Listen to a reading ot this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ 60 Minutes Australia has been playing a leading role in saturating Australian airwaves with consent-manufacturing messaging in support of militarising to participate in a US war against China. A segment they ran a year ago is titled…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Many people turn to conservatism and religion because they perceive — correctly — that mainstream culture is a fraudulent sham bereft of meaning and authentic values. Their solutions are misguided, but their reasons arise from a perception…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The Biden administration has signed off on both F-16s for Ukraine and attacks on Crimea using US-made weapons. Both of these moves have drawn dire warnings from nuclear-armed Russia, and both would have been unthinkable a year…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The problem that underpins most other problems in modern times is that human minds are highly hackable, and that the science of hacking them at mass scale has been advancing since Bernays over a century ago. This…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The single most overlooked and under-appreciated aspect of our society is the way domestic propaganda is used to shape the way mainstream westerners perceive and think about their world. Typically the only time you’ll ever hear the…

Former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby was interviewed on The National Review’s Charles CW Cooke Podcast, where he provided some very high-level analysis on the tensions around China, Taiwan, and the United States. I will here attempt to explain some of Colby’s comments for the benefit of the average reader, because…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ American liberals just spent days raging at CNN for hosting a town hall with Donald Trump like it’s the worst thing CNN has ever done. CNN isn’t horrible because it “platformed” Trump, CNN is horrible because it’s…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ I write about some dark, dark things in this space, and it’s common to receive expressions of despair in response to the subjects I focus on. This is perfectly understandable. Not only is our world hurtling toward…

[A breakfast table in America. TOM and JANE are eating breakfast and drinking coffee. JANE is reading the news on her tablet while TOM works on a crossword puzzle.] JANE: [Sips coffee, sighs] Another mass shooting. TOM: [Not looking up] Mmm, yeah. Des Moines. JANE: No, another one. TOM: Not…