No kidding. In his address to the 42d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York he said that we just need a common enemy (outsider, if you will) to absolve our differences. Sounds dangerously like scapegoating to me. Then he said there are aliens already among us — those who … Continue reading Ronald Reagan Speech Suggests Aliens Among Us
In recent coverage of SpaceX’s string of failures, we’re seeing a pattern in space journalism that prioritizes harmful launch frequency over safety and environmental concerns. Much like tobacco companies always touted product launch figures while downplaying cancer risks, today’s space coverage celebrates catastrophic cadence while minimizing the increasingly awful consequences of an unsustainable approach to … Continue reading SpaceX is the Chain Smoking of Space, the Martian Man of Lung Cancer
Lesotho’s troubled political journey offers American scholars of coup risk a rich narrative of how democracies are captured through cycles of instability. The mountainous kingdom’s history reveals an interplay between militant ambition, constitutional weakness, and politics that almost guarantees a coup. Lesotho’s government says it is shocked by US President Donald Trump saying that “nobody … Continue reading Why Trump Slipped Out a “Lesotho” and What That Reveals About a DOGE Coup
The White House has launched an attack on judicial review that is very familiar to any historian of U.S. foreign intervention tactics (coups). It raises the question, if someone is following a historical playbook for instituting martial law, but hasn’t gotten far enough to openly declare it yet, should we wait until they explicitly say … Continue reading VP Vance Hints at Martial Law in Bid to Overthrow U.S. Courts and End Democracy