When French schoolteacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by Islamic murderers two years ago, it was a rare case of such an attack actually making the news. Because the horrifying truth is that such attacks occur nearly every fortnight in France. So routine is Islamic bloody mayhem in France that hardly
I have rather a soft spot for Caitlin Johnstone, one of the few sane voices, it too often seems, left on the left. Johnstone has resolutely defended free speech. Vainly, it too often seems, she has tried to remind leftists that, having enabled censorship of the right, they will be
Dear Editor Putin is now waiting to see if reason plus force works. Like a cat toying with a mouse. Russia destroyed Grozny to subdue the Chechen revolution. When reason didn’t work, they tried force. When force didn’t work, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin succeeded with total annihilation. To start,
“Come you masters of war, You that build the big guns… Like Judas of old, You lie and deceive” Bob Dylan Hermann Goering reputedly said, “Naturally, the common people don’t want war; […but] it is always a simple matter to drag the people along.” I’m not so sure,
Matt Hampton fee.org Matt Hampton is the Digital Marketing Associate for the Foundation for Economic Education. This is a version of an article published in the Out of Frame Weekly, an email newsletter about the intersection of art, culture, and ideas. Imagine waking up one day unable to access
New Zealand media are going to go nuts when they realise Donald J Trump is on the political come-back trail. Their heads will spin wildly, their eyes will pop out on stalks and their mouths will spray manure 360 degrees. The left despise Trump with vengeance. Arrogant and outspoken, Trump
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jon Miltimore fee.org Russian soldiers flooded into Ukraine Thursday under orders from President Vladimir Putin, threatening to obliterate a peace that has existed on the European continent for more than 75 years. News reports say cities were bombarded by land, air, and sea, and Ukrainian forces were struggling to
