Persistent Delusion Among the American and NATO Defense Establishment

Speculation has been running wild today in Damascus after a bombing in a cafe in the center of the city killed at least nine people and wounded some 20 others. The site was near the Justice Palace, the city’s main courthouse. As of yet, no group has claimed credit for the bombing, but the Interior […]

The Specter Of 'Economic Death' Looms Over All Of Us In Late-Stage Surveillance Capitalism Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, I used to think the whole “debanking” panic was overblown. I really did. I’d roll my eyes at the Twitter threads and the think-pieces about how we’re all living in some dystopian soft-censorship nightmare. I’m a reasonable person, you know? I vote, I pay my taxes, I have a 401k that I check maybe twice a year when I’m feeling particularly masochistic. I thought the people screaming about being deplatformed or...

Ursula von der Leyen To Visit Armenia Next Week As Pro-EU Aspirations Ramp Up Brussels is eyeing Armenia as the small Caucasus nation has lately made it's pro-EU aspirations known, given just earlier this month Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's party won parliamentary elections, in a vote widely seen as signififying its major pro-Western shift. Pashinyan had claimed a "historic victory that will ensure Armenia’s eternity and development" while also vowing to "continue the course of rapprochement with the West" - but while balancing the pursuit of positive relations with Russia. And now, just days...