Five Takeaways From Israel’s Assassination Of Hamas’ Political Leader In Tehran

Voice of East: Five Takeaways From Israel’s Assassination Of Hamas’ Political Leader In Tehran By Andrew Korybko Haniyeh’s assassination is a watershed event in the latest Israeli-Hamas War, which is now a regional Israeli-Iranian proxy war, since it greatly spikes the risk of everything... Read More › - Voice of East


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SCOTUS Reform: Why Not Go All The Way?

Thomas Knapp: In a July 29 Washington Post op-ed,  president Joe Biden lays out a three-part proposal for reforming the Supreme Court.  With Biden in full-blown “lame duck” status  (he’s no longer seeking re-election), it’s better read as a “think piece” than as a real policy proposal with any chance of adoption. But it’s still food for thought, … Continue reading SCOTUS Reform: Why Not Go All The Way? → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Did Westerners, Ukrainians, And Islamists Help Tuareg Rebels Ambush Wagner In Mali?

Voice of East: Did Westerners, Ukrainians, And Islamists Help Tuareg Rebels Ambush Wagner In Mali? By Andrew Korybko The Tuareg Conflict is on pace to become another proxy war between Russia and the West. Speculation is swirling in the days after Tuareg rebels ambushed... Read More › - Voice of East


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Universal Basic Income News: Good Or Bad Depending On What The Goal Is

Thomas Knapp: “Bad News for Universal Basic Income.” The “bad news,” per  Reasons Eric Boehm. is that a non-profit’s three-year, 1,000-person, $1,000-per-month trial of the idea “resulted in decreased productivity and earnings, and more leisure time.” Is that really bad news? Well, it depends on who you are and what you want. UBI advocates  like Andrew Yang  … Continue reading Universal Basic Income News: Good Or Bad Depending On What The Goal Is → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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The EU’s Alleged Abuse Of Belarusian-Emanating Refugees Exposes The West’s Double Standards

Voice of East: The EU’s Alleged Abuse Of Belarusian-Emanating Refugees Exposes The West’s Double Standards By Andrew Korybko If the same standard was employed towards the use of force by the EU’s own border guards against refugees as against the use of force by... Read More › - Voice of East


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I’d Rather See A Flag On Fire Than Wrapped Around a Politician

Thomas Knapp: “You should get a one-year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag,” former (and possibly future) president Donald Trump told the hosts of Fox & Friends on July 25. In a rare moment of at least partial agreement with Trump, likely Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris says “I condemn the burning … Continue reading I’d Rather See A Flag On Fire Than Wrapped Around a Politician → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Five Takeaways From Hungary And Slovakia’s Russian Oil Dispute With Ukraine

Voice of East: Five Takeaways From Hungary And Slovakia’s Russian Oil Dispute With Ukraine By Andrew Korybko This incident shows the lengths to which Ukraine and the EU are going to keep those two in line after they united to form an anti-war bloc... Read More › - Voice of East


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The Taliban’s Recognition Of Jammu And Kashmir As Separate From Pakistan Will Irritate Islamabad

Voice of East: The Taliban’s Recognition Of Jammu And Kashmir As Separate From Pakistan Will Irritate Islamabad By Andrew Korybko The Taliban’s decision to describe the Wakhan Corridor’s south-eastern border as Jammu & Kashmir instead of Gilgit-Baltistan is a clever psychological provocation against Pakistan,... Read More › - Voice of East


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How Biden’s Last Few Months Could Be His Most Effective

Thomas Knapp: Following Joe Biden’s July 21 withdrawal from a seemingly doomed re-election campaign, Democrats instantly re-focused on picking/backing a new candidate (at the moment, vice-president Kamala Harris seems well on her way to nailing the nomination down), while Republicans took up the cry “if he’s unable to run, he’s unable to serve, and should resign or … Continue reading How Biden’s Last Few Months Could Be His Most Effective → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Windows/CrowdStrike Outage: The Most Important Lesson

Thomas Knapp: On July 19, users of about 8.5 million Windows users worldwide faced the dreaded “Blue Screen of Death.” As I write this column, many remain down. Microsoft has issued a manual fix for machines that aren’t able to automatically recover, but it’s a black eye for Microsoft and for Crowdstrike, the cybersecurity firm whose fault … Continue reading Windows/CrowdStrike Outage: The Most Important Lesson → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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The Fired This Time: Cancel Culture, Chaya Raichik Edition

Thomas Knapp: In the wake of a July 13 assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, Chaya Raichik — better known as “LibsOfTikTok” on X, aka Twitter — got to work. Her job description, as she saw it, broke down int three parts: First, identify people commenting on the attack in ways she deemed inappropriate. Second, identify … Continue reading The Fired This Time: Cancel Culture, Chaya Raichik Edition → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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In Defence Of JD Vance As Trump’s VP

Voice of East: In Defence Of JD Vance As Trump’s VP By Andrew Korybko Despite recognizing how easily the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine could spiral out of control into World War III, and thus appreciating the need to bring about a diplomatic end... Read More › - Voice of East


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Here We Go Again With The “Political Violence” Theatrics

Thomas Knapp: “There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy,” former US president Barack Obama tweeted on July 13, in response to the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. Former president Bill Clinton agreed: “Violence has no place in America, especially in our political process.” As did current president Joe Biden Official statement: … Continue reading Here We Go Again With The “Political Violence” Theatrics → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Texas: Staring Down the Beryl of the Government Utility Monopoly’s Gun

