Amidst protests in the United Kingdom that have been going on since October 7, there have been multiple allegations of extemists among the protestors intimidating, harassing, and scaring innocent people who are not involved in the demonstrations. It seems that even...
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TGIF: Leave TikTok Alone
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
This is America, last I checked. Surely, the government would not force the sale of a social-media company or ban its app from the Google and Apple stores. Would it? Well, yes, it would, could (perhaps), and might. A bill in Congress, backed by the government's...
CIA Further Discredits ‘Uyghur Genocide’ by Admitting Covert Influence Campaign
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 14, Reuters released a bombshell report: in 2019 the Donald Trump White House began a clandestine CIA influence campaign to smear China's international reputation. According to three former U.S. officials with direct knowledge, “the CIA created a small team...
Neocon Charlie Sykes’ Tortured Analogies, Past and Present
by Brandan P. Buck | Mar 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
There is a booming op-ed industry that peddles tortured World War II analogies. The latest offering from its tired assembly line was published by Politico and penned by unreconstructed neoconservative Charlie Sykes. As with other offerings in recent years (and indeed,...
The Principled Cannot Convince the Irrational
by Kym Robinson | Mar 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
No matter how brutal an event, there will be those who can justify, rationalize, or spin a positive narrative. Real and imagined injustices inspire reactions that lead to more injustice, creating a spiral of revenge. Or a group can decide that it is superior,...
The TikTok Totalitarians
by Dan McAdams | Mar 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
On Wednesday, March 13th, a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives voted to give the U.S. president the power to remove any website, computer or mobile application, or even service provider that the president determines—without due process—is run by “a person...
U.S. Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Is a Cynical PR Ploy
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Mar 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Under the administration of President Joseph R. Biden, the U.S. government has been portraying itself as being seriously concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been waging a devastating military assault that the International...
Dollar Debasement as A Matter of Policy
by MN Gordon | Mar 19, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Michelle Mack thought she had it made. The suburban mom was living the high life with her husband and kids in their $3 million mansion in northern San Diego County. But that was before December 6, 2023. This was the day police raided her home, put her in handcuffs,...