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Dark Kiev

Dark Kiev

by | Jan 19, 2026 |

The electricity and heat supply in Ukraine has stopped in large parts of the country. Kiev had already been on scheduled blackouts where groups of consumers received for example four hours of electricity to then be cutoff for eight hours. That scheduling has ended. The blackout has become permanent. Over several weeks Russian attacks had isolated the electricity supply in Kiev from other parts of the country. It then attacked generating stations within the city. There is now less than 10%...

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Donald Trump, A Responsibility to Protect President

Donald Trump, A Responsibility to Protect President

by | Jan 16, 2026 |

Publicly denouncing war and liberals was a regular part of Donald Trump’s communication in his 2024 presidential campaign. Yet, as president, Trump has been relying on the responsibility to protect idea associated with liberals he would normally ridicule as a basis for the US engaging in wars abroad. In October of 2016, the month before Donald Trump won the race to succeed Barack Obama as president, David Stockman wrote about an example of the terrible damage the US following a responsibility...

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Militant Zionist Group Ceasing Operations In New York Following Settlement with Attorney General

Militant Zionist Group Ceasing Operations In New York Following Settlement with Attorney General

by | Jan 15, 2026 |

By virtue of its standing as the global center of the Jewish diaspora, New York City emerged as the main battleground in the United States for the fight between American Zionists and their opponents amid the deterioration of public support for Israel accelerated by its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. While critics of the State of Israel participating in widespread protests across the city have been branded as Jihadists by their opponents for protesting against the slaughter of innocent...

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An Assault on the Republic

An Assault on the Republic

by | Jan 15, 2026 |

In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law. The attorney general says he’d cut down all the laws in England to get to the Devil. More reminds him that the laws were written to protect us from those who’d cut them down, because, More asks, when the Devil turns round and seeks you, where would you hide, the laws having been flattened? Answer: nowhere. The recent...

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This Is What Tyranny Looks Like Now: No Crowns. No Coups. Just Unchecked Power.

This Is What Tyranny Looks Like Now: No Crowns. No Coups. Just Unchecked Power.

by | Jan 14, 2026 |

In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ruler who believed power flowed from his own will rather than the consent of the governed. Paine’s warning was not theoretical. Two hundred and fifty years later, we find ourselves confronting the same dilemma—this time from inside the White House. When asked by the New York Times what might restrain his power...

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Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs

Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs

by , | Jan 14, 2026 |

Western media has ignored a growing trove of video evidence showing terrorist tactics deployed across Iran by protesters described by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as “largely peaceful.” Recent videos published both by Iranian state media and anti-government forces reveal public lynchings of unarmed guards, the torching of mosques, arson attacks on municipal buildings, marketplaces and fire stations, and mobs of armed gunmen opening fire in the heart of Iranian cities....

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The Rubicon crossed – Team Trump’s nihilistic anti-values paradigm

The Rubicon crossed – Team Trump’s nihilistic anti-values paradigm

by | Jan 13, 2026 |

So, finally an act of unvarnished predatory action by Trump and his team – the abduction of President Maduro in a lightning night-time military strike – has launched 2026 into a pivotal moment. A pivotal moment not just for Latin America, but for global politics. The "Venezuela method" is aligned with Trump’s "business first" approach which is rooted in constructing a "financial reward system," whereby diverse stakeholders to a conflict are offered financial benefits that permit the US to...

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US Cargo Planes Have Flooded the Persian Gulf Since the First of December

US Cargo Planes Have Flooded the Persian Gulf Since the First of December

by | Jan 13, 2026 |

In December 2025 and January 2026 (through early/mid-January), open-source intelligence (OSINT) and flight-tracking data indicate a significant surge in US military transport aircraft (primarily heavy lifters like C-17 Globemaster III and C-5M Galaxy) flying to or toward US bases in the Persian Gulf, such as Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, with reports consistently describing “dozens” of such movements. Al Udeid Air Base (also known as Abu Nakhlah Airport) is the largest U.S. military installation...

