The Continuum

Between October 8th and 11th, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck three Yandex data centers in Russia — in Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir. Two were shut down entirely. A third was severely damaged. Then something strange happened. Cloudflare data showed that automated bot traffic from Yandex’s network dropped from 88% to 0.4% — almost to zero. Zelenskyy went on television and said social media had become...

Press freedom is at a 25-year low in 2026. At least 252 journalists have been killed since October 2023 — the deadliest period for media workers ever recorded. The United States has fallen to 64th in the global press freedom rankings. History has a very clear message about what this means. In every country where a free society has collapsed into dictatorship, the press was targeted first. Not seco...

In July 2026, the Trump administration invoked “communism” 81 times in two weeks. A State Department report openly praised McCarthy-era blacklists as “a model that worked.” The White House declared an “unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism.” The playbook is back. Part 3 of The Continuum’s Red Scare series asks the question the first two episodes...

On February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy stood at a podium in Wheeling, West Virginia and told the audience he had a list. 205 communists in the State Department. Known to the Secretary of State. Still working and shaping American policy. The number changed every time he said it. The list was never produced. And it didn’t matter — because the accusation was the punishment. Part 2 of The Contin...

In 2026, the White House declared an “unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism.” Politicians are calling their opponents communists. Protesters are being labeled subversives. The playbook is back. But here’s what most people don’t know: this playbook is almost 200 years old. And it has never really been about communism. Part 1 of The Continuum’s Red...

The September 11 attacks cost between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and execute. Less than the price of a Manhattan apartment. The wars they triggered cost over $2 trillion. The 9/11 Commission followed the money. They found where much of it came from inside al-Qaeda. They found how it moved through US bank accounts. And they found that Saudi Arabia was the primary source of funding for al-Qaeda a...

In May 1916, a British diplomat named Mark Sykes took his finger and dragged it across a map of the Middle East. Everything north of his line went to France. Everything south went to Britain. The people who lived there were not consulted. They weren’t even told. That line is still on the map today. And wars are still being fought across it. Right now, in 2026, Israeli commentators are calling the...

On December 7, 1941, Doris Miller was collecting laundry below deck on the USS West Virginia when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began. He wasn’t supposed to fight. The US Navy in 1941 had a clear rule: Black sailors were mess attendants, cooks, and stewards. They were not trained for combat. They were not given combat roles. In the next two hours, Miller carried his mortally wounded captain...

For decades, the story of apartheid’s collapse has been told through the lives of Nelson Mandela, the struggle on Robben Island, international sanctions, and the global anti-apartheid movement. All of those forces mattered. But far from the cameras, another struggle was taking place in the Angolan and Namibian bush — a long, brutal conflict that would eventually help make apartheid strategically i...

On July 31, 2026, 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta — a small Spanish city on the Moroccan coast. At least 67 people died. Spain declared a state of emergency. Most coverage is calling this an immigration story. It is also a geopolitical pressure campaign — and the timing is not a coincidence. The same week: Morocco celebrated its king’s anniversary. The US reaffirmed it supports Moroc...

Did newspapers help push America into the Spanish-American War? The explosion of the USS Maine has become one of the most famous events in American history, but the real story didn’t end in Havana Harbor. It was only beginning. In Part 2 of this documentary series, we examine the rise of Yellow Journalism , the fierce circulation battle between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer , and how...

On February 15, 1898, the battleship USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 260 American sailors. Within weeks, cries of “Remember the Maine!” swept across the United States, newspapers blamed Spain, and America marched toward war. But the story is far more complicated. In this documentary, we examine the events leading up to the explosion, including the humanitarian crisis in Cuba, the brut...

They didn’t begin with gas chambers. They began with words. Before the Holocaust became industrialized mass murder, Nazi Germany launched a program known as Aktion T4 —a secret campaign that targeted people with disabilities, mental illness, and those the regime labeled “life unworthy of life.” In this documentary, we examine how ordinary language became a weapon. Bureaucrats, doctors, and adminis...

