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The Media’s Shameless About-Face on Zelensky

The Media’s Shameless About-Face on Zelensky

My, what a difference a year and a war make. According to the media-political narrative, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is the hero of the age. The new Churchill. The leader of “the cause of all free people”. Which is a very different tune than they were singing, less than a

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Sticking Their Noses in Someone Else’s Fight

Sticking Their Noses in Someone Else’s Fight

As recently reported on the BFD, sending squads of keyboard heroes and internet warriors to an actual battlefront has worked out about exactly as you’d expect. To their complete shock, the memelords trying to earn internet points by “volunteering for Ukraine” are finding that in a real war, people

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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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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

The Duke of Cambridge has acknowledged that he may not succeed the Queen and the Prince of Wales as head of the Commonwealth, as he vowed not to be “telling people what to do”. […] In 2018, Commonwealth leaders decided that the Prince of Wales should succeed the Queen in the

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All Hail Our New Overlords

All Hail Our New Overlords

Thomas Harrington brownstone.org Thomas Harrington, Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is an essayist and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) where he taught for 24 years. He specializes in Iberian movements of national identity Contemporary Catalan culture. Social and political elites have long

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The Silencing of the Scientists

Alex Washburne brownstone.org Alex Washburne has undergraduate degrees in biology and applied mathematics from University of New Mexico and a PhD from a Princeton University studying competition in ecological, epidemiological, and economic systems. He’s actively researched COVID epidemiology, the economic impacts of pandemic policy, and stock + capital market

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An Epic Smackdown of  Trudeau

An Epic Smackdown of Trudeau

In what must be one of the most stunning events relating to state handling of the Covid pandemic (unreported by the mainstream media of course), none other than the European Parliament has savagely denounced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of vaccine mandate protests. The Blaze reports: Canadian Prime

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The Man Who Tried to Save Venezuela from Socialism

The Man Who Tried to Save Venezuela from Socialism

Emmanuel Rincón fee.org Emmanuel Rincón is a lawyer, writer, novelist and essayist. He has won several international literary awards. He is Editor-at-large at El American Carlos Rangel was perhaps the most important thinker of the last century on the South American continent, with the exception of Vargas Llosa, Octavio

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The Tiny Country That Took the Road Less Travelled

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson brownstone.org Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an Icelandic consultant, entrepreneur and writer and contributes regularly to The Daily Sceptic as well as various Icelandic publications. He holds a BA degree in philosophy and an MBA from INSEAD. Thorsteinn is a certified expert in the Theory of Constraints and author

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Sweden Weren’t Sheep and Their COVID Choices Paid Off

Sweden Weren’t Sheep and Their COVID Choices Paid Off

Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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Anatomy of the Hong Kong Disaster

Ian Miller brownstone.org Ian Miller is the author of “Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates.” His work has been featured on national television broadcasts, national and international news publications and referenced in multiple best selling books covering the pandemic. He writes a Substack newsletter, also titled “Unmasked.

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

European MPs told today’s face of the day Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to his face exactly what they thought of him. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to sit and watch as members of the European Parliament out-and-out denounced the leader to his face on Wednesday over his

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A SWIFT Weapon of War

A SWIFT Weapon of War

Mitch Nemeth mises.org Mitchell Nemeth is a Risk Management and Compliance professional in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a Master in the Study of Law from the University of Georgia Law School, and he has a BBA in Finance from the University of Georgia. His work has been featured at

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Freedom Does Not Grow on Trees

Freedom Does Not Grow on Trees

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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Yesterday Jacinda Ardern announced an end

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You Can’t Log Out of a Warzone

You Can’t Log Out of a Warzone

What happens when a motley clownshow of keyboard warriors, neckbeards and virtue-signalling internet attention-whores plonk their flabby carcasses in the middle of a warzone? Exactly what you think. The “Volunteers for Ukraine” subreddit is brimming with accounts of people who have made the decision to travel to Ukraine, procure weapons,

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