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Canada and the West Become States of Unfreedom

Michael Rectenwald mises.org Michael Rectenwald is the author of eleven books, including Thought Criminal (2020), Beyond Woke (2020), Google Archipelago (2019), Springtime for Snowflakes (2018), Nineteenth-Century British Secularism (2016), and others. He was a professor at NYU from 2008 to 2019. The dismantling of the Canadian trucker convoy protest

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The First Casualties of War Are In

The First Casualties of War Are In

The EU has announced that it will ban the Russian news channels RT and Sputnik. This is because, they say, the channels are spouting pro-Kremlin propaganda. Which is without a doubt true. So, now all EU citizens will be able to rely on is pro-EU and Washington propaganda. (That’s

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Tyrant Awakens a Sleeping Giant

Tyrant Awakens a Sleeping Giant

David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. As long as the people are crippled by fear, awed by the pomp and rituals of the State, and bamboozled by media organs that act as spokespersons of

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The First Casualty of War Is the Truth

Sundance theconservativetreehouse.com When we shared yesterday that all interested observers should be very wary of the information from media sources around Ukraine, there was a reason for that.  Question everything. Take nothing at face value. If you have never experienced the propaganda push surrounding war, the totality of the

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Will Taiwan Be Next to Fall?

It’s not exactly groundless to worry that, if Russia’s Ukraine gamble pays off, China will see it as a green-light to invade Taiwan. After all, Beijing has been rattling its sabres across the Strait constantly and makes no bones that it regards the island nation as a renegade

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Putin Has Ripped the Scab Off

Putin Has Ripped the Scab Off

As I reported recently, the first response of Western leaders to the war in the Ukraine is a river of hypocrisy. But Justin Trudeau pontificating about “stand[ing] against authoritarianism” at the same time as he is employing hackers to doxx protesters and their supporters is just the most obvious

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A New Age of Barbarism

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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Cancel Culture’s New Weapon of Choice

Annelise Butler papundits.wordpress.com Annelise Butler is a research associate in the Center for Technology Policy at The Heritage Foundation . Canada’s Trudeau administration said it will punish the truckers who participated in the anti-vaccine mandate “Freedom Convoy” by freezing their bank accounts. Although the United States government isn’

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When It Comes to War Diversity Isn’t Our ‘Strength’

When It Comes to War Diversity Isn’t Our ‘Strength’

Jack thecommoner.substack.com Information Opinion On the evening Russia’s throwback Czar, Vladimir Putin, declared war on its Slavic Ukrainian brethren for matters of imperialist conquest, the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden — a familiar face to the Ukrainian hierarchy — took drastic and decisive action. Sadly, at

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How The West Was Lost

How The West Was Lost

Information Opinion Taking a drive into town on Sunday morning, I heard someone on the radio campaigning for animal rights. This was not just the right to painless euthanasia, or a life free from cruelty, but actual rights. It caused me to imagine a dog in a pearl necklace going

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Not Quite Dudley Do-Right

Not Quite Dudley Do-Right

Canada’s Mounties have long enjoyed a reputation as Dudley Do-Right upstanding, reliable heroes. Beside the cartoon hero, 90s crime series Due South, premised on a Mountie sent to show the roughneck American coppers a lesson in Canadian politeness and square-jawed honesty. That image is unlikely to survive against the

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Freedom Convoy Hit From Both Sides

Freedom Convoy Hit From Both Sides

Alexander Hall PA Pundits – International The Canadian government ruthlessly cracked down on peaceful protesters demonstrating against the government’s draconian COVID-19 mandates. And the powers that be are unfreezing the accounts of some organizers, participants and donors now that other Canadians are suing for damages. Out of the frying pan

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