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A Teleological Response to the Crash of the Price of West Texas Intermediate Oil as a Consequence of the Corona Virus

Blake Archer Williams • April 24, 2020

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“God damn America, not God bless America!” “If we can’t sell our oil,” the Iranians said, “you won’t be able to sell your oil [either]!” This turned out to be more of a prayer than a threat that was actually implemented. The same prayer could be extrapolated for the economy: “If you want to destroy... Read More

The Saker Interviews A.B. Abrams About the Geostrategic Developments in Asia

The Saker • June 27, 2019

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The Saker: Please introduce yourself and your past and present political activities (books, articles, memberships, etc.) A.B. Abrams: I am an expert on the international relations, recent history and geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region. I have published widely on defense and politics related subjects under various pseudonyms. I am proficient in Chinese, Korean and other... Read More

The Saker Interviews Aram Mirzaei on Iran

The Saker • June 14, 2019

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My name is Aram Mirzaei, I'm 30 years old and live somewhere in Europe. Originally, I hail from western Iran, a place that is deeply rooted in my heart. Ever since my teenage years, I've had a passion for history and politics, a trait I inherited from my mother who was an Iranian revolutionary. Naturally,... Read More

Counting votes in Pontianak, Borneo. Hardly a strenuous task

Hundreds Died "As a Result of the Indonesian Elections"

Andre Vltchek • June 5, 2019

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It truly looked grand, impressive – the fourth most populous country on earth voted in general elections, which were held on 17 April 2019. Hundreds of positions were for grab: that of the president, the vice president, members of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), and members of local legislative bodies. There were 190 million eligible... Read More

Why Shouldn’t the Boston Marathon Bomber Vote? U.S. Politicians Radicalized Him

Max Parry • May 14, 2019

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Last month, 2020 U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders stirred controversy at a CNN town hall after answering a loaded question about whether his position on extending voting rights to incarcerated felons barred any exceptions such as the Boston Marathon bomber currently on death row. It was impossible for Sanders to respond honestly without being entrapped... Read More

The Great Fraud of National Zionism

The Saker • March 22, 2019

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There is no doubt that the 9/11 false flag (now even admitted (by direct implication) by NIST!) was a watershed, a seminal event in our history. While millions (or even billions) watched in horror as the twin towers burned, a small group of Mossad agents stood nearby and danced in overwhelming joy. Why exactly were... Read More

Protest in support of freeing Tommy Robinson at Trafalgar Square. Credit C. Suthorn/CC 4.0.

Tommy Robinson and the Enduring Tragedy of Politics

Christopher DeGroot • August 20, 2018

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He’s no fool, Dominic Green. A Jazz musician, a lecturer in politics, and a lively and witty writer, Green is what used to be called a man of parts. It’s rather disappointing, then, that in “America, meet Tommy Robinson – if you must,” his August 1 column in Spectator USA, Green engages in facile moralizing... Read More

Kurdish Women Protest After Being Told to Wear the Hijab

Patrick Cockburn • June 14, 2018

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Turkish-backed jihadi militiamen, who seized the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria earlier this year, have put up posters carrying instructions about obedience to sharia law beside the outline of a woman wearing a full niqab – a black garment shrouding the body and face. The posters sparked angry street protests by Kurds, who... Read More

A Muslim Ban Is Logical, Moral, Even Libertarian

Ilana Mercer • November 2, 2017

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CNN’s Jake Tapper wanted to know if there was anything that could have prevented the murderous rampage, in Manhattan, by a Muslim immigrant, who had been recruited to live in America for no good reason. Once upon a time that was known as a rhetorical question. To ask the question would have been to answer... Read More

Barcelona and Beyond

How Politicians & Policy Wonks Play God With Your Life

Ilana Mercer • August 19, 2017

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No sooner do terrorists attack, than those who monopolize the conversation revert to abstractions: "terrorism returned," "terror struck," when, of course, not terrorism, but terrorists struck Barcelona, Spain, on August 17. Terrorists did the same days later, in Newcastle, England and in Turku, Finland. The men who murdered 14 in Spain, maiming and injuring over... Read More

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Terror Channel Report: Moral Equivalence Is A Crock

John Derbyshire • June 23, 2017

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There’s something to report almost daily now in the war between Muslims and infidels being played out on the streets of Western cities. It’s getting to be so that any news outlet needs to just include a regular slot for these events, like the weather report. If things get any worse, some entrepreneur might start... Read More

April 8th, 2017 - Birmingham, UK: English Defence League (EDF) stages a rally.

