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Is Free Speech in the US Doomed?
Is Free Speech in the US Doomed? To understand why an idea should be rejected first requires that the idea be understood. Crowds of students gathered at the University of California-Berkeley in September armed with protest signs and chanting, “Speech is violence! We will not be silent!” Who were these students so passionately protesting against? […]
America Not Immune from Chaos
America Not Immune from Chaos “Exceptional” America views itself as largely immune from devastating storms and the violence that infect much of the world, but recent weeks show that there is no protection against natural and human catastrophes, writes Ann Wright. Over the past two months – between natural disasters and the actions of a […]
Globalist Strategy: Use Crazy Leftists And Provocateurs To Enrage/Demonize Conservatives
Globalist Strategy: Use Crazy Leftists And Provocateurs To Enrage/Demonize Conservatives The false left/right paradigm is an often misunderstood concept. Many people who are aware of it sometimes wrongly assume that it asserts the claim that there is “no left or right political spectrum;” that it is all a farce. This is incorrect. In regular society […]
Beware of the “dark side” of humanity during any collapse
Beware of the “dark side” of humanity during any collapse While there have been countless books, movies and television shows about life after some type of apocalyptic event, chances are none of us will ever actually be forced to experience what its like trying to rebuild society from the ground up. More than likely, the […]
The Myth of the Rule of Law
The Myth of the Rule of Law Any state, no matter how powerful, cannot not rule solely through the use of brute force. There are too few rulers and too many of us for coercion alone to be an effective means of control. The political class must rely on ideology to achieve popular compliance, masking […]
Politicians Are Now Making Plans in Case the Public Turns Against Them Violently
Politicians Are Now Making Plans in Case the Public Turns Against Them Violently (ANTIMEDIA) Washington, D.C. — As protests continue to break out all around the nation over President Donald Trump’s desire to scrap Obamacare, Politico reported Tuesday that many politicians are beginning to worry about their own personal safety — to the point where some are having private sessions to discuss the […]
Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance
Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance Photo by new 1lluminati | CC BY 2.0 What happens to a society when thinking is eviscerated and is disdained in favor of raw emotion? [1] What happens when political discourse functions as a bunker rather than a bridge? What happens when the spheres of morality and spirituality […]
The American Empire: Murder Inc.
The American Empire: Murder Inc. As Indonesia’s former President Suharto lay ill in 2008, a supporter displayed a portrait of him outside the Jakarta hospital where the military dictator died two weeks later. It was in Suharto’s brutal three-decade reign that Indonesia invaded East Timor, where investigative journalist Allan Nairn covered atrocities the general’s […]
Playing the Government’s Game: When It Comes to Violence, We All Lose
Playing the Government’s Game: When It Comes to Violence, We All Lose By John Whitehead, constitutional and civil rights attorney, the Rutherford Institute. “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because […]
Introduction: Bank-Money
Introduction: Bank-Money ‘BANK ROBBERY’ is not a book about how to rob a bank: it’s about how banks rob us. The title sounds a bit sensationalist: perhaps people think it’s not meant to be taken too seriously. Banks don’t actually rob us, surely: they provide a service – even if they do charge too much, and behave […]
Globalization and Terror
Globalization and Terror For people in the modern world, there may be nothing more difficult to comprehend than the group calling itself the Islamic State, or ISIS. The beheadings, rapes, and other acts of cruelty seem beyond understanding, as does the wanton destruction of priceless ancient monuments. Perhaps most mystifying of all is the way […]
German police deploy water cannon as far-right, antifascists rally in Cologne
German police deploy water cannon as far-right, antifascists rally in Cologne © Ruptly Thousands rallied in Cologne on Sunday as supporters of the ‘Hooligans against Salafists’ far-right group and their left-wing opponents took to the streets. Police had to deploy a water cannon in an attempt to control the counter-protest. Law enforcers had earlier sought […]
Concealment Strategies Against Social Unrest, Theft, or Confiscation
Concealment Strategies Against Social Unrest, Theft, or Confiscation It does little good to spend a lot of time and money in preparing for difficult times if you don’t also plan on securing those supplies against the very threats you are preparing for. Severe social dislocations caused by war, economic problems, or widespread natural disasters are […]
Turkey Arrests Journalists, Sets Up Terrorist “Tip Line” As Currency Plunges, Violence Escalates
Turkey Arrests Journalists, Sets Up Terrorist “Tip Line” As Currency Plunges, Violence Escalates Last month, Turkey’s central bank had a chance to give the plunging lira some respite by preempting the Fed and hiking rates. Only they didn’t. And not only did they not hike, they made it clear that tightening would only occur once the Fed […]
The Last Refuge of the Incompetent
The Last Refuge of the Incompetent There are certain advantages to writing out the ideas central to this blog in weekly bursts. Back in the days before the internet, when a galaxy of weekly magazines provided the same free mix of ideas and opinions that fills the blogosphere today, plenty of writers kept themselves occupied […]
