His surprise appearance on Tucker Carlson's show is something of a 'marker event' in the meteoric rise of polemic right-wing commentator Nicholas Fuentes to American political prominence. In the end it was a civil conversation fleshing out background to his controversial takes, and general agreement on what's been taking place in the US recently: growing, significant public backlash against Israel's wars and outsized influence in American politics. So, what pretty much everyone's talking...

From "500% tariffs against China" and "Tomahawks for Ukraine" to "a comprehensive trade deal" and "imminent peace with Russia," a day is a long time in Trumpian politics. Besides driving us all mad with endlessly contradictory Truth Social posts, can we figure out what the American president really wants to achieve on the world stage? In the end it boils down to maximizing economic advantage for Americans, while minimizing death and destruction for everyone else. Worthy of the title...

Or so he'd like you to believe. Trump's bullsh*t reached unprecedented heights last week with his theatrical 'Mid-East Peace Deal' in Egypt, which was really just a declaration of intent signed by the leaders of parties other than Israel and Hamas, and in which they expressed their desire to see the conflict ended. That's it. Hamas has released all remaining Israeli hostages, while Israel has released a couple thousands Palestinian ones. But the fundamentally barbaric and illegal occupation...

Here we go again. 2 years on from "Israel's 9/11," public and international pressure has once again brought pressure to bear on an immediate settlement of Israel's 'war against Hamas'. Netanyahu, on his 4th visit to Washington DC this year, has sort-of agreed to Trump's peace plan, which would see all remaining Israeli hostages released by Hamas, the IDF withdraw from what remains of Gaza's cities and settlements, and the Strip's functional management temporarily taken over by an...

It's gotta be the mic he was wearing on his shirt. This week we examine new, clearer footage of Charlie Kirk the moment he was assassinated at Utah Valley University on September 10th. His 'billowing t-shirt', the 'lack of an exit wound', and the unusual characteristics found in the gunfire sound's 'crack-bang' acoustics are all accounted for by something that's been right under our noses the whole time. Also on this NewsReal: the farcical 'Russian drone war' in Europe, Netanyahu's antics at...

Behold, a miracle! Charlie Kirk, they say, presented no exit wound because the large, high-velocity round that pierced his neck on 9/10 was 'absorbed by his supernatural body', thereby protecting others behind the great man from being killed, Kirk's last selfless act as an all-American Judeo-Christian. As the 'investigation' into Kirk's assassination continues, mostly taking place among a few million kooky conspiracy theorists online, officialdom has concluded that he was killed by a queer...

The brutal public assassination of American political activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk has sparked intense anger in the US, 'activating' many Americans to double-down on their commitment to "taking back this country from... THEM!" It's too early to say for sure whether Kirk's assassin worked alone or was a 'patsy', but, either way, the mass emotional charge that's been unleashed will absolutely be used by vested interests to advance ideas and 'solutions' not aligned with the interests of...

Still salty from the sight of the leaders of China, India and Russia "conspiring" against him at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin last week, Trump has launched a 'rebranding' of the US Department of Defense to its pre-WW2 name: the Department of War! A bad omen? A more honest name? It certainly heralds the end of an era. On this week's show, we discuss Americans' difficulties adjusting to the new multipolar global order, their apparent misconception that being 'the...

What did Trump think was going to happen, slapping 50% sanctions tariffs on India?! Then again, power is draining away from US dollar hegemony anyway, so Trump is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. This week on NewsReal, we discuss the China-India rapprochement that undercuts US plans to 'contain China' by courting India, the 'secondary sanctions against Russian oil' that India ignored in favor of partnership with China, and the hapless doubling-down of Europe to 'absorb' Ukraine (and...

The upshot of the two big recent summits on the Ukraine War/SMO - the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska followed by the euro-lapdogs scurrying to Washington to yap loudly to 'daddy Trump' - is that Russia and Ukraine's positions remain, to surface appearances, impossible to reconcile. You cannot have a 'lasting' peace settlement where Ukraine is both 'intact within its 1991 borders' and 'cedes 5 regions to Russia', and both 'free of NATO weapons & troops' and 'armed & garrisoned by NATO...