Author: Scott Ortkiese

The $100 Billion Wager: Why Trump Invaded Venezuela When Obama and Biden Wouldn’t

Paul Singer bought Citgo for $5.9 billion weeks before the Caracas raid, exposing a $100 billion rescue for refineries and oil claims.

The American People Are More Objective About President Trump’s Actions Than Democratic Party Leadership

Polling shows an exhausted majority favors results over tribal combat, while Democratic leaders make Venezuela another loyalty test.

They’ll Never Support Trump, Even When He’s Right and They’ve Been Catastrophically Wrong

A correction on Jeffrey Sachs sharpens the case: anti-establishment critics can still let anti-Trump reflexes override policy outcomes.

The Business of War: How Defense-Funded Think Tanks Choose Which Interventions to Champion

Washington’s response to Venezuela exposes a think-tank economy that invokes sovereignty selectively while sustaining wars that finance its networks.

Who Authorized This War?

The investigation argues Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland, not a cognitively impaired Biden, drove the campaign against an Istanbul peace deal.

THE FORTY-DAY MASSACRE: How Boris Johnson Sabotaged Peace and Caused 1.3 Million Casualties for Personal Profit

Accounts from Ukrainian, Israeli, Turkish and NATO officials tie Boris Johnson to a rejected peace settlement and defense industry rewards.

When Stocks Fall Because They Fall: The Tautology Problem in Financial Journalism

I encountered the following specimen of financial journalism on an AI platform’s “Discovery Page” concerning Palantir Technologies.

THE GREAT CLIMATE ROBBERY: From Earth Day 1970 to a $400 Billion Fraud

It traces how environmental concern became a consulting-driven crisis industry, extracting an estimated $369.4 billion through projects built to fail.

The Tesla “Musk Backlash” Myth: How Lazy Journalism Covers for European Policy Catastrophe

From the Legacy Press:”Tesla Europe sales plunge 40% amid Musk backlash”

Self-Made, Not Silver-Spooned: The Documented Case for Elon Musk’s Earned Success Against a Mob of Lies

The record of student debt, early ventures and near bankruptcies challenges claims that Elon Musk inherited wealth or merely fronted others’ work.