The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line. -Jorge Luis Borges
Thursday, January 1, 2026
By Yaroslav Lissovolik
Almost a century ago Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca observed: "I know there is no straight road, no straight road in this world, only a giant labyrinth of intersecting crossroads". Today the world seems even more of a labyrinth than before - too often deceptive and replete with traps and dead-ends.
La trêve des confiseurs n'aura pas duré bien longtemps dans le secteur de la santé. Effectivement, l'ANSM a rallumé une vieille guerre qui ne risque pas de cesser puisque les preuves scientifiques ne seront jamais réunies pour départager les belligérants. Transis du vaccin antigrippal contre partisans de l'homéopathie de bon niveau, après la caresse que dispensait le Dr Eric Ménat la semaine dernière (*), le voici à présent qui vous montre toute son aisance dans le maniement du martinet : l'ANSM, de par sa position, ne devrait jamais se livrer ni à la désinformation, ni au populisme.
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
January 12, 2026
Last week, Donald Trump kidnapped Nicolás Maduro and his wife from Venezuela and them flown to New York, where they were indicted in a federal court on charges of "narco-terrorism." Trump has now seized Venezuela's oil fields and brought them under "indefinite" American control. He has threatened action against Cuba and proposes to annex Greenland.
By Karen Kwiatkowski
January 12, 2026
Like the lifelong love affair of youtube , government and fraud go together like peas and carrots.
Somali refugees - refuging to the US because we've been bombing Somalia for decades, where we "kind of" took the "side" of the national government in its civil war against our ISIS and Al Qaeda friends - are now in big trouble for defrauding taxpayers.
By Andrew Wallace
January 12, 2026
Our founders knew that if they allowed the Federal Government to spend money on the states that the Federal Government would control the states. Contrary to original Constitution, the Federal Government got the money to control the states in the Coup of 1913, engineered by the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC) which resulted in the Income Tax and the Federal Reserve Bank.
By James Bovard
The Future of Freedom Foundation
January 12, 2026
Was the 2016 election a turning point for American democracy ? Did political shenanigans and the election destroy so much credibility and legitimacy that the system will never fully recover?
In 2016, ignorant voters were reviled like never before. However, the entire political-media system floundered badly. Never before had American voters been obliged to choose between two such widely despised candidates.
By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21
January 12, 2026
I was wrong. I believed that controlling Venezuelan oil was the primary objective behind Donald Trump's decision to order the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. After reviewing the actual numbers it is clear that the belief that Venezuelan oil would provide a buffer if the Persian Gulf is closed as a consequence of an Israeli/US attack on Iran is sheer nonsense.
By Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
January 12, 2026
It is interesting to observe how United States foreign policy, such as it is, often appears to have an Israeli back story that explains at least in part how Donald Trump's mindless aggression against much of the world is driven by Zionist imperatives rather than actual American interests. Ukraine is supported by Israel and the US Israel Lobby in part because the roots of many diaspora and Israeli Jews are "Kazarian," i.e.
Moon of Alabama
January 12, 2026
Every two years or so the CIA and Mossad are instigating regime change riots in Iran. These attempts inevitably fail.
Currently a few thousand young men are during nighttime burning cars, mosques, shops and police offices in various cities of Iran. Armed agents are firing at and killing policemen. All these cells are coordinated via Internet connections.
It usually takes a week or two until Iranian government forces find the connections, trace down the ring leaders and shut them down.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
January 12, 2026
There are many examples that prove I am correct. For example, in the Western World education does not pass on to younger generations an understanding and appreciation of their inheritance. Western education tears down Western achievements and demonizes them as racist, exploitative, and antisemitic. Western civilization has created liberal-left ideological cadres that hate their own society and are alienated from their own country.
By John Leake
Courageous Discourse
January 12, 2026
A few nights ago, I had dinner with a local Dallas restaurateur named Javier Gutierrez, the owner of Javier's, which has been a legendary local institution since I was a boy. Javier has long struck me as embodying the virtues described in Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, published in 1528.
Polite but not too formal; always elegantly dressed in a jacket and tie but never flashy; calm, soft spoken and restrained but always open and friendly, he has a natural authority that instantly commands the respect of employees and customers alike.
By Madge Waggy
MadgeWaggy.blogspot.com
January 12, 2026
We left off in 1921, having seen how the Rothschild dynasty created institutions that, like pincers, control all global social strata. These include media outlets, magazines, news channels, radio stations, and film production companies, all owned by the Illuminati through their families and power groups. John D. Rockefeller was assigned the task of controlling multimedia.
By Tucker Carlson
January 12, 2026
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By Taki Theodoracopulos
Taki's Magazine
January 12, 2026
One of the cofounders of The American Conservative, the great Pat Buchanan, once asked what is probably the most important question about the future of this country of ours: "Can a civilization survive both low fertility and mass immigration from alien cultures?" The answer of course is obvious, and one only has to look across the ocean to Britain, where white Brits are predicted to become a minority in London and Manchester within 25 years.
Viktor Mikhin,
L'issue de cette confrontation déterminera non seulement l'avenir de la République Islamique, mais aussi un nouveau rapport de forces dans tout le Moyen-Orient.
Depuis fin décembre dernier l'Iran traverse l'une des vagues de tensions socio-politiques les plus graves de ces dernières années. Les manifestations, initialement provoquées par l'effondrement de la monnaie nationale (le rial) et l'hyperinflation, se sont rapidement transformées de rassemblements économiques en une révolte politique aux slogans anti-gouvernementaux.
publié le 12/01/2026 Par Marine Rabreau
Fin 2014, Alstom plaide coupable aux États-Unis pour un vaste système de corruption internationale, acceptant de payer 772 millions de dollars d'amende. Dans le même temps, sa branche Énergie - 70 % du chiffre d'affaires et près de 65 000 emplois, dont 9 000 en France - est cédée à l'américain General Electric, symbole d'un pillage industriel sans précédent.
Par Romana Rubeo, Ramzy Baroud
Le terme « hypocrisie » est le plus courant, mais certainement pas le plus approprié pour décrire la participation d'Israël au Concours Eurovision de la chanson 2026.
Il faut trouver d'autres mots pour expliquer pourquoi un pays qui vient de commettre l'un des génocides les plus horribles de l'histoire moderne est célébré comme un centre culturel, artistique et musical.