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Your Guide to the Grand Chessboard’s Pawns

The observation that the great geopolitical struggle between nations is akin to a grand game of chess is hardly a novel one. After all, Khosrau II, the ancient Sasanian king, saw the connection over 1,400 years ago: "If a ruler does not understand chess, how can he...

The Internet Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.

Have you heard the latest? Canadians are losing their access to online news thanks to a new bill that would make tech companies liable for so much as linking to news stories. French President Macron is mulling a social media shutdown in the name of quelling France's...

France Pretends NATO is About the North Atlantic

Someone must have bought Emmanuel Macron a map. How else to explain his amazing geographical discovery that Japan is not, in fact, located in the North Atlantic? For those not keeping up with the wild, wooly world of geopolitricks, this latest round of cartographic...

Carbon Pawprints and the Rationing of Life

As I mentioned last week, I spent some of my time in the UK last month dipping into the local dinosaur media to see what kind of indoctrination the British are being subjected to these days. Who knows? Maybe I'd even be pleasantly surprised by some thought-provoking...

Tales From the (Jet-lagged) Underground

Hey, everybody! Remember me? Yes, it's been a while, hasn't it? For those who don't know, I've been in the UK the past couple of weeks and I just returned a few days ago. I'm over the jet lag now (thanks for asking!) and thought I'd ease back in to the weekly...

Sanctions Are War By Other Means

Were you aware that nearly one-third of the planet is under economic sanctions of one sort or another? No? Why not? Even those who don't pay much attention to the nexus between geopolitics and economics are likely to find that to be a shocking statistic. For those who...

Episode 443 – Meet King Charles, The Great Resetter

Episode 443 – Meet King Charles, The Great Resetter

While most of the the public's attention is falling on the obvious issues—the monarchy's increasing irrelevance to the 21st century, the colossal waste of taxpayer resources that go towards the upkeep of the world's richest family and their multiple palaces, the dark...