By: C.J. HOPKINS Let’s try a little thought experiment. Just for fun. To pass the time while we’re indefinitely locked down inside our homes, compulsively checking the Covid-19 “active cases” and “total death” count, washing […]
By Burak Bekdi MERS coronavirus particles on camel epithelial cells, photo by NIAID in collaboration with Colorado State University via Wikimedia Commons BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,501, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey appears to be handling the […]
By: ANDREW JOYCE “If trouble comes when you least expect it, then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”Cormac McCarthy, The Road Writing anything about COVID-19 at this moment is a daunting task […]
By: OLDMICROBIOLOGIST [The following is the republication of several long and very detailed comments by an unidentified purported expert on biowarfare that originally appeared on a recent thread of the Saker blogsite.] [Update: an investigation strongly […]
By: GUILLAUME DUROCHER Gypsies in France, 1980s. Credit: Wikimedia Commons I for one am fascinated by Gypsies. I find it remarkable that a people, hailing from the dregs of medieval Indian society, could cross the […]
By: KEVIN BARRETT “Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor.”… “And advanced forms of biological […]
RON UNZ The Coronavirus epidemic may soon produce the greatest American disaster since our Civil War over 150 years ago, and numbers reveal the possible magnitude. For example, New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof on Sunday reported the […]
By Ulson Gunnar Global Research, How likely are you to die from Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19)? Based on the hysteria spreading across the globe, it would seem like the chances are fairly high. But Statnews.com would report on […]
By South Front Global Research, From Father of Turks to Father of Ottomans Turkey’s president Erdogan will no doubt go down in history as the leader who overturned the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and ended the country’s […]
Review by James Dorsey Ahmet T. Kuru’s new book Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment, A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is a ground-breaking history and analysis of the evolution of the state in Muslim countries. Thoroughly researched […]