Originally published on Jan 17, 2026.

For 80 years our leaders have been working on the weapons and the plans to exterminate the planet and kill us all. And they got very good at it. Professor Ivana Hughes and Professor Steven Starr explain in this masterful presentation what nuclear war really means.Links:

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Originally published on Jan 16, 2026.

The chaos of the West is not random. It's the outcome of decades of planning and the emergence of a new class of rulers, the securitocrats, the people who subsume all of society under the idea of "security". Nel Bonilla is a researcher and substack author, analysing the structure of the social forces that the new elites in Europe and the USA have unleashed. Nel's articles:substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-190184086substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-192104653substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-192533012substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-193882785substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-194208411Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on Jan 15, 2026.

Georgia has a new pro-neutrality party. I'm sitting down with one of its founding members, the former Georgian Ambassador, Konstatin Zhgenti, to talk about the new movement for a neutral and sovereign Georgia that wants to be friends to all, and foe to no one.Links:

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Originally published on Jan 13, 2026.

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Originally published on Jan 12, 2026.

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Originally published on Jan 10, 2026.

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Originally published on Jan 9, 2026.

On December 15, the EU listed the former Swiss army colonel, Jacques Baud, on its Russia Sanctions list, barring him from even buying food. He isn't suffering because he committed any crime. On the contrary, his actions are perfectly legal; they are just not the kind of "behavior" the EU likes to see, so it uses a foreign policy tool (sanctions) to bar him from all and any activities of normal human life. But Col. Baud is unbroken. He is resisting the draconian measures and decided to pick up the fight against this regime extralegal injustice. Make no mistake: What is happening to Col. Baud could happen to anyone tomorrow. The sanctions are a regime of pure, arbitrary political persecution.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on Jan 8, 2026.

What do you call a form of state in which, because of its foreign policy, citizens can be persecuted domestically and harassed to the point of clear human rights violations? And all of this within a construct in which citizens are free to elect their national and supranational representatives? Exactly—we don’t have a word for it. But “anti-democracy” wouldn’t be a bad fit. That is how far my guest today goes: the renowned German journalist and public intellectual, Patrik Baab.We talk about the sanctions against Jacques Baud, Nathalie Yamb, Hüseyin Dogru, and other EU/Schengen citizens, as well as about his work to push back against this—as a journalist and through a new YouTube format.Links:

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Originally published on Jan 6, 2026.

With the "mask fully off" regarding the intervention in Venezuela, I’m left wondering: has the international order officially dissolved into the law of the jungle? As the crosshairs shift toward Tehran, will Russia and China finally shatter the sanctions regime to prevent regime change?To understand if we are witnessing the Soviet-style collapse of the West, I’ve invited back Dr. Pietro Shakarian, a lecturer in history at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan, to offer his analysis from the strategic crossroads of the Caucasus.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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Originally published on Jan. 5, 2026.

Can a superpower simply kidnap a foreign leader and charge them with possessing weapons on their own soil? Now that the U.S. has effectively "caught the car" in Venezuela, is there any road left for international law, or have we fully entered the era of the outlaw state?To make sense of this unprecedented aggression, I brought back Ambassador Chas Freeman. As a former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Chas has seen the machinery of empire from the inside, and his assessment of this latest intervention—and the constitutional crisis accompanying it—is as chilling as it is essential.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies

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