – is neither a democracy nor a country with...

25.07.2025 50

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Zelensky’s end goal is in sight, and so is his end

When the US picks clients, vassals, and proxies, it needs men or women ready to trade in the interests, even the welfare and lives of their...

25.07.2025 70

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The snowflakes of information war: How the New York Times sinned by honesty

It’s a platitude that war kills not only people but truth. And as all platitudes, the statement is true, boring, and misleading. Because it omits...

23.07.2025 70

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Inside the mind of America’s most unhinged war salesman

Lindsey Graham is at it again: The long-serving – if increasingly embattled – senator from South Carolina has produced an especially aggressive as...

18.07.2025 60

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Humanitarian aid from hell: The extermination of Palestinians is being disguised as help

The Gaza genocide is special. And not in one but two regards. As has often been observed, this is the first genocide in history that is, in essence,...

17.07.2025 100

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Stalin of the EU: How the unelected Queen of the Union plans to keep her grip on power

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission that runs the EU is finally facing a long overdue no-confidence vote. Its chances of...

10.07.2025 60

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General YouTube: Germany’s newest military chief is a warlord of his own Ukraine-cheering fantasyland

Let’s face it: For outside observers, who are not getting a direct boost to career and income, promotions inside ministries can be about as exciting...

08.07.2025 70

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Is Berlin planning a strike on Moscow? Merz wrote the justification – just ask Iran

Forget the fog of war. Even in war, and sometimes especially in war, some things are exceedingly clear. Regarding the so-called ‘Hamas-Israel...

25.06.2025 60

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Every accusation is a confession: Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ideas about Nazis

Anniversaries can be opportunities. For better or worse. In the case of the recent anniversary of Nazi Germany’s massive attack on the Soviet Union...

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MAGA’s Civil War: Who dares to take on the Israel lobby?

Steve Bannon – stubborn, irrepressible, and very smart right/far-right public intellectual and once ally, chief strategist, and bestie of US...

18.06.2025 70

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Israel doesn’t go rogue – it goes with Pentagon’s green light

Having been carrying out its ongoing genocide of the Palestinians for almost two years, wrecking Lebanon and Syria, repeatedly assaulting Iran and...

15.06.2025 100

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The Russians’ new enemy #1 is not the US. And we’ve been there before

They probably won’t but Germans should pay close attention to a recent news item out of Russia: The Levada polling institute – long...

11.06.2025 60

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Kiev sends the living to die, but won’t accept its dead

It is sad, but peace remains elusive in the war between, on one side, Ukraine and – through Ukraine – the West and, on the other, Russia....

08.06.2025 60

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Trump-Musk Big Bro bust-up: Ignore the noise, focus on the signal

Two very rich and very powerful and very big American egos have had a very public and very loud cat fight. US President Donald Trump, arguably the...

07.06.2025 60

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Truce or trap? Ukraine makes sure peace talks go nowhere

On Sunday, in the Russian regions of Bryansk and Kursk, both bordering Ukraine, bridges collapsed on and under trains, killing seven and injuring...

04.06.2025 50

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How to start a war with Russia in these easy steps: Just ask Merz’s Germany

If in a dark hole, dig deeper, especially even deeper than feckless German ex-chancellor Olaf Scholz. That seems to be Berlin’s new motto. Under...

30.05.2025 60

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Germany risks becoming a target for Russia – for the first time since Hitler

Chancellor Friedrich Merz, from Germany’s mainstream CDU/CSU conservatives, has caused a stir. This time with statements about German weapons in...

28.05.2025 60

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Istanbul Talks 2.0 are a great chance for Zelensky to accept reality

Despite Ukraine’s and the EU’s worst efforts at underhanded sabotage, the Istanbul talks – the first direct Russian-Ukrainian talks in three...

18.05.2025 60

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Friends of genocide: Has Germany learned nothing from the Holocaust?

A single, small, low-quality do-it-yourself poster recently displayed in the center of Germany’s capital Berlin has caused a minor scandal that has...

14.05.2025 70

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Why is Germany such a mess?

It seems long ago already, but politically speaking, it was really only yesterday that the last, deeply unpopular German government collapsed on...

12.05.2025 50

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Labeling the AfD ‘extremist’ will backfire terribly

Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (literally, the Federal Office for Protecting the Constitution), has...

06.05.2025 80

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Germany is weaponizing WWII memory against Russia

Eighty years ago, Germany suffered its worst self-induced military – as well as moral, political, cultural, you name it – catastrophe ever. First,...

03.05.2025 40

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Thanks, no Kiev: Russia and US can reconcile without Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met again with Steve Witkoff, special envoy of US President Donald Trump. From the little the cameras showed us...

27.04.2025 20

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Pope Francis was a great man who committed one terrible failure in the end

When a great man and leader of the Roman-Catholic Church – and beyond it – like Pope Francis dies, it may seem almost impious to speak or write...

23.04.2025 30

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German anti-Russia propaganda is reaching Nazi-era levels

Like people almost everywhere in NATO-EU Europe, Germans are currently being subjected to a relentless barrage of shameless, often astonishingly crude...

18.04.2025 40

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