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PayPal Releases Funds Seized From Independent Media Orgs

by Will Porter | May 5, 2022 | News Roundup

PayPal has reversed course after freezing thousands of dollars belonging to alternative media outlets Consortium News and MintPress News, agreeing to return money to both sites after seizing it without explanation last week.

News Roundup 5/3/2022

by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2022 | News Roundup

US News A judge grants qualified immunity to police officers who arrested and held a man for operating a parody Facebook account. [Link] The FBI conducted nearly 2 million warrantless searches using Russian cyber threats as an excuse. [Link] Lawmakers will likely...

News Roundup 5/1/2022

by Kyle Anzalone | May 1, 2022 | News Roundup

US News Paypal bans Consortium News The FBI conducted millions of warrantless data searches last year. [Link] The FDA moves forward with a proposal to ban menthol cigarettes. [Link] The Biden administration creates a disinformation board. [Link] The Coast Guard...

COI #269: The White House Launches New Attack on Free Speech

by Kyle Anzalone | May 1, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest

On COI #269, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news on Ukraine and free speech. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash...

Russian Cyber Attacks Fail to Materialize After Biden Warned ‘It’s Coming’

by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 29, 2022 | News Roundup

One month after President Joe Biden warned Americans to prepare for cyberattacks from Russia, a US official said that Washington still has yet to detect any.

4/22/22 Mitchell Plitnick on Israel, Iran and a Cold War in the Middle East

by Scott Horton | Apr 29, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott interviews Mitchel Plitnick about Israeli politics and the Iran Nuclear Deal. Plitnick begins by filling us in on the political situation in Israel, where a new coalition government is working to agree upon a budget by the Fall of 2023. If...

US Will ‘Strongly Support’ NATO Membership for Finland, Sweden

by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 29, 2022 | News Roundup

The United States will welcome Helsinki and Stockholm into the NATO alliance with open arms, Washington’s top diplomat told lawmakers. Russia has warned of steep consequences should the Western military bloc further expand to 32 members.

COI #268: Is Ukraine a Western/Russia Proxy War?

by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 28, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest

On COI #268, Kyle Anzalone discusses news from Ukraine, Korea, China, and Afghanistan. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash...

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Chasing Ghosts Dispatch 006: The Carrier Reality: Dead on Arrival

Stop the madness. Stop deploying carriers Stop building them. Just stop. I won’t be getting Christmas cards this year from the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition I am not alone in these notions and the late Captain Wayne Hughes did yeoman’s work on these ideas...

No Crickets for Cricket!

The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, has been plagued by a self-inflicted and festering wound for about a week now. An excerpt from her soon-to-be released memoir, aptly and prophetically entitled No Going Back, has transformed the governor from a Republican...

Richman and Woods

Tom Woods and I discuss alleged antisemitism on U.S. college campuses:

Creative Control and Private Property

Private property isn’t about selfishness so much as it’s about creative control. Someone might want to have their own business, not because they’re greedy, but because they have a vision of how they want things to go that won’t be realized if everyone else gets a say...

RIP, British Army 1415 – 2024

John Cleese and the Monty Python troop were seers in the 1970s. I am fond of saying the British win all their military victories in spite of their best efforts. The IED virus is destroying the institution. The British Army is reducing security checks in pursuit of...

Republicans: Israel Not Just First, But Before the First Amendment

No matter how bad either side gets the other side can only try to outdo them. The Post: On Wednesday, they passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which its advocates said would empower the federal government to crack down on anti-Israel protests on campuses by...