From the Lake of the Ozarks to the Texas Gulf Coast, Americans spent Memorial Day weekend in defiance of the forced "lockdown" orders of the politicians. Dr. Birx was furious over people refusing to wear masks at the beach. Other local tyrants screamed and threatened....
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Washington’s tall tale of Iranian-Al Qaeda alliance based on questionably sourced book ‘The Exile’
by Gareth Porter | May 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
The US assassination of Qassem Soleimani in January touched off a new wave of disinformation about the top Iranian major general, with Trump administration allies branding him a global terrorist while painting Iran as the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism. Much...
Why Didn't the 1958 and 1918 Pandemics Destroy the Economy? Hint: It's the Lockdowns
by Ryan McMaken | May 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
Media pundits and politicians are now in the habit of claiming it was the pandemic itself that has caused unemployment to skyrocket and economic growth to plummet. The claim is that sick and dying workers, fearful consumers, and disrupted supply chains would cause...
The 'Science' Behind Social Distancing
by Jeff Harris | May 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
The world has been turned upside down with draconian government orders to “flatten the curve” with what is called Social Distancing. Schools have been closed for months, businesses have been involuntarily shut down and travel restrictions have idled 90 percent of the...
One Good Thing about the Lockdown
by Ron Paul | May 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
One of the few good things to come out of the government-mandated shutdown is that many parents have started homeschooling their children. Many of these parents are likely to continue homeschooling after the government schools reopen.Last week, the Centers for Disease...
The CDC confirms remarkably low coronavirus death rate. Where is the media?
by Daniel Horowitz | May 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
Most people are more likely to wind up six feet under because of almost anything else under the sun other than COVID-19. The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of...
‘Nothing can justify this destruction of people’s lives’
by Spiked Online | May 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
Countries across the world have been in lockdown for months in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The costs of the policy are enormous – in terms of life, liberty and the economy. But is it worth it to save lives? Yoram Lass was once the director-general of...
Will the Texas Supreme Court Follow the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Rejecting Much of the Coronavirus Crackdown?
by Adam Dick | May 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court became the first among the highest state courts in America to void much of a state government’s coronavirus crackdown. With legal challenges being pursued in response to liberty suppression through the expanding of government...
Ohio Judge Deems the State's COVID-19 Lockdown 'Arbitrary, Unreasonable, and Oppressive'
by Jacob Sullum | May 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
Ohio's COVID-19 lockdown is illegal, a state judge ruled today, because it exceeds the powers granted by the statute under which it was imposed. Responding to a May 8 lawsuit filed by the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law on behalf of 35 gyms, Lake County Court of...
The CIA’s Murderous Practices, Disinformation Campaigns, and Interference in Other Countries Still Shape the World Order and US Politics
by Glenn Greenwald | May 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
In the weeks before the 2016 presidential election, the most powerful former leaders of the Central Intelligence Agency did everything they could to elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump. President Obama’s former acting CIA chief Michael Morrell published a...
Coronavirus Overkill, as Stats, New Facts Belie Panic
by Cheryl K. Chumley | May 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
Stay home, stay away from strangers, shut down the schools and for God’s sake, whatever happens, do not touch plastic or stainless steel. That was COVID-19, April. Now? A few hop, skip and jump days later? Oops. Oopsies. Oppose-daisies. “Coronavirus ‘does not spread...
600 Doctors Warn Trump: Lockdown May Be More Deadly Than Coronavirus!
by Daniel McAdams | May 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
Hundreds of doctors have sent a letter to President Trump warning that the nationwide lockdown is killing thousands of Americans. It may end up more deadly even than the coronavirus it is intended to defeat. Doctors understand that you don't kill the patient to save...
Will the Political Class Be Held Liable For What They’ve Done?
by James Bovard | May 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
Politically-dictated lockdowns and prohibitions have recently destroyed tens of millions of American jobs. Politicians have effectively claimed a right to inflict unlimited economic damage in pursuit of zero COVID-19 contagion. The perverse incentives driving the...
The Case of General Michael Flynn: The Use of Law as a Political Weapon
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
The audacious corruption of the FBI and the US Department of Justice (sic) is demonstrated by their frame-up of the three-star general, former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump. US Department of...
The Shutdown May Soon Collapse in Pennsylvania Thanks to Local Resistance
by Zachary Yost | May 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
As in the rest of the country, life in Pennsylvania has been greatly disturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the chaos that has resulted from the state government’s attempts to handle the situation. On March 16, Governor Wolf ordered that all “nonessential” businesses...
Turn Out the Lights, Russiagate is Over
by Ray McGovern | May 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
Seldom mentioned among the motives behind the persistent drumming on alleged Russian interference was an over-arching need to help the Security State hide their tracks. The need for a scapegoat to blame for Hillary Clinton’s snatching defeat out of the jaws victory...
Coronavirus 'Contact Tracers' – The Tools Of Dictatorship
by Daniel McAdams | May 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
Thanks to trillions in "bailout money" passed by Congress, thousands of "contact tracers" will soon descend on the country demanding to test people for the coronavirus, to track down those they've been in contact with, and potentially to impose involuntary quarantine....
The Wimps of Major League Baseball
by Robert Wenzel | May 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
Major League Baseball is apparently going to replace "Take me out to the ballgame" with "Watch us cower before empty stands from the safety of your television". MLB has put together a draft health-and-safety manual in the wake of the COVID-19 panic, reports Yahoo...
Hacksawing the Economy: How Lockdowns Are in the Tradition of Civil War Surgeons
by James Bovard | May 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
Politicians and government health officials’ justification for decreeing shutdowns of vast swaths of American life has been deterring the spread of COVID-19. According to Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, almost 40 percent of households earning less than $40,000...
Avoid The Beef Shortage With This One Simple Trick – With Guest Rep. Thomas Massie
by Daniel McAdams | May 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
With the ominous warnings of a meat shortage as the coronavirus scare destroys supply lines, US Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) has a great idea of how we can insure the safety and availability of food sources. Massie also pulls back the screen to reveal how...
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