From day one of this pandemic, it was abundantly clear that outdoor transmission — aside from perhaps an infected individual screaming in someone's face — is essentially zero. Had the CDC properly conveyed this fact to the public, it could have preserved an amazing...
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Soldiers of France
by Douglas Macgregor | May 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
Pessimistic observers of western nation-states express the doubt that in the post-COVID world, a reversal of fortune is possible—a return to historic national strength and greatness in the United States and Europe. The Chinese are certainly convinced that the...
A Woke CIA … or a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Society?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
There is a battle currently going on over whether the CIA should be woke or not. The battle was apparently incited by a recent segment of a social media series issued by the CIA entitled “Humans of CIA.” According to an article in yesterday’s Washington Post, Susan...
Just Whose Coast Is the Coast Guard Guarding?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 11, 2021 | Featured Articles
Most Americans likely assume that the mission of the US Coast Guard is to protect the coasts of the United State from maritime threats. Increasingly, though, that is no longer true, as Coast Guard vessels and personnel now routinely operate thousands of miles from the...
Antony Blinken Continues to Lecture the World on Values His Administration Aggressively Violates
by Glenn Greenwald | May 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Continuing his world tour doling out righteous lectures to the world, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday proclaimed — in a sermon you have to hear to believe — that few things are more sacred in a democracy than “independent journalism.” Speaking to...

Covid Authoritarians Abuse Children
by Ron Paul | May 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Centers for Diseases Control (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has “recommended” that children wear masks while playing. Her offered reason is to ensure Covid is not spread by “heavy breathing” of children near each other while around a soccer ball.Dr. Walensky’s...
Police Should Sometimes Avert Their Eyes
by Walter E. Block | May 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Many policemen have been kicked under the bus. It is now more difficult to attract people to this profession; numerous retirements have occurred, and the quit rate is high. But we need police officers to protect the most vulnerable in society. How can we solve the...
Will Biden Have Blood on His Hands in Afghanistan?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Biden has announced that America’s forever war in Afghanistan is finally coming to an end. He says that US forces will exit the country by next September 11. That’s a good thing. And it is long overdue. But there is one big problem with Biden’s timetable: It...
The Criminalization of Dissent
by C.J. Hopkins | May 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the...
The internet once offered a promise of free speech for everyone; Big Tech has since turned it into a prison
by Nebojsa Malic | May 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
I once thought the internet would have the same effect on corporate media gatekeepers as the AK-47 had on colonial empires in Africa. That was before Big Tech turned that promise of freedom into the second coming of feudalism. Wednesday’s decision by Facebook’s...
Vaccine Passports Are Just a Way for the Regime to Expand Its Power
by Ryan McMaken | May 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
Earlier this month, the conservative magazine known as The Spectator published an article with the absurd title “The Libertarian Case for Vaccine Passports.” The online version now bears the title “Vaccine Passports Are a Ticket to Freedom,” but the physical print...
Searching for ‘Bigfoot’ — an American College that Stayed ‘Old Normal’ throughout the Coronavirus Panic
by Adam Dick | May 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
Maybe I would have better luck looking for Bigfoot in the forest than for an “old normal’ college or university in America. Attending a college or university has been very different for students in America over the last year-plus of coronavirus panic. There has been a...
Corporate News Outlets Again “Confirm” the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it
by Glenn Greenwald | May 4, 2021 | Featured Articles
One of the primary plagues of corporate journalism, which I have documented more times than I can count, just reared its ugly head again to deceive millions of people with fake news. When one large news outlet publishes a false story based on whispers from anonymous...
Who’s Lysenko-ing Now?
by Karen Kwiatkowski | May 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
Trofim Lysenko was a government-sponsored agronomist and biologist favored by Stalin and the CCCP. By favored, I mean put in charge, given power to define the terms and settle the science, and by government edict, was not to be criticized by man or beast. You know,...
It’s Aggression When ‘They’ Do It, but Defense When ‘We’ Do Worse
by Alan MacLeod | May 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
Aggression, in international politics, is commonly defined as the use of armed force against another sovereign state, not justified by self-defense or international authority. Any state being described as aggressive in foreign or international reporting, therefore, is...

Will Special Interests Allow America’s ‘Longest War’ to Finally End?
by Ron Paul | May 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
Even if “won,” endless wars like our 20 year assault on Afghanistan would not benefit our actual national interest in the slightest. So why do these wars continue endlessly? Because they are so profitable to powerful and well-connected special interests. In fact, the...
The CIA’s Chinese Walls
by Craig Murray | May 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
It is not in dispute that the CIA is in possession of Julian Assange’s legal and medical files seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy, including correspondence and drafting by his lawyers on his defence against extradition to the USA on Espionage charges. The defence...
Twitter isn’t censoring accounts to keep users ‘safe’, it is using its power to spoon-feed the world establishment narratives
by Eva Bartlett | May 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
It’s one thing to have policies against violence, abuse, and harassment. But in “protecting” users, Twitter is hell-bent on censoring voices that rock the boat, even when all they have tweeted is a peer-reviewed scientific paper. Last week, Simon Goddek, who has a PhD...
Watchdog: US Aid to Venezuela Was Used to Push Regime Change
by Dave DeCamp | Apr 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
A report from the US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) watchdog found that aid allocated for Venezuela in 2019 was used as part of the Trump administration’s failed regime change effort. In January 2019, the US and many of its allies recognized Juan...
US’ new Foreign Malign Influence Center is just official cover for American intelligence interference in domestic politics
by Scott Ritter | Apr 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Director of National Intelligence has ostensibly created a new “center” for the sharing and analysis of information and intelligence about foreign interference in US elections. Its real focus is much more nefarious. The Office of the Director of National...
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