Washington is launching the “Ukraine Content Aggregator,” an artificial intelligence program designed to detect Russian disinformation online. Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled the project at the Freedom House 2023 Annual Awards Ceremony last week.
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Azerbaijan Taught a Crucial Military Lesson, But Russia Skipped Class
by Michael Ellis | May 11, 2023 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Failed prophets are a dime-a-dozen. If I had a nickel for every time I had been told the world was on the brink of collapse for reasons ranging from oceanic methane deposits to credit default swaps, I might not be a billionaire, but I would drive a nicer car. How...
Biden Looking to Expand Internet Surveillance After Discord Leaks
by Dave DeCamp | Apr 15, 2023 | News
The Biden administration appears poised to increase internet surveillance in response to the leaked Pentagon documents that appear to have been posted on the messaging platform Discord.
Leaked Pentagon Documents: A Thread
by Will Porter | Apr 15, 2023 | Blog
What follows are highlights from the trove of leaked US government documents that appeared on the internet sometime last month, including a handful of the documents themselves, reporting on the material, my own observations, as well as official statements and...
The RESTRICT Act Is a Death Knell for Online Speech
by Matt Agorist | Mar 30, 2023 | Featured Articles
In an era where the world has become more Orwellian than Orwell himself could have ever imagined, it should come as no surprise that the US government is once again attempting to expand its stranglehold on individual liberty. Enter Senate Bill 686, also known as the...
3/3/23 Jim Bovard on the 1993 WTC Bombing and Global Engagement Center
by Scott Horton | Mar 7, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Jim Bovard to discuss two articles he recently published. The first marked the 30-year anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing of 1993. Scott and Bovard talk about what the FBI knew before the attack. Next they discuss...
What If the Davos Agenda Has Already Been Defeated?
by Tom Luongo | Jan 25, 2023 | Featured Articles
In November 2021 I wrote a piece entitled “Have We Finally Reached Peak Davos?” This article was scarily spot on. When you’ve written as much as I have over the past five years, however, it’s easy to look back and point at how prescient you were. Even if you’ve gotten...
Section 230 Is a Subsidy for Surveillance
by Jeffrey Wernick | Dec 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet is a nice book title. It might even be an interesting read. But it is also false. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He stated that the power of the Web was its universality as a permissionless, decentralized,...
12/2/22 John Young on Cryptome, Wikileaks and the Persecution of Julian Assange
by Scott Horton | Dec 9, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with John Young of Cryptome.org about his attempt to join the Julian Assange indictment as a co-defendant. Before Wikileaks published redacted versions of the State Department cables leaked by Chelsea Manning, Cryptome got access and...
Justice Denied: The Contrast of Ross Ulbricht and Sam Bankman-Fried
by Matt Agorist | Nov 30, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“How did this dude steal billions of dollars and is now speaking at a summit as a free man? Make it make sense.”- the internet. This is the question that millions of people are asking after weeks have now passed since Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX scandal unfolded....
Freedom of Speech Is Faith in Humanity
by Douglas Young | Nov 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
Elon Musk has completed a private acquisition of Twitter, promising to unshackle what’s supposed to be a free speech forum from the chains of progressive ruling-class censorship. This is a major victory for free expression—witness all the “wailing and gnashing of...
2022 Was Another Nail in the Modern Monetary Theory Coffin
by Connor O'Keeffe | Nov 14, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
It’s been a rough year for advocates of modern monetary theory (MMT). After nearly two years with all the budget deficits and money printing MMTers could have wanted, the doctrine’s popularity seems to have faded now that we’re well passed the honeymoon phase. Twenty...
11/7/22 Alan MacLeod on the Former Israeli Spies in Top Social Media Jobs
by Scott Horton | Nov 10, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Alan MacLeod of Mintpress News is back to talk more about the alarming number of former spies working for the largest internet and social media companies. This time MacLeod dug up evidence of numerous former Israeli military intelligence officials...
Pentagon Praises Musk, Treasury Dept Targets ‘Chief Twit’ with Investigation
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Nov 2, 2022 | News
America’s top military officer General Mark Milley praised SpaceX CEO Elon Musk by name at an event hosted by the Space Force. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs lauded the “Chief Twit” as symbolizing ”the civil and military cooperation and teamwork that makes the US the most powerful country in space.”
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Roland Fryer’s Shocking Conclusion
https://youtu.be/2nLWCLsmpJ4 On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which...
The US Government Has Been Lying About How to Lose Weight for Decades
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI Fat Fiction Movie Website Research by Ann F. La Berge: How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America Turns out a low-carb diet does far more to help people lose weight than a low-fat diet.
The “Rich Get Richer” Myth
Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade. Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the...
The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
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