Social media oligarchs and the corporate press are flooding Americans’ minds with Ukrainian officials’ pleas, most notably from President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling for the U.S. and NATO to “close the sky.” That is to implement a No-Fly-Zone over Ukraine, shoot down...
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Facebook Lifts Ban on Calls for Violence (But Only Against Russians)
by Dan McAdams | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Anyone following social media’s “Community Standards” knows how selectively they are enforced. Your humble writer was permanently banned from Twitter in 2019 for using a word to describe Sean Hannity’s mental slowness that is otherwise used perhaps millions of times...
An Indictment of ‘Public Health’
by Kym Robinson | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
We live in an age of public health. Even in countries with private sector health care, government regulates and steers the practice of medicine. On the surface this may seem a positive. In theory it's an established framework to protect the patient and practitioners...
Pulling Decentralization from the Ruins of ‘Liberal Democracy’
by José Niño | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
So-called liberal democracies have characterized the West for the past century and are viewed as the pinnacle of political development. So much so that Western elites are firmly convinced that this system of governance should be spread far and wide—be it indirectly...
When Goods Don’t Cross Borders, Soldiers Do
by Vibhu Vikramaditya | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The great free trade and most astute defender of liberty from France Frederic Bastiat said "Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion." These words ring more true than ever as Russia invades Ukraine and the...
Against Public Interest, Supreme Court Protects Torture Cover-Up
by Jim Bovard | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to...
A Four-Step Guide to the Cancel Culture Playbook
by Thomas Eddlem | Mar 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
Cancel Culture only has a total of four plays in its playbook: Accuse of misinformation/fringe opinion Accuse of racism Accuse of sex abuse Accuse of national security threat/threat to democracy After that, they're out of plays. And Cancel Culture nearly always uses...
Taxpayers Left Holding the Bag After Cops Kill Man Who ‘Pointed Finger Like a Gun’
by Matt Agorist | Mar 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On the night of March 12, 2020, Donnie Sanders, 47, was merely driving down the road, minding his own business when an officer with the Kansas City police department began following him. Moments later, Sanders would be shot and killed. He was unarmed and had harmed no...