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Thermonuclear Endgame Creeps Forward

Thermonuclear Endgame Creeps Forward

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 This provocative move is a direct and deliberate violation of a primary Russian red line. Russia has warned it will not tolerate USG and NATO offensive missiles on its border in Ukraine. It considers any such move a threat to its...

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You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It

You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It

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 like it or not. Mass surveillance is the Deep State’s version of a “gift” that keeps on giving…back to the Deep State. Consider just a small sampling of the tools being used to track our movements, monitor our spending, and sniff...

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What Is CISA and Why Does It Matter?

What Is CISA and Why Does It Matter?

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 company, including that which blocked all information about Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 election and otherwise shut down critics of government Covid policy.  Her termination from Twitter did not leave her unemployed and...

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Oklahoma, Texas, and Other Schools Join UChicago Alliance on Free Speech

Oklahoma, Texas, and Other Schools Join UChicago Alliance on Free Speech

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 rallying point for schools resisting the anti-free speech movement sweeping over our university and college campuses. Now both the University of Oklahoma and entire University of Texas system have joined almost 100 schools in signing...

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How Will the Blob React if Ukraine Faces Defeat?

How Will the Blob React if Ukraine Faces Defeat?

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 has been far less discussion about how the United States and its European partners will respond if military fortunes change and NATO’s proxy faces definitive defeat. However, such a discussion is essential to avoid making a serious...

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The Mother of all Economic Crises

The Mother of all Economic Crises

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 amounts of debt held by individuals, businesses, and the government will soon lead to the “mother of all economic crises.”Roubini properly blames the creation of a debt-based economy on the near-or-at-zero interest rate and...

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The Twitter Files: The Corporate Media Ignores The Biggest Story Of The Decade

The Twitter Files: The Corporate Media Ignores The Biggest Story Of The Decade

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 way. Even more important than the effects of geopolitical and economic chaos is the effect of mass censorship; without the free exchange of information and debate the public remains ignorant. And if the public remains ignorant,...

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From Shadow Bans to Black Lists, Musk Forces a Free-Speech Reckoning for Politicians and Pundits

From Shadow Bans to Black Lists, Musk Forces a Free-Speech Reckoning for Politicians and Pundits

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 exceptions for jokes or satire.” That line from a third tranche of company documents released by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, captures the social media giant’s censorship culture. Its humorless, officious tenor is all too common with...

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Italy Distances from ‘Cancellation’ of Russia

Italy Distances from ‘Cancellation’ of Russia

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 was planned as a trap for Russia. No one other than the the Bill Clinton administration’s point person for Russia, Strobe Talbot tweeted early this year when Russia’s special military operations began congratulating President...

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We Must Not Forget the US War on Afghanistan

We Must Not Forget the US War on Afghanistan

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 national-security state form of governmental structure.  And sure enough, those weapons manufacturers now have a lot to be grateful for. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal:  The world’s biggest arms makers are scaling...

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Senate May Vote to Restrict US Involvement in Yemen War

Senate May Vote to Restrict US Involvement in Yemen War

Might congressional action soon restrict United States support for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen? Julia Conley at Common Dreams reports of a promising development in the US Senate: Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday signaled that he has the votes needed to pass a War Powers Resolution that would block US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, where more than 23 million people are suffering from one of the world's largest humanitarian crises even amid a cease-fire. The...

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The Constitution Has Already Been Terminated

The Constitution Has Already Been Terminated

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. Then again, one could well make the case that the Constitution has already been terminated after years on life support, given the extent to which the safeguards enshrined in the Bill of Rights—adopted 231 years ago as a means of...

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Americans Dumbed Down on Russia

Americans Dumbed Down on Russia

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 the Democratic nomination. I can almost hear readers new to this website cry out in disbelief: "That cannot be. Official Washington and the media assured us that the Russians hacked those emails in order to help Trump win. And...

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'Fool Me Once . . . ' Why the Public is Not Buying the Latest Media Campaign Against Twitter

'Fool Me Once . . . ' Why the Public is Not Buying the Latest Media Campaign Against Twitter

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 the most extensive censorship systems in history to prevent people from reading opposing views on subjects from Covid to climate change, media figures are now insisting that the public should really not be interested. The public,...

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NDAA May Terminate Coronavirus Shots Mandate for Military Members

NDAA May Terminate Coronavirus Shots Mandate for Military Members

Mike Brest reported Tuesday at the Washington Examiner that the “House of Representatives has come to an agreement to put language in the annual defense funding bill that would end the Pentagon’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for service members against President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s stances.” While inclusion of this mandate repeal in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would be a big step against the Biden administration’s effort to pressure...

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Uniparty: Congress likely to deliver tens of billions more to Ukraine in coming days

Uniparty: Congress likely to deliver tens of billions more to Ukraine in coming days

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 in Ukraine, to pass a bill by the end of next week that will deliver tens of billions of dollars into Kiev’s coffers. The Dossier discussed the voting blocs with congressional staff multiple representatives on Capitol Hill, and it...

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Jacob Hornberger for President?

Jacob Hornberger for President?

Jacob Hornberger appears to be laying the groundwork for a 2020 presidential run as a Libertarian. That is the subject of a Monday article at Independent Political Report that...

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