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From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders

From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders

by | Jan 13, 2026 |

While it has undoubtedly shocked the world, the Trump administration’s abduction of President Nicolás Maduro fits into a long history of United States kidnapping of foreign leaders. On January 3, U.S. Special Forces entered Venezuela by air, captured Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, killing around 80 people in the process. They were flown to the United States, where Maduro was put on trial on spurious drug trafficking and possession of firearms charges. Despite President Trump...

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Donald Trump, A Responsibility to Protect President

The CIA/Mossad Operation to Spark a Color Revolution in Iran has Failed

by | Jan 12, 2026 |

The CIA/Mossad plan to spark a color revolution in Iran, which has attracted global attention and a tsunami of propaganda pieces portraying the Iranian protests as a massive, unstoppable popular movement, has failed. Yes, protests continue in some parts of the country, but Iranian security forces have taken off the gloves and are fighting back. Casualty estimates are all over the board… Ranging from hundreds to thousands dead. Iranian officials have announced that the alleged ring leaders of...

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EU official plotted to ‘organise resistance’ against Hungary’s Orban, files show

EU official plotted to ‘organise resistance’ against Hungary’s Orban, files show

by | Jan 12, 2026 |

A senior European Union official has been secretly seeking to remove Hungarian President Viktor Orban since at least 2019, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone. The files show in January 2019, the EU’s International Coordinator for the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, Marton Benedek, authored a “project proposal” aimed at “developing a permanent coordination forum to organise resistance against the Orban regime.” In addition to his role at the...

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Making Imperialism Great Again?

Making Imperialism Great Again?

by | Jan 12, 2026 |

It did not take long for President Trump to change the reason for sending the US military to “arrest” Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. The allegation that President Maduro ran a drug cartel was front and center in the months leading up to President Maduro’s “arrest.” Afterwards, President Trump said the invasion was about Venezuela’s oil and announced plans for the US government to send American oil companies into Venezuela. About a week after the invasion, President Trump had...

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What Does Venezuela Have to Do with Israel?

What Does Venezuela Have to Do with Israel?

by | Jan 10, 2026 |

It is interesting to observe how United States foreign policy, such as it is, often appears to have an Israeli back story that explains at least in part how Donald Trump’s mindless aggression against much of the world is driven by Zionist imperatives rather than actual American interests. Ukraine is supported by Israel and the US Israel Lobby in part because the roots of many diaspora and Israeli Jews are “Kazarian,” i.e. they derive from that part of Eastern Europe. Plus, Ukraine’s acting...

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When it Comes to Venezuelan Oil, Trump is Drilling a Dry Hole

When it Comes to Venezuelan Oil, Trump is Drilling a Dry Hole

by | Jan 10, 2026 |

I was wrong. I believed that controlling Venezuelan oil was the primary objective behind Donald Trump’s decision to order the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. After reviewing the actual numbers it is clear that the belief that Venezuelan oil would provide a buffer if the Persian Gulf is closed as a consequence of an Israeli/US attack on Iran is sheer nonsense. My apologies for entertaining that hypothesis before looking at the actual numbers. The following graphic...

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Dark Kiev

Winter Strikes Kiev

by | Jan 9, 2026 |

Last night Ukraine was finally confronted with the consequences of attacking Russian infrastructure. And no, I do not mean last nights Oreshnik strike on the large gas storage facility in west Ukraine. The seismic impulse from that strike likely damaged the geological structure that allowed the gas to be stored in caverns. It can now escape and has been seen burning. Those were the Ukrainian reserves for the rest of the winter. The strike was in revenge for the late December drone...

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From Industrial Power to Military Keynesianism: Germany’s Engineered Collapse

From Industrial Power to Military Keynesianism: Germany’s Engineered Collapse

by | Jan 8, 2026 |

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz now admits that “parts of Germany’s economy are in very critical condition” and that his government “hasn’t done enough.” That phrasing is an evasion. Germany did not drift into this collapse. The numbers were visible in real time. The warnings were explicit. And suicidal decisions were made anyway. Start with energy, because everything downstream flows from it. Before the 2022 launch of Russia's special military operation (SMO), Germany’s industrial model...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

by | Dec 25, 2025

On March 26, 2022, then United States President Joe Biden boasted in a speech in Poland that “unprecedented sanctions” targeting Russia that had been put in place over the last...

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