Discussion of how traditionally Tatar/Russian-Imperial Crimea has been dishonestly made a trigger for the current conflict, and potentially a locus of its escalation and prolongation.

Can a monarch play a therapeutic role for a society in chaos?  The last Tsar's reburial and the 2023 coronation of King Charles. 

Is the arsenal of 20th c totalitarianism, familiar to people born before the end of the Cold War, being repurposed for the 21st century?

In-depth consideration of the clear signs of fraud in national elections of 2020 and 2022, and the attendant psy-op to discourage the American voting public from taking notice.

Written just days before the outbreak of armed hostilities in Ukraine, a discussion of the historical problems of a congenitally-divided and ungovernably-corrupt Ukraine, dating from its days as Little Russia in the Russian Empire to its existence as a post-Soviet independent state.

Written in the first days of formal Ukraine-Russia hostilities, a discussion of their two-fold immediate provocation: 1) a dramatic upsurge in shelling of civilians in ethnic-Russian break-away districts of eastern Ukraine (essentially: a crescendo of abuse of Russian hostage populations); and 2) a three-day coordinated campaign whereby western media figures and policy-makers push hysterical messaging to convince the world that Russian Vladimir Putin is an out-of-control "madman".

Describes key ways by which our democracy has been infiltrated/subverted by new mass-surveillance/mass-manipulation and the practice by the ruling-class of leveraging "manufactured consent," made possible by our online habits.

Written just days after the events of January 6th, predicting that this event would be teased into an elaborate False Narrative that an unprincipled ruling class would use to serve a predetermined agenda.

Identifies that "Top-Bottom" has replaced "Left-Right" as the fundamental political tension in western erstwhile-democracies; assesses how far down the totalitarian path we were thrust with the Covid op by January 2021.

Written as election returns were coming in, 3 November 2020, to point out the serial use of hoaxes to suppress support for the obviously effective presidency of Donald Trump.