With just days left to go before a US election everyone deservingly regards as pivotal, a battle is raging over ‘fake news’ and even the meaning of words. It’s a battle I’ve already watched being fought, in another war long ago. Today, outlets like CNN would have you...
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Defining Despotism Down
by James Bovard | Oct 28, 2020 | Featured Articles
The simultaneous defining down of both democracy and despotism is 2020’s darkest legacy. Voters are recognizing that their ballots merely choose elective dictators who can exempt themselves from the Constitution simply by pronouncing the word “emergency.” At the same...
Nine Covid Facts: A Pandemic of Fearmongering and Ignorance
by Jeff Harris | Oct 28, 2020 | Featured Articles
Ever since the alleged pandemic erupted this past March the mainstream media has spewed a non-stop stream of misinformation that appears to be laser focused on generating maximum fear among the citizenry. But the facts and the science simply don’t support the grave...
Newly Increased Coronavirus Crackdowns in Europe, a Preview of What Joe Biden Wants for All of America
by Adam Dick | Oct 28, 2020 | Featured Articles
Biden campaign rally, 27 OctoberAcross Europe, supposedly in reaction to rises in the numbers of coronavirus cases, many national governments are imposing increased crackdowns that severely restrict the exercise of liberty. These coronavirus cases are in large part...
How to Limit Social Media's Power without Growing Government
by Peter St. Onge | Oct 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Censorship by private companies is a topic that divides free-marketers but has suddenly become important in the wake of Twitter and Facebook’s recent attempts to squash a New York Post story alleging corruption in the Biden family. Last year, economist James Miller...
Disinformation By Popular Demand: How The Authenticity of Hunter’s Laptop Became Immaterial
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, former Vice President Joe Biden was again insisting that the scandal involving Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation despite the direct refutation of that claim by the FBI. No mainstream reporter bothered to ask the simple question of whether...
Magic Novichok
by Craig Murray | Oct 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
The security services put an extraordinary amount of media priming effort into explaining why the alleged novichok attack on the Skripals had a delayed effect of several hours, and then failed to kill them. Excuses included that it was a cold day which slowed their...
'Iraq War Diaries' At Ten Years: Truth is Treason
by Ron Paul | Oct 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
The purpose of journalism is to uncover truth – especially uncomfortable truth – and to publish it for the benefit of society. In a free society, we must be informed of the criminal acts carried out by governments in the name of the people. Throughout history,...
BBC's upcoming White Helmets ‘documentary’ gears up to be a character assassination of those who challenge Syria war narratives
by Vanessa Beeley | Oct 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
The BBC is preparing an attack against journalists, former diplomats, academics and scientists who challenge the dominant pro-war narratives against Syria underpinned by the pseudo-humanitarian White Helmets. The British public broadcaster has sent out requests for...
Wisdom From a Master
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Oct 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
America today confronts an unprecedented crisis. Our economy is collapsing, and the fake coronavirus “epidemic,” with its draconian restrictions, is destroying our liberty. What can we do? We’re fortunate that Dr. Ron Paul, our greatest living American, has provided a...
The Cult of the Brave New Normal
by Dr. Bruce Scott | Oct 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
In March, it was just a three-week lockdown, to flatten the curve so as not to overwhelm the NHS. The narrative has quickly evolved. It has progressed from what seemed a reasonable idea of keeping NHS bed space free based on the completely false Neil Fergusson...
Will Democracy’s Myths Doom Liberty?
by James Bovard | Oct 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Supreme Court declared in 1943, “There is no mysticism in the American concept of the State or of the nature or origin of its authority." In reality, the cardinal doctrines of contemporary democracy are layer upon layer of mystical claptrap. The phrases which...
Danish Newspaper Reveals Largest Study on Masks has been Rejected by Three Medical Journals
by Daniel Horowitz | Oct 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
Why not just conduct a randomized controlled trial to test whether masks work against COVID-19? Why assume such a draconian and dehumanizing mandate works as if it's an article of faith and create such division when we can discover which side is correct? That's what a...
Iran Seeks to Confuse the United States?
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
Those who have been waiting for the elusive October Surprise that will upset the apple cart on election day are admittedly running out of time. The media’s unwillingness to even consider that the antics of Hunter Biden just might constitute an embarrassment of major...
Lockdowns in Europe Are Back. Turns Out Early Lockdowns Didn't 'Beat the Virus' after All.
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
Back in August, European politicians were threatening lockdowns and calling for "vigilance." But given the economic devastation wrought by full, nationwide lockdowns, politicians have become fearful of going down that road again. For example, in the Czech Republic,...
'Choose Your Liar' Democracy
by James Bovard | Oct 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
The final weeks of a presidential campaign is one of the best opportunities to view political perfidy in spectacular colors. While the media lectures Americans about their civic duty to vote to save the nation, the candidates continue conniving nonstop with no respect...
'Time To Mute The President': Former Twitter and Google Executive Calls For Trump To Be Banned From Social Media Until After The Election
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
Peter Greenberger, a former Twitter and Google executive, is calling for the social media accounts of President Donald Trump to be shutdown for the remainder of the election. For those of us who have criticized calls for censorship from Democratic leaders for years,...
China Policy: Trump vs. Biden
by harley | Oct 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
Despite the campaign’s focus on domestic issues, there is still a world out there the next president will have to deal with. And there’s a very significant policy difference between Trump and Biden to be explored: China. First, a quick look back at 2016. What to do...
Treason in America: An Overview of the FBI, CIA and Matters of ‘National Security’
by Cynthia Chung | Oct 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
“Treason doth never prosper; what is the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.” – Sir John Harrington. As Shakespeare would state in his play Hamlet, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” like a fish that rots from head to tail, so do corrupt...
Internet Resources Become Weaponized
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
The current electoral campaign differs from that of 2016 in that the media, both conventional and online, has realized its power and has been openly playing a major role in what might well prove to be a victory across the board for the Democratic Party. At least that...
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