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India's geopolitical shift involves a complicated dance in order to maintain a network of relationships. On the one hand India has moved...

The series of proxy battles and posturing continues. One thing is clear the lines are becoming more distinct and increasingly turning to bat...

There are so many aspects of the US election that have been covered and yet American mainstream media has largely failed to report on the in...

http://www.rosemond.com/September-2016.html I don't really know much about the author but his columns often appear in the local newsp...

The numbers aren't fully in yet but it would appear that Francois Fillon has won the first round of the French Centre-Right primary and ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-property-cmbs-idUSKCN12L0XB The destructive and wasteful nature of Finance Capitalism is on display...

Rwanda's Paul Kagame has been in the news recently as questions have re-emerged regarding his possible role in the shoot-down of Preside...

https://euobserver.com/foreign/135877 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-defence-idUSKBN1322GH As mentioned in previous articles...

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/thousands.of.muslim.refugees.in.switzerland.germany.converting.to.christianity.amid.disillusionment/94...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-russia-idUSKCN12P31W The tension increases as both sides continue a process of escalation. This...

Once again German militarism comes with a cost to domestic society, privacy and free speech. Don't think for a moment this won't aff...

Homeschooled young men joining the military... It seems like it's been happening a lot lately and it grieves me to no end. I have ...

Maybe there's a silver lining to this whole Trump episode. The Libertarian-Tea Party wing and now the Trumpites have smashed the GOP bot...

Recently I was poking around on Facebook and encountered someone I knew from a couple of years ago. I've thought about this guy quite of...

I've mentioned this before but I wanted to put it into a brief post. In the 1990s so many lamented the lack of dignity and gravitas t...

http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/christians-this-is-our-night This article is making the rounds. It's the same argument Evange...

For all the coverage the Clinton email leaks are receiving 'the' story is not getting that much attention. The real revelation...

http://evangelicalfocus.com/blogs/1705/Why_are_churches_burning_in_Chile This article is interesting for many reasons but I post it here ...

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/name-of-seventh-cambridge-spy-cannot-be-revealed-says-judge/story-29733173-detail/story.html For anyone w...

This article provides an excellent summation (with numerous examples) of how the Mainstream media protects the Establishment. The Right-Left...

There are a growing number of reports regarding Russian state harassment of Evangelical groups. They're being bullied about property, re...

John McCain was recently in the news again calling for US intervention in Syria. Never one to shy away from warmongering and ever the champi...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vatican-china-deal-idUSKCN12L031 I have no stake or real interest in Catholic ecclesiology or geopol...

http://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-meeting-evangelical-leaders-end-of-the-christian-right-165473/ I'm not an admirer of Micha...

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/11/unschool-children-monitor-home-schooling-education As negative as this piece might seem...

The media is suddenly making a big deal about Trump's refusal to commit to the election results. This is a surprise? He's indicated ...

Ecuador has cut Julian Assange's internet access. What's going on here? Is Ecuador under serious pressure from the United States? W...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/10/15/it-will-be-a-bloodbath-inside-the-kansas-militia-plot-to-ignite-a-religious-wa...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/26/swiss-public-back-law-expanding-surveillance-powers/ http://lenews.ch/2016/09/25/25-september-2016-swis...

The Intercept has been doing a tremendous job reporting on the Clinton email leaks. I've provided numerous links here. Right now they...

There were reports that numerous websites associated Montenegrin politics were hacked today and the suggestion was that Russia was probably ...

There is an ongoing debate in ruling class circles over the question of conscription. In recent years the Neo-Conservative wing led by figu...

Led by the State Department, elements within the US Establishment are clamouring for greater involvement within the Syria War. Putin and As...

A great quote from Charles Spurgeon. Isn't it interesting how when Bible-based Christians are not wielding political power, as indeed No...

Overshadowed by other media events regarding Donald Trump and the presidential debate (sic), reports emerged that Russia has moved missiles...

It has been well known for some time that Wikileaks' Julian Assange was planning an 'October Surprise' for Hillary Clinton and ...

The anti-globalist and Nativist forces in the United States continue to fail in their understanding of how US power works. Just recently I p...

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2016/0819/South-Sudan-government-recruited-child-soldiers-UN-says At one time Salva Kiir was a hero...

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/08/30/491898040/the-curious-deaths-of-kremlin-critics This piece ran about a month ago on NPR ...

In a previous piece, we mentioned the German-French project to form a new military command which has frustrated and angered Washington. NAT...

Shimon Peres will be praised as a man of peace, the Israeli dove who sought reconciliation. He was anything but. There are numerous wo...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/25/the-broken-chessboard-brzezinski-gives-up-on-empire/ This is a very interesting article and some w...

It was all but inevitable that Jeremy Corbyn would win re-election as his party's leadership. At least that was the case as the votes we...

Recent political events drove me to revisit an old but stimulating book. Historical repetition is rarely exact, but the parallels are someti...

France and Germany are trying to make a move in order to cement some autonomy and consolidate power. This is precisely what the US feared wo...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160823/05582635308/germany-interior-minister-pushing-deployment-facial-recognition-software-public-areas...

Rodrigo Duterte now joins Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the list of Western Media pariahs. These figures are being set up for removal. If they wo...

http://pulpitandpen.org/2015/07/06/rick-warren-teaching-contemplative-prayer-at-hillsong-2015/ As Rick Warren came onto the scene in the ...

http://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/08/18/dominionism-rising-a-theocratic-movement-hiding-in-plain-sight/#sthash.C8TklSVA.dpbs This is ...

Millions of people were recently on strike in India, but our media has chosen to ignore it. While other leaders are castigated over human ri...

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2016/0826/France-s-arms-industry-on-defense-after-sub-data-leak-UN-criticism Who benefits from thes...

Fifteen years ago today (Sunday, 9 Sep 2001) I was poking around an old fixer-upper house (actually an old one-room schoolhouse) that I had...

The Right will attack Obama over his aid package to Laos, but you can be certain they will misinterpret his actions and their context. Fi...

https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/us-moves-nuclear-weapons-from-turkey-to-romania/ The US record with regard to nuclear...

Once again the Kurds have been betrayed by the United States. The so-called Syrian Rebels are largely comprised of Sunni Arab Islamists, al...

The death of Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov is significant. According to Brzezinski's 'Chessboard' model, Uzbekistan is 'th...

From the Bush Administration Archive: As President, my first executive order was to establish the Office of Faith-Based and Community Ini...

http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/4989/good_grief_if_even_protestants_think_the_time_has_come.aspx The Sacralist model of the Church...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCeVCFe1Uro To borrow from false prophet Hal Lindsey, we might say 'Satan is alive and well on the pl...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-27/iraq-seeks-exxon-petrochina-help-to-develop-two-oil-fields Nouri al-Maliki's tenure...