Author: Scott Ortkiese

Six Billion People Can See What CNN Won’t Tell You: Ukraine Is Losing, and the West Wants the Killing to Continue

Perhaps the most extraordinary development of the past year is not anything that happened on the battlefield.

Ukraine War Update February 2026: The Forgotten War Nobody Forgot to Invoice

How Defense-Funded Think Tanks, Legacy Media, and Index Funds Turned Ukraine’s Agony into Background Noise , While the Checks Kept Clearing

Part 2: The Rentier’s Republic of America

America forgot the difference between earning and extracting , but the economist, Michael Hudson, kept the receipts

Part 1: In This Darkness, I Will Disappear

The republic is presented as a hollowed spectacle: algorithms, scripted media and performative politics replace a functioning public square.

Vassalage Diplomacy: How a US Ambassador Tried to Make Poland Grovel, And Failed Spectacularly

Tom Rose turned a rejected Trump Nobel nomination into a diplomatic rupture, uniting Poland’s left, right and former US envoys against him.

Persia Must Not Be Destroyed

Fox News advocates cast Iran as a target, repeating Rome’s Carthage logic while ignoring Persia’s civilizational record and human cost.

If Brad Pitt Were Harald Kujat, Ukraine Would Have Peace, Where’s the Press?

General Harald Kujat held the highest military position in both Germany and NATO.

America, Wake Up: Your Government Ran a Terror Campaign in Iran Last Month

The legacy media reported Iran’s massacre of 36,000 protesters.

Neocons, China, and the New Bipartisan Lunacy

From Vietnam to Ukraine to Taiwan, the same method recurs: arm a proxy, inflate the threat, then wreck any settlement that would end the war.

The Western Press Won’t Report It: Ukraine’s Collapse and the Slaughter Underway

Russian strikes on power and rail networks coincide with Ukrainian encirclements, while Western outlets omit what the author calls a collapsing front.