Darren Osborne and the Finsbury Mosque Incident

A Rebellion against the Idea that Revenge Couldn’t Even Be Contemplated

Andrew Joyce • June 21, 2017

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At time of this writing, the Left and the British state are busily engaged in portraying a solitary, frustrated, drunken son of Albion as that great figure of myth — the ‘right wing extremist.’ By most accounts Darren Osborne is an everyman figure, a married father of four who enjoys his beer and the quiet... Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov in 2015

Russia and Islam

Connecting the Dots and Discerning the Future

The Saker • June 19, 2017

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Russia has often been in the news over the past years, mostly as the demonized “Empire of Mordor” responsible for all the bad things on the planet, especially Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton, the Russian intervention in Syria and, of course, the “imminent” Russian invasion of the Baltics, Poland or even all of Western Europe.... Read More

The Forever War?

Pat Buchanan • June 6, 2017

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On May 22, Salman Abedi, 22, waiting at the entrance of the Arianna Grande pop concert in Manchester, blew himself up, killing almost two dozen people, among them parents waiting to pick up their children. Saturday, three Islamic terrorists committed "suicide-by-cop," using a van to run down pedestrians on London Bridge, and then slashing and... Read More

The Future of Islam in Western Europe

The Saker • May 5, 2017

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With the upcoming French Presidential election in France the topic of Islam in Europe has again become central to the political discourse. This is nothing new, we also saw that in the UK, in Holland, in Austria and even in Switzerland where the Muslim communities were banned – by popular referendum - from building minarets... Read More

Life With Islam and Its Enablers

Ilana Mercer • April 4, 2017

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As I write, the Russians are hunting down the perpetrator of an attack on the St. Petersburg subway, in which 11 people were killed and some 45 injured. It took Russian authorities no time at all before an image of a possible culprit was circulated. Vladimir Putin, it appeared, would not be taking a page... Read More

Jihad's Triumph On Westminster Bridge

Ilana Mercer • March 29, 2017

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The attacks keep coming. Murder or maiming by Muslims living among us is an almost daily occurrence in the West. The latest was knifeman Khalid Masood, who plowed a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, London, and then proceeded to slash at them with a 12-inch blade. Immoral media counted five dead, with the killer.... Read More

From MAD to Madness

Paul Craig Roberts • February 1, 2017

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A book that Western peoples need to read is the just published by Clarity Press memoir of Paul H. Johnstone with an introduction by his daughter Diana, From MAD to Madness Paul Johnstone worked for two decades in the upper echelons of US intelligence—Air Force Intelligence, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Office of the... Read More

Trump's Team Will Start New Wars in the Middle East

Patrick Cockburn • November 19, 2016

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Isis is under pressure in Mosul and Raqqa, but it is jubilant at the election of Donald Trump. Abu Omar Khorasani, an Isis leader in Afghanistan, is quoted as saying that “our leaders were closely following the US election, but it was unexpected that the Americans would dig their own graves.” He added that what... Read More

Emasculated West Primed for A Muscular, Muslim Takeover

Ilana Mercer • July 30, 2016

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Programmed as they are in feminist myth-making, journalists, young and old, often ask incredulously, “Why would western girls travel to join ISIS fighters?” “ISIS men don’t believe in equality between the sexes.” At heart, neither do women. Not when hormones rage. Islamic State projects strength. Strength is an aphrodisiac. Women are biologically programmed to be... Read More

A Letter from Germany

Linh Dinh • July 20, 2016

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A friend in Frankfurt emailed me on July 19th: It is sheer madness what is happening here… The noose is tightening and yet—it is still only the beginning… What took place in some dull regional express close to Würzburg, a town in Franconia in the middle of Germany, was—in some respect—like a watershed event—just like... Read More

Erdogan Is Using This Failed Coup to Get Rid of Secularists in Turkey

Patrick Cockburn • July 17, 2016

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The sweeping purge of soldiers and officials in the wake of the failed coup in Turkey is likely to be conducted with extra vigour because a number of close associates of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are among the 265 dead. The number of people detained so far is at 6,000 including soldiers, and around 3,000... Read More

The Expert Idiocracy Is More Dangerous Than Islam. Almost

Ilana Mercer • July 16, 2016

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They’ve been killing their way across Europe and the USA. They’re the Mohameds, Omars, Syeds, Tashfeens, Tareks, Maliks, Ibrahims, Brahim, Yassins, Rafiks, Khalids and Najims; Messrs. Abaaoud, Abdeslam, El Bakraouis, Abrinis, Abballas (blah-blah). But about them, the Twittersphere yields more plain spoken truths than the expert Idiocracy. The latest Muslim immigrant to unleash himself on... Read More

Mateen Was Loud & Proud About His Orientation As Aspiring Muslim Terrorist

Ilana Mercer • June 17, 2016

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Democrats are frenetically trying to pass legislation that’ll make it impossible for anyone on the government’s terrorist list to legally purchase a firearm. Their renewed Brownian motion is due to the murder, last Sunday, of 49 gay club-goers in Orlando, Florida. The Muslim American perpetrator also wounded 53 more. The premise of passing such a... Read More

The Orlando Massacre: the Lies, the Exploitation and Unasked Questions

The Saker • June 14, 2016

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The “Islamic homophobe” thesis bites the dust in less than 24 hours Right from the start, the Orlando shooting made no sense to me and I said so pretty clearly in an article I posted the same day. You can read the full article here, so I will only mention my main conclusion: that this... Read More

Is ISIS Faithful to Islam?

Pat Buchanan • March 25, 2016

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"We are not at war with Islam," said John Kasich after the Brussels massacre, "We're at war with radical Islam." Kasich's point raises a question: Does the Islamic faith in any way sanction or condone what those suicide bombers did? For surely the brothers and their accomplice who ignited the bombs in the airport and... Read More

Wrong, Donald Trump, Islam Loves Us … to Bits

Ilana Mercer • March 25, 2016

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“I think Islam hates us,” said Donald J. Trump days before the last, March 10 debate in Coral Gables, Miami. To mainstream media, this was a body blow as big as the blasts at the Brussels airport and metro station, on March 22. The debate moderator gave Trump room to retract. Or, rather, to furnish... Read More

A Few Disjointed Thoughts on the Events in Cologne

The Saker • January 11, 2016

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What I want to share with you today is most definitely not a comprehensive analysis of the events which took place recently in Germany, but rather a few unconnected thoughts and memories we came to my mind when I heard about what had happened. So here we go. First, the figures are staggering: according to... Read More

Sex and the City–of Cologne

John Derbyshire • January 9, 2016

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I was in the city of Cologne just once, in 1954. I was nine years old, on my way to visit my brother, who was stationed with the British Army in Düsseldorf. Through the train window my mother pointed out the famous Cathedral (pictured right) which I recall as looking very battered still from wartime... Read More

Islam and the West: An Irreconcilable Conflict?

Pat Buchanan • December 22, 2015

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"I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here ... and ... around the world, that there is a 'clash of civilizations.'" So said Hillary Clinton in Saturday night's New Hampshire debate. Yet, that phrase was not popularized by Donald Trump, but by Harvard's... Read More

Allahu Akbar! - the View from 2018

Fred Reed • December 11, 2015

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In May of 2018, the second year of Mrs. Clinton’s administration, national puzzlement was high over the continuing wave of mass killings. A week before, nineteen children had died in the Blaintree Kindergarten massacre in San Francisco when Mohammed Shah Massoud, Faisal ibn Saud, and Hussein al Rashid burst into the school and began firing.... Read More

Are We In A Clash of Civilizations?

Ron Paul • December 6, 2015

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The credibility of all American politicians now requires acknowledging that America is engaged in a great war for survival – “the war against Islam.” Fear of “radical Islamic terrorists” requires our undivided attention. We’re to believe that the ugly and vicious violence of a very small percentage of the 1.7 billion Muslims around the world,... Read More

Cut the Cycle-of-Violence Crap

Ilana Mercer • October 23, 2015

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A DAY IN THE LIFE. The Bennett family’s day began with a prayer at “the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism.” It ended in the murder of the family’s father, stabbed to death in the Old City as he attempted to save wife and son from the same fate. A rabbi who rushed to... Read More

Russia and Islam

Working Together, a Basic "How-To"

The Saker • October 5, 2015

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[Originally published in 2013] Today I am going to look into the topic of Orthodox and Muslim cooperation, suggest one possible approach to this issue and give a practical example where this could be done immediately and with great benefit for all the parties involved. I consider this post today as the eighth installment of... Read More

Russia's "Civilizational Choice"

The Saker • September 25, 2015

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This week, Vladimir Putin and a large number of national and foreign dignitaries and guests have inaugurated the biggest mosque in Europe: the new Moscow Cathedral Mosque. This was a big event, much awaited by the many tens of thousands of Russian Muslims who live in the Russian capital and who, in the past, have... Read More

Islam's Conquest of Europe

Pat Buchanan • September 8, 2015

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"Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide," wrote James Burnham in his 1964 "Suicide of the West." Burnham predicted that the mindless magnanimity of liberals, who subordinate the interests of their own people and nations to utopian and altruistic impulses, would bring about an end to Western civilization. Was he wrong? Consider what is happening... Read More

"Farkhunda Is Our Sister"

A "Martyr," a Murder, and the Making of a New Afghanistan?

Ann Jones • May 12, 2015

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I went to Kabul, Afghanistan, in March to see old friends. By chance, I arrived the day after a woman had been beaten to death and burned by a mob of young men. The world would soon come to know her name: Farkhunda. The name means “auspicious” or “jubilant.” She was killed in the very... Read More

The Camel-Ate-My-Homework Theory of Culpability

Ilana Mercer • January 30, 2015

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The Fourth Estate has moved the country into the Third Dimension. The media lie so much, that when stuff happens that scares them, they no longer know where to turn for the truth. For now, mainstream media have stopped meditating on Charlie Hebdo, and moved on to the weather and other woes. But something changed... Read More

Fox’s Steve Emerson—Wrong On “No-Go Areas,” Right On the Trend?

John Derbyshire • January 21, 2015

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I’ve had Birmingham on my mind recently, as a conjunction of the political and the personal. No, this is not Birmingham, Alabama I’ve been pondering: not the Birmingham from whose jail Martin Luther King—I beg your pardon:The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—wrote a famous letter in 1963, and whose subsequent decline has been chronicled... Read More

A Triumph of Terrorism

Pat Buchanan • January 13, 2015

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Western media are declaring the million-man march in Paris, where world leaders paraded down Boulevard Voltaire in solidarity with France, a victory over terrorism. Isn't it pretty to think so. Unfortunately, the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, its military-style execution, the escape of the assassins, and their blazing end in a shootout Friday was a triumph... Read More

Hating the Haters

But the Xenophobes Have a Point

Philip Giraldi • January 13, 2015

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There are two things that I really dislike about Islam. How can anyone forbid drinking a nice bottle of wine and consider dogs to be unclean? But, on the other hand, in practice I know quite a few Muslims whom I consider friends who drink alcohol and who have owned and loved dogs, so as... Read More

Lessons from Paris

Ron Paul • January 11, 2015

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After the tragic shooting at a provocative magazine in Paris last week, I pointed out that given the foreign policy positions of France we must consider blowback as a factor. Those who do not understand blowback made the ridiculous claim that I was excusing the attack or even blaming the victims. Not at all, as... Read More

Paris Attacks: Don't Blame These Atrocities on Security Failures

The causes of last week's carnage are political, a blowback from wars in the Middle East

Patrick Cockburn • January 11, 2015

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Did the massacre at Charlie Hebdo succeed, in terms of furthering the interests of extreme jihadi al-Qaeda-type Islamic movements? The incident itself is over with the deaths of the murderers, but the degree of their success will only become clear when we see how far French political leaders are lured into an over-reaction. It was... Read More

Murder in Paris

Eric Margolis • January 10, 2015

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Have the long-feared lone wolf attacks, possibly threatened by al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, begun? The twin massacres in Paris suggest that the Mideast’s mayhem and mass killings are again spilling over into Europe. Paris remains in chaos. Its Peripherique ring highway is still closed, producing traffic madness across the capitol. Some 60,000 troops... Read More

The Paralysis of Europe

Pat Buchanan • January 9, 2015

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The massacre in Paris of the staff of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was an act of terrorism, but also a successful act of war in the clash of civilizations between Islamism and the West. Nor were we lacking for warning signs. In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, a license to kill author Salman... Read More

Charlie Hebdo and Tsarnaev’s Trial: Cui Bono?

Paul Craig Roberts • January 8, 2015

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There are two ways to look at the alleged terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. One is that in the English speaking world, or much of it, the satire would have been regarded as “hate speech,” and the satirists arrested. But in France Muslims are excluded from the privileged category, took offense... Read More

Charlie Hebdo Attack

Taking the heat out of the conflict with Assad may help to turn the jihadi tide

Patrick Cockburn • January 7, 2015

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There is a feeling of inevitability about the attack in Paris. The likelihood must be that the killers were Islamic fanatics, the murder of the journalists and police underlining the degree to which the ferocious religious war being waged in Iraq and Syria now affects all of the world. Regardless of whether or not those... Read More

Obama Organizes the Neighborhood

Focus on Fixing Iraq Obscures the Real Threat

Thomas O. Meehan • June 26, 2014

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The President's recent remarks make it obvious that he understands neither Iraq, nor the application of force or the nature of our position. His smorgasbord of half measures and postures is redolent of the sort of thing someone in a tight spot, under pressure to “Do Something” might say in order to appear in control.... Read More

Demented Tony Blair Recites the Saudis' Creed in His Latest Speech

The former prime minister's intervention on radical Islam was aimed at all the wrong targets

Patrick Cockburn • April 27, 2014

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Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the core group of al-Qa'ida, may well chortle in disbelief if he reads a translation of Tony Blair's latest speech on the Middle East delivered last week. If Blair's thoughts are used as a guide to action, then the main beneficiaries will be al-Qa'ida-type jihadist movements. Overall, his speech is... Read More

Islamophobia Is Still a Republican Value

Philip Giraldi • December 12, 2012

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It is perhaps a given that the Republicans will draw all the wrong conclusions from their recent electoral defeat. They will, for example, likely support some kind of amnesty program euphemized as “immigration reform” for illegal immigrants in the mistaken belief that it will somehow reverse their dismal showing among Hispanic voters. It will only... Read More

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

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