The Treaty of Versailles didn’t just end World War I—it helped shape the conditions that led to World War II. In this documentary, we examine how the Treaty of Versailles was written, why Germany was excluded from the negotiations, and how the peace conference at Paris became one of the most consequential diplomatic failures in modern history. From the dramatic confrontation in the Hall of Mirrors...

In 1854, thousands of people stormed a federal jail in Milwaukee to free an escaped slave. What followed became one of the most explosive constitutional battles in American history. This video tells the story of Joshua Glover, Sherman Booth, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the legal war that brought a state government into direct conflict with the United States Supreme Court years before the Civi...

On June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War, the USS Liberty was attacked in international waters, leaving 34 American sailors dead and 171 wounded. The official explanation was mistaken identity—but for decades, survivors, military leaders, intelligence officials, and investigators have challenged that conclusion. This documentary examines the documented events surrounding the USS Liberty attack, the...

Britain and France won the military battle in Egypt in 1956. So why did the Suez Crisis destroy Britain’s status as a global superpower? This video breaks down the hidden story behind the Suez Crisis — from Gamal Abdel Nasser’s electrifying rise in Egypt, to the secret conspiracy between Britain, France, and Israel, to the financial warfare President Dwight D. Eisenhower used to force Britain into...

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident became the justification for the Vietnam War. There was just one problem:The second attack likely never happened. In August 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson told the American people that North Vietnam launched an unprovoked attack against U.S. Navy destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Days later, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution almost unanimously — giving th...

Before Memorial Day became a holiday of barbecues and long weekends, one of the first known Memorial Day ceremonies was held by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1865, newly freed Black Americans honored fallen Union soldiers who died fighting against slavery by giving them proper burials and holding a massive remembrance ceremony. This is the forgotten story of how Memorial Day bega...

Oil has dozens of producers. Advanced semiconductor chips — the components powering every smartphone, every AI system, every modern weapons platform on the planet — have one. Taiwan. One island. 23 million people. 90% of the world’s most advanced chips. And right now, as the Iran war disrupts the energy supply lines that keep Taiwan’s fabs running, the fragility of the entire global technology sup...

The petrodollar system has survived oil embargoes, financial crises, and the rise of China. It survived 2008 — when a crisis born in American banks sent investors running toward the dollar, not away from it. But the dollar just posted its worst performance in over fifty years. And this time, the threat didn’t come from Beijing or Moscow. It came from Washington. In Episode 3 of our Petrodollar ser...

In Episode 1, we traced how America replaced the gold standard with oil — and built the petrodollar system in a secret deal between Henry Kissinger and the Saudi royal family. In Episode 2, we look at what that system actually did. For fifty years, the United States has run deficits that would have collapsed any other economy. Borrowed endlessly. Printed money. Fought wars it couldn’t pay for. And...

Discover the secret arrangement that saved the US dollar and reshaped the global economy for 50 years. In 1971, the world’s financial anchor snapped when Richard Nixon ended the gold standard. Facing economic chaos and a skyrocketing oil crisis, a secret 1974 deal between Henry Kissinger and the Saudi royal family created a new world order: the Petrodollar system. We trace the history of modern mo...

In 44 BCE, an 18-year-old received a letter in Greece telling him that Julius Caesar — assassinated the day before — had named him his heir. His advisors told him to walk away. He walked straight in. What followed was one of the most ruthless and brilliant political ascents in human history. The boy everyone planned to sideline outmaneuvered Mark Antony, outlasted Cleopatra, put his own champion C...

The Tanker War remains one of the most volatile chapters in Middle East history, directly shaping the permanent US military presence in the Persian Gulf today. In this deep dive, we explore Iraq’s deliberate strategy to bomb Kharg Island to provoke an Iranian retaliation. By forcing Iran to threaten the Strait of Hormuz , Saddam Hussein aimed to globalize the conflict and force a US intervention....