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The world's largest censorship machine relies on partisan fact checkers. The results are absurd.

David Perez Years ago, I was sitting in a café with my rabble-rousing friend James, both of us gnawing our teeth over the myriad difficulties facing the peace and social justice movement in the United States. We cited the usual suspects that stood in the way of progress: the entrenched corporate and financial elite; the …

Make no mistake: Business interests trump public health. Abstract: For capitalist governments, maintaining conditions conducive to the profit-making interests of business owners and investors is the top priority; public health, only so far as it is necessary to maintain an adequate supply of labor, is not. Understanding this helps explain (i) why many capitalist governments … Continue reading The Catastrophes of the Pandemic are the Catastrophes of Capitalism →

Rosemary Frei, via her website The cadence is increasing of jurisdictions introducing, normalizing and expanding laws allowing doctors to help people commit suicide. Is this purely in the service of relieving unbearable physical or mental suffering? Or do other factors predominate? I used to believe the former, but my recent re-examination of the issue suggests …

Intelligence Committee chairman targets private companies.

Activist scientists have appointed themselves arbiters of who's entitled to protest and who isn't.

Concerns mustn't be swept under the carpet.

When group think masquerades as 'fact-checking.'

460 people have died after receiving COVID-19 vaccines.

Travelers to China are now subject to anal penetration by the authorities.