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Jul 23, 2026, 4:00 PM

Did JD Vance Know What FBI Source Charles Johnson Was Alleging

Part III — When Allegations Become Public Narratives When the FBI's Confidential Human Source (CHS) memo alleging ties between Jeffrey Epstein and foreign intelligence services became public, it entered an already volatile ecosystem of speculation, geopolitical anxiety, and partisan narrative warfare....

Jul 18, 2026, 12:35 PM

Why Is Vance Claiming Epstein Had Ties to US and Israeli Intelligence?

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Part Two: Beyond the Epstein-Barak Connection The first part of this analysis examined what the documented relationship between Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein does and does not establish, concluding that the evidence supports intelligence adjacency rather than proof of espionage....

Jul 17, 2026, 5:49 AM

What Does the Barak–Epstein Connection Tell Us?

Intelligence Adjacency versus Espionage During his recent interview with Joe Rogan, Vice President JD Vance made a striking claim. Jeffrey Epstein, he said, "clearly had connections to the upper levels of American intelligence" and "the highest levels of Israeli intelligence."...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jul 16, 2026, 9:45 AM

Israel as Alibi

Israel as Alibi When I published “For Truth’s Sake: Love Vance,” I was not claiming that JD Vance secretly hated Israel. My argument was more structural and therefore more troubling: his support for Israel was instrumental. Israel appealed to the...

Apr 25, 2026, 12:57 AM

How to Tell if You’re the Other Woman

Adapted meme based on a scene from Sex and the City (HBO), included here for cultural commentary.

One thing I wasn’t prepared for in dating was a man’s marital status. I felt good about my ability to spot fuckbois and their vices. I didn’t think I’d have to be on the lookout for their wives. Married Guy...

Apr 3, 2026, 11:18 AM

Israel–US–Iran War: Exposing a World Already Burning

This is a Passover meditation on freedom, power, and the viral cruelty infecting the world. The Israel–US–Iran War became the flashpoint that exposed worldwide moral toxins—cruelty, conflict, and instability. Are you apprehensive, confused, and disappointed by what’s happening? Each day...

Mohamed Elbaikam

Mar 24, 2026, 6:05 AM

Congress Must Judge Western Sahara on Its Own

Congress Should Not Outsource Its Judgment on Western Sahara By Mohamed Elbaikam Independent Sahrawi activist In Sahrawi culture, serious matters do not begin with noise. They begin with listening. Even tea in the desert is served in stages: the first glass...

Mar 17, 2026, 12:12 AM

Saddam also walked the streets of Baghdad before they found him in a hole

Saddam also walked the streets of Baghdad before they found him in a hole. (AI-generated)

On Friday last week, as American bombs fell within earshot of Ferdowsi Square, Iran staged one of those spectacles of performative defiance that authoritarian regimes produce with the instinctive fluency of a body producing antibodies – not because they...

Francine M. Gordon

Mar 4, 2026, 12:13 AM

Who is our Esther in this Modern Purim story?

Purim 5786 finds me on a cruise ship sailing the beautiful blues seas of the western Caribbean off the coast of Mexico. A very odd place to experience the beginning of The War to End the Evil Regime as...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Feb 27, 2026, 2:33 PM

What one photo from the Epstein files disrupted

The now-viral Hawking snapshot will not alter the legal record, but it has already unsettled something more diffuse: our myth of the bodiless genius

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