Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
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The War In Afghanistan Is Over, But Its Economy Is Collapsing
by Steven Woskow | Dec 16, 2021 | Blog
While the Washington D.C. ruling class lectures the world about morality and human rights. "They're witnessing a sharp rise in cases of malnutrition here and across the country, with both mothers and young infants in particular unable to get enough food. The UN has...
COI #186: You Cannot Break the ‘Blue Wall of Silence’
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 10, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #186, Kyle Anzalone discusses a new report from USA Today on the culture in police departments against exposing police abuse. The report found that nearly all police departments have a culture that punishes whistleblowers and defends abusers. The article argues...
In Gaza, We Dread The Darkness And Wait For The Next Strike To Land
by Steven Woskow | May 17, 2021 | Blog
"When I speak to U.S. officials, I urge them to remember that the billions in unconditional military aid that they approve each year for Israel — aid that the Israeli military uses against my community and my people — means the United States is not a neutral bystander...
COI #102 – The Israeli and American Police States Are Out of Control
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 28, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #102, Kyle discusses the rampant police abuse by American and Israeli security forces. In the US, a police officer dislocated an elderly woman's arm, then was recording laughing about it. Another officer shot a man ten times after he mistook a phone for a gun,...
4/9/21 Jesselyn Radack on the Latest Victim of America’s Draconian Espionage Act
by Scott Horton | Apr 9, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews national security attorney Jesselyn Radack about her work in the protection of whistleblowers. Daniel Hale, the man who leaked the so-called "drone papers" to the Intercept in 2014, has just pleaded guilty to violations of the Espionage Act in what...
How Turkey Inspired Its Little Brother, Azerbaijan
by Armen Tigranakert | Apr 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
During a recent visit to the captured areas of Nagorno-Karabakh, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev ordered the destruction of historical inscriptions on the Armenian churches, calling them “fake.” The order aiming to erase the region’s cultural and religious...
News Roundup 4/1/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 1, 2021 | News Roundup
US News A North Carolina cop resigns after a video shows him torturing his dog. Other officers on the scene joked about a lack of witnesses. [Link] Biden proposes a $2 trillion infrastructure spending bill. [Link] Drone assassination program whistleblower Daniel Hale...
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The SANDF is a Military Dumpster Fire
The South African National Defense Force (SANDF) is in tatters. The SA Navy is also in the hazard. One glaring example is the MTU 1163 propulsion engine. Grimms was paid R55 million for a W6 engine overhaul, yet the engine has still not undergone a dyno test or no...
Terrestrial Speed Demon: Non-Nuclear Throw-Weight Comes of Age
Russians play chess and the West plays Naked Twister. ICBMs and IRBMs have been hyper-sonic since the 1950s. Replace the warhead with a terrestrial-launched Rod from God and you have a very effective non-nuclear option to reach anywhere in the northern hemisphere with...
Macgregor Steps Up to the Plate
COL Douglas Macgregor shows the stark choices ahead a defense establishment in the US and the west that is inexorably grinding to a halt in effectiveness and incompetence. The incoming President has three choices: 1. Allow service bureaucracies or external events to...
Mr Jarfart
Just think about this, whatever your child or your niece, nephew and some strangers kids are feeding their eyes with is likely attached to a clown or maybe a cynical conglomerate that knows social media and children fed algorithms will make them rich. Those little...
Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
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