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Of Economic Crises and Pandemics: Facebook as Fact, Government as Truth, Big Pharma as God
Of Economic Crises and Pandemics: Facebook as Fact, Government as Truth, Big Pharma as God If events since March 2020 have shown us anything, it is that fear is a powerful weapon for securing hegemony. Any government can manipulate fear about certain things while conveniently ignoring real dangers that a population faces. Author and researcher Robert […]
Martial Law Is Unacceptable Regardless Of The Circumstances
Martial Law Is Unacceptable Regardless Of The Circumstances Back in 2014, hundreds if not thousands of conservatives and liberty movement activists converged on a farm in rural Clark County, Nevada. The purpose was to protest the incursion of federal government agents onto the property of the Bundy family, who had defied pressure from the Bureau […]
Here’s Why the Economy Won’t Recover–and No, It’s Not Covid-19 or the Lockdown
Here’s Why the Economy Won’t Recover–and No, It’s Not Covid-19 or the Lockdown When reality and truth become the sworn enemies of society’s political and economic elites, the society is well and truly doomed. The risks of Covid-19 and the lockdown have been explored across a wide spectrum of opinion. To hit just a few of […]
Dave Collum’s 2019 Year In Review: “I Fought The Fed, And The Fed Won”
Dave Collum’s 2019 Year In Review: “I Fought The Fed, And The Fed Won” Authored by David B. Collum, Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology – Cornell University (Email: dbc6@cornell.edu, Twitter: @DavidBCollum), “I hope David comes to his senses.” ~ Nassim Taleb (@nntaleb), best-selling author and Professor at NYU Every year, David Collum writes a detailed […]
BigBrotherWatch: Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK
BigBrotherWatch: Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK At TruePublica we have written endlessly about the continued slow strangulation of civil liberties and human rights in Britain. We have warned about the rise of a techno-Stasi-state where technology is harnessed and used against civilians without any debate or indeed any real legal framework. We have alerted the public […]
Is the World Becoming Less Free?
Is the World Becoming Less Free? Erosion of the rule of law and various civil liberties are causing the world to be a less free, less prosperous place. The Cato Institute has, in cooperation with the Canadian Fraser Institute and the German “Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit,” assembled a comprehensive 396-page report on human freedom […]
Arizona Citizens Tracked In Facial Recognition Database In First Step For REAL ID Implementation
Arizona Citizens Tracked In Facial Recognition Database In First Step For REAL ID Implementation Arizona citizens are now in a government database that uses facial recognition technology to track them simply for getting a driver’s license. This allows federal and local law enforcement to use the “perpetual lineup” of suspects not accused of a crime to […]
Supreme Court to Debate Warrantless Collection Of Cellphone Records in Huge Fourth Amendment Battle
Supreme Court to Debate Warrantless Collection Of Cellphone Records in Huge Fourth Amendment Battle In one of the most important Fourth Amendment battles of the digital age, the Supreme Court is preparing to tackle a case involving law enforcement accessing cellphone records without a warrant. On Wednesday the US Supreme Court is scheduled to address […]
Ron Paul: Vote All You Want, the Secret Government Won’t Change
Ron Paul: Vote All You Want, the Secret Government Won’t Change (ANTIMEDIA) Former congressman Ron Paul is outspoken. When he retired from Congress, he called lawmakers psychopathic authoritarians to their faces. He’s also called Donald Trump an authoritarian and asserted Hillary Clinton could have run as a Republican. And just last week, Paul took aim at the foundational structure of […]
Vladimir Putin Speaks Honestly
Vladimir Putin Speaks Honestly Russia’s president is a refreshing contrast to the liars who inhabit Western governments and Western media. The agenda of the Russian government is peace and international cooperation under the rule of law. Washington’s agenda is hegemony. President Putin endeavors to lead the world to peace, while the neoconservatives who control Washington’s […]
The Civilisation of Capitalism
The Civilisation of Capitalism This piece was written for The Cobden Centre by Vishal Wilde. Vishal Wilde is a finalist studying for a BSc (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (Economics major) at the University of Warwick. He wishes to spend his life fighting for and defending freedom. He is a Freelance Journalist (writing, most recently, […]
On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer
On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer Even in the security-über alles climate that followed 9/11, the Patriot Act was recognized as an extreme and radical expansion of government surveillance powers. That’s why “sunset provisions” were attached to several of its key provisions: meaning they would expire automatically unless […]
Edward Snowden Calls Canadian Intelligence Oversight Among ‘Weakest’ In Western World
Edward Snowden Calls Canadian Intelligence Oversight Among ‘Weakest’ In Western World U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden criticized the inadequate oversight of Canada’s intelligence operations on Wednesday, calling its framework “one of the weakest” in the Western world. In a live chat moderated by CBC Radio host Anna Maria Tremonti, Snowden touched on the […]
