Several, seemingly small events in the Russo-Ukrainian War went largely unnoticed in western media recently. But each of them, in their own way, may be significant. The Fall of Avdiivka On February 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 31,000 Ukrainian...
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2/29/24 Mike Benz on the American Censorship Regime
by Scott Horton | Mar 2, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Mike Benz of the Foundation for Freedom Online. They discuss Benz’s background and how he came to become an expert in the federal government’s efforts to censor and control the internet. They then go through some of the more...
Our Bloody Cultural Psychosis
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Imagine someone who did not know the difference between right and wrong and felt that he could, and should, take anything he wanted from anyone he wanted because, as far as he could see, there was no reason not to. If he wanted to buy something but was low on funds,...
No Man Controls Everything in a State
by Brad Pearce | Feb 28, 2024 | Featured Articles
The constant screeching about various “strongmen” from America’s media and think tank classes seem to have created a widespread misunderstanding about how governments, or really any large organization, work. We perhaps see this the most with Russia, where we hear the...
Netanyahu’s Post-War Plans for Gaza Call for Military Occupation ‘Without Time Limit’
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 26, 2024 | News
The Israeli Prime Minister also wants to deploy troops along the border with Egypt Israel has released its first draft of its plans for post-war Gaza. Throughout the four months of a brutal onslaught, Israeli forces have decimated the Strip and killed 30,000...
Netanyahu Says Hostage Deal Will Only Delay Attack on Rafah
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 26, 2024 | News
The Israeli leader made the statement after the White House rolled out a new hostage release proposal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that if Tel Aviv agrees to a new hostage deal with Hamas, it will only “delay” the Israeli attack on Rafah. International...
What ‘Conspiracy’ Can Teach Us About Central Planning
by Kym Robinson | Feb 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
The 2001 film Conspiracy is an HBO production about the sinister 1942 Wannsee conference attended by fifteen upper echelon Nazi German bureaucrats, military and department heads. It was the first of two meetings with the intention of solving the “Jewish problem.” ...
The Progressive Divide-and-Conquer Strategy
by Keith Knight | Feb 25, 2024 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/j0cXomWoiVw Focusing on disparities also distracts from focusing on the principle at hand. Progressives often will oppose the “War on Drugs,” for example, on the grounds that certain demographics are disproportionately targeted for drug arrests. But...
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Pour One Out for Will Grigg
We miss ya, pal.
George Carlin Imitating a Nice Lady Voice: ‘Well, thank God for that.’
Nearly 90% of feds' office space in D.C. going to waste, government report finds
The Wigan Pier of the Periphery
I just finished some work in the city. I was working with a pair of carpenters, men in dirty clothes with splinters in their hands. As we worked the nicely dressed office class ignored those building the world around them, the delivery drivers, the cleaners, the...
Friends Don’t Let Friends Ally with the USA
Osama bin Laden like Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and a legion of other malefactors discovered that alliance with the US and its coalition partners can be a mercurial and potentially lethal relationship.
A Home into a House
It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the...
Ben Shapiro Shows Why He Can’t Be Taken Seriously
Dave Smith highlights another reason why Ben Shapiro’s attempts to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza cannot be taken seriously.