Politics

By Jeff Minick, Intellectual Takeout 2024 - So ran the chorus to Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit song “Chain of Fools.”... One hundred twenty years earlier, the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels proclaimed: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!”... The chains of Franklin’s song and those of the Marxist slogan are linked by one word: fools... For over 175 years, believers have bought into Marxist visions of utopia. From the European revolutions of 1848 to the 2025 election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York, devotees of communism ...

By John Zmirak, The Stream - You might not have heard about it, but the Trump administration recently issued an historic policy paper on U.S. strategy toward the world, but especially a European Union where most of the countries are technically our allies, allegedly pledged to the same values. On paper, that is. But with Britain arresting dozens of citizens each day for social media posts, when they complain about the mass importation of Third World “refugees” at public expense, and France and Germany trying to outlaw opposition parties, while Muslim mobs shut down Christmas markets and the EU threatens massive fines if Elon Musk won’t censor X … you really have to wonder. Are we on the same page as Europe?