When Barack Obama implemented George W. Bush’s agreement to withdraw all U.S. military forces from Iraq by the end of 2011, most Americans likely concluded that Washington’s disastrous intervention had come to an end. However, the administration reintroduced combat forces to Iraq and sent troops to Syria when ISIS launched its military offensive in 2013-2014 … Continue reading "Washington’s Continuing Contempt for Its Iraqi ‘Ally’"
Last week’s US/British strike against Houthi military targets in Yemen escalated operations to protect shipping in the Red Sea from an expensive and wasteful defensive project to an offensive that could draw the United States further into the Yemeni civil war. Even Saudi Arabia, which has been fighting the Houthis for years with support from … Continue reading "The US Military Role in the Red Sea – Now Turning Offensive – Is a Bad Deal"
Another 28 were wounded.
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Dio Cassius: Is it not dreadful that we become engaged in war after war? Dio Cassius: Weeping and lamenting the fratricide of war Dio Cassius: When peace was announced the mountains resounded ==== Dio CassiusFrom Roman HistoryTranslated by Earnest Cary … … Continue reading →
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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Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. Also, we have a new banner. “The New Normal” meant vaccines and lockdowns when we designed the old one in 2021, it means a lot …
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo's call for a halt in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines has sparked a debate, with FDA adviser Paul Offit attempting a rebuttal that others have said "fundamentally misunderstands" the problem.
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We kick off this year focusing on press freedoms. We welcome back to the program independent journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange. Gosztola joins the program to discuss the latest updates on Assange’s extradition case, the CIA spying lawsuit and a Congressional…
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Technology has become a cult that seeks absolute control as we yearn for certainty. But the Post Office Horizon scandal shows that, like the gods of old, it will always let us down, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
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Many on the 'new Right' propose that we should be 'Left on the economy and Right on culture'. This is not really possible, argues Dr David McGrogan: a state addicted to intervening in the economy will intervene everywhere.
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"Much has improved in race relations since Martin Luther King. But the same cannot be said of the laws governing labor markets." ~Scott Drylie
The United Nations and the World Economic Forum have pivoted away from climate change and the Great Reset to declare that Free Speech is the number-one enemy in the world. This means that legions of globalists have been launched to drive Free Speech into oblivion. Technocracy News was the first to declare war on Technocracy in 2015. Now you see why.
John & Nisha Whitehead “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.” Richard Nixon Many years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The answer, then and now, remains the same: None. There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians. Nor is there much of …
"The noise from BRICS about creating their own reserve currency and abandoning the dollar is little more than noise. As irresponsible as the Fed has been, BRICS policymakers apparently want to inflate faster than even the Fed will allow." ~Robert F. Mulligan
The FAA is recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions that include hearing and vision impairment, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy and dwarfism under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative.
Tucker Carlson wrote, "Gonzalo Lira is an American citizen who’s been tortured in a Ukrainian prison since July, for the crime of criticizing Zelensky. Biden officials approve of this, because they’d like to apply the same standard here. The media agree." Lira predicted his own death in an Ukrainian prison camp.
The newly installed, 34-year-old French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, has been a WEF Young Global Leader since 2020 and a Bilderberg member since 2023. Current French President Emmanuel Macron (2016) and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (1993) are WEF Young Global Leaders, too. In the US, 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley is a WEF Young... Continue Reading →
The British media’s complicity in Israel’s slaughter in Gazaby Ian SinclairMorning Star7 December 2023 Printed in full by Jadaliyya, on October 24 Rami Ruhayem, a BBC correspondent based in Beirut, sent an extraordinary email to BBC Director General Tim Davie, raising “the gravest possible concerns” about the corporation’s post October 7 coverage of the Israel-Palestine […]
If you think Hillary Clinton describing Donald Trump supporters as a "basket of deplorables" was demeaning, consider that one of Germany's top politicians has now compared AfD supporters to "flies on a pile of shit".
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The January 6 US Capitol Riots three years ago were a classic state-run deception: the supposed “insurrection” was led by agents provocateurs from beginning to end; the “pipe bombs” were mock-ups planted by an informant; the “shooting” of Ashli Babbitt appears to have been a stunt filmed by media assets; and just three months earlier,... Continue Reading →
A new study finds that Germans who are involved in environmental activism, or who support such activism, tend to score higher on measures of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism and left-wing authoritarianism.
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(German) Vier der ca. 20 “ZDF-Angreifer” vom 1. Mai 2020 wurden letzte Woche von einem Berliner Gericht im Rahmen eines “Deals” zu einer milden Bewährungsstrafe und einem geringen Schmerzensgeld verurteilt. Doch entgegen Medienberichten galt der Angriff nicht dem ZDF, sondern der KenFM-Produktionsfirma TV United, und er erfolgte nicht durch “Corona-Kritiker”, sondern durch vermummte “Antifa”-Schläger. Das... Continue Reading →
The Naked Emperor flags a recent Twitter spat between statistician Nate Silver and psychologist Sander van der Linden, over the merits of countering misinformation by exposing people to fake news in controlled doses.
