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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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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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