“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...
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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...
Strange But True: ‘Price Gouging’ Benefits People In Disaster Areas
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Sep 5, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
As millions of Americans struggle to recover from the latest hurricane, state government officials are issuing stern reminders that criminal penalties loom for anyone who engages in “price gouging.” “Price gouging” is the pejorative label applied to the charging of...
TGIF: Tribalism and the Dark Art of the Package Deal
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 1, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Tribalism not only lives; it rules -- even more than I thought! I've been reading Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis's book The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America. It's certainly clarified my thinking. The Lewis brothers are a...
The Prussian Nights of War
by Kym Robinson | Aug 31, 2023 | Featured Articles
It’s not been burned, just looted, rifled. A moaning, by the walls half muffled: The mother’s wounded, still alive. The little daughter’s on the mattress, Dead. How many have been on it? A platoon, a company perhaps? A girl’s been turned into a woman, A woman turned...
Following the BRICS Road to Multipolarity
by Ted Snider | Aug 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The five members of BRICS promised that their fifteenth annual summit, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, would be an important one for BRICS’ development and that it would mark a significant moment in the changing international architecture. The political West...