Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell is given credit for popularizing the "Pottery Barn" rule of foreign policy. Though he denies using that exact phrase, in arguing against what became the disastrous 2003 US attack on Iraq Powell made the point that, as in Pottery...
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Unmask America
by Jeff Deist | Jan 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
Enough is enough. It is time to stop wearing masks, or at the very least to eliminate mask mandates in all settings. This is especially urgent for children in schools and universities, who suffer the effects of masks for long hours each day despite being at...
'I Ain’t Dying in the Ukraine'
by Stratton J. Davis | Jan 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
Less than a week after the US claimed they had intel which showed that Russia was planning a false-flag operation in order to induce a conflict with Ukraine, the Ukrainian self-proclaimed state known as the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), which has received...
The danger of the momentum behind N95 respirators
by Daniel Horowitz | Jan 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
Were the cloth masks just for psychological training purposes to get us to the main course of obsequious servitude to the gods of Fauci? It took nearly two years, but the “public health experts” are finally admitting what industrial hygienists knew from day one: Masks...
American Airlines throws face mask hissy fit
by Cheryl K. Chumley | Jan 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
An American Airlines plane headed to London was more than hour into its flight when its pilot decided to turn around and head back to the departure point, Miami, because a female passenger declined to wear a face mask. What a petty, unnecessary move. On top of that,...
Totalitarian Paranoia Run Amok: Pandemics, Lockdowns & Martial Law
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jan 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
"Totalitarian paranoia runs deep in American society, and it now inhabits the highest levels of government.” —Professor Henry Giroux Once upon a time, there was a government so paranoid about its hold on power that it treated everyone and everything as a threat and a...
America’s Secret Government Crisis
by Patrick Eddington | Jan 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
America’s founding generation believed that an informed citizenry was vital to the survival of the Republic. Writing to theologian and philosopher Richard Price on January 8, 1789, Thomas Jefferson observed with satisfaction how his countrymen had come to largely...
The Last Days of the Covidian Cult
by C.J. Hopkins | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
This isn’t going to be pretty, folks. The downfall of a death cult rarely is. There is going to be wailing and gnashing of teeth, incoherent fanatical jabbering, mass deleting of embarrassing tweets. There’s going to be a veritable tsunami of desperate rationalizing,...
Russian 'False Flag' In Ukraine Story Emerged After CIA Director Secretly Visited Kiev
by Tyler Durden | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
On Monday it came to light that last week's whole false flag story which involved the US alleging that Russia is planning some kind of deceptive attack on its own forces or proxies in order to justify an incursion into Ukraine was fed straight to the CIA from Kiev...
Man with prior infection denied kidney transplant for refusing to get COVID shot
by Daniel Horowitz | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Someone with prior COVID infection can play in the NCAA without getting a shot, but someone who recovered from the virus and needs a kidney cannot get a transplant in many parts of the country. Hospitals are now requiring all patients to get a shot that has proven to...
The Experts' 'Zero Covid' Plan Was a Total Failure
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Chinese regime is doubling down in its “zero covid” strategy. In recent weeks, new covid cases have been detected in several cities. In a world of the more-contagious omicron variant, this is to be expected. But what has been the Chinese state’s response? It’s...
Don’t Underestimate How Badly The Powerful Need Control Of Online Speech
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they’re running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else. The reasons for...
Washington’s Bi-Partisan Russia-Bashers Are Determined to Start a War
by Ron Paul | Jan 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
Russia-bashing is a bi-partisan activity in Washington. Both parties think it makes them look “tough” and “pro-America.” But while Republican and Democrat politicians continue to one-up each other on “risk-free” threats to Russia, they are increasingly risking a...
Why Calling Your Intellectual Opponents 'Deniers' Is Bad for Scientific Progress
by Walter E. Block | Jan 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
For a time, astronomers debated whether Pluto should be considered a planet or not. I have no views on this matter. None whatsoever. My knowledge of astronomy is rather limited. I know that the moon is up there somewhere. I still think that the Earth is flat; except...
The COVID Mania era highlights the shortcomings of democracy
by Jordan Schachtel | Jan 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
Democracy will not protect us.If the era of COVID Mania has showcased one thing about democracy, it’s that the system we were brought up to worship and instinctively defend is no guarantor of our rights whatsoever. Far from securing our liberties, pure or...
The Failure Of This Week's US-NATO-Russia Meetings Make War More Likely
by Moon of Alabama | Jan 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
In the late 1990s the US military-industrial-media complex lobbied the Clinton administration to extend NATO. The sole purpose was to win more customers for US weapons. Russia protested. It had offered to integrate itself into a new European security architecture but...
Chasing our own tails has become the new pandemic
by Daniel Horowitz | Jan 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. ~...
Blinken’s Blinkered Vision of Russia
by Scott Ritter | Jan 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
“One lesson of recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave.” The level of hubris-laced ignorance it would take an ostensibly intelligent, well-informed individual to make such a statement, in public, in an...
The Madness of Following the Covid Models
by Carl Heneghan Tom Jefferson | Jan 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
Being a purveyor of pessimism is one way to further your career. Predict doom and anything short of doom that happens after that is a blessing, a miracle. And you can be either a saviour or a genius – take your choice. The UK government has consistently been served...
In defying the COVID regime, Novak Djokovic is the new 'People’s Champ'
by Jordan Schachtel | Jan 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
I wanted to take a moment to recognize Novak Djokovic and his heroic defiance of the COVID regime, lending his enormous platform and status to the millions of people around the world who have been denied their unalienable rights in the name of a virus. You would never...
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