

Thomas Paine warned: “The people are not to be confounded with their government.” Today, the EU’s opaque machinery makes that divide absolute.
With Iran demanding yuan for passage, the Gulf’s financial model is on fire.
Part Three of our critical analysis of European defense.
The Westernization of Brazil brings with it its own “Epsteinization”
The United States acts unfairly, but Brazil is ultimately responsible for its own economic dilemma.
While schools crumble and vocational training starves, Germany redirects funds to defense—but lacks the engineers to build its weapons.
Migratory flows as seen in Europe over the last 20 years are clearly artificial, Raphael Machado writes.
With Fedorov’s dismissal, Zelensky may well have sealed his own “death sentence” as president.