Thomas Knapp: As I write this, on the afternoon of June 13, nearly 650,000 homes and businesses in Texas remain without utility-provided electricity due to the effects of Hurricane Beryl. Naturally, Texas politicians know where to put the blame. No, not on a massive storm which, at times, hit Category 5 — the top of the Saffir-Simpson … Continue reading Texas: Staring Down the Beryl of the Government Utility Monopoly’s Gun → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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There is No “Israel Lobby”

Kim Petersen: Notable writer William Blum hinted acknowledgement of the power of an “Israeli lobby” in a 2004 article. [1] In his most recent Anti-Empire Report, Blum discusses again the entity that doesn’t exist: the “Israel Lobby” or the permutations of that wording, “Israeli Lobby” and “pro-Israel Lobby.” [2] The paper entitled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. […]
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Interpreting The Polish Military Chief’s Decision To Prepare For “Full-Scale Conflict”

Voice of East: Interpreting The Polish Military Chief’s Decision To Prepare For “Full-Scale Conflict” By Andrew Korybko This strongly hints that Poland isn’t ruling out a conventional intervention in Ukraine under certain circumstances and expects that it would rapidly escalate into another Polish-Russian War... Read More › - Voice of East


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The State and Homework vs. Kids

Thomas Knapp: “There is one and only one reason to ever require students to spend time at home mastering what is introduced in class,” libertarian columnist Paul Jacob writes at Common Sense, in criticism of a California bill which might result in reduced homework loads for public school students. “Only to prepare them for earning a living … Continue reading The State and Homework vs. Kids → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Why Care about Palestinians?

Kim Petersen: A man who goes by the online moniker of @Travelingisraelinfo headlines his short video very curiously: Why do you care about Palestinians? Even before listening to the video, the answer is so obvious. The Palestinians are humans aren’t they? Shouldn’t humans care for each other? Palestinians are being genocided. Genocide is a monstrous war crime. […]
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The Japanese-Philippine Military Logistics Pact Raises The Risk Of War With China

Voice of East: The Japanese-Philippine Military Logistics Pact Raises The Risk Of War With China By Andrew Korybko The US is forming two Asian trilaterals with itself and Japan that are centred on the Philippines in Southeast Asia and South Korea in Northeast Asia.... Read More › - Voice of East


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NATO Membership for Ukraine is a Bargaining Chip, Not an “Irreversible” Reality

Thomas Knapp: “Two red lines remain,” the Associated Press reported on July 5, regarding the topic of Ukraine at this week’s North Atlantic Treaty organization summit: “No NATO membership until the war is over, and no NATO boots on the ground there.” But, Politico reports as the summit opens, citing two anonymous sources, one a Ukrainian official, “NATO … Continue reading NATO Membership for Ukraine is a Bargaining Chip, Not an “Irreversible” Reality → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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What is the “Horrible and Evil Thing” in Historical Palestine?

Kim Petersen: Last month, the Jimmy Dore Show invited investigative reporter Ben Swann to speak to the myriad facts and evidence uncovered that point to the Israeli government and Israeli intelligence having known well in advance of the planned 7 October Hamas attack and welcoming it. It should be an explosive news piece if not for the […]
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Interpreting A Top EU Think Tank’s Latest Survey On Polish Attitudes Towards Ukraine

Voice of East: Interpreting A Top EU Think Tank’s Latest Survey On Polish Attitudes Towards Ukraine By Andrew Korybko While a sizeable minority of the population conforms with the stereotype of Poles being gung-ho about NATO’s proxy war on Russia in Ukraine, a roughly... Read More › - Voice of East


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Who “Runs The Country?” We Do!

Thomas Knapp: “Who runs the country?” I’ve been hearing variants of that question a lot over the last  few weeks, mainly in forms like “given Joe Biden’s age and apparent mental decline, can we trust him to run the country for another four years?” For the last eight or nine years, I’ve also heard it a lot, … Continue reading Who “Runs The Country?” We Do! → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Germany Is Preparing To Assume Partial Responsibility For Poland’s Eastern Border Security

Voice of East: Germany Is Preparing To Assume Partial Responsibility For Poland’s Eastern Border Security By Andrew Korybko This represents the unprecedented expansion of Germany military influence in the post-World War II era, which is being advanced on a false anti-Russian pretext with full... Read More › - Voice of East


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Realism and Ipse Dixit

Kim Petersen: In a 3 July interview, judge Andrew Napolitano asked the University of Chicago political scientist, John Mearsheimer: “Why would the United States be putting missiles in the Philippines but to be provocative toward China?” Mearsheimer: “I don’t think that the United States is trying to be provocative. I think what the United States is interested […]
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Israel Should Think Twice Before Sending Some Of Its Patriots To Ukraine Via The US

Voice of East: Israel Should Think Twice Before Sending Some Of Its Patriots To Ukraine Via The US By Andrew Korybko Netanyahu and those around him might not realize what a game-changer that could be in terms of drastically changing Russia’s regional policy considering... Read More › - Voice of East


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When History Doesn’t End

Thomas Knapp: “Trump Is Pat Buchanan With Better Timing” feels like a current headline eight years after it ran in Politico.  Is America trapped in a rerun of the Republican Revolution of ’94, with the platforms of “presidential candidates Buchanan, David Duke and Ross Perot — the most visible figures of the political fringe” perpetually mainstreamed? The … Continue reading When History Doesn’t End → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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