A video out of Ohio this week is causing a massive storm of controversy online after it showed a Butler Township police officer repeatedly punching a woman in the face. While the video is certainly enraging to the folks on the police accountability front it also...
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Netanyahu’s Return to Power: A Prelude to Anti-American Terrorism?
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jan 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel has ushered in a government more dominated by religious and ultra-nationalist extremists than any ruling coalition in the country’s 74-year history. While that fact has been well-reported, most Americans are oblivious to...
3 Proofs That the Corporate Press is Complete Propaganda
by Keith Knight | Jan 2, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/pONdewnuFYs Excerpt from Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy by Michael Huemer, Ph.D. Credulity Humans are born credulous – we instinctively believe what people tell us, even with no corroboration. We are...
New Jersey Resident Exposes Totalitarian Implications of Facial Recognition
by Michael Maharrey | Dec 27, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
When we warn about the growing pervasiveness of facial recognition systems, people often shrug and say, “it’s no big deal if you have nothing to hide.” The experience of a New Jersey woman illustrates the dangerous flaw in that thinking. Kelly Conlon went to New York...
WATCH: Cop Shoots Man Over Ordinance Violation, Gets Exonerated
by Matt Agorist | Dec 21, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In February 2020, Ariel Roman, 33, while traveling on Chicago's public transit train, walked from one train car to another. That is all. For this action, two officers, assigned to Chicago's mass transit unit, chased him and tackled him on the train platform before one...
Ukraine Furious as EU Plans to Refine Sanctions on Russian Fertilizer Exports
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Dec 15, 2022 | News
The European Union has agreed to redefine sanctions on some Russian exports to make it easier for poorer nations to import Russia’s fertilizer products. While a group of Western states say the amended policy will help to ease a growing food crisis in Africa, Kiev was outraged at the EU for taking any steps that would even slightly ease the economic war on Moscow.
The Secret to Seeing Through “News” Propaganda!
by The Libertarian Institute | Dec 13, 2022 | Blog
https://youtu.be/dfw0wVP1m_E Excerpt from Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy by Michael Huemer, Ph.D. Credulity Humans are born credulous – we instinctively believe what people tell us, even with no corroboration. We are...
Alabama Cops Jail 82 Year Old Grandmother for Unpaid $70 Trash Bill
by Matt Agorist | Dec 5, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Over the years, the Free Thought Project has reported on many asinine reasons police have used to arrest entirely innocent people who have harmed no one. Frequently, long grass on one's own property or a burnt-out license plate light can get people killed in the land...
Extinguishing Some Election Day Rumors
by Walter Olson | Nov 14, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
How much went right with Tuesday’s midterm election? A lot. Violence at the polls, much feared, didn’t happen. Nor did widespread intimidation. For all the talk of voter suppression, poll access was healthy and uneventful in the state of Georgia and pretty much...
The Afghanistan Withdrawal, One Year Later
by Dan McKnight | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This is a mournful anniversary. One year ago, on August 26, thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed by ISIS-affiliated suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai airport in Kabul during the evacuation. They were the last Americans to die in Afghanistan. Poor planning by the...
Cop Involved With Breonna Taylor’s Murder Has Record Expunged Clean
by Matt Agorist | Jul 21, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On September 23, 2020, knowing that there would be backlash for their decision, streets in downtown Louisville were blocked off officials, police put on high alert, and government buildings were boarded up as officials announced the charges against former officer...
News Roundup 7/1/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 30, 2022 | News Roundup, Uncategorized
US News Biden argued that the “outrageous behavior” of the Supreme Court is “the one thing that has been destabilizing” for the US. POLITICO Europe Greece has sent a letter of request to the United States to buy 20 F-35 fighter jets. AP Polish Prime Minister Mateusz...
The Justice Department Pressured USA Today to Stop Publishing Me
by Jim Bovard | Jun 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
In 2015, Justice Department press chief Brian Fallon bitterly complained to USA Today editors about my articles walloping Attorney General Eric Holder, including"Eric Holder's Lawless Legacy," [Feb. 3, 2015] and "Eric Holder's Police Shooting Record? Dismal," [Aug....
A Coverup in Uvalde? Cops Refuse to Release Body Cam Footage
by Matt Agorist | Jun 23, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
21 people, including 19 children aged nine to eleven, were murdered by a mentally unstable 18-year-old at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24. The brutality of the incident, and conflicting and contradictory reports on the fumbled the police...
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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...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
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