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Is Le Pen Mightier than Macron?

Is Le Pen Mightier than Macron?

Remember when the legacy media spent months hooting and jeering at the very suggestion that Donald Trump could be president? Then November 8, 2016 happened — and made Rachel Maddow cry. I don’t know if France has a butch lesbian anchor (Melissa Theuriau is rather fetching, and straight), but it’

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I’ve Got Some Good News and Some Bad News

CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com OK, I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you, and some links to some of my recent disinformation, but let’s do the news first. The good news is, April 2 was officially “Freedom Day” in New Normal Germany, which means

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Going Organic — What Could Go Wrong?

Going Organic — What Could Go Wrong?

Whenever well-off hippy types try to extol the virtues of “organic” farming, it’s worth pointing out that organic farming was the default for nearly all of the past 12,000 years. For all that time, 99.9% of the comparatively tiny human population lived on a monotonous diet

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The United Nations Is Tied up with Its Own Rope

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments When I heard Ukraine’s President Zelensky arguing for a fundamental overhaul of the United Nations, and especially

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The Fly in the Green Policy Ointment

The Fly in the Green Policy Ointment

Europe’s green policies are actually funding the Ukraine war. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more

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Yes, It Does Matter
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Yes, It Does Matter

Capitalist In recent weeks there has been an ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The Russians invaded and the gallant Ukrainian people grabbed guns, knives, baseball bats and probably rolling pins in order to repel the invasion. They put the Froggies circa 1940 to shame. The Ukrainian President, when contacted and told

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This Is Not Normal and No One Should Accept It

Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. From the lepers in the Old Testament to the Plague of Justinian in Ancient Rome to the 1918 Spanish

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Politics Greatest Comedy Duo Brings the Laughs

Politics Greatest Comedy Duo Brings the Laughs

I recently wrote about The Dumbest Things Said about Ukraine. So Far. Unsurprisingly, world-class bozo John Kerry was one of the first out of the blocks, fretting about how the war would affect the climate. But Kerry is far from the dumbest stump in the Biden White House. So

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Labour and Liberal Mud Slingers Dig Deep

Labour and Liberal Mud Slingers Dig Deep

In perhaps the clearest sign yet that the imminent Australian election is closer than polls suggest, things are getting ugly before it’s even called. PM Scott Morrison hasn’t even been to see the Governor-General and already the low blows are being dealt. Especially the race card. In

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Myanmar Is Caught Between Russia and Ukraine

Myanmar Is Caught Between Russia and Ukraine

4 April 2022. Since my last report many of my sources have managed to leave Myanmar and are safe in Europe, and mostly the USA. It is becoming