Back on June 1st, I noted that Ukraine couldn’t possibly absorb more than $54 billion in US aid, most of it related to weaponry and munitions, given the country’s lack of infrastructure as well as the chaos inherent to a shooting war. As I wrote back then: The entire...
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A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
It was a good but bizarre day when the CDC finally reversed itself fundamentally on its messaging for two-and-a-half years. The source is the MMWR report of August 11, 2022. The title alone shows just how deeply the about-face was buried: Summary of Guidance for...
Much Ado About Nancy Pelosi and China
by Peter van Buren | Aug 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
China policy seems to be made by, and written about by, adults who were often beaten up on the school playground. They retain the language of bullying, and weaknesses, and standing up, and the fantasy that something would sweep in and save them from losing another...
We Don't Believe You
by Jeff Deist | Aug 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
David French, maybe National Review’s most reliably wrong scribe, issued this gem in response to the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s residence in Florida: Given that we still haven't seen the warrant, much less the warrant application, the immediate frenzied anger at the...
Afghanistan all over again: Ukraine’s rampant corruption means the Western supply of weapons is likely to eventually backfire
by Ian Miles Cheong | Aug 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
Viewed from afar, the extent of Ukrainian corruption appears to go far deeper than the recent shift in the narrative might suggest, and it might come back to bite the West as weapons sent to Kiev's forces are disappearing with no account as to their whereabouts. Just...
Did White House Advisor Use MIT 'Study' to Take Down Our Twitter Accounts?
by Justin Hart | Aug 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
Former White House Covid advisor Andy SlavittMarch 1, 2021 a group of MIT students and Phd candidates put together a set of visuals and deep “analysis” takes based on Twitter interactions around Covid. In one section they call out the ring leaders of the “Anti-Maskers...
Repression, Terror, Fear: The Government Wants to Silence the Opposition
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Aug 10, 2022 | Featured Articles
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where...
Welcome to the Third World
by Matt Taibbi | Aug 10, 2022 | Featured Articles
Secret service outside Mar-a-Lago Monday[The Justice Department] must immediately explain the reason for its raid and it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives, or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation...
Producing New Enemies for No Reason Whatsoever
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
A good friend of mine, learning of the impending visit of Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, recalled Homer’s description of Helen of Troy, “The face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the towers of Ilium.” Well, Nancy ain’t no Helen...
NATO Learns Nothing and Forgets Nothing
by George Szamuely | Aug 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently addressed the Workers Youth League (AUF) summer camp in Utøya, Norway. The AUF is Norway’s largest political youth organization and is affiliated with the Norwegian Labor Party. The AUF summer camp is of course famous...

Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Exposes Foolishness of Interventionism
by Ron Paul | Aug 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “surprise” trip to Taiwan last week should be “Exhibit A” as to why interventionism is dangerous, deadly, and dumb. Though she claimed her visit won some sort of victory for democracy over autocracy, the stopover achieved nothing of the...
World Wars’ Shadows: the US Current Clash with Russia and China
by Oscar Silva-Valladares | Aug 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
The reasoning behind the US government’s current confrontations with Russia and China is very much debated, with explanations including sheer incompetence, short-term opportunism from a Democratic Party hellbent on pursuing a destructive geopolitical agenda for its...
'Russian Propaganda' Just Means Disobedience
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
You can always tell how important narrative control is by watching the way people react when their control of the narrative is jeopardized. Empire apologists are raging at Amnesty International for pausing its aggressive facilitation of western imperialism to...
Kill Al-Zawahiri
by Eric Margolis | Aug 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
It is unsettling to see a democratic government like the United States beating its chest over the high-tech murder of a retired jihadist, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. The 71-year-old al-Zawahiri succeeded the assassinated Osama bin Laden as chief of the anti-US underground...
'We Regret Any Pain': CUNY Apologizes and Deletes Article On Depp Lawyer
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
For many who watched the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial, some of the most outstanding moments involved his defense counsel Yarelyn Mena. It was an extraordinary opportunity for the 29-year old graduated from CUNY (2015) and she was praised for her tough examination of...
Deja Vu: Fauci tells unvaxxed to expect 'trouble' this winter
by Jordan Schachtel | Aug 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
The “Public Health Experts” are at it again, and they’re singing the same tune as last year. This week, Anthony Fauci has been making the media rounds warning of a severe winter of death and illness for the unvaccinated. Once more, he has warned of a heavy toll for...
US Audacity on Brittney Griner
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
Only a person who is willfully blind cannot see that the US position on the Brittney Griner case is driven not by some compassionate concern for her welfare but rather by the extreme anti-Russia animus that has afflicted US officials for more than 75 years. ...
Chuck Schumer’s War on Free Speech
by Scott Ritter | Aug 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
In May, Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, held up a vote on a bill which sought to approve some $40 billion in aid for Ukraine. Paul wanted language inserted into the bill, without a vote, that would have an inspector general scrutinize the new spending....
Reckless Taiwan Policy
by RT | Aug 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
For decades Washington has adhered to the ‘One China’ policy. And that included Taiwan. For better or worse it has kept the peace in the region. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taipei puts this in question. Is the Biden administration needlessly and recklessly...
Most of the 'Fact-Checking' Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Are Directly Funded by Washington
by Alan MacLeod | Aug 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the US government, either through the US Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED). In light of...
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