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A devastating new poll foresees a 1997-style collapse for the Conservative Party in the next General Election, with Reform UK's influence securing a landslide victory for Labour.
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The 1948 Convention on Genocide defines genocide as "...acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." Israel has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians, including more than 8,000 children. An estimated 85% of the population of Gaza has been displaced.
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Le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahou a fait le pari qu’un Hamas fort (mais pas trop) garantirait la paix et réduirait la pression en faveur d’un État palestinien. Source : The New York Times, Mark Mazzetti, Ronen BergmanTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Quelques semaines avant que le Hamas ne lance les attaques meurtrières du […]
On Friday, January 12, the US led strikes across rebel-controlled areas of Yemen and killed 5 Houthi fighters as retribution against months of attacks on Red Sea shipping. National Security spokesman John Kirby claims the US is not interested in a proxy war with Iran, but the US strikes could lead to larger conflict.
The blame game has commenced; America’s Ukraine hawks have met the enemy, and it is us. Informed observers here and abroad acknowledge that the war of attrition between Russia and US- and NATO- funded Ukraine has taken roughly half a million Ukrainian lives, and that, given Russian superiority in manpower and materiel, Kiev would be … Continue reading "Neocons Blame America First"
Recently, The Wall Street Journal joined the flood of American mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, Politico and several others, in preparing the American public for a Russian victory. After nearly two years, over $113 billion of U.S. taxpayers’ money spent at horrendous cost in life and limb has put Ukraine in a … Continue reading "Wall Street Journal Sets Standard for Irresponsible Journalism in Ukraine"
Here we go again. The “Joe Biden” thing just started another war in Yemen without a constitutionally compliant declaration by Congress. And it/they did so against a rag-tag tribe of desert insurgents who cannot possibly harm the liberty or security of the American homeland. After all, the most fearsome missile possessed by the Houthi is … Continue reading "To Hell With Fighting the Houthis!"
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Martin Luther King, Jr., hero for peace. It’s sad that the word “hero” is so often modified by or married to “war” in history. He’s a war hero, we say, without giving it too much thought. As if wars are somehow ennobling and sublime. Waging peace is … Continue reading "Peace Hero Martin Luther King Jr."
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Dio Cassius: “How long are we to be waging war?” Dio Cassius: Weeping and lamenting the fratricide of war Dio Cassius: When peace was announced the mountains resounded ==== Dio CassiusRoman HistoryTranslated by Earnest Cary When Pertinax as a … … Continue reading →
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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Eugyppius reports from the frontline of the German farmers' protest in Berlin, sparked by an agricultural diesel tax hike, now morphing into a wider anti-tax movement and expression of discontent with the Government.
J R Leach In the dusty corridors of intellectual exploration, I, an avid follower of Jordan B Peterson’s insights into Jungian psychology and Nietzschean philosophy, find myself confronting a recent heartbreak. At first, I chose to ignore it, not ready for what it actually meant. But I’ve mulled over it for a bit now and …
Thousands have gathered in London's Trafalgar Square for a 'Stand with Israel' event, demanding the release of hostages from Gaza and marking 100 days since the October 7th attacks.
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"Respect for the creators of ideas, and the words through which those ideas are conveyed in the literature, is the highest value we have in the academy." ~Michael Munger
Iain Davis According to the UK Met Office, 2023 was the second hottest year in the UK since 1884. Quite obviously, this is complete nonsense. Unless they are troglodytes that never venture out in daylight, why would anyone in the UK believe such absurd drivel? The Met Office states: 2023 is provisionally the second warmest year …
"The Dutch Republic was a common destination for a brain-drain of innovators from elsewhere: merchants from the south, bakers from Germany, Portuguese and Spanish Jews." ~Joakim Book
Under Mayor Sadiq Khan's leadership, violent crime on London's tube network has surged by 75% in the last two years, with 3,542 incidents recorded, including increases in sexual offences and robberies.
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Over 200,000 people have marched in London, supporting Palestine amid escalating tensions in Yemen, with some protesters endorsing recent terrorist actions by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
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Följ med Tobias Svanelid till kung Agamemnons Mykene, staden som var Greklands rikaste och där berättelserna i Iliaden tog sin början. Men vad vet vi egentligen om den mykenska civilisationen?
Residents are receiving fines for minor waste infractions, such as a £400 penalty for putting cardboard in a Brighton bin, with even seniors penalised for litter-picking.
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A majority of Americans believe Covid vaccines may be to blame for many unexplained deaths and a quarter say they know someone who died from the jab, a new poll shows. Just 33% think vaccine harms are a conspiracy theory.
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