Soviet Union

In one sense, this headline is really wrong. What you are about to see is a human being, beloved by God, in a terribly humiliating state of hysteria that is being billboarded all over the world. Anybody who has ever visited such an emotional state knows it is not good at all. We portray it…

Gary Franchi of The Next News Network summarized this situation in this way: “The world witnesses a weakened United States, with a leader that can barely hold his own thoughts at the podium.” This might look like the leaders of Russia and China see the US as weak, and that it is time for each of…

Our earlier piece, Easter services in the West canceled by Statist goons featured a scene from Fox News’ video of a pastor in Calgary, Alberta, Canada who made a stand against the police of that city who (illegally) attempted to shut down Easter Services at his church last Sunday. Pastor Artur Pawlowski, a native of Communist…

Today is the day. What many people believe is the most pivotal election in American history is now underway. America seems to be divided into two camps: Those that love Trump and his efforts, and those that hate him. Notice that I did not include “and hate his efforts.” That is because most of the…

October 14, 2020 9:53 PM ET Rod Dreher, a senior editor for the American Conservative, spoke with the Daily Caller’s Samantha Renck about the soft totalitarianism he believes is coming to the United States, his new book and more. During Tuesday’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Hawaii Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono…

A fact little known in the West, and one that was largely unknown during the Soviet period, was that not all was peace, love and grooviness in that gigantic Communist empire. Two republics, Azerbaijan and Armenia, share a long and bloody history that in recent weeks has flared up again enough to make news reports…

Jordan Peterson is an extremely astute political scientist. Here he discusses what the attraction of Marxism in the present day is: it is not what you might expect. In the past, Marxism had primarily economic appeal to those choosing it. A mixture of various tyrannical states, some capitalist, some allegedly power hungry in the same…

It is no coincidence that what finally broke the Soviet Union was a Catholic trade union — a group of shipyard workers, led by an electrician and motivated by a faith that their oppressors deemed an opiate. Christianity and its sweeping social vision enlivened the workers in Gdansk and their entire nation and, a decade…

In 2008, shortly after Barack Obama was elected to be the 44th President of the United States, The Wall Street Journal ran a piece about a Russian academic named Igor Panarin, who predicted that the United States would breakup in 2010. Most of us viewed this as a piece of “Russian sensationalism.” The general reaction was to…

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture Modern jihadism was co-invented in 1979 by Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan al Saud, and U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, working together, and here is the background for it, and the way — and the reasons — that it was done: Back in the later Middle Ages,…