I remember a time not too long ago when you could sort of see what was happening in the world, even in your own backyard, with some degree of certainty. If you looked hard enough, got past the poli…

I refuse to raise my child to grow up to kill another mother’s child. Julia Ward Howe, founder of Mother’s Day, 1870 Originally conceived as a protest to war, Mother’s Day – celebrated in the US on…

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. UK Assiste…

“The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begin…

We’re interesting in collating all the examples of fakery in the news for an article we are planning to run later this week. That would be doctored photos, proven lies, staged video footage. …

JR Leach’s latest video, based on his article from earlier this year. “In contemplating the propaganda of the past, one cannot help but wonder why recognizing similar patterns in contem…

Read the whole series… Part I – Part II – Part III – Part IV – Part V – Part VI – Part VII – Part VIII – Part IX Brent Lee and Neil Sanders hav…

Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe. In the UK, an influx of investment from pension funds and private wealth contributed to…

1. Try not to get born in the first place. * 2. If born, don’t expect that the mere happenstance of your birth ennoscripts you to be an idiot. * 3. Contain any idiocy that shows up to within the…

The International Criminal Court is supposedly mulling war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other high-ranking Israeli political and military officials. But what…

Originally published by Propaganda in Focus. Part One of this article is available here and here, Part Two here and here. Since government must be involved in the accumulation of capital to legitim…

You hear the word “democracy” thrown around quite a bit these days. “Democracy is being destroyed in the United States by Donald Trump!!” and “Democracy is being destroyed in the United States by J…

We went to Rat Island to kill, but it was not rats we were after. I was ten years old, as was my companion John. The island lay in the Bronx River just north of the Botanical Gardens in the vast …

Recently, billionaire Sheryl Sandberg (ex-COO of Meta/Facebook) released a roughly 60-minute film purporting to explore “the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.” Though denoted a…

“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.” Simone Weil, French philos…

The UK High Court has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange does have the right to an appeal following his extradition hearing late last year. Assange was once again absent from the court for…

Have you noticed a lot of two-factor authentication prompts lately? Are you getting emailed verification codes that take forever to arrive, so you have to request another? Perhaps you are asked to …

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the UK’s next General Election will be held on July 4th. Speaking in the rain outside No 10 less than an hour ago, Sunak confirmed King Charle…

I miss the 1970s sometimes. Not just the music. And the sex. And the drugs. I miss the terrorists. The old-school terrorists. Or, OK, maybe not the terrorists, but the revolutionaries who cheered o…

Now, Godot the raccoon, now aptly named Myrtle-Godot arrived plump and tired and fuzzy at dawn for what would be her morning feed. She laid her cool fingers on my hand and touched me with her cold …

On the latest edition of #SolutionsWatch, James Corbett is joined by Aaron Day, a liberty activist who hasn’t used fiat currency since 2019. James and Aaron discuss the biggest threat to human libe…