Washington, DC has been turned into a war zone for this week's "virtual" presidential inauguration, with 20,000 National Guard troops and mass closures of bridges, roads, and the Metro. Is there a real threat of another "insurrection," or is there some over-hyping...
Month: January 2021
Free Speech Is Hard. Its Alternative Is Worse.
by Mary L. G. Theroux | Jan 18, 2021 | Featured Articles
It’s hard to hear ideologues spouting ideas you know are fully wrong, even harder when you know that the implementation of such ideas would hurt people, including you. Hardest is listening to a message full of hate, vitriol, and name-calling, especially when it’s...
New Peer-Reviewed Study: Lockdowns Are No Good Against Coronavirus
by Adam Dick | Jan 17, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Across the world, people have been suffering because of coronavirus crackdowns marketed as means to limit or even stop the spread of coronavirus. Yet, looking around, many people have observed that it seems there is little to no benefit from oppressive measures such...
Why They Hate Trump So Deeply
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the words of Ronald Reagan, here we go again. The unbelievable hatred that Democrats, liberals, progressives, and the mainstream press have toward President Trump continues to consume them, with the latest manifestation being a second impeachment of President...
Ron Paul on Facebook Blocking Him and the Move Toward Fascism
by Adam Dick | Jan 17, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Interviewed Wednesday by host Stuart Varney at Fox Businesses, libertarian communicator and former United States House of Representatives member Ron Paul shared some of his thoughts about Facebook’s “absurd” blocking of Paul from using his Facebook account, as well as...
9/11 Was the Prelude. 1/6 Is the Holy Grail
by Pepe Escobar | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you and me We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then We don’t doubt, we don’t take direction Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me Sisters of Mercy,...
‘Revoke Their Degrees’: Harvard Faculty and Students Seek Revocation Of Degrees For Trump Officials and Allies
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
There is a building campaign at Harvard to rescind the degrees of Trump officials and allies including White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX). This is not the only such effort to retaliate against...
Dealing With Big Tech Censorship – With Jeff Deist
by Ron Paul | Jan 16, 2021 | The Liberty Report
Mises Institute President (and former Ron Paul Congressional chief-of-staff) Jeff Deist joins Dr. Paul today to discuss the iron fist of Big Tech censorship. What, on a practical and pro-active level, can be done to preserve speech across the widest spectrum in the...
How CENTCOM Chief McKenzie manufactured an Iran crisis to increase his power
by Gareth Porter | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
During the final two months of the Trump administration, a series of provocative US military moves in the Middle East stirred fears that a war against Iran was being hatched. The atmosphere of crisis was not the result of any threat posed by Tehran, but rather the...
Congressional Hysteria & Hypocrisy Could Doom Liberty
by James Bovard | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
The political hysteria unleashed by last week’s clash at the Capitol between police and Trump protestors poses a growing danger to Americans’ constitutional rights. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer ludicrously compared the ruckus to Pearl Harbor – a “day of...
Drawing Lots with Coronavirus Vaccination
by Adam Dick | Jan 15, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There were delays and some people were turned away at San Diego’s new “Vaccination Super Station” near PetCo Park on Wednesday after, in a short time period, six people had allergic reactions after receiving their experimental coronavirus vaccine shots. In addition,...
The Pentagon Speaks
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have spoken. Issuing a remarkable memorandum to all members of the Armed Forces, the JCS have declared that Joe Biden will be the new president of the United States. The memo may have been not only one to military personnel but also to...
How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler
by Glenn Greenwald | Jan 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
Critics of Silicon Valley censorship for years heard the same refrain: tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are private corporations and can host or ban whoever they want. If you don’t like what they are doing, the solution is not to complain or to...
Biden Taps Veteran Interventionist Samantha Power to Head USAID
by Dave DeCamp | Jan 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
On Wednesday, Joe Biden announced that he will nominate Samantha Powerto head the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Power served as ambassador to the UN for President Obama from 2013 to 2017. Before that, she worked on Obama’s National Security Council,...
The US House of Representatives’ Ridiculous 25th Amendment Resolution
by Adam Dick | Jan 13, 2021 | Congress Alert
When you do not have a good case supporting taking an action, one tried-and-true strategy of persuasion is to pile up a mountain of trivial and ridiculous assertions and point to it as proof that you are right. If someone diligently digs through the mountain, he will...
Trump Impeachment 2.0: Necessity Or Farce?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 13, 2021 | The Liberty Report
After the January 6th mob ruckus inside the US Capitol building, the US House, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, rushed to put together articles of impeachment (again) for President Trump. Trump, they claim, led an insurrection on that day and must be held accountable....
Here Comes the Post- ‘Invasion’ Crackdown
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
Just as thunder follows lightning, you can rest assured that Democrats, the Deep State, and the mainstream press are going to use recent events at the Capitol to crack down on civil liberties. Why let a good opportunity to expand governmental power go to waste? Why,...
In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, They Rejected Lockdowns
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jan 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Asian flu of 1957-58 was a deadly pandemic with a broader reach for severe outcomes than Covid-19 of 2020. It killed between 1 and 4 million people worldwide, and 116,000 in the US in a time with half the population. It was a leading contributor to a year in which...
Can Burns Change the CIA?
by Ray McGovern | Jan 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
In nominating former Deputy Secretary of State William Burns to be CIA director, President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a highly experienced diplomat to lead a hydra-headed agency. But, if past is precedent, the highest hydras who head calcified fiefdoms at CIA can be...
The Biggest Scam in History
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
Soon after US officials declared their “war on terrorism” some 20 years ago, I wrote that this new war was likely to last longer than the “war on drugs.” There is a simple reason for that: the supply of “terrorists” would be endless, for two reasons: (1) the US...
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