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Last Year 73 Million Babies Were Killed

Kimberly Ells Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. mercatornet.com One of the first headlines that greeted me at the turn of the new year was this: “Abortion Was the Leading Cause of Death Worldwide in 2023” This statistic grabbed my

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The Drone Attack on American Troops

The Drone Attack on American Troops

Sara Harmouch PhD Candidate, School of Public Affairs American University A drone attack that killed three American troops and wounded at least 34 more at a base in Jordan has increased fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East – and the possibility that the U.S. may be further

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The Whole Barrel Is Off

The Whole Barrel Is Off

As the scandal over the UNRWA and its operations as little more than a front office for Hamas grows, more and more disturbing revelations are emerging. This is very, very far from a supposed “few bad apples”. It’d be harder to find a “good apple” — if not next to

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Hosing Down ‘The Biggest Moral Panic in Canadian History’

Barbara Kay Barbara Kay lives in Montreal. She is a columnist for the National Post, the Epoch Times and the WesternStandardOnline.com. mercatornet.com “Canadians deserve to know the truth,” Federal Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters earlier this week, regarding 2021 claims made — but never investigated — of unmarked graves

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Why Checks and Balances Are Essential to Freedom
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Why Checks and Balances Are Essential to Freedom

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at FEE. fee.org In February 2022, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he was invoking the 1988 Emergencies Act, a new Rubicon in Canadian history. The action marked the first time federal emergency powers had been activated

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Perfect – But for One Teensy Little Detail

Perfect – But for One Teensy Little Detail

Well, you’ve got to hand it to Japan’s space agency, they know how to put a positive spin on things. Japan joined the latter-day Moon race by landing its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), nearly a fortnight ago. As the Japan Times reported, the lander touched down

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You Are the Problem

You Are the Problem

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org Javier Milei went to Davos to attend the 54th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting last week. Attendees of the meetings—often derided as global elites who bask in their

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3 Years After the Military Coup

3 Years After the Military Coup

Adam Simpson University of South Australia Nicholas Farrelly University of Tasmania Three years since a military coup ousted Myanmar’s democratically elected government on February 1, 2021, a brutal civil war has left the country devastated. In December, a United Nations report on Myanmar’s humanitarian needs said the country

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Javier Milei Talks Sense in Public

Javier Milei Talks Sense in Public

Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His latest, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, was released in 2023. mercatornet.com Is Argentina’s new economically and

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Why Is NZ Still Funding This?

Why Is NZ Still Funding This?

The anti-Semitic corruption of the UNRWA — its Palestinian “aid” body — has been known for years. But the latest revelation, that its members actively participated in the horrors of October 7, ought to be the final nail in its coffin. And, indeed, its parent body, the UN itself. If nothing else,

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New Zealand’s Huge Shift in the Middle East

Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD at the University

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We Can’t Ban Our Way to a Better World

We Can’t Ban Our Way to a Better World

Charles Krblich Chuck Krblich works in the insurance and reinsurance industries as a catastrophe manager. brownstone.org Il nous faut de l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace! (We need audacity, more audacity, always audacity!) Georges Jacques Danton Just a short time ago, on a Saturday, before

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How Long Can the UNRWA Be Allowed?

How Long Can the UNRWA Be Allowed?

How much longer can the UN be allowed to continue? As we reported at The BFD some years ago, the UN agency in ‘Palestine’, the UNRWA, was found to be complicit in not just “sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority” but directly distributing violently antisemitic propaganda

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Celebrities Get a Taste of the Backlash

Celebrities Get a Taste of the Backlash

Christian Toto newsbusters.org Celebrities routinely suffer for sharing their political views, and no one bats an eye. Just ask Kevin Sorbo, who watched his mainstream Hollywood career implode for being an openly Christian conservative. Actor Antonio Sabato, Jr shared a similar story in recent years, forcing him to create

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…And Where We Are Going

…And Where We Are Going

Harry Palmer Politicians, their associates and handlers can wield the power of life and death over citizens. Those in the UK and to a slightly lesser degree the USA are currently rattling their sabres;  warning that a war with Russia is on the horizon and that conscription of innocent youth

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Where We Have Been…

Where We Have Been…

Harry Palmer NZ’s newly elected government has yet to prove it’s different from the rest but look at the kind of politicians and ‘officials’ that are firmly embedded in power in Europe, the UK and the USA. They’re not going to be voted out because they’re

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