Persistent Delusion Among the American and NATO Defense Establishment

Cracks Appear In Climate Consensus As Germany's Energy Minister Admits Renewables Are Ruining The Country Authored by Tilak Doshi, When Simon Wakter, Political Adviser to Sweden’s Minister for Energy, posted on X last Wednesday with a simple “Wow, incredible article” and a clapping emoji, he captured the shock rippling through Europe’s energy commentariat. The target of his applause was not some fringe sceptic but Germany’s own Economy and Energy Minister, Katherina Reiche. In a guest column for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Reiche delivered a verdict that would have been career-ending heresy only a year ago: “One fact...

US Defense Stocks Take Epic Fury Beating, Leaving UBS Asking Why Despite the launch of Operation Epic Fury against Iran in late February, U.S. defense stocks have moved lower rather than higher, prompting a UBS analyst to pen a note to clients this week attempting to answer why the makers of missiles and tanks failed to sustain a wartime rally. Analyst Allyson Gordon asked the question: "Why Is US Defense Performance Lackluster?"  Let's start with iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF, or ITA, a basket of major U.S. defense firms. ITA caught...

COVID Cover-Up: Hiding Star Researcher Ralph Baric's Ties To Global Pandemic Authored by Paul D. Thacker via RealClearInvestigations, In March 2020, a couple of months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, editors at the journal Nature Medicine appended a note to a coronavirus study it had published five years prior. “We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered,” the journal editors wrote. “There is...