Spencer J. Quinn joins Our Interesting Times to discuss his book Solzhenitsyn and the Right which is published by Antelope Hill. We discuss the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and how his dissident work can be used by the dissident right as a metapolitical weapon in today’s culture war. Spencer is an author, researcher and frequent contributor to Counter-Currents.
Keir Starmer faces a deepening antisemitism crisis after he was forced to take action against a second parliamentary candidate in 24 hours and came under pressure to investigate five more MPs and candidates.
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"Microeconomic relative-price dynamics increasingly drive inflation measurements. That means the Fed should not be afraid to ease off the brakes." ~Alexander W. Salter
"Ignoring the secondary consequences of a policy and focusing solely on its primary intended consequences is what separates a bad economist from a good one." ~Jon Miltimore
This Valentine's Day, spare a thought for those who fall in love with inanimate objects like the Eiffel Tower. And don't you dare laugh – if activists have their way, mocking their 'orientation' will be banned.
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The Net Zero crisis deepens as the Government says it is only planning to build just over a quarter of the carbon capture capacity the Climate Change Committee says is needed to hit the green target.
Une analyse quantitative montre que les grands journaux ont privilégié les récits israéliens au cours des six premières semaines de l’assaut contre Gaza. Source : The Intercept, Adam Johnson, Othman Ali Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Le New York Times, le Washington Post et le Los Angeles Times ont couvert la guerre d’Israël […]
An Internet search shows journalist Sidney Blumenthal and historian James Chace as the first to coin the term “indispensable nation,” which is appropriate for describing the United States. This happened in 1996 during Bill Clinton’s presidency and Madeleine Albright’s term as Secretary of State. In his book The Clinton Wars, Blumenthal justified this definition since … Continue reading "Indispensable Nation or One Obsessed with Hegemony"
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution marks its 25th anniversary this month, despite continuous US-led hybrid warfare to overthrow the socialist project. The Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro has successfully forced the US to de facto engage with it, although Washington still maintains the fiction that the defunct 2015 National Assembly is the “last remaining democratic institution” … Continue reading "Washington Promotes Venezuelan Opposition Candidate"
During Mr. Obama’s second term in office (2013-2017), it had become clear that the terms of the public policy debate were undergoing a radical and worrying transformation. In the space of a very short time, certain ideas and policy proposals were being ruled as out of bounds not on the grounds that they were unwise, … Continue reading "The ‘Disinformation’ Complex and US Foreign Policy"
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Iain Davis UK independent journalist, researcher and documentary filmmaker Richard D. Hall faces conviction, sizeable damages and an injunction that could potentially end his career and his livelihood. The High Court of Justice has denied Hall the opportunity to present any kind of meaningful defence. This travesty of justice has potential implication, not just for …
"The January 2024 CPI report highlights the challenges of returning inflation to the Fed’s target range and suggests a bumpy road ahead." ~Peter C. Earle
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast – recorded live at the Hippodrome in Leicester Square – the talking points are Joe Biden's failing memory, Trump's radical NATO shake-up and Putin giving Tucker a history lesson.
Planning laws have had to be eased because of the pressure record immigration is putting on the availability of housing, Housing Minister Lee Rowley has said.
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Every conceivable detail of your life must be collected to determine your "carbon footprint," which will determine how many clicks populate your "carbon passport." Want to go to Paris? Well, if you drive an SUV, have too much grass in your yard, or eat too much beef - FORGET IT!
U.K. universities lead the world in spin, says Dr. Roger Watson, who describes some of the most egregious examples from his 30-year university teaching career.
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Originally published December 2, 2023. After seven weeks of relentless Israeli bombing throughout Gaza, according to the modest estimates of the UN as of November 23 (right before a humanitarian ceasefire came into effect), more than 14,800 people have been killed in the enclave, including about 6,000 children and 4,000 women. While these Israeli attacks on Gaza are by far the worst yet, […]
Elon Musk has posted on X the extraordinary list of criteria laid out in Disney's DEI policy that must be applied when making an appointment. Is he plotting a takeover of the company afflicted by the woke mind virus?
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A survey has found that half of Democrat voters endorse election conspiracies, which is only slightly less than the proportion of Republican voters who do so. Election denial is a bipartisan problem.
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John & Nisha Whitehead Big Brother is Watching You.” George Orwell, 1984 2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. Fueled by a melding of government and corporate power—the rise …
"The delayed implementation of dollarization in Argentina presents challenges that could have been avoided had Milei honored his promise to abandon the peso straightaway." ~Nicolás Cachanosky
"When a motivated and adequately organized group combines to concentrate its lobbying power on government, it generates foreseeable incentives for the ruling legislatures." ~Paul Schwennesen
Senior BBC employee Dawn Queva was sacked recently for calling white people a "parasitical deviant breed". Steven Tucker delves in the murky history of the bizarre belief system that underpins these racist ideas.
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Where are all the green jobs that were promised, asks Chris Morrison. All there seems to be is make-work for activists in operations funded by green billionaires pushing a ruinous decarbonisation agenda.
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After months of dangerous drama in Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has finally acted on his promise to fire Ukraine’s top general Valerii Zaluzhny. Their long private conflict first became public on November 1, 2023 when Zaluzhny made his views public to the West in an interview and essay with The Economist that made clear … Continue reading "Zelensky Replacing Zaluzhny Is Not Just the Firing of Another General"
There has been much written and said about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. As of this writing the video on Twitter alone has been viewed nearly 200 million times, making it likely the most-viewed news event in history. Many millions of viewers who may not have had access to the … Continue reading "Tucker Carlson Slayed the Mainstream Media Dragon"
President Joe Biden is refusing to fold a losing hand as he bets with Ukrainian lives and U.S. taxpayer money. Biden and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer propose to squander the lives of tens of thousands more Ukrainians and $61 billions of federal funds to keep Biden’s disastrous foreign policy failure hidden from view … Continue reading "The Biden-Schumer Plan To Kill More Ukrainians"
One civilian was injured.
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Download Episode. Scott is joined by Richard Booth and Ken Silva to discuss the Oklahoma City Bombing. Specifically, they talk about Jesse Trentadue’s effort to use the Freedom of Information Act to declassify FBI documents about people with links to the bombing. In this discussion, the three review who Jesse Trentadue is and his link […]
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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In the first half of the show, David Lorant, a farmer based in Rennes, France joins host Eleanor Goldfield to contextualize the widespread farmer protests that just recently saw farmers in tractors blockading major motorways across the country, calling for what media has spun as right-wing anti-ecological demands. David debunks…
As the new Covid JN.1 variant spread over the winter, an Imperial College 'expert' predicted a "major surge in infections" and called for masks to return. This prediction, like all the others, did not age well.
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Apple Vision Pro highlights the dangers posed by blended reality goggles to literally re-wire your brain. Synthetic environments distort distance, disassociate your body in space and time, distort real objects, and create new ones. Your reality is manufactured by you and specific only to you, forfeiting shared reality by those around you.
Johan Eddebo Do you remember how the unconstitutional, pastel-authoritarian and totally batshit insane “Disinformation Governance Board” – with its Mary Poppins-cosplaying, Monty Python level of unintentional self-satirizing department head – was rolled out two years ago like a half-joke, half-beta-test of a version of the 1984 Ministry of Truth? Well, kids, I wouldn’t really call …
Controversial education charity Educate and Celebrate that encouraged three year-olds to question their gender and wanted to ban 'Sir' and 'Miss' in schools has mysteriously shut down.
Guilty But Clueless: Special Counsel Verdict On Biden by James Bovard, February 12 2024 Did a Special Counsel report officially launch the Biden administration Death Spiral? President Joe Biden is not guilty because he is hopelessly clueless about his own life and career. That is the tacit verdict of Special Counsel Robert Hur, who concluded […]
"A woke and extremist culture has infiltrated the Army," the Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said, as he held crisis talks with military chiefs over plans to relax security checks to increase diversity.
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Corbett explained in his top story that the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza that was bombed by Israel did have tunnels underneath it, but the tunnels were not built and used by Hamas, but were actually built by Israelis decades earlier. Corbett lamented the loss of life in Gaza, especially the children that have been killed.
The national digital ID will be a version of MyGovID that Australians currently utilize for the Australian Taxation Office, Centrelink and Medicare access and will be enlarged to encompass state, territory and private sector organizations opting to participate. Consolidated identification allows for more tracking.
Matt Walsh published video that shows senior officials at the FAA discussing plans “to reduce the number of white males in aviation.” DEI has been elevated above safety and Walsh warned that “It’s only a matter of time until this combination of incompetence and anti-white discrimination leads to a major air disaster.”
Stunned children returned from a school trip to France at the weekend to find two migrants in the luggage compartment of their coach. Police attended the incident but arrested no one. No wonder our borders are wide open.
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"Slow-motion corporate raiding just doesn't stir the blood like waving a flag and raising a fist at the barricade or building a guillotine outside Jeff Bezos’s house." ~Art Carden
"There are three possible resolution scenarios to federal government borrowing and spending — none of them good for economic growth in the near term." ~Paul Mueller
