America’s new policy of Realpolitik means rapprochement with Russia and refocusing on China. The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have precipitated a veritable deluge of both criticism and critique — the former often portraying him as a…
By now, everyone has seen the video and heard the commentary chewing over the debacle in the Oval Office, in which a sweatshirt-clad Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, fresh out of a meeting with a host of mostly-Democrat Senators whose counsel…
After the White House shouting contest on Friday, U.S. support for Ukraine may be at an end. No one can be happy about that except Vladimir Putin. A little background before we get to the shouting. Before he became vice…
If you want to understand why last Friday’s Oval Office press conference between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went off the rails, ignore most of what you are seeing in the corporate media. Anyone watching a video of…
I’ve seen neighborhood meetings to decide who is the pig that throws cigarette butts into the common yard calmer than the meeting between Zelensky, Trump, and Vance. The video will go down in history. And I have mixed feelings about…
Germany’s election is underway, and the country’s differing political parties and leaders continue their fight to gain the Chancellor position. (READ MORE: How Does an Entire Continent Fail?) In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay explain the issues involved in…
While American and Russian diplomats prepare peace talks, the war grinds on in Ukraine. At last week’s security conference in Munich, U.S. defense secretary Peter Hegseth said that negotiations have to be based on “the realities on the ground.” These…
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine By Scott Horton (The Libertarian Institute, 690 pages, $23) NATO’s top military officials recently met with President Volodymyr Zelensky, touring a long-range weapons plant and…
The 61st Munich Security Conference will take place Feb. 14-16 at Munich’s renowned Hotel Bayerischer Hof, located on the edge of Munich’s old town on the Promenade Platz. Much is expected of this year’s conference since it’s been widely assumed…
