Spying on the bio labs: How the US and China are rivals and collaborators
The United States, China, and the Secret Politics of Biological Threats The contradiction From the moment scientists had finally figured out that diseases were transmitted...
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Forecasting Revolt: Project Camelot, its descendants, and the long U.S. search for early warning of uprisings
There’s a perennial temptation in statecraft: treat rebellion like weather—something you can instrument, model, and forecast early enough to “get ahead of it.” In the...
The hidden debate on how to use the US military domestically
POLITICO is reporting: According to nearly a dozen retired officers and active military lawyers, as well as academics who teach at West Point and Annapolis,...
Biological threats and combo attacks are much bigger than Covid
The various governments knew very well from the start of the pandemic that the threat was far greater than just SARS-Cov-2. Any country seriously affected...
Friends & Enemies (05/19/24) Middle East
Jeff Nyquist and Alex Benesch talk about Israel and the Middle East, focusing on the events of the Cold War. Image: Prashantrajsingh/Shutterstock.com...
Friends & Enemies (02/11/24) What makes a country legit
Wladimir Putin explained to Tucker Carlson what makes a country legitimate to him: 1000+ years of tyrannical rule. Not the will of the people. Not...
The intelligence battles of the US civil war
Legal proceedings may bar Donald Trump from running in several states. The radical supporters are throwing around the term civil war a lot. In the...
Nordstream was a communist pipeline project
Tucker Carlson, the expert of nothing, commented on the Nordstream pipeline which delivered Russian gas to Germany and was then blown up during the war...
Russia wanted to steal the population and industry of Ukraine
Russia always plays the victim. If Russia was a person it would be a textbook toxic malicious narcissist. Someone who breaks into your house, wants...
The secrets of Islam
While there has been no independent Muslim superpower since the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate in the early 20th century, there are around 1.7 billion...