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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What Is CISA and Why Does It Matter?
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Dec 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk fired Vijaya Gadde from her job at Twitter where she was general counsel and the head of legal, policy, and trust. It became quickly obvious to him and others on his team that it was she who drove the censorship policy within the...
Oklahoma, Texas, and Other Schools Join UChicago Alliance on Free Speech
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
I have previously written of my pride as an alumnus of The University of Chicago in how the school has led the fight for free speech in higher education. It is also ranked as the number one free speech school in the country. The “Chicago statement” has become the...
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...
The Mother of all Economic Crises
by Ron Paul | Dec 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
Nouriel Roubini, a former advisor to the International Monetary Fund and member of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors, was one of the few “mainstream” economists to predict the collapse of the housing bubble. Now Roubini is warning that the staggering...
The Twitter Files: The Corporate Media Ignores The Biggest Story Of The Decade
by Tyler Durden | Dec 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
The biggest story of the past decade is not the covid pandemic, the January 6th protests, the war in Ukraine, the BLM riots, or even the stagflationary crisis in the US. Behind these major events is another story, one that connects them all together in a disturbing...
From Shadow Bans to Black Lists, Musk Forces a Free-Speech Reckoning for Politicians and Pundits
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
Below is a slightly augmented version of my column in the Hill on the latest release of the Twitter files, confirming long-denied use of shadow banning and other techniques to suppress conservative and dissenting viewpoints. Here is the column: “We don’t make...
Italy Distances from ‘Cancellation’ of Russia
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
Noam Chomsky once wrote that the astronomical cost of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, estimated into trillions of dollars, is a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The Ukraine war too...
We Must Not Forget the US War on Afghanistan
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
When the Pentagon used NATO to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine, it had to know that one of the great benefits to such an invasion would be that it would enrich US weapons manufacturers, who, of course, are an important, integral, and loyal part of America’s...
The Constitution Has Already Been Terminated
by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead | Dec 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
If there is one point on which there should be no disagreement, it is this: for anyone to advocate terminating or suspending the Constitution is tantamount to a declaration of war against the founding principles of our representative government and the rule of law....
Americans Dumbed Down on Russia
by Ray McGovern | Dec 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
Five years ago today (Dec. 5th), Congress learned from sworn, horse’s-mouth testimony that there is no technical evidence that Russia (or anyone else) hacked the DNC emails showing how the DNC had stacked the deck against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton’s rival for...
'Fool Me Once . . . ' Why the Public is Not Buying the Latest Media Campaign Against Twitter
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
Below is my column on the media response to the “Twitter Files,” including misleading narratives being repeated across various media platforms. The effort is to assure the public that there is “nothing to see here” but it may backfire. After Twitter employed one of...
Uniparty: Congress likely to deliver tens of billions more to Ukraine in coming days
by Jordan Schachtel | Dec 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
It’s a “done deal.” Congressional sources tell The Dossier that there is a strong enough appetite in Congress, given the unanimously pro-war Democratic voting bloc, and the significant amount of Republicans who support the perpetual funding of the Zelensky government...
The ‘Twitter Papers’ Reveal the Totalitarians Among Us
by Ron Paul | Dec 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
I admit to being skeptical of Elon Musk as a free speech hero. He has moved from one US government-subsidized business to another on his path to becoming the world’s richest person. But there is no denying that his release of the “Twitter Papers” this past weekend,...
Wrapping Up: What John Durham Learned
by Peter van Buren | Dec 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
As he wraps up his investigation with the prosecution of Igor Danchenko, we are left only with questions about what John Durham did not do. Best to start with what we learned. Durham established what FBI Director James Comey likely knew from near day one, that the...
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