The fight against free speech
The internet was not a good idea for those who want to be able to control the news and public discourse. When we had a few newspapers, radio →
Politics
On provoking a revolution
Revolutions usually lead to misery, even if they are sometimes celebrated afterwards. The most famous of them all is the French Revolution (1789), which ended in a veritable →
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump
A shooter on a rooftop near Trump’s podium, several people saw the perpetrator and reported the incident to police on the scene, but no one reacted until five →
The left wanders through Europe like a zombie
Some thinkers see both world wars as a protracted struggle against socialism. And the various fascist groupings can be interpreted as an extreme backlash. The struggle continued even →
Peace talks in the east?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made a whirlwind visit to Ukraine on the day he took over the EU presidency. He brought a peace plan with him, and →
Dementia, last-minute candidates and the success of the far right
After Joe Biden made a fool of himself on prime time TV during the first presidential debate, it is now permissible to talk about his dementia and whether →
If Ukraine joins the EU, we are all at war with Russia
The latest news from the Ukrainian war is Kiev’s missile attack on Crimea, where over 100 bathers on a beach were injured by cluster bombs, of which about →
Even more surveillance and control
The controversial European Chat Control 2 law was passed quickly and quietly, without anyone noticing – just a handful of internet activists and dissidents. The law allows machine →
Russian naval bases near the US
The Russians are planning naval bases in Cuba and other Latin American countries, just a few miles from the US coast, and are currently conducting joint military exercises →
