Tag: Feature
Those living today are destined to experience a rare Triffin’s Dilemma moment, when one dominant but fading empire transitions uneasily to a more robust one. The end of the Portuguese and Spanish empires can be understood as examples of such turning points, with the defeat of the Spanish Armada...
Protests receive scant coverage in the U.S. media
In early April, an unidentified Irish man climbed onto the roof of a U.S. C-130 Hercules military transport vehicle parked at Shannon Airport in County Claire, Ireland, and sabotaged its wing and fuselage using a hatchet, causing $75 million in damage.
The heroic...
Treating a state as a god is a very frightening endeavor. It confers upon mortals a level of veneration that we do not deserve and will always abuse. Liebowitz called it “the essence of fascism.” It is especially frightening when that state operates along explicitly tribal lines.- Peter...
In the eyes of American policy elites Cuba’s most unforgivable crime is not even its socialism, which is now badly frayed, but rather its sovereignty. Cuba’s persistent independence and oppositional survival as a state is an American imperial humiliation.
Revolutionary Cuba’s mere existence threatens the cynicism, complacency and defeatism that does...
Vibrant monasteries, villages, the local language, and a woman I met who had three husbands—places where culture is not merely preserved—not suppressed—but actively lived.
Far from the capital, deep in the remote countryside, a Tibetan woman invited me and my Vietnamese friends into her home. She lives with three...
Frank Wisner was a CIA legend from the early Cold War era who earned the nickname “the Mighty Wurlitzer” for his ability to supposedly orchestrate covert operations with the precision and intricacy of a symphony maestro.
Wisner, however, got countless of his own agents killed running infiltration missions behind the...
The CIA’s “Brief History of Radio Swan,” formerly classified SECRET EYES ONLY, begins with this paragraph:
"On 17 March 1960, President Eisenhower approved a covert action program to bring about the replacement of the Castro regime. Within the propaganda framework of that program, an important objective was to create and...
On May 28, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) endorsed a Palestinian state, with the West Bank and Gaza to be connected physically.
As an advocate for peace, I do not agree that Israel must be defeated for Palestinians to achieve liberation. That is a forever...
Operation Beluga Helped Condition the Public to Support the New Cold War
On November 1, 2006, a former Russian spy turned British MI6 agent, Alexander “Sasha” Litvinenko, was poisoned with polonium while meeting with two alleged Russian agents, Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, and an Italian security consultant, Mario...
The island of Roatán is one of the most idyllic places in the Caribbean, with beautiful beaches, crystal-clear waters, and luxurious hotels. Although it belongs to Honduras, English is widely spoken there. In 2024, it was selected as one of the best places in the world by Time magazine...
