Kit Knightly Today marks four years to the day since the UK went into “lockdown” for the first time. What an exciting time that was, right? With the pan-banging and the curve-flattening and the Spirit of the Blitz living on. Good times. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s team decided to honour the occasion by slapping …
Todd Hayen Remember the bad kids in high school? The ones who didn’t make it onto the honour roll or the dean’s list? In my day they were the long-haired kids (the boys) who wore James Dean-style denim jackets and smoked in the bathrooms. I doubt if those kids in the ’70s even knew who …
Between fighting the online censors and fighting to break through the wall of noise distracting the average smartphone zombie, it’s getting harder and harder for activists and infowarriors to reach people online with real news and information. So, what can people do in the real world to gain attention and get the word out about …
Sylvia Shawcross With the end of winter comes a death rattle deep from the throat of the cold. It has sputtered snow in between the rain and left the spring grasses white wet waiting. We dreamed and prayed for the warmth but it still does not want to stay. It flirts with us then disappears …
Kit Knightly After years of denials, the mainstream media has decided to admit the Deep State does exist…and apparently it’s “awesome”. At least, according to this new video from the New York Times: It Turns Out the ‘Deep State’ Is Actually Kind of Awesome The video itself is a six-minute strawman, presenting interviews with rocket …
Riley Waggaman Is Russia prepared for the most anticipated public health crisis in WHO-history? Yes, according to Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor). In a March 9 press release (archived version here for those who can’t access Russian government websites due to Internet Sanctions), the agency announced that Russia’s “preparedness for new …
CJ Hopkins Make fun of the Germans all you want, and I’ve certainly done that a bit during these past few years, but, if there’s one thing they’re exceptionally good at, it’s taking responsibility for their mistakes. Seriously, when it comes to acknowledging one’s mistakes, and not rationalizing, or minimizing, or attempting to deny them, …
Edward Curtin ` Here’s a film about the 1950s – “The World As It Was” – that will tell you a great deal about life in the U.S.A. today, while disabusing anyone of the notion that nostalgia for that mephitic decade is in order, for it was a time when “democracy” tended toward totalitarianism. In …
John & Nisha Whitehead “Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Day by day, tyranny …
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. 1. Michael Gove’s Definition of Extremism UK Michael Gove MP made the news this week when he formally announced the UK government’s official definition of …
