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What Japan Must Overcome to Rise Again

I was not surprised to see our mainstream media feature another story of a survivor of Hiroshima recalling the horrors of nuclear weapons as part of their anti-nuclear narrative. This again shows the wilful ignorance our media and political class have of the history of the Pacific Theatre during World

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The German Faith in Authority

Sven Grünewald brownstone.org Sven Grünewald got his Master’s degree in Political Science, Scandinavian studies and Egyptology from Göttingen University in 2004. Since then he has been working as a journalist for different newspapers, magazines, and as a university lecturer for media studies and media ethics. Warning Long Read.

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Tell Us about Life in Your Country

Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. This article is a shout out to writers in other countries asking you to please consider writing an article for The BFD telling

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How to Protect Our Civil Liberties

How to Protect Our Civil Liberties

David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. The events of the past two years have been a wake-up call to those of us who naïvely believed our liberties were more or less secure under Western

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Would They Lie to Us about Ukraine?

Would They Lie to Us about Ukraine?

As journalist Abby Martin recently observed, “For my entire life I’ve watched the corporate media sell us war after war… every single time it turns out they lied”. What unwarranted cynicism! I mean, it’s not like they lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction, or Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti

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Vaccine Fanatics Created Vaccine Sceptics

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Why Didn’t We Learn From Nuremberg, 1947?

Why Didn’t We Learn From Nuremberg, 1947?

Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. In the 1930s, German medicine and German healthcare institutions were widely considered the most advanced in the world. However,

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Everyone Must Play by the Same Rules or None at All

Everyone Must Play by the Same Rules or None at All

It’s not hard to imagine the spittle-flecked outrage that would erupt if Vladimir Putin personally landed a jet Kiev airport and emerged to triumphantly declare, “Mission accomplished!” Yet, that is exactly what US president George W. Bush did in 2003, after illegally invading a foreign nation and overthrowing its

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What Can We Take Home from the Politics of the Pandemic
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What Can We Take Home from the Politics of the Pandemic

Dr Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a

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Old Man Yells at Russia

Old Man Yells at Russia

It’s largely forgotten now, but Ronald Reagan made the gaffe heard round the world, when he unknowingly joked into a hot mic, “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” Although

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A Warload of Profits to Be Made

According to The Narrative, the Russia-Ukraine war is the Great Moral Struggle of our times. The totalitarian Russian behemoth is waging a war, not just on one of its former provinces, but on Freedom and Democracy itself. Vladimir Putin is no less than the New Hitler (of course, these days,

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WHO’s Plans for a Global Pandemic Treaty
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WHO’s Plans for a Global Pandemic Treaty

NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion While many are celebrating (and rightly so) in response to the easing of mandates and the relinquishing of the vaccine pass, we remain cautiously vigilant. Don’t get me wrong, it’s important to take the time to

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No-One Likes Looking In the Mirror

No-One Likes Looking In the Mirror

Einstein mused that stupidity was the most plentiful thing in the universe, but I’d suggest that hypocrisy is not far behind. Case in point: the tub-thumping, chest-beating outrage at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Judging by the cacophony of outraged screeching that greeted Russian ambassador Alexey Pavlovsky’s first

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Stop Picking On the Russians

Rachel Pistol mercatornet.com Rachel Pistol is a historian and digital humanist on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, based at King’s College London, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her research interests include 20th century British and American history, with a particular focus on Second

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