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PARIS — Washington says that it had nothing to do with the latest alleged coup attempt over the weekend in Venezuela.

Cue the laugh track.

“Any claims of US involvement in a plot to overthrow Maduro are categorically false. The United States continues to support a democratic solution to the crisis in Venezuela,” a State Department ...Read more

PARIS – It’s once again that time of the U.S. presidential election cycle when federal officials start talking about alleged foreign influence by the usual suspects, notably Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. But the most effective solution seems to be flying right under everyone’s radar.

Law enforcement isn’t it, if only because a ...Read more

PARIS – It’s been hard to find someone who has been more critical of Trumpist immigration policy than Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the establishment for which he fronts. Until now.

“Canadians understand that diversity is our strength. We know that Canada has succeeded – culturally, politically, economically – because of ...Read more

PARIS — Am I the only one who had to stop paying attention to the endless bombardment of U.S. presidential election rhetoric recently and actively seek out the relative “boredom” of written platforms for some actual substance?

Back when I was involved in running North American political campaigns, one of the most basic rules was that you ...Read more

PARIS – Three sentences slipped under the radar during former President Donald Trump's recent freewheeling online chat with tech billionaire, supporter and X platform (ex-Twitter) owner, Elon Musk. And they're explosive – as in, linked to an actual explosion.

“We were going to supply Europe with oil. I had stopped the Russian pipeline and...Read more

PARIS – Remember how, as a kid, you’d discover things about your own home when guests were coming over? Like the fact that there was gold-plated cutlery or cool decor hidden away, or that mom could actually cook? That’s how Parisians feel during these Olympic Games. And many don’t want it to ever end.

The early stages of the Games felt ...Read more

PARIS – Why is legendary U.S. Olympic swimmer, Michael Phelps, cheering like a madman for a French swimmer – particularly one who’s breaking Phelps’ own Olympic records? The answer is eyebrow raising and stirring online debate.

Phelps’ longtime former coach, Bob Bowman, is not just the coach of that same French swimmer, Léon Marchand...Read more

PARIS – Viewers around the world have suddenly taken an interest in French history as a result of being shocked or offended by the Olympic Games opening ceremony.

But seeing something bizarre and wondering what the creator was thinking is the whole point of art. It’s what curious people do all the time during visits to galleries or museums....Read more

PARIS – Bonjour, world! Bienvenue to the Paris Olympic Games! Come for the propaganda, stay for the rampant authoritarianism!

The tone couldn’t have been better set. Paris blew €1.5 billion to “clean up” the Seine river — effectively an open-air sewer — promising Parisians a long-term legacy of open water swimming using ...Read more

PARIS — Between the mugshot and the assassination survival fist-pump, Trump now has more bad boy anti-establishment iconic images than Che Guevara. That’s always bad news for the elites trying to destroy an ideology.

It’s when under extreme pressure or threat that one finds out what they’re really made of, behind the facade of marketing...Read more

PARIS — Remember that’80s movie, “Weekend at Bernie’s,” where a couple of guys spend their vacation dragging around their deceased boss like he was still alive so they could keep using his beach house? Note to Biden’s enablers: that wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.

If Biden, or anyone around him, actually thinks that democracy...Read more

PARIS – A whopping 51 million viewers tuned into CNN for the debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, probably in many cases for the same reason that folks enjoy watching NASCAR races. There’s always a risk of a spectacular crash.

But what happened here was that the drivers spun out and crashed, exploded into a ...Read more

PARIS — On June 30, French voters will head to the polls in a national election that wasn’t even on the horizon a month ago. But since France’s president decided to use democratic institutions as a tool to tell the little people to shove it, French patriots now have a golden opportunity to do the same to him and his globalist pals.

“I'...Read more