In a rare speech focused on immigration, President Biden announced new changes in border enforcement policies. The new plan incorporates several proposals that would make it easier for people to enter the country legally. Other changes will restrict asylum for people...
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Concerned About the Fentanyl Crisis? Blame the Government
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Aug 1, 2022 | Featured Articles
As drug overdoses continue rising in the United States, one drug has emerged as the most notorious killer of our day: fentanyl. Unfortunately, those clamoring loudest about fentanyl’s death toll support policies that actually bolster its position in the illicit drug...
News Roundup 11/18/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 18, 2021 | News Roundup
Covid The White House will offer drug makers billions of dollars to increase the production ability of mRNA covid vaccines to one billion doses per year. [Link] The US will send Johnson and Johnson covid vaccines to the border of Thailand and Myanmar. The donated...
Why Demographics is not Destiny
by Logan Chipkin | Apr 6, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
“Demographics is destiny” is a phrase uttered in some rightwing circles and quietly believed in some leftwing ones. In political terms, the phrase suggests either cultural or genetic determinism, or both—namely, that people of a particular culture, ethnicity, or race...
Mexican Immigration Debate! Heated Battle
by HypocriteTwins | Aug 31, 2019 | Blog
Illegal Immigration is a hot topic among both sides of the political aisle. In this short political comedy clip, we will tackle it from a variety of angles.
Iraqi National Who’d Lived Whole Life in US Dies Shortly After Being Deported to Iraq
by Scott Horton | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog
CNN: An Iraqi national who had lived in the US since he was an infant died shortly after being deported to Iraq as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. Jimmy Aldaoud, 41, died from complications of diabetes, his attorney Edward Bajoka...
‘Paperz Pleaze!’ – How the Immigration Crackdown is Expanding the Police State
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 2, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
A common trope in American-made, Nazi propaganda movies, was that in their police state, at any moment and for no reason, you could be stopped and forced to show your “papers.” Well, maybe not forced but if you didn’t the implications were obvious. You might be “black...
2019, The Palestinian Reality Check
by Warren Beale | Dec 17, 2018 | Featured Articles, Op Eds
In recent weeks there has been a plethora of news surrounding of all things, the Trump administration and its policies. Between the talking points, much of the news has found one way or another, a comparison to the Palestinians and Israelis. For example, this week...
'Enforcing the Law' Doesn't Justify Separating Migrant Children from their Parents
by Ilya Somin | Jun 21, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Trump administration recently adopted a "zero tolerance" policy under which undocumented immigrants apprehended by federal officials are forcibly separated from their children. In April and May alone, almost 2000 children were torn from their parents and detained...
What Does Litter Say About Us?
by Craig Cantoni | Jun 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
With all the serious problems facing the nation and the world, the problem of littering seems insignificant. But it is not. Litter says a lot about us. It says something about class, race, ethnicity, and even political ideology. It speaks volumes about our sense of...
Reason Lets Me Down
by Craig Cantoni | Feb 4, 2018 | Blog
Thanks to evolutionary psychology and biology, I’m like most hominoids: a big bundle of emotions, chemical reactions, automatic motor functions, instincts, illogic, and irrationality; plus a much smaller amount of reason and rationality, but at least a larger amount...
When Our Faces Are Our ‘Papers’
by Matthew Feeney | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
A passenger on a bus at Fort Lauderdale’s Greyhound station recently recorded disturbing footage of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers walking up the bus’ aisle, asking for proof of citizenship. Although nothing new, it’s sad to see American law enforcement...
When Our Faces Are Our 'Papers'
by Matthew Feeney | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
A passenger on a bus at Fort Lauderdale’s Greyhound station recently recorded disturbing footage of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers walking up the bus’ aisle, asking for proof of citizenship. Although nothing new, it’s sad to see American law enforcement...
Round Ups, Checkpoints and National ID Cards
by John Whitehead | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
“The roundups are getting worse. The checkpoints are getting worse. The harassment is getting worse. The things we were worried would happen are happening.”—Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets...
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ESG in Canada
When I talk about ESG it isn’t out of concern for the corporations being regulated, it is out of concern as to how it affects the common man. While many dismiss my concern as a “conspiracy theory” cutting people off from their money and financial institutions is in...
ESG on The Courtenay Turner Podcast
My friend Courtenay Turner invited me on her podcast to get deep into ESG and why it matters.
Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
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