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America’s Likely Civil War?      

Across America, whispers softly speak about whether there’s an undeclared civil war. Well, maybe yes, maybe no, but what are the signals? What about January 6th hand-to-hand combat on the steps of the nation’s capitol with 136 (injured) police officers, was it civil unrest or incipient civil war? Those questions are answered by Barbara F. […]

Doctor Sues Canadian University for Allegedly Pushing Him Out of Job Over His Covid Opinions

A Canadian doctor, once at the frontline of the COVID-19 crisis, now finds himself at the centre of a legal battle with Queen's University after being fired for criticising the pandemic response on social media.
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The Censors Down Under: The ACMA Gambit on Misinformation and Disinformation

In January 2010, the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, doing what she does best, grasped a platitude and ran with it in launching, of all things, an institution called the Newseum.  “Information freedom,” she declared, “supports the peace and security that provide a foundation for global progress.” The same figure has encouraged the […]

Technocensorship: The Government’s War on So-Called Dangerous Ideas

John Whitehead “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Ray Bradbury What we are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas—legitimate or not—and the people who espouse them.Seventy years after Ray Bradbury’s …

The Urge to Destroy

As humanity recons with a never ending cavalcade of catastrophes, large segments of the population have succumbed to despair or distraction through culture wars or a series of vain cultural phenomena. [Insert Barbenheimer joke here.] Many youth, particularly in France, have channeled this hopelessness into rage. For the past several months the country had been […]