Amid the controversy over GameStop, many cynics argued that something sinister was clearly afoot because the hedge funds had shorted 138 percent of the outstanding shares. In this article I’ll review that particular claim, as well as another seemingly dubious...
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The Insurrection That Wasn’t
by Jacob Hornberger | Feb 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
Somebody still needs to get a memo to the Justice Department about the so-called insurrection at the Capitol on January 6 because it has yet to charge anyone with that offense. All I is see is a range of criminal offenses like disorderly conduct, assault, trespass,...
No Warrant, No Problem; How Government Buys Its Way Around the 4th Amendment
by Ken Silva | Feb 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
When the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that law enforcement agencies need warrants before they can request geolocation data from cell phone companies, civil liberties advocates touted the judgment as a major win for privacy. But since then, government agencies have...
Independent Investigation Finds Police in the Wrong for Killing Elijah McClain
by Matt Agorist | Feb 24, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As TFTP reported, Elijah McClain was killed by police after he was put in a chokehold and given the sedative ketamine. The incident began when someone in the neighborhood called the police because McClain was walking down the street with groceries while wearing a...
How Malcolm X Predicted Our Modern Police State
by Matt Agorist | Feb 23, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“They think they are living in a police state, and they become hostile toward the policemen. They think that the policeman is there to be against them rather than to protect them. And these thoughts, these frustrations, these apparitions, automatically are sufficient...
Talk of Secession is the ‘New Normal’
by José Niño | Feb 23, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
Secession is a four-letter word for the millions of Americans who have gone through the conventional educational pipeline that teaches them that the American state is indivisible and sacrosanct. However, intellectually honest historians whose minds haven’t been warped...
Will Northeastern Syria Become A Flashpoint Between Turkey and the United States?
by Ahmad Al Khaled | Feb 22, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last November, the United States saw a rather dramatic presidential election that put a lot at stake and in many ways was supposed to determine the direction of Washington's foreign policy. The new administration under Joe Biden's leadership has repeatedly signaled...
Another Bogus Impeachment
by Jim Bovard | Feb 22, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
The Senate impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump confirms historian Henry Adams's adage a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” The impeachment process was a farce that should fortify Americans’ disdain for...