Newly declassified Pentagon documents have shed fresh light on one of the most disturbing chapters of America's Cold War biological weapons program: the deliberate testing of swarms of mosquitoes as living delivery systems for disease. Far from abstract laboratory research, these operations involved releasing hundreds of thousands of mosquito...
The growing appeal of Orania and similar Afrikaner enclaves in South Africa offers a stark lesson in the realities of multiculturalism when it is imposed without regard for human nature or empirical outcomes. Founded in 1991 as apartheid ended, Orania has expanded to around 3,000 residents, drawing increasing numbers of young white Afrikaners...
The 2026 Iran war remains in a precarious state of on-again, off-again ceasefires punctuated by missile exchanges and escalating threats to critical energy infrastructure across the Middle East. What began with major US and Israeli strikes in late February has evolved into a grinding confrontation where Iran leverages its geographic position to exe...
David Courtwright's The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business offers a compelling historical lens through which to understand the relentless rise of addictive behaviours in modern societies. Courtwright, a historian of medicine and addiction, traces how industries have systematically exploited the brain's limbic system, the anc...
The decision by the Bank of England to feature British wildlife on the next series of banknotes, replacing historical figures such as Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare, and Jane Austen, represents far more than a simple design refresh. It signals a deeper cultural retreat, a quiet admission of institutional exhaustion in the face of iden...
For decades we have been promised UFO disclosure. The truth was supposedly just around the corner. Any day now the government would finally admit that we were not alone in the universe. The flying saucers would be unveiled, the alien ambassadors introduced, and humanity would begin its next great chapter among the stars. Instead, what have we recei...
The World Health Organization has increasingly positioned climate change as one of the greatest threats to global public health, framing it as an escalating emergency that demands urgent international intervention and sweeping policy changes. Yet a closer look at the available evidence reveals a narrative that is strikingly incoherent, selective in...
Idris Elba has delivered a refreshingly candid assessment of the James Bond franchise and the pitfalls of injecting contemporary identity politics into it. In his recent comments to GQ magazine, the acclaimed actor urged Amazon MGM Studios not to make the next Bond film woke, emphasising that the character should remain true to its roots as pure es...
When Adam Smith is mentioned today, he is usually reduced to a caricature. To his critics, he is the patron saint of corporate greed and ruthless capitalism. To many of his supporters, he is the prophet of free markets, whose ideas supposedly justify every multinational merger, every global trade agreement, and every concentration of economic power...
The Australian Greens have completed their transformation. Once a party ostensibly concerned with genuine environmental issues; forests, water, sustainable development, they are now primarily the party of pronouns, identity politics, and radical open borders. As The Australian rightly notes (link below), they have abandoned core environmental princ...
The Ogallala Aquifer, often called America's underground breadbasket, is dying. Spanning eight states in the US High Plains and supporting nearly a third of the nation's crop and livestock production, this vast reservoir of ancient water has seen relentless declines for decades. In parts of western Kansas alone, water levels dropped more than a foo...
In recent weeks, the [One Nation] party has come under fierce attack for its pro-life policies. Journalists, commentators and political opponents have accused One Nation of trying to roll back abortion rights and import American-style politics into Australia. The backlash has been intense. But amid all the outrage, something important has been miss...
Chinese scientists, in response to parallel US research, have engineered mutant H5N1 bird flu viruses that are up to 560,000 times more lethal in mammals, according to a new peer-reviewed paper in Emerging Microbes & Infections (links below). Using reverse genetics, researchers at the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute created reassortant "Fr...
The mainstream media is once again baffled. Why are growing numbers of men, especially young men, disengaging from work, relationships, marriage, and broader society: Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW)? They call it a "crisis of masculinity," a "lost generation," or the rise of the misogyny phenomenon. Yet the answer is staring them in the face: moder...
Australia has some of the world's highest tobacco taxes and the most aggressive anti-smoking policies on the planet: plain packaging, graphic health warnings, massive excise increases, and relentless public campaigns. The stated goal was supposedly noble: reduce smoking and improve public health, and pulling in heaps of money for the government. Th...
We are living through a full-blown Pandemic of Lunacy, a contagious outbreak of self-deception, moral relativism, and outright delusion that has infected Western institutions, media, education, and everyday discourse. From the gender agenda, to the celebration of abortion up to birth and beyond, to the insistence that all cultures and behaviours ar...
China under the Chinese Communist Party poses the most serious long-term strategic threat to both the United States and Australia. Through aggressive economic infiltration, land acquisition, technology theft, influence operations, and military expansion, Beijing is systematically undermining Western sovereignty and security. What the Counter-Curren...
For centuries, philosophers have used the "brain in a vat" thought experiment to probe the limits of knowledge, consciousness, and reality. Imagine your brain, removed from your body and kept alive in a nutrient-rich vat, fed electrical signals that perfectly simulate your entire life. How would you know the difference between that simulated existe...
The ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has delivered a sharp lesson in energy fragility, and few places illustrate it more clearly than Singapore. As a premier Asian refining and bunkering hub, Singapore has so far avoided outright shortages thanks to its sophisticated infrastructure and diversified sourcing. Yet the slowdown is real: refinerie...
In a pointed recent interview, Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Trump, delivered a blunt assessment of Europe's migration crisis. European leaders, he argued, are not merely failing to control their borders, they are deliberately steering their societies toward the nightmare scenario depicted in Jean Raspail's 1973 novel The ...
