Category: The Wide Angle

What Happened to Australia? From COVID ‘Double Speak’ to Deporting Djokovic; World Shifts on COVID-19

What happened to Australia?—the world asks in astonishment. With the dust not yet having settled from the shock deportation of tennis world No.1, Novak Djokovic, the Australian foreign minister has revealed the dumbfounding, underlying reason why he canceled the tennis star’s visa. Ontario is among the latest of world cities to drastically revise its COVID…


What Will NATO, US Do If Russia Invades Ukraine? Behind Russia’s ‘Intervention’ in Kazakhstan

Dr. Andrew Anzur Clement, who is based in Slovenia, writes alternate-history novels set in the hot seat of current Eastern Europe tensions. The unspoken, game-of-chess dynamics of “trip wires” and “spheres of influence”—underlying current Russia–NATO, U.S. relations—are the plot instruments of his books. What could we really expect from NATO and the United States if…


How Many of NJ’s 6,000 ‘Patients with COVID’ Were Actually Hospitalized for Another Reason?

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle Walensky, recently caused a stir when she announced 75 percent of COVID deaths were of people with at least four other comorbidities. What’s more, she used this as a basis for promoting the vaccines. What did she actually mean by this statement, and…


Why is Xi Jinping’s Right-Hand Man Missing? Feat. Gordon Chang—What CCP Infighting Means for America

“[Xi Jinping] knows that if he were to fail, he wouldn’t get a nice house in the Chinese capital. He would be jailed; he’d lose assets; his family would be disadvantaged. He could even lose his life. So, the stakes are much higher for Xi Jinping.” The year 2022 is the “make-or-break” for the leader…


NY Hospitals Asked to Make Clear Whether ‘COVID Patients’ Are Actually Hospitalized Because of COVID

Some 700 years ago, human civilization was facing a pandemic: The Black Death (or the Plague) killed somewhere between 75 million and 200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa. But there was a secondary disaster to the plague that also had a massive death toll, and that modern society would do well to take…


Christmas Crackdown in China on Underground Churches; ‘Why I Had to Leave China:’ Dr. Graceffo

“Then the police came on campus and they had all the teachers come in and fill out a religious declaration form. They wanted to know what our religion was, and they were warning us again, not to celebrate.” After completing his Ph.D. at Shanghai University, Dr. Anthony Graceffo found the communist impositions on his life…


Lee Smith: Are There Any True Democracies Left to Partner With? Masks Damaging Our Young

“When we see the West imposing these sorts of authoritarian lockdowns, and we see them aiming to impose bio-surveillance states, this must change our perception of the world.” In this episode, Lee Smith poses the question: Where does democracy-based foreign policy stand in a time of dwindling democracy under COVID-19 restrictions and mandates? Lee Smith…


The Price of Going Against ‘The Party’; History’s Warning About ‘Build Back Better’ Plans—Feat. Tom Del Beccaro

Since Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) statement rejecting the Build Back Better bill, accusations against him have ranged from his being called “untrustworthy” to being accused of stopping democracy. But, has he really left democracy “hanging by a thread,” as one Washington Post columnist suggests? In this episode, I’m joined by Tom Del Beccaro to explore…


Lee Smith: When the State Overrides Parental Decisions; 12-Year-Old Coached Into LGBTQ Club in Secret

“That’s where you will learn your lessons, you will learn your morality, and you will learn who your enemies are, as well as who your friends are”—from the state, says journalist and author Lee Smith. In this episode, Smith describes the push he sees to replace parental authority with that of the state. In recent…


Xi Wins Putin’s Attendance at Beijing 2022 Opening Ceremony; Amtrak Suspends Worker Vaccine Mandate

A U.S. court of appeals has given the green light to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for private companies, and the case is now expected to be challenged in the Supreme Court. At the same time, there is a growing list of companies, like Amtrak, that are reversing their vaccine mandate policies. Biden has warned…