Proto-Protestantism

Recently Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly al-Julani) met with David Petraeus at the UN General Assembly. It was a unique moment that quite a few ne...

The Myth of American Idealism (published in October 2024) will undoubtedly be Noam Chomsky's final work - and it was accomplished with ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y772jlpgzo In early July 2025, the Dalai Lama finally announced that he would have a successor, that the...

https://www.politico.eu/article/abdullah-ocalan-pkk-recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkey-kurdistan/ https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Turkey-celebrate...

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/reagan-evil-empire/ During the Cold War there were three years that stand out - periods in which...

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-01-30/gaza-middle-east-lies/ This is a helpful summary and reminder of the scope and magnitude of d...

The fall of the Assad regime is by all accounts a monumental development in the history of the modern Middle East, and it came rapidly and u...

The world is in turmoil and at such a degree and tempo that it's almost impossible to keep up with events. I could post multiple article...

As reported in a previous piece the Bohemian Brethren who would later become the Moravians were involved in the 1618 Protestant plot to inst...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/08/how-madeleine-albright-got-the-war-the-u-s-wanted/ Elich speaks of the US wanting war in 1999 and s...

Atlanticism represents a historical anomaly – Europe under subjugation from an outside power. For many decades this was limited to Western E...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ofKxfYqGw In recent weeks, as the media focused on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Israel's foundin...

The hypocritical and frankly spurious ICC indictment of Putin for war crimes was timed perfectly to coincide with Xi's recent trip to Mo...

These are mostly points that have been touched on over the past year and even well before the war erupted in February 2022. However, some of...

Did Biden err in making this now infamous speech – in calling out MAGA Republicans and the Trumpite movement, and in identifying them as a t...

It goes without saying that the death of Elizabeth II is a cultural milestone. It's unsettling for many as one of the foundational pilla...

For years commentators have spoken of the decline of America and what it would look like. Others (including myself) have argued that the Ame...

In light of current events Moldova and Georgia have applied for EU membership. For its part, Moldova has been engaged in a tug-of-war betwee...

From the Olympics to computing, from news to politics, the Russians are everywhere in the news or more accurately the Anti-Russian propagand...

If Russia invades Ukraine, then Putin will fall for the trap NATO has set for him. As anyone who partakes of any news is sure to know, the W...