Watching the chaos at Kabul International Airport as people of all nationalities try to escape from what they think the Taliban will do to them reminds me of what went through my mind each time I got off my plane after landing there. My one overriding thought was always: whatever …
Read More »Meghan Markle’s 40X40 project is more an attempt to stay relevant than to REALLY help women return to work after pandemic
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, celebrated her 40th birthday this week with the new 40×40 initiative, which encourages people to donate their time toward mentoring women who are re-entering the workforce. But, although 40×40 is well-meaning, critics have been quick to point out that the call for mentorship may …
Read More »Do sanctions really work? Russia has faced restrictions for years, but all they’ve done is push Moscow further away from the West
Worse still, it’s the American people themselves who often become the unwilling and inadvertent targets of excessive economic restrictions. The failure of American sanctions Whether sanctions work – or not – is no great secret. Time and time again, the US has clung to sanctions as its de facto power …
Read More »Wayne Dupree: Have we really become a society where free thought and dialogue are feared rather than embraced?
This danger to our Republic and national security is exacerbated by lies about systemic racism and supposed hatred by anyone who disagrees with the left’s radical agenda, and nowhere is this agenda more apparent than in public education. There are increasingly few reasons for parents to rely on anonymous public …
Read More »What’s really behind the EU’s latest effort to regulate cryptocurrencies? RT’s Boom Bust wants to know
Crypto analyst Christy Ai tells Boom Bust who’s being targeted by these latest proposals. For more stories on economy & finance visit RT’s business section
Read More »Activists claim that changing sex is a way to solve your problems, but will it really make you happy? Some experts aren’t so sure
According to research carried out by Gallup, 5.6% of US adults identify as LGBT. In 2017, the number stood at 4.5%, and in 2012, when Gallup began tracking the measure, it was 3.5%. In particular, just 0.6% of all US adults identify themselves as transgender, the study showed. While there …
Read More »Is the Duchess of Sussex’s new book, ‘The Bench’, really all that bad? Oh yeah, it’s awful. Even my kids hate it
“The Duchess of Sussex’s semi-literate vanity project leaves Harry holding the baby.” Ouch! This is, quite possibly, the most brutal and scathing book review I’ve ever read. But it was to be expected, I guess, as that was in the Daily Telegraph and the Telegraph is just about as establishment …
Read More »‘We were fighting & in danger. To now say that’s a war crime makes me really angry’ – is Aussie SAS killer a hero or a villain?
The defamation case involving Australia’s most decorated living war hero presents a curious spectacle – a celebrated SAS soldier breaking down in tears as he defends himself and the reputation of the country’s armed forces against a concerted attack by a woke media organisation, aided and abetted by a platoon …
Read More »Trial of the century will reveal EXACTLY what Australian soldiers really got up to in Afghanistan
The eyes of Australia are on an important defamation trial which got under way in the Federal Court in Sydney on Monday. The trial, which is to be heard by a judge alone without a jury, has been described in the media as “the defamation case of the century.” That may …
Read More »Media bug-pushers REALLY want the public to eat ‘delicious’ cicadas, but FDA warns off allergic insect-lovers
Beady-eyed and wriggling, hundreds of billions of cicadas emerged last month from their underground hibernation across the eastern United States. This year’s crop of bugs are one of 15 broods, each of which emerges every 17 years to screech, mate, and eventually die off after around three weeks. The cicadas …
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