By Annie Holmquist (via Intellectual Takeout) The little kids walking through the airport or the state fair wearing leashes disguised as monkey backpacks signal every parent’s worst nightmare: losing their child. That nightmare increases ten-fold when the loss is inflicted upon parents via so-called authority figures such as Child Protective Services or other agencies with…
Category: Politics
There is No Monopoly on Post-Truth
By Anders Koskinen (via Intellectual Takeout) Jennifer Rubin’s Washington Post op-ed calling for Americans to put an end to our new post-truth society might have been laudable. Unfortunately for her, she fails to realize that her piece is a fine example of politically-biased, mainstream media spin-doctoring. Furthermore, Rubin’s piece demonstrates that when either side pretends that one party or…
Brave New Dystopian World Order Unfolding. Silencing Dissent
By Stephen Lendman (via Global Research) Brave new world dystopia is unfolding in plain sight, freedoms as once known fast eroding. Are they heading for elimination altogether in the West and elsewhere? Is totalitarian rule enforced by police state harshness becoming the new abnormal? Is the US land of opportunity/land of the free and home…
Encircling China and Praising India: The US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark (Via Global Research) The feeling from Rory Medcalf of the Australian National University was one of breathless wonder. “The US government,” he wrote in The Strategist, “has just classified one of its most secretive national security documents – its 2018 strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific, which was formally classified SECRET and not for…
Trump Hardliners Poisoning US-China Relations. Pompeo “Spreads Political Viruses”
By Stephen Lendman (via Global Research) In its waning days in power, Trump regime hardliners are going all-out to more greatly deteriorate US relations with China than already — Pompeo leading the assault. Mindful of what’s going on with more coming, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the following last Tuesday: “Pompeo certainly went to great…
Beyond Orwell and Huxley: Brave New World Unfolding? Compulsory Vaccination, Digital Passports?
By Stephen Lendman (via sjlendman.blogspot.com) Today’s brave new world may be heading in directions beyond what Orwell and Huxley imagined. It’s facilitated by made-in-the USA covid and economic collapse. For ordinary Americans, it created worse hard times than during the Great Depression. It’s facilitating the greatest ever wealth transfer from most people to the privileged…
Resisting Totalitarian Impulses In an Individualist World
By Robert Weissberg (via Intellectual Takeout) The left’s attempts to march toward a totalitarian Utopia free of hate and discrimination are plain to see. This is what drives mandatory anti-bias training, coerced diversity and inclusion, self-flagellation for alleged racism or sexism, speech codes, censorship, and all else defining today’s pox of political correctness. A comparable…
The Deep State: How it Came to Be and Why it Fights so Hard
The members of the Deep State are fighting not only for money and power, but their very sense of being. By Devin Foley (via Intellectual Takeout) Increasingly, it looks like the political fight isn’t between Republicans and Democrats, but rather the American people against the Deep State. More and more often we are seeing bureaucrats,…
The tainted polio vaccine that sickened and fatally paralyzed children in 1955
It was ‘one of the worst biological disasters in American history,’ one scholar wrote By Michael E. Ruane On Aug. 30, 1954, Bernice E. Eddy, a veteran scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., was checking a batch of a new polio vaccine for safety. Created by Jonas Salk, the vaccine was…
Pope Francis plans to get coronavirus vaccine, calling it ethical obligation
By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli ROME — In a forthcoming television interview, Pope Francis says he will soon receive a coronavirus vaccination, perhaps as early as next week, while calling the inoculation a duty for everyone. “I believe that ethically everyone needs to receive the vaccine,” Francis said in an interview with Italy’s TG5…
Brainwashing versus Education: The West Spreads “Intellectual Idiocy”
By Andre Vltchek Could any dictator desire more? Almost the entire population of the Empire is now thinking the same way! The populace is “educated” at schools and the universities staffed with submissive, and cowardly teachers and professors. The populace is “informed” by hundreds of thousands of servile journalists and “analysts”. There is almost no…
Evidence Mounts of a Capitol Hill False Flag
By Stephen Lendman GR Editor’s Note With regard to the coverage of the Wednesday Capitol Event, Global Research will be publishing opposing and contradictory points of view by several of our authors. We are dealing with a complex and far-reaching political process. We are at the crossroads of a major political, economic and social crisis…
How the Left is being Manipulated into Colluding in its own Character Assassination
By Jonathan Cook There was a fascinating online panel discussion on Wednesday night on the Julian Assange case that I recommend everyone watch. The video is at the bottom of the page. But from all the outstanding contributions, I want to highlight a very important point made by Yanis Varoufakis that has significance for understanding current events…
We Are at War
By Peter Koenig We are at war. Yes. And I don’t mean the West against the East, against Russia and China, nor the entire world against an invisible corona virus. No. We, the common people, are at war against an ever more authoritarian and tyrannical elitist Globalist system, reigned by a small group of multi-billionaires,…
Video: The Darkest Winter (2020)
By Derrick Broze This text was originally published on October 28, 2020 shortly before the US November elections. This message is for anyone who has concerns about the upcoming U.S. elections, the potential for chaos and civil unrest, or those who fear what a “second wave” of Covid-19 could mean for the future of humanity. …
COVID-19: The Emergence of the Pandemic Industrial Complex
By Brian Berletic If official numbers are to be believed, the United States is one of the worst hit countries in terms of COVID-19 infections and deaths. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at the time of writing, there are supposedly 19 million COVID-19 caseswith an alleged 300,000+ deaths suggesting between…
Generation Betrayed. The Corona Regime in Schools. The Future of Our Children
Can it be that we are merely witnessing a gigantic and historically unprecedented medical-political abuse of power? That a virus is being used as a scapegoat for something else? By Michael Hüter “Protecting children from all dangers is my damned father’s duty,” sang Reinhard Mey. Our offspring currently need protection from the rigid corona regime…
2020: Annus Horribilis, The Worst Is Yet to Come? Poverty, Unemployment, Despair
By Stephen Lendman For most Americans, 2020 was disastrous for their safety, well-being and future. Unprecedented numbers of people lost jobs — a greater percent of working-age Americans than in the 1930s Great Depression. Millions more became way underemployed earning poverty wages with few or no benefits — struggling daily to survive. Well over 100,000 small…
Greece – Convenient Victim or Complacent Masochist? The Devastating Social Impacts of IMF-ECB-EC “Economic Medicine”
By Peter Koenig Why this title? – Because Greece doesn’t have to continue playing the card of the victim, nor being masochist. Greece seems to suffer under the Stockholm Syndrome – she is in love with her hangman. Greece could change this. Exit the prison, exit the EU and exit the euro. Greece could return…
Imperial Recovery and “Disappearing Workers”: Imperialism Expands, Living Standards Decline
By Prof. James Petras Nero played his fiddle, Obama shot baskets and Trump twittered while their empires burned. What makes empire decay and what makes empires expand has everything to do with their relations between rulers and the ruled. Several factors are decisive. These include: (1) rent, land and housing, (2) the direction of living…
Crimes Against the Earth
By Dr. Andrew Glikson First published by GR in June 2018 “To ignore evil is to become an accomplice” (Martin Luther King) Humans are of the Earth, physically adapted to its range of climates, gravity, radiation, electro-magnetic field and composition of the atmosphere. Had there ever been a single critical issue science has conveyed, it is…
Does the US Military “Own the Weather”? “Weaponizing the Weather” as an Instrument of Modern Warfare?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky First published in September 2017, this article is of relevance to the ongoing protest movement and debate on Climate Change (COP25) “Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally… It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes….
