Source: https://iaindavis.substack.com/p/functional-oligarchy Democracy? No, we live under an oligarchy, and have done for thousands of years too Rich lists are utterly meaningless, because they exclude the oligarchs ============================ Oligarchy is a very old system of governance and one we have never really escaped. More than 2000 years ago, Aristotle stated that oligarchy (oligarchia) becomes the governance system “when men of …

Jeff Taylor sums it up. It’s time for English Independence. https://tapnewswire.com/2026/06/28/burnham-wants-england-gone/

Tilbrook particularly warns of the rise of Andy Burnham and his undeclared agenda to destroy England. Robin’s solution is to educate the public as to the powers and protections of English Common Law and the English Constitution, and to restore the identity and power of England as a powerful nation state in its own right. …

Multiple fake narratives about Ukraine are created by western media, and US and European diplomacy is also nonsense. The main fake narrative is that Ukraine is winning. Iran shows the same thing – that it is simply impossible to reach a settlement with the USA and the Europeans. Despite earlier attempts by the USA …

  Source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-new-clash-over-strait-passage-lebanons-capitulation-ignites-new-civil-war.html War On Iran: – New Clash Over Strait Passage – Lebanon’s Capitulation Ignites New Civil War the last days there were two developments in Lebanon and Iran that will likely cause the war to reignite into a much larger conflagration. Iran insists on having control over the Strait of Hormuz. But at least half …

  Source: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjune26/dynamics-make-sense6-26.html These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other team bad. The roots of this simplistic …

  Source: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2026/06/21/the-hypostasis-of-the-archons/ Several readers have asked that I publish my complete rendition of The Hypostasis of The Archons, having been intrigued by excerpts from that work which I have cited in various articles at The Ethical Skeptic. Accordingly, that material is provided in this article. The document commonly called The Hypostasis of The Archons (The Underlying Reality of …

  Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Since diplomacy, in the western understanding of the term, has degenerated into an exchange of insults and the laborious process of negotiating agreements which nobody ever intends to keep, all that remains is war. Or, perhaps, the plural form — wars — is more appropriate, since there are several ones going on …

Patrick Henningsen short sums up a simple fact. Capital is heading East despite US efforts to block world trade. Is it any wonder?

Itapirkanmaa2 Rules-based piracy. This will call for more red lines surely from Putin. “The Telegraph: London wants to sell Russian oil from the Smyrtos tanker and transfer the money to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine It’s about 98 thousand tons of Russian Urals oil worth about $46.2 million, according to the author of the article. The Smyrtos …

Does Putin want to win the war? He doesn’t use his air force to overpower Ukraine, and blast through Ukrainian defences. Why not? Putin humiliated as troops threaten to ‘turn their weapons’ on him State of emergency declared over power supply crisis in Crimea Russians declare state of emergency in Crimea Russia’s fourth-largest refinery …

Source: https://sonar21.com/13-18-days-the-practical-diesel-buffer-does-it-preclude-bombing-iran/ I am indebted to my new friend who is an energy expert ,and currently working in the Persian Gulf, for explaining why the US is facing a very serious risk of a domestic energy crisis. If ignorance is bliss then I’ve spent my last 71 years happily believing that the conversion of oil to …

  Source: https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/how-to-push-back-against-the-advancing The big-picture lesson from the Covid era should have been obvious. It should have screamed loud and clear to every freedom-loving American: The power elites who run things at the local, state and federal levels want to tag and track our movement, but not just our movement. They want to track our diet, our …

Source: https://johnhelmer.net/after-the-us-president-ordered-the-british-prime-minister-out-of-office-whats-left-of-the-anglo-american-special-relationship/ When President Donald Trump (lead image, 3rd left) announced the resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (right) to make sure he would announce it himself without delay, he threw overboard the special relationship. He also declared that British foreign and domestic policy is to become – already has become — a colonial one. In the …