The "must pass" omnibus bill ramps spending to the outer limits as Democrats face loss of power in the House in January. Packed full of warfare-welfare state spending, the disgusting mess is symbolic of the decline of the US Congress as a legitimate legislative body....
Month: December 2022
We Are Still Locked Down
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Dec 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
Consider just how fortunate we are to have the Twitter Files. Every few days, we are seeing dumps of documents from the operations of Twitter before Elon Musk took over. This weekend’s release was especially shocking. It revealed a close and symbiotic relationship...
You're Not Actually Helping When You 'Support' Protesters In Empire-Targeted Governments
by Caitlin Johnstone | Dec 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
Truthout has a recent article titled "The Left Can Support Protesters in China Without Shilling for US Imperialism" with a subtitle asserting that "Chinese workers and Uyghurs need solidarity from leftists worldwide," and it at no point attempts to defend either one...
‘Twitter Files’ Make it Clear: We Must Abolish the FBI
by Ron Paul | Dec 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
As we learn more and more from the “Twitter Files,” it is becoming all too obvious that Federal agencies such as the FBI viewed the First Amendment of our Constitution as an annoyance and an impediment. In Friday’s release from the pre-Musk era, journalist Matt Taibbi...
House Republicans Warn: Subpoenas Will Fly To The FBI Over 'Twitter Files'
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 19, 2022 | The Liberty Report
Outspoken Members of the Incoming US House Republican majority have warned the FBI that subpoenas and hearings will be high on the agenda in the next Congress. This after the latest release from the Twitter Files shows direct contact between the Bureau and the...
Censor or Else: Democratic Members Warn Facebook Not to 'Backslide' on Censorship
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
With the restoration of free speech protections on Twitter, panic has grown on the left that its control over social media could come to an end. Now, some of the greatest advocates of censorship in Congress are specifically warning Facebook not to follow Twitter in...
The Tea Party, Fifteen Years Later
by Dale Steinreich | Dec 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
December 16, 2022, is the fifteenth anniversary of the modern Tea Party. That fact will come as a surprise to many readers who take the mainstream narrative about the Tea Party at face value. The mainstream account begins on February 19, 2009, when Rick Santelli, live...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Andrew Napolitano, a 2024 Third-Party Presidential Ticket?
by Adam Dick | Dec 17, 2022 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The 2024 United States presidential race would become much more interesting if Children’s Health Defense Founder and Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has tenaciously challenged the tyranny and propaganda pursued in the name of countering coronavirus, runs for...
EU Threatens Musk With Sanctions Over Suspending Media…After Ignoring Media Bans Under Old Twitter
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
Despite my support for Elon Musk’s continuing efforts to reduce censorship and restore free speech protections on Twitter, I have been critical of some of his moves from his use of polls on restoring certain posters to the suspensions of media figures this week....
Pentagon Profiteers: Executive Compensation In The Arms Industry
by William Hartung | Dec 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
If Congress has its way, funding for the Department of Defense and related work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy will reach more than $850 billion in Fiscal Year 2023, far higher than spending at the height of the Cold War or the peak years of the Korean...
Twitter Became the Ministry of Truth
by David Stockman | Dec 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
New material Musk released over the weekend confirms the very worst. The banal boys and girls previously ensconced in Twitter’s top echelons were not only having a jolly time attempting to steer the nation’s news narrative; these executives were actually meeting...
Congress To Sneak $37 Billion Ukraine Aid Into Must-Pass Omnibus Bill
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 15, 2022 | The Liberty Report
As opposition to Washington's Ukraine blank check mounts, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has signaled that the next huge check - nearly $38 billion - will be conveniently hidden in a year-end, must-pass omnibus bill. It's a way to keep the gravy train flowing...
The New York Times’ shameless Covid contortions
by Heather Mac Donald | Dec 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
The New York Times has just discovered that some Americans are no longer wearing masks. Welcome to life in the mainstream-media bubble. The Times sent its reporters last week across Los Angeles County to assess the state of Covid precautions. Los Angeles is at the...
US Patriot Missiles To Ukraine: Game-Changer Or Nuclear War?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 14, 2022 | The Liberty Report
Yesterday CNN reported that the Biden administration has decided on a significant escalation in Ukraine: providing Kiev with the most advanced US missile defense system, the Patriot Missile system. The missiles have a longer range and a much higher price tag. Russia...
You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It
by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead | Dec 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good. You’ll be on this list whether you...
Thermonuclear Endgame Creeps Forward
by Kurt Nimmo | Dec 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
It looks like things are about to get a lot more serious in Ukraine. NEW: The US is poised to send Patriot air and missile defense batteries to Ukraine pending final approval from President Joe Biden https://t.co/yNTO1vXLOt — Bloomberg (@business) December 13, 2022...
Is Russian Restraint Averting the Risk of Nuclear War – or Inviting It?
by James George Jatras | Dec 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
Among realists who don't accept the Kiew siegt an allen Fronten! narrative it is widely assumed that Russia will soon begin, perhaps in dramatic and decisive fashion, a winter offensive. This would come just as Kiev is hitting "empty" on all key manpower and materiel...
Chaining Down the Tyrant in the Texas Governor’s Mansion
by Adam Dick | Dec 14, 2022 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Texas Governor Greg Abbott went into tyrant mode in 2020 on the excuse of a coronavirus “emergency.” He unilaterally imposed a plethora of mandates and new government programs. Included among Abbott’s actions that year were statewide forced closures of businesses,...
Was Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested…To Shut Him Up?
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 13, 2022 | The Liberty Report
The sudden and surprising arrest of FTX mega-scammer Sam Bankman-Fried in the Bahamas has perplexed some of America's top legal minds. Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley is shocked that he was nabbed just before he was set to testify (and further incriminate...
How Will the Blob React if Ukraine Faces Defeat?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Dec 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
Given Ukraine’s surprisingly effective counteroffensive against Russian forces in the autumn of 2022, there has been an increasing focus among Western officials and their media allies about Russia’s probable response to an overall Ukrainian triumph in the war. There...
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