A lie, as the saying goes, gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. Even then, it’s too late: many, if not most, who chose to believe the lie without question will adamantly refuse to accept the truth. The damage has been done. Often quite
For someone who was virtually unknown a few months ago, Vivek Ramaswamy is a rocketing star in American conservative politics. While he still trails third in the Republican primaries, he’s fast catching up to one-time favourite Ron DeSantis — even if both of them are being left for dust by
As I reported for the BFD last week, the UK parliament gave a subtle middle finger to Beijing when it adopted a cross-party report that described Taiwan as “an independent country”. The Sunak government has lent its support to another besieged democracy, with a timely visit to Israel. The British
Peter Imanuelsen Also known as PeterSweden | Swedish journalist | Political commentator | Supporter of freedom, kindness and liberty petersweden.substack.com The country of South Korea has announced that they will be compensating the families of ALL people who die within 90 days of covid vaccination, regardless if the vaccination itself has
Thomas Klassen York University, Canada theconversation.com The trial has begun for two major leaders of the Freedom Convoy that occupied parts of Canada’s capital in early 2022. Two organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, are charged with mischief, obstructing police, counselling others to commit mischief and intimidation. At
Kit Klarenberg ronpaulinstitute.org Years before emerging as Kiev’s top private weapons trafficker, ex-legislator Serhiy Pashinsky played a key role in the 2014 US-backed coup which toppled Ukraine’s democratically-elected president and set the stage for a devastating civil war. Though the notoriously corrupt former Ukrainian parliamentarian was condemned
Lots of people hate the French. They cite all manner of reasons for doing so, however erroneous. “Surrender monkeys”? Never forget that the French sacrificed around 20 million of their own to stop the first march of German militarism. Even before surrendering in the face of the second, some 73,
In a recent opinion piece, The Australian’s Adam Creighton tried vainly to defend Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Especially ludicrous was his claim that it was “hypocritical” for Trump supporters to attack Biden for botching the whole affair, because, “Trump himself had earlier agreed in February 2020 to
The first casualty of war, the saying goes, is truth. The Ukraine war is proving that old adage in spades. Right from the start, we in the West have been subjected to a tsunami of propaganda masquerading as truth (as, no doubt, are Russian news-consumers). From the imaginary “Ghost of
Jan M Fijor Jan M Fijor is a Polish journalist and founder of the Fijorr Publishing, the largest Polish publishing house dedicated to the Austrian School of Economics, which has published nearly 200 major titles. mises.org It is no coincidence that Nigeria, with a population of over two hundred
As even the CCP can’t hide any more, China’s population is in dramatic and apparently unstoppable decline. Not even a dramatic reversal of the country’s One Child Policy, with government propaganda exhorting Chinese to have more children, is helping. Official data — which, given Beijing’s propensity to
As I reported recently, Greek police have raided a commercial surrogacy clinic in Crete, arresting staff and taking newborn babies into protective custody. Initial reporting in the Australian media focused almost exclusively on the “desperate” surrogate parents — many Australian — who were being “cruelly” denied the “happy” arrival of their “healthy
It’s hardly surprising that dippy modern feminists have gone so ga-ga for the batty nonsense that’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Dippy, literary cat-lady Margaret Atwood clutches her pearls over an imagined future where a shortage of fertile females sees women turned into slave broodmares. In reality, a catastrophic
Mathew Otieno Mathew Otieno is a Kenyan writer, blogger and dilettante farmer. Until 2022, he was a research communications coordinator at a university in Nairobi, Kenya. He now lives in rural western Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, from where he’s pursuing a career as a full-time writer
Harry Palmer If there is one thing an objective observer would remark on when visiting this world for the first time – the friendly Martian if you like – it would be on how interconnected the hierarchies of Western countries are – particularly the English-language speaking ones – despite their claims of being completely
You know you’re in deep doo-doo when even Canada’s ruling politicians are more sensible than the clown-show running your own country. As Australia plunges deeper into housing crisis, everyone except the elite class knows that turbo-charged mass immigration is one of the prime causes. After all, you can’
