Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
As the world gathers to celebrate Christmas, war continues to devastate Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza, and countless other places we choose not to name. This year-end iPINIONS post confronts the moral dissonance of comfort amid catastrophe, and asks what it means to look away while others endure. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/wither-ukraine-sudan-gaza-and-they Read more.
Trump’s newly published National Security Strategy reads less like a plan for global stability than a roadmap for willful disorder. Rather than strengthening alliances, the strategy reduces global security to transactional leverage, abandons Europe to Russian pressure, and forces the EU to reckon with defending itself without Washington. iPINIONS explains why Europe is now being… Read more.
They promised training but delivered trenches. Jacob Zuma’s family lurches from personal scandals to the recruitment of Africans as cannon fodder in Ukraine. iPINIONS decries how his daughter weaponized historical comradeship into blood tribute, and how African governments across the continent remain complicit. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/blood-money-how-zumas-daughter-enabled Read more.
On Pearl Harbor Day, history is meant to warn, not comfort. As iPINIONS argues, America has moved from condemning infamy abroad to exporting it across the hemisphere—through economic coercion, naval intimidation, and revived imperial arrogance. From FDR’s moral clarity to Trump’s year of infamy, this piece reframes remembrance as indictment. Read my full take on… Read more.
Trump is banning Black and Brown migrants while granting a VIP asylum lane for white South Africans. He calls it security. iPINIONS calls it apartheid… Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/from-muslim-ban-to-third-world-ban Read more.
Police in The Bahamas allege that Eunece Morris defrauded multiple clients through her travel agency more than a decade ago, before fleeing the jurisdiction in 2011. She was reportedly living as a carefree fugitive in the Turks and Caicos Islands. But, just days ago, she was detained while transiting through the Cayman Islands and extradited… Read more.
Terrorists in Nigeria have kidnapped more schoolgirls… iPINIONS chastises celebrities, who once posed with hashtags demanding their return, for being silent now. Read my full take on Substack: Read more.
Trump’s foreign policy has become a grotesque mix of Musk’s ego, Fox’s fiction, and white grievance. iPINIONS chronicles who, from South Africa to Venezuela, it’s ignorance on parade and power without principle. What could go wrong… Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/on-foreign-policy-trump-makes-george Read more.
Trump is marking Veterans Day by plotting his own Ukraine-style war in Venezuela. iPINIONS thinks this proves America’s folly isn’t failing to learn from history, but repeating it for ratings. See my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-honors-veterans-day-by-planning Read more.
Every November we pin poppies to our lapels to remember the fallen. But as iPINIONS notes, remembrance should mean more than ceremony — it should extend to the living veterans who still wait for the honor we show once a year. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/remembrance-day-2025 Read more.
