Strange New World, Same Old Blues
BY JOHN KENDALL HAWKINS They’re coming for our youth. They always have been. Trying to get at their thoughts (Abbie). Trying to find out what makes them tick (MKULTRA). Trying to ease their way into the […]
Now He Tells Us: David Brooks Suggests That the Republican Party Has Embraced Fascism
BY CHUCK CHURCHILL Photograph Source: PBS Newshour – CC BY 2.0 A recent Atlantic article by David Brooks, “The Terrifying Future of the American Right: What I Saw at the National Conservative Conference” lays out the latest thinking on […]
Roaming Charges: Fear is a (White) Man’s Best Friend
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR “What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account?” – Macbeth My mind keeps going back to the gloves on Rittenhouse’s hands, glowing blue in the […]
Big Oil’s Big Lie About Who Caused the Climate Collapse
BY EVE OTTENBERG Oil pollution in Lago Agrio. Photograph Source: Julien Gomba – CC BY 2.0 Veganism isn’t the answer to climate change, nor is eschewing air travel. Both help, but don’t tackle the problem systemically. Ending […]
Mystery Meat Congress; Clueless Mainstream Press
BY WINSLOW WHEELER Photograph Source: Steve Snodgrass – CC BY 2.0 I have been a close observer of Congress since 1971 when I started my first Hill job with Senator Jacob Javits from New York, a liberal […]
The Indian Farmers Defend the Rights of Farmers Everywhere
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Ravan Khosa, edited by Aristeas – CC BY-SA 4.0 On November 19, 2021, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “[W]e have decided to repeal all three agricultural laws.” The prime minister was referring […]
The Media’s War Against Biden on Inflation
BY DEAN BAKER Photograph Source: John Loo – CC BY 2.0 INFLATION IN THE U.S. ECONOMY IS CLEARLY A PROBLEM. There, I said it in all caps so that everyone can see I recognize it as a […]
Ethiopia Conflict by US Design
BY GRAHAM PEEBLES Supported by America and other foreign forces, including elements within United Nations (UN) agencies, The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) are attempting to overthrow the democratically elected Government of Ethiopia and regain power. […]
Are We Overreacting to Omicron?
BY PAUL ELIAS ALEXANDER | BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE With natural exposure immunity and early outpatient treatment and when combined with no reports of increased lethality, the WHO’s reaction of generating panic toward “Omicron” is causing needless […]
Omicron variant hits UK as two cases confirmed
by: SKWAWKBOX (SW) The new Covid variant that has been sweeping South Africa and massively out-competing other variants has hit the UK. Two cases have been confirmed so far, but with transmissibility up to 500% […]