New here? You're reading Dispatches from the Rebellion — independent reporting on the global fight for freedom. Subscribe Free Want to share this? Here's a link. The Global Fight for Freedom This Time, Putin Is in Deep Sh*t Reality Check: Tehran Is Losing Hormuz The "Scurrying Rat" Who Defied Beijing Country names are followed by their 2026 freedom scores according to Freedom House. Not a ranking. In June 2023, the world held its breath as Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner column thundered up the M4...
7 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, Want to share this? Here's a link. Had this email forwarded to you? Sign up here.Editor’s Note: Under the weather this week. One full story today, plus two shorter takes on stories that I could not give full treatment. Back to form next Tuesday. The Global Fight for Freedom "Obliterated" from This Piece of Land That Thing That's Not Happening Gets Bloodier Putin's Humiliating African Withdrawal Country names are followed by their 2026 freedom scores according to Freedom House....
14 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Want to share this? Here's a link. Had this email forwarded to you? Sign up here.Editor's Note: To those who subscribed to the paid edition: thank you. Your support made clear this newsletter has real value — but the overall response also indicated we need to reach more people. Over the next 60 to 90 days, we're going to focus on growth and a move to Substack — a platform where more people can find us. During that time, we’re moving to a single weekly edition: three essential...
21 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, On Saturday morning, a U.S. Navy warship sliced through the Strait of Hormuz — and directly through a narrative the Western media has been hawking for weeks.That's not to say the hard questions don't exist. Whether Iran truly posed an imminent nuclear threat, whether 13 American lives and counting are buying genuine security, whether the Iranian people — the chief concern of this newsletter — will emerge from this freer: these demand serious investigation. What Americans have...
25 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Want to share this? Here’s a link. Had this email forwarded to you? Sign up here for free. The Global Fight for Freedom Autocracy Dies on the Danube Gangster Hunt in America's Backyard Erdogan Flogs the Rotting Corpse of Democracy Israel's Extremist Problem Intensifies Mullahs Stoke Fears in the Gate of Tears Country names are followed by their 2026 freedom scores according to Freedom House. Not a ranking. On Sunday, sixteen years of creeping autocracy died on the Danube in a...
28 days ago • 5 min read
"Let us not forget that the current, abhorrent regime in Iran is itself the product of a Western-backed intervention." So declared Senator Bernie Sanders in his official Senate statement on January 13th, just weeks before the war began. He continued:"In 1953, a British and American-orchestrated coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran. This was done primarily to protect Western oil interests."The implication is clear: American imperialism made Iran...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, This week: the New York Times uses two words to shut down one of the most important conversations in America — and we reopen it. A hammer-and-sickle notebook in a Shanghai office, and the "No Kings" movement gets complicated. Thirty-six nations sign a statement — and do nothing. And the quote from Donald Trump that made Vladimir Putin's week. Dispatches from the Rebellion: Counterstrikes Edition Two Words. Debate Closed. No Kings. Just Commissars? The Land of Strongly Worded...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
Hello Reader, Want to share this? Here's a link. Had this email forwarded to you? Sign up here.This week: a wounded American colonel, alone in the Zagros Mountains with a $60,000 bounty on his head — rescued after 36 hours and a firefight 200 miles inside Iran. Meanwhile, Ukraine's drone commanders have calculated the plunging cost of killing a Russian soldier. One says everything about what we value. The other says everything about what Putin does not. The Global Fight for Freedom MAGA's...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, This week: the New York Times uses two words to shut down one of the most important conversations in America — and we reopen it. A hammer-and-sickle notebook in a Shanghai office, and the "No Kings" movement gets complicated. Thirty-six nations sign a statement — and do nothing. And the quote from Donald Trump that made Vladimir Putin's week. Dispatches from the Rebellion: Counterstrikes Edition Two Words. Debate Closed. No Kings. Just Commissars? The Land of Strongly Worded...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read