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“The Honking Will Continue”: A Conversation with BJ Dichter

Laura Rosen Cohen   brownstone.org Laura Rosen Cohen is a Toronto writer. Her work has been featured in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, The Canadian Jewish News and Newsweek among others. She is a special needs parent and also a

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The Red Queen’s Convoy

The last time a protest arrived on Parliament grounds on December 16, 2020, the Red Queen and her courtiers had already fled. A bit like Justin Trudeau, her doppelgänger, who fled to an undisclosed location when 50,000 truckers and 100,000 demonstrators arrived recently in Ottawa. Tucker Carlson said

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How Gofundme Tried to Rip Off Trucker Supporters

How Gofundme Tried to Rip Off Trucker Supporters

As Australian comedian Celeste Barber found out the hard way, when people donate to a specific cause, the money has to go to that cause alone. Redirecting the funds elsewhere is called “fraud”. Which, as it happens, is a crime. Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe likes to make up its own rules

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Identifying the Scam When You See It

Identifying the Scam When You See It

People fall prey to scams all the time. We all know someone dudded in some form of scam, whether it is Nigerian ‘419’ style scams, catfishing of sad and lonely older folks or Ponzi schemes. It is astonishing just how many people fall for these scams. What I am about

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Dictators Are Not Nearly as Invincible as They Want You to Think

It’s a common mistake of both the admirers and detractors of totalitarianism to assume that it is inherently stronger than democracy. In the 1920s, especially, many apologists for fascism and Nazism argued that “democracy is too weak” to deal with the crisis of economic collapse. In recent times, even

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Myanmar Update

3rd February 2022. February 1st was the anniversary of the coup in Myanmar. It was marked in Myanmar by silent protest and absences from work. I have not been sending updates from Myanmar because of concern for my sources there. I feel happier today because some have managed to leave

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Afghan Women Face Increasing Violence and Repression under the Taliban after International Spotlight Fades

Afghan Women Face Increasing Violence and Repression under the Taliban after International Spotlight Fades

Mia Bloom Georgia State University Mia Bloom is Professor at Georgia State University. She conducts ethnographic field research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia and speaks eight languages. The Taliban reportedly captured 40 people in Mazar-e-Sharif, a medium-sized city in Afghanistan, at the end of January 2022. Taliban

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The Canadians on the Bridge

Alexander Brown brownstone.org Alexander Brown is a writer and political scientist living in Toronto, Canada. He is a Director at the National Citizens Coalition. It was a grey, bitter-cold day in January, and all the clocks were striking thirteen. On the radio, the host was hectoring about “concerning scenes”

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Attack of the Transphobic Putin-Nazi Truckers!

CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com Novelist, playwright, political satirist Information Satire They rolled up on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill like one of the plagues in the Book of Revelations, honking their infernal air horns, the grills of their tractors grinning demonically, the sides of their dry vans painted with blasphemies

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It’s Official COVID is Over in Sweden!

It’s Official COVID is Over in Sweden!

Sebastian Rushworth M.D. sebastianrushworth.com I work as a junior physician in Stockholm, Sweden. I studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute and graduated in January 2020. I am a proponent of evidence-based medicine. In other words, I think that medical diagnosis and treatment should be guided by the scientific

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Nanaia Mahuta – Nobel Prize Prospect

Nanaia Mahuta – Nobel Prize Prospect

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week or so back Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta issued a warning to Putin re invading the Ukraine. I’ve waited to see if it worked.  Well, it certainly appears to have done as ever since the Russians have issued appeasement noises. Putin suffers from

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Hindu-Muslim Tensions Rise in India

As BFD readers are probably aware, I’m not exactly a fan of Islam — at least, its shouty, stabby, blowy-uppy zealots. But I’m not a fan of shouty, blowy-uppy zealots of any creed. When you talk about destruction, you can count me right out. And when it’s Muslims

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