In the 2005 film, Cinderella Man, James J. Braddock’s fight with contender Art Lasky reaches a turning point when Lasky hits Braddock with his best punch. Braddock’s mouthpiece flies out and he is staggered, but he doesn’t go down. He recovers, smiles at Lasky, and...
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Ukraine’s Propaganda War: International PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts
by Dan Cohen | Mar 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
Since the Russian offensive inside Ukraine commenced on February 24, the Ukrainian military has cultivated the image of a plucky little army standing up to the Russian Goliath. To bolster the perception of Ukrainian military mettle, Kiev has churned out a steady...
Record infections in super-vaxxed UK seniors as double-vaxxed show negative efficacy against COVID death
by Daniel Horowitz | Mar 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
Just because Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the new Fauci, it doesn’t mean COVID is over. In fact, cases are surging in many European countries, and U.K. seniors are now experiencing record numbers. “Covid infections surge to record high for over-70s in UK” was the title of...
The Mariupol Theater Bombing
by Pedro I. Gonzalez | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
On March 16, the Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, was bombed. The building reportedly housed scores of civilians at the time. Maxar satellite images showed the word “CHILDREN” written in Russian in large letters on the pavement outside. The...
What the ‘chattering classes’ of Russia are talking about
by Gilbert Doctorow | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
My harvest of impressions from the past 48 hours of monitoring Russian political talk shows and news bulletins of Russian state television is filled to the brim with both highly interesting and at times frightening and off-putting developments. The most momentous is...
The US Press Again Becomes a Conduit for Pro-War Propaganda
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
American journalists have a long, ignoble history of being willing conduits for pro-war propaganda. Usually, that behavior is in service to a military crusade that Washington has launched or wants to initiate. At times, though, such a betrayal of journalistic...
Supporting the Current Thing: COVID Mania adherents embrace the Ukraine narrative
by Jordan Schachtel | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
I wanted to turn your attention to a fascinating poll that came out the other day. The Toronto Star hired a polling agency to survey Canadians about their views about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. What made this poll unique is that it separated the sides to three...
We Must Now Learn the Lesson of 1914, Not the Lesson of 1938.
by Ryan McMaken | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
With proponents of military intervention and war, it's always 1938, and every attempt to substitute diplomacy for escalation and war is "appeasement." Last week, for example, Ukrainian legislator Lesia Vasylenko accused Western leaders of appeasement during Moscow's...
Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to trigger NATO intervention?
by Max Blumenthal | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
Western media have reported that Russia’s military deliberately attacked the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama theater in Mariupol, Ukraine, claiming that it was filled with civilians and marked with signs reading “children” on its grounds. The supposed bombing took...

End the Fed and Get More Doritos
by Ron Paul | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US government’s Consumer Price Index indicates prices have increased 7.9 percent in the last year. While this statistic shows the highest rate of increase in forty years, it still understates the amount prices have increased, in part because the statistic is...
A Manufactured World Crisis
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
Few people today ask the most important question about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Many people want America to stay out of the fight, but even they don’t ask the vital question. Why does the world face a crisis today? Why has a border dispute between...
US Vital Interests Dictate an End to This War
by Patrick J. Buchanan | Mar 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Speaking to Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for many things from the United States. He wants us to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine. He wants the Soviet-era MiGs that NATO allies (from their Warsaw Pact days) have in their arsenals. He...
Deterrence Works, Propaganda Fails in Ukraine (So Far)
by Peter van Buren | Mar 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Deterrence works. Russia’s nukes are the only thing keeping the US from full-out war in Ukraine only six months after retreating from Afghanistan. So far, the unprecedented propaganda effort by the Ukraine and its helpers in the American mass media to drag the US and...
Why Die for Biden?
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
As you would expect from brain-dead Biden and the people controlling him, American policy has been moving in the wrong direction. Whatever you think about the situation in the Ukraine, one thing is obvious. It’s a crisis. Shouldn’t we try to stay out of danger?...
The forgotten question: What is the American interest in the Russia-Ukraine war?
by Jordan Schachtel | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
Lost in the Ukraine war conversation is the reality that almost none of it has anything to do with the interests of the American citizen, and our elected leaders don’t seem to notice or care. On Wednesday morning, Congress and the Biden Administration took in a highly...
Biggest Winners In Ukraine War: Military-Industrial-Complex
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Trump plan to bring troops home from Europe has undergone a "miraculous" turnaround, with the war in Ukraine being used as an excuse for a massive new influx of US soldiers to Germany and points eastward. Meanwhile, billions more are being spent to send weapons to...
The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop – Falsely Called 'Russian Disinformation' – is Authentic
by Glenn Greenwald | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
One of the most successful disinformation campaigns in modern American electoral history occurred in the weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election. On October 14, 2020 — less than three weeks before Americans were set to vote — the nation's oldest newspaper, The...
Is Russia Really the Aggressor in Ukraine?
by Tom Mullen | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
If you haven’t received the memo, the U.S. government is vitally interested in you seeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine one way and one way only: Russia is the aggressor due to its “unprovoked” invasion of a sovereign country. Ukraine must be supported by NATO with...
The Fog of Information War in Ukraine
by Pedro I. Gonzalez | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Western intelligence apparatus has been busy in Ukraine. With financing and collaboration through various non-governmental organizations, it won the information war with the help of Ukrainian media before Russia ever fired a shot in February. Even the country’s...
All the idiocy of Covid and vaccine mandates in one neat package
by Alex Berenson | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
On Sunday, Kyrie Irving decided to watch a basketball game in Brooklyn.And all heck broke loose.In case you don’t know, Irving plays basketball for the Brooklyn Nets (my favorite team, from back when their home was a parking lot in New Jersey). He’s very good. He has...
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