On April 21, 2026, Japan’s Cabinet officially scrapped decades-old restrictions on the export of lethal defense equipment. This decision by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi marks the definitive end of the 1967-era "Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment,"...
Europe’s Moral Crisis: The Crumbling Shield Around Israel
The European Union is the “chief of all cowards,” Amnesty International declared in a searing statement issued on April 21. The condemnation was a direct response to the European bloc’s systemic failure to sever ties with Israel during the Foreign Affairs Council...
Trump’s Iran War Caused a Massive Oil Crisis
As yet another day of Trumpian madness unfolds, we are not sure who wins the Doofus of the Day award – the Donald, again, or his unhinged Secy of the Treasury. As it happens, the latter was apparently making a run for the money earlier this morning with this doozy: US...
Soon Comes The Mother of All Supply Shocks
It’s getting pretty hard to tell who is more delusional: The Donald or the noisy boy band of school-yard incompetents that surround him. Either way, it’s not surprising that Trump posted this missive earlier today. He apparently actually thinks that his cockamamie...
The Trump Surveillance State
The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and specifically describe the place to be searched and the...
No, Zelensky Is Not ‘The Leader of the Free World’
Just when sensible people might conclude that American or European members of Ukraine’s sycophantic fan club cannot become even more detached from reality, a prominent member of the club proves the opposite. This time, it is conservative pundit David French, who wins...
The Lesson of Gaddafi
I want to tell you a story that most Americans have never been told. Not because the information is hidden. Because no one has connected the dots in a way that makes the consequences visible. It is a story about trust. About prosperity. About what happens when a...
How Pax Silica Could Multiply Philippines’s Economic Risks
With the U.S.-led Pax Silica framework, the Philippines is becoming a dual-use platform where military strategy and supply-chain restructuring are converging. Over the past year, the Philippines has moved decisively into the front line of US–China friction, thanks to...
Israel’s New World Order: Nothing But the Threat of Endless Death
For the last two and a half years, the State of Israel has unilaterally — and with jaw-dropping illegality — reimagined warfare as a religiously-mandated existential struggle against alleged “forces of darkness” in which there are no rules, and no sense of...
Congress Must End FISA Section 702
On April 17th, Congress voted to pass a brief 10-day extension of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This sets the new expiration date for April 30th, 2026. Section 702 was added to FISA in 2008 with a provision that requires Congress to...


