[Updated Sept. 16] The preliminary injunction against federal censorship of social-media users has survived the Biden administration's appeal. However, it remains on hold until Sept. 22 while the Supreme Court considers the matter. The latest ruling, 78 pages long, by...
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So, About that Global Pandemic Treaty…
by Patrick Macfarlane | Sep 13, 2023 | Featured Articles
Last week, First Lady Jill Biden reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 despite being double vaxxed and boosted. The White House Press Secretary then described President Joe Biden's subsequent return to cautionary measures like masking and "social distancing" to...
Why Are We in Niger?
by Ron Paul | Sep 13, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The July military coup in the west African country of Niger has once again brought attention to the fact that the U.S. government runs a global military empire that serves Washington’s special interests, and not the national interest. Before the coup made news...
Why We Don’t Negotiate
by Ted Snider | Sep 12, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The signature of Joe Biden's State Department has been the abdication of diplomacy. Its head, Antony Blinken, the chief U.S. diplomat, has abdicated the role of diplomat. Though obvious in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea, this absence of diplomacy has been...
The COVID Times
by Kym Robinson | Sep 11, 2023 | Featured Articles
“I never wanted it, I didn’t need it. I just gave in, it’s my biggest regret." The words of an Australian man in his mid-thirties who spent most of the "COVID years” active on social media challenging the narrative. Referring to the vaccination as the “clot shot," he...
TGIF: Who Rules? That Is Not the Question
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 8, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Today's two major contenders for political power seem to be elitists and populists. Funnily enough, both types are present in each of the big tribes known as progressive/liberal and conservatism, left and right, or Democratic and Republican. (Here's the lowdown on...
We’re Primed for a Spark
by Thomas Eddlem | Sep 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
In the final Monday pre-dawn moments of every city, you can see the work vans and work trucks turn noisily onto the highway on-ramp of the city’s suburbs and exurbs, ladders rattling over every bump. They’re city-bound, heading toward work in wealthy people’s homes...
Will BRICS Smash the Dollar?
by Ron Paul | Sep 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump’s legal troubles, the possibility that Joe Biden will face an impeachment inquiry, and other stories related to the upcoming presidential election, caused the American media to miss a story of potentially greater significance. This was the decision of the...