Draining the swamp has a ways to go in the intelligence community. A “Sense of Community Memorandum” prepared by a group of academic analysts from the federal government’s dozen or so security services downplays connections between Venezuela’s Maduro regime and…
North Korea isn’t the only Russian ally providing troops for Putin’s war against Ukraine. Cuba is also sending soldiers in an apparent exchange for desperately needed oil to mitigate alarming shortages caused by diminishing supplies from Venezuela. Russian tankers have…
Donald Trump’s second presidency has come with a surprising, but much-needed twist: making the Western Hemisphere a top foreign policy priority, once again. For decades, U.S. leaders have shied away from asserting dominance in the hemisphere, forgetting the very foundation…
I taught mathematics at the Universidad Simon Bolivar (USB) near Caracas from 1973 to 1975 and returned to teach summer classes in 2005 and again in 2008. My wife and I honeymooned in Venezuela in 1977. That doesn’t make me…
Nicolás Maduro has moved Christmas to Oct. 1 by imperial decree. Now I am just waiting for him to publish his conversations with St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary. I imagine the Holy Family in Nazareth quietly preparing their suitcases…
I’m in the camp that believes that the presidential election is Donald Trump’s to win or lose. It’s a simple calculus: The undemocratically nominated Kamala Harris (how many Democrats voted for her and how many primary elections did she win?)…
Terrorist networks supported by Iran in Latin America could conduct third-country attacks against the U.S. and Israel as part of the wider war resulting from the assassination of a Hamas political leader in Teheran according to intelligence sources. The Iranian…
The Venezuelan electoral council announced that incumbent President Nicolas Maduro won against Edmundo Gonzalez, and Venezuelan citizens are calling it fraud. In today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss the election results and analyze…
Venezuela is the holy Job of modern history. Their mixture of struggle and resignation, of resistance, of enduring unnecessary poverty and dispensable humiliation, is an example for the world. The people have once again voted against the mustachioed walrus. There…
