Vera Stanton On a cold morning in early January this year Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam met Major General Peng Jingtang, the newly-appointed Head of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Hong Kong garrison, at the opulent Government House. With a new Covid outbreak dominating the city’s
Capitalist Information Opinion The Industrial Revolution, which started about the time of the American Revolution, transformed the world in significant ways. Mass-production methods were invented and perfected, huge numbers moved to cities to seek employment, new products became widely available and incomes rose exponentially – with no inflation to speak of
Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Warning Long read: 1,653 words New Zealand is now part of the war with Russia. And our independent foreign policy is virtually dead. That’s the upshot of the Government’s definitive fall into line with Five Eyes
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Thornton Blackmore Information Opinion Throughout the ages, the struggle between rulers and their subjects to establish the status quo in one’s own favour has given rise to periods of both despotism and democracy, with various shades of governance in between. And as the world now simmers like a frog
Aleksandr Dugin, a neo-Nazi intellectual mystic, is said to be Putin’s brain and influence behind the Ukrainian invasion. He wears his hair long with a shaggy beard like the infamous Rasputin of a century ago. Dugin argues that Russia should rule from Vladivostok to Dublin. His concept is that
A brief update to my latest article. CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com All right, I’m not going to make a habit of this, writing multiple articles in rapid succession, but I wanted to share some actual good news for a change, and let you know about one additional interview
Truth might be the first casualty of war, but propaganda is one of its first beneficiaries and its handmaiden. No war is ever fought with bullets and bombs alone. Or even swords and spears — after all, would the Greeks have rallied to the cause if Agamemnon had just said, “Hey,
Craig Pirrong brownstone.org Dr Pirrong is Professor of Finance, and Energy Markets Director for the Global Energy Management Institute at the Bauer College of Business of the University of Houston. He was previously Watson Family Professor of Commodity and Financial Risk Management at Oklahoma State University, and a faculty
Robert Kogon brownstone.org Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. In what must be one of the most mind-bending public health measures adopted anywhere in the world during the entire Covid-19 pandemic, Germany recently reduced the period of
“What is the price of Experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price Of all that a man hath, his house, his wife, his children Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come
A selection of articles collated by sovereignman.com Black Lives Matter Organization Bought $6 million California Mansion After the killing of George Floyd in 2020, the Black Lives Matter organization raked in an mountain of donations. That money was supposed to go, ostensibly, to fighting against racial discrimination. But as
Perhaps it’s of a piece with their notable predilection for grooming children, but the left have a sinister fondness for making political voodoo dollies out of little girls, whether it’s perpetually-scowling Greta Thunberg or the ludicrous “fearless girl” statue (seriously, plonking a child in front of a charging
Dr. Mihai Macovei (macmih_mf@yahoo.com) is an associated researcher at the Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania. Warning Long read: 1,745 words Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was met with unprecedented economic sanctions by the United States and its allies in order to cripple Russia’s capacity
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Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in-chief of FEE.org. The virus that locked down the world has returned to China in full force. And I don’t mean the Wuhan coronavirus. Nearly every world government
