Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. mercatornet.com A future in which the right to life will be profoundly and inhumanely corrupted is on display in a dispute between a British teenager who wants to live and a UK hospital who wants
We live in a time of near-universal deceit. Lies are all around us. All-too-often, lies are the stock in trade of the very same people finger-wagging us about “harmful misinformation”. The lies of the powerful and their media lickspittles are too numerous and too obvious to enumerate, but one of
Every joke, Orwell as reminds us, is a tiny revolution. “A thing is funny when… it upsets the established order,” the great essayist wrote. “Whatever destroys dignity, and brings down the mighty from their seats, preferably with a bump, is funny.” This is partly why bards, even jesters, enjoyed a
Dr Duncan du Bois The significance of the baleful and gleeful reactions of many in response to Trump being arrested and booked in Fulton County, Georgia reflects the degree to which the mainstream media have effected thought control in America and elsewhere – including some who read this website. Repetition of
Nazare Surf Pixie At midnight on Friday 25 August the right to protest peacefully was removed from New Zealanders who oppose abortion. An amendment to the Contraception, Abortion and Sterilisation Act allows for pro-life supporters to be arrested and fined if they are visible inside newly created “safe areas”. The
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com The New Zealand Ombudsman has dismissed NZDSOS’s complaint of 9 July 2021 despite claiming eight months ago that “you can be assured that your complaint remains a priority and is being actively monitored.” This dismissal comes 21 months after the
Charles Krblich Chuck Krblich works in the insurance and reinsurance industries as a catastrophe manager. brownstone.org Six years ago, fate had me stumble across a YouTube video of Mischa Maisky playing the Sarabande from Bach’s first cello suite. I don’t know why, but I decided to rent
C J Hopkins C J Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. consentfactory.org So, the Germans are putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes, and, apparently, I’ve already been found guilty and sentenced. Bear with me and I’ll try to explain. The Berlin District Court
James Fite Editor-at-Large. James is our wordsmith extraordinaire, a legislation hound and lover of all things self-reliant and free. An author of politics and fiction (often one and the same) he homesteads in the Arkansas wilderness. libertynation.com Donald J Trump is racking up the historic firsts. No other president
Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett reports from Western Australia. She is a volunteer interviewer for Jab Injuries Australia and holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia. Find her work on her Substack page, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org The Australian Government’s proposed new laws to crack
A “trans” child, it is said, is like a vegan cat: you know someone else is really making the decisions. Increasingly, with “trans men” (girls who pretend to be boys) especially, the decisions are being made by their peer groups and the internet. It’s notable that girls identifying as
Jonathan Turley ronpaulinstitute.org The US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has handed down a major victory for free speech against the District of Columbia. In Frederick Douglass Foundation v. District of Columbia, Judge Neomi Rao reversed district court judge James E. Boasberg who dismissed the challenge
Michael Matulef Mike works in construction by day and is an independent student of Austrian Economics by night. Mike associates philosophically with crypto-anarchism and is interested in learning how Bitcoin and other open source technologies can create parallel systems based on consent rather than coercion. mises.org The Constitution “is
It goes without saying that paedophiles don’t tend to brag about their crimes. Even obvious groomers either deny what they’re up to, or try and hide behind euphemisms like “Minor Attracted Persons”. So it’s not exactly surprising that even those closest to paedophiles often remain unaware of
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) has recently filed for a High Court Judicial Review of the use of the “Guidance Statement” by the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) to threaten doctors into obedience to the government dictates.
