“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human” Aldous Huxley Word to the wise: when an Austrian locks down millions of people, and the Germans and Italians join in, it’s not likely to end well. But, European
Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.
Hannah Cox mercatornet.com Hannah Cox is a libertarian-conservative writer, commentator, and activist. She’s a Newsmax Insider and a Contributor to The Washington Examiner. In the dystopian novel 1984, the government relied on the use of telescreens and informants to enforce its massive, repressive regime. And while that was
As is too often the way, tyrants and dictatorships have no shortage of bootlicking apologists and toadies. The Chinese communist regime is no different. In the 60s and 70s, even as the Cultural Revolution raged, the leftists from Francois Mitterand to Gough Whitlam were singing the praises of Mao’s
November 15th In my letter dated 9 November I made the following comment: “Boris Johnson is toast. It may not be this week, it may not be this month, but he is on his way out”. The BFD In his piece in the Times newspaper on 13 November Matthew Parris,
bicom.org.uk What happened: A Turkish court has extended the remand of two Israeli tourists being accused of spying for Israel. * The Israeli couple Natali and Mordy Oknin, bus drivers from Modiin, were arrested on Thursday outside the Media Tower, the tallest building in Istanbul, for illegally taking photos
I asked recently, just what does it take the West to actually rise up in anger against jihadism? We’re still waiting to find out. Certainly not the murder and horrific mutilation of 130 concert-goers in Paris. Nor the deliberate murder of little girls at a pop concert in Manchester.
15th November 2021 I have given the occasional update about the American Danny Fenster, managing editor of Frontier magazine in Myanmar. Six months ago, he was arrested and has languished in the infamous Insein prison ever since. He contracted Covid 19 and his health deteriorated. Danny Fenster was arrested at
Afghanistan is not called “the graveyard of empires” for nothing. From the Persians and Greeks, to the British, Soviets and Americans, great powers have attempted to invade Afghanistan at their peril. At the very least, they’re sent packing with their tails between their legs. At worst, Afghan adventurism becomes
CLINTEL clintel.org. At COP26, the wealthy global elite arrived in Glasgow on 400 private jets to lecture those attending. They said that our technological achievements have caused a global “climate emergency”, that it was “one minute to midnight” and that if we failed to stop this supposedly disastrous trend
Tyrants never lack for apologists and appeasers in freer countries. The appeasement movement in the 1930s practically gifted Europe to Hitler. The Soviets reputedly called them “useful idiots” during the Cold War. Now, they’re flocking to the banner of China. As the communist dictatorship increasingly flexes its might and
Many years ago, I read a rather engrossing history of the Roman gladiatorial games. It opened with an anecdote about a Roman official approaching his superior, informing him that there was just one ship available to sail from Alexandria. Should they load it with grain for bread, or sand for
Greta Thunberg, Prince Charles, David Attenborough, Leonardo DiCaprio and our very own James Shaw may be disappointed their quasi religious hysteria at COP26 failed to generate a tsunami of fear; instead media coverage is akin to the normal ebb and fall of a predictable tide, now receding. By the time
Michael J. Socolow University of Maine Michael J. Socolow is the director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine and is a media historian whose research centers upon America’s original radio networks in the 1920s and 1930s. His scholarship on media history has appeared in Journalism
In 2013, the world was shocked to learn about PRISM: a massive, intrusive domestic and international spying program by the US Deep State. That Washington spooks were spying on a bunch of foreigners might not have bothered Americans as much as it did their ostensible allies whose phones were being
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A 22 year old Glasgow based daughter called me last week to recount an amusing incident. To escape the horrors of the 30,000 blowhards despoiling the city she’d popped over to my Parisian apartment and had gone downstairs that evening to a very
