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Robert Fisk, Foreign Correspondant
by Kym Robinson | Nov 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Robert Fisk was a journalist, a historian, and a foreign correspondent reporting on the world's wars. But as a man, he was a witness. He would go into battle armed only with his eyes, and the ammunition he carried were his words. His courage was not just that he put...
Benefits From Trump’s BS
by Scott Horton | Nov 5, 2020 | Blog
Trump is trying to pretend the mail-in ballots are somehow a big fraud. No, they're just Democrat-leaning. Maybe telling all his people that mail-in ballots are such a fraud for all these months backfired? Now they're cutting hard for the Democrats. But if Biden wins,...
Let’s Talk About Potential Gun Issues
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 4, 2020 | Blog
As I’m typing this it looks to me like Joe Biden is going to take this thing (if I’m wrong, I’ll be first to admit it). A common worry among libertarians/anarchists and even conservatives is that Biden is going to do an executive order (XO) of some sort resulting in...
USA Police Training: ‘Be a Ruthless Killer’
by Scott Horton | Nov 1, 2020 | Blog
NYT: Kentucky Police Training Quoted Hitler and Urged ‘Ruthless’ Violence "Because the courts have ruled that government employees can never be held accountable for crimes you commit, so who cares?" was just implied, I guess. A slide show once shown to cadets training...
Modern Age: “What Character from Creative Literature Would Be The Best Choice For President?”
by Steven Woskow | Nov 1, 2020 | Blog
Modern Age is pleased to offer some relief that nonetheless has a measure of relevance. We asked some twenty of our friends and contributors to weigh in on the best choice for president—but not the best choice on the ballot this November. Instead, we asked them to...
How Trump’s China Trade War Failed
by Brad Polumbo | Oct 31, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
President Trump was elected on an anti-trade agenda in 2016, and promised that tariffs and protectionist measures could restore the US manufacturing sector. After winning the White House, the president imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of...
Breonna Taylor Grand Jurors: Police Actions Were ‘Negligent’ And ‘Criminal’
by Scott Horton | Oct 29, 2020 | Blog, Criminal Justice
Two grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case said the actions of Louisville, Kentucky, police officers the day of the botched raid at her apartment were "negligent" and "criminal." "They couldn't even provide a risk assessment," one of the anonymous grand jurors,...
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The Wigan Pier of the Periphery
I just finished some work in the city. I was working with a pair of carpenters, men in dirty clothes with splinters in their hands. As we worked the nicely dressed office class ignored those building the world around them, the delivery drivers, the cleaners, the...
Friends Don’t Let Friends Ally with the USA
Osama bin Laden like Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and a legion of other malefactors discovered that alliance with the US and its coalition partners can be a mercurial and potentially lethal relationship. My Substack Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me.
A Home into a House
It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the...
Ben Shapiro Shows Why He Can’t Be Taken Seriously
Dave Smith highlights another reason why Ben Shapiro’s attempts to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza cannot be taken seriously.
Netanyahu’s Godson’s Father-in-Law Trump: Jewish Americans who vote for Biden don’t love Israel
Jeez. Who does Genocide Joe have to help Israel first-degree mass murder to get some respect from the Zionists around here? Biden could drop a nuke on Rahmallah and Trump would cry that his would have been a thermo-nuke and he'd'a hit the Jenin refugee camp while he...
The IDF Follies Continue
The "vaunted" Israeli Defense Forces have an entirely undeserved reputation subject to gushing hagiographic treatment in the corporate/access media and even their intelligence services have reputations untethered to reality. The historians will have a cottage industry...
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