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The practitioners of Hasbara are desperately ratcheting up their control of American corporate and social media and with Oracle’s Larry Ellison suddenly tapped out, are reportedly seeking funding from the Arab Gulf states to help.

In 1982, the Falklands War rescued Margaret Thatcher from political collapse and turned her into a wartime icon. But the deeper lesson of that conflict is more dangerous: diversionary war is appealing to failing leaders, whether democratic or authoritarian. Donald Trump’s long-standing fascination with invading Venezuela, documented in his first term and now echoed by renewed U.S. deployments, a favored opposition proxy, and drug-war legal framing, fits the same dual pattern that produced the Falklands: a desperate leader seeking escape through external confrontation, and the hope of political resurrection through a short, decisive victory. The Falklands Effect turned crisis into triumph for Thatcher, but a Venezuelan conflict today could result in disaster for Trump. The danger is serious, but the power of Trump’s temptation is quietly growing.

A look at Trump’s attempts to kick 2 MAGA stalwarts out of Congress and the what the New York Times is leaving out of its Epstein coverage.

Senate Democrats threw a teetering Trump administration a lifeline by folding on the U.S. government shutdown. Let’s parse the kayfabe.

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have exposed a new reality: the battlefield is becoming too transparent, too fast, and too automated for mass, low-skill infantry to survive. In that environment, militaries will not get rid of human fighters — they will narrow them. The future elite will be smaller, more cognitively trained, and embedded inside human–machine combat cells that can sense, decide, and act without higher headquarters. Their defining virtue won’t be brute courage but restraint: the ability to override automation, to make lawful and proportional choices when AI reaches its limits. But we should not mistake this refinement for stability. As more states adopt AI-enabled elite formations, the competition for speed, autonomy, and informational dominance may actually make escalation easier, not harder.

New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani won the election, but now his real battle with entrenched power begins.

Zohran Mamdani’s youthquake overturned the New York power structure, and his victory has national implications.

A major MAGA civil war has erupted pitting Tucker Carlson against what Nick Fuentes calls “Israel First” Republicans.