It has long been an open secret that the West has been providing Ukraine with funding, weapons, training, maintenance, targeting intelligence, and intelligence on the position of Russian forces and vulnerabilities, and even war-gaming. They have provided Ukraine with...
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TGIF: Reverse Scapegoating in the Immigration Debate
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 15, 2024 | Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In the controversy over immigration we can spot a phenomenon I call "reverse scapegoating." According to Merriam-Webster, the scapegoat is "one that bears the blame for others." With reverse scapegoating, others bear the blame for one. Both are unjust. Reverse...
Culture Warriors Spread Disinfo on ‘Haitian Cannibals’
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the first few years of the 2020s, the world witnessed a revolution in the dissemination of atrocity propaganda. Thanks to the proliferation of social media, smartphone ownership, and artificial intelligence, atrocity claims can now be manufactured, disseminated,...
Shifting Alliances and Building Tribes
by Christine E. Black | Mar 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Church leaders didn’t want me there. The minister had even called me into her office to ask me to stop passing out anti-war flyers and articles on the Iraq War. Why? Because I led a church peace group that was calling for the church to take a public stand against the...
The CIA Admits Its Long-Time Presence in Ukraine
by Brad Pearce | Mar 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On February 25, The New York Times published an article titled “The Spy War: How the CIA Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin.” This report was not the result of any leak, but was clearly authorized from the highest level: the CIA brought reporters in to tell the story....
How Washington Killed the Nuclear Arms Control System
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
During the Cold War, world populations faced the ongoing nightmare of a nuclear attack coming out of the blue. All it would have taken was one miscalculation by either side. Such a trigger could even have taken the form of a false alert. We know that at least one such...
Biden’s Myth of ‘Price Gouging’
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Mar 12, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
In recent times, accusations of "price gouging" have become prevalent, often targeting producers utilizing strategies like dynamic pricing and “shrinkflation.” Such accusations, echoed by political figures including President Joe Biden, overlook the intricate dynamics...
Will the Ghost of Duncan Lemp Haunt Gun-Grabbing Politicians?
by Jim Bovard | Mar 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
If you post a photo of a rifle on Instagram, tag it to your hometown, and add a caption like “green tip armor piercing gets the girls wet," Maryland police can cite that to get a no-knock search warrant and kill you in a pre-dawn assault on your bedroom. In his novel...
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Major Studies Find No Evidence of Brain Injury in Alleged ‘Havana Syndrome’ Patients
Two studies conducted by the National Institute of Health (NIH) on scores of people claiming to have Havana Syndrome did not find any evidence of brain damage. Purported victims of Havana Syndrome claim they were targeted by a foreign power with a mysterious weapon...
Officials and Aid Groups Blast Israel for Causing Famine in Gaza
Officials and human rights organizations denounced the Israeli actions in Gaza as deliberately provoking a humanitarian crisis that is now on the brink of an outright famine. Israel has created widespread starvation and dehydration in Gaza by preventing aid from...
US Senator Slams Israeli Claims About UNRWA as ‘Flat-Out Lies’
A Democratic Senator blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders in Tel Aviv for making false accusations about aid agencies operating in Gaza. Tel Aviv has charged the UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) with acting as a proxy of Hamas. ...
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Europe to Arm Ukraine Using Seized Russian Funds: Scholz
Ukraine’s Western backers will soon use profits from frozen Russian assets to finance military aid for Kiev, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.
Netanyahu Approves Plans for Rafah Ground Invasion
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a ground assault on Rafah, home to at least 1.5 million Palestinian refugees
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AIPAC, the Israel Lobby: The Most Disgusting Liars in the World
Imagine cashing your paycheck at the end of a hard week lying that Israel is not deliberately inflicting a deadly famine on the infants and children of Palestine. "Have a good day at work, Honey?" "Yeah, it was a lot of fun figuring out ways to lie about the children...
James Carville Right About Something?
Damn right, this time: Democrat Strategist James Carville: If Democrats Lose In November It’s Israel’s Fault “This Gaza stuff, this is not just a problem with some snot-nosed Ivy League people,” he said. “This is a problem all across the country. And I hope the...
End The Fed!
America's corrupt inflationary monetary policy -- oh, I mean social media! -- is driving people out of their minds.
Applications for revenue-generating IRS jobs are ‘far below’ agency goals
Good. Everyone hates IRS employees. No one should tolerate friends or family working for the IRS. It would be wrong and bad to bully strangers. But if you have IRS or would-be IRS employees among your family and friends, you should ridicule them until they cry and...
Trump: Another Special-Interest-Pandering Politician
Trump promises to slam a 100-percent tariff on [Update:] imported cars made in Chinese-owned factories in Mexico. He announced this not to a group of prospective car buyers but to a group of car makers. So what else is new? Car buyers, who outnumber the well-organized...
The New York Times Lies About Everything, In This Case, the Twitter Files
Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers are disgusting liars as documented by Matt Taibbi here. Does anyone know anything else about these men? They ever done an important story that was true that you remember? Me neither. Just this, as noted by Taibbi: Rutenberg two...