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PARIS — Does anyone else get a good chuckle out of the self-righteousness on display by the people who have received the COVID-19 jab and seem to want to make a temporary career out of pro-vaccine activism?

You know who I’m talking about: the people who proudly post photos on social media of their vaccination certificate for the world to ...Read more

PARIS — I have lived in France for the past 13 years, and talk of a potential civil war over discontent with the country’s societal balkanization and resulting degradation has been prevalent for at least that long. Despite new warnings about possible domestic conflict from current and former French military officers, it’s highly unlikely. ...Read more

PARIS — Just wondering: Do these new, woke, intersectional, cisgendered, millennial CIA officers have to support Iranian regime change, too?

It seems like a good time to ask, since the CIA released a new video last week aimed at increasing workforce diversity. The over-the-top ad has been roundly mocked, with some commentators saying that ...Read more

PARIS — If anyone was naive enough to think that that U.S. President Joe Biden would significantly deviate from former President Donald Trump’s “America First” stance, particularly when faced with a crisis, they’ve been rudely awakened amid the global vaccination campaign against COVID-19. Citizens of other countries look to America’...Read more

PARIS — Season One was the gripping saga of a new, mysterious and potentially plague-like virus sweeping across the globe and spooking governments into sending everyone into hiding at home. Then came Season Two: The Variants. But many people have already switched off and tuned out. Good for them. The future belongs to those people.

Here in ...Read more

PARIS — China signed a 25-year, $400 billion cooperation agreement with Iran late last month that could result in Chinese bases in the Middle East and increase Beijing’s global economic hegemony. All because the Washington establishment couldn’t bring itself to stop drinking its own anti-Iran Kool-Aid.

There are few special-interest ...Read more

PARIS — U.S. President Joe Biden has announced something called the American Jobs Plan. Amid a pandemic in which some companies struggled under government-imposed lockdowns, perhaps the best way to increase job opportunities would be to remove the barrier that caused the problems in the first place: government interference. But in Biden’s ...Read more

PARIS — “Your papers, please.” Until now, that phrase has been synonymous with fascist states. But then COVID-19 came along, and now it’s about to make that phrase a reality for democracies.

The vaccine passport, or health passport, granting holders access to certain venues has already been introduced in several jurisdictions. In New ...Read more

PARIS – Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats hold the moral high ground when it comes to matters of immigration. What’s desperately needed is rational policy that tackles the problem at its roots: ending any and all U.S. foreign intervention in Latin America.

Both Democrats and Republicans would have Americans believe that the fiasco ...Read more

PARIS — It’s been a year since French President Emmanuel Macron announced in a nationally televised address that “we are at war with the SarsCoV-2 coronavirus.” An entire year of suboptimal living has trickled through time’s hourglass. Some have tried to sensibly go about their daily lives while being citizen-policed, harassed and ...Read more

PARIS — We pardon the interruption of your regularly scheduled programming of global conflict, economic woes and morbid daily pandemic tallies to bring you the sordid tale of a married couple complaining to a billionaire about their family, from which they have recently emancipated themselves and now accuse of racist undertones, backstabbing, ...Read more

PARIS — It took U.S. President Joe Biden barely a month in office to drop bombs in the Middle East. At this point, you’d think it was some kind of initiation ritual for anyone who steps into the role, regardless of party affiliation.

When Donald Trump claimed that a January 2020 airstrike at Baghdad’s airport that killed Iranian Gen. ...Read more

PARIS — It was almost surreal seeing the images from Texas that were being beamed around the world. Burst water pipes. People trading firewood for water like something out of a Charles Dickens novel set in Victorian times. There were tales of citizens freezing to death in the state that is the epicenter of the energy industry in the top oil-...Read more