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No, Afghan Refugees Won’t Drive Up Crime in America

Fox News TV host Tucker Carlson recently aired a 17-minute segment of moral outrage toward people who want to bring large numbers of Afghan refugees to the United States in the wake of the recent collapse of the Afghan government. The segment is titled, “We are living through the biggest influx of refugees in history,”…

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PHOTOS: Hundreds Of Anti-Communists Urge Biden To Intervene In Cuba

Kaylee Greenlee on July 27, 2021 Hundreds of anti-communists and Cuban Americans demonstrated in Washington, D.C. Monday to urge the Biden administration to intervene on behalf of citizens against the regime in Cuba. “The only reason that people survive in Cuba is because Americans here are sending them money,” Laura Celdran, 29, told the Daily…

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Pitbull’s Message to the World About Cuba: “Wake the F*ck Up. Step Up.”

Cuban-American rapper Pitbull released a bold message to the world concerning the efforts of the Cuban people to overthrow the country’s Communist dictatorship on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/pw34riWnT3 — Pitbull (@pitbull) July 14, 2021 “This is a message to the world. We need to stand up. Step up. But if you don’t understand what’s going on, then…

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America’s Oldest Cigar Company Seeks to Import Cuban Leaf for the First Time in 60 Years

The Cuban cigar has become a bit of a unicorn to the American cigar smoker since the Cuban embargo banned the importation of all products from the island on February 7th, 1962. Thanks to America’s oldest and last operational cigar factory, J.C. Newman, American consumers may soon be able to taste Cuban tobacco for the…

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Major Media Outlets Continue To Receive Millions From Chinese Propaganda Front

Andrew Kerr on May 25, 2021 A Chinese Communist Party-controlled news outlet paid major newspapers and magazines over $1.95 million between November and April to run advertisements stylized as news stories, according to a Justice Department disclosure filed Monday. Time Magazine received $700,000 from the outlet, China Daily, for “advertisement expenses” during the six-month time…

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George Bush Calls Republican Party ‘Isolationist, Protectionist, And To A Certain Extent Nativist’

Mary Rose Corkery on April 20, 2021 Former President George W. Bush commented on the present-day Republican Party on Tuesday and said it wasn’t what he had envisioned. “I would describe it as isolationist, protectionist and to a certain extent nativist,” Bush said on “The TODAY Show.” The former president said that the GOP’s platform…

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Chinese Ambassador Says Uighur Concentration Camps Are ’Not Entirely Different’ From Those In Europe, US

By Andrew Trunsky Zhang Ming, China’s ambassador to the European Union, likened Chinese “deradicalization centers” to detention camps in the United States and Europe. “Countries like the U.S., the U.K. and France have established deradicalization centers or correction centers,” Zhang said during a European Policy Centre webinar, adding that China’s camps were critical in fighting…

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Young Republicans Split from Trump and GOP Elders on US Foreign Policy: 3 charts

Jonathan Schulman, Northwestern University No matter the outcome of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, the Republican Party must now decide whether to maintain or abandon Trump-era policies during the Biden administration. Among them is Trump’s “America First” foreign policy agenda. Trump portrayed the United States as a dominant, self-sufficient world leader that needs little but subservience…

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19 Years in the Graveyard of Empires: Bring Them Home

The United States began lobbing missiles in Afghanistan in early October of 2001, and boots were on the ground by October 19th. Nineteen years of war means some of the soldiers fighting this never-ending war were not even born when it began. President Trump is currently reducing the number of troops in the country known…

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The Chinese Threat: A Solution

It is all too clear that the greatest threat to the former structure of nations in geopolitics is China. Their continual aggression in Southeast Asia is legitimate cause for concern and demands presence to defend nations such as Taiwan, Japan, and Vietnam—especially after the loss of Hong Kong’s autonomy. However, their seemingly inevitable ascendency as…