On October 19, Bolivia will have a new president—and he will be from the right. It is confirmed that the country is about to make a sharp ideological turn since the Movement for Socialism (MAS) came to power in January 2006.
Broadly speaking, Bolivia has...
Heidi Boghosian delivers a powerful and meticulously researched call to arms for a digitally overwhelmed society grappling with declining civic engagement and the manipulation of truth in the digital age in her new book Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy.
With sharp insight and urgency, Boghosian—the director of the AJ...
The New York Times and other obituaries predictably left this out
Richard Armitage, the number two official at the State Department from 2001 to 2005, died on April 13.
The New York Times and other obituaries emphasized that Armitage was a Naval Academy graduate and Bronze Star recipient...
Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the man running the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, is the grandson of Nixon’s CIA Director William Colby, son of Jonathan Colby, a manager of the Carlyle Group, and nephew of Carl Colby, alleged to...
At a gathering of senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Tuesday, Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signaled that they’re preparing to imminently expand the scope and size of the U.S. military, both inside and outside the United States...
I’m honored to be invited to join P.D. Lawton, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Milton Allimadi, Jean-Marie Higiro, and Lawrence Freeman here. I know a bit about most everyone’s particular areas of expertise, but particularly those of Milton and Lawrence, so I’m sure we’ll be hitting a few of the same...
When I was young, my parents worked long hours. As a result, I spent much of my childhood with my grandparents, whose outlook on life always fascinated me—though at times, it left me deeply unsettled. Their time was not my own; it always moved more slowly, as if our...
New disclosures add weight to theory that Burisma was part of CIA operation
On February 21, 2019, a confidential source told the FBI that two CIA officers went with Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that appointed Hunter Biden to its board, to the office of...
Public relations machine transformed hard-line jihadists—whom Hillary Clinton famously called “hard men with guns”—into valiant freedom fighters in the eyes of the U.S.-UK public
Imagine if an armed rebellion took place in the United States against the federal, state and local governments.
Given 21st century...
An on-the-ground account challenging Western propaganda
Upon landing in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (commonly known as Xinjiang), it is evident that the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, call this home.
As I exited the airport arrivals hall, I noticed a restaurant sign reading “EGG BOMB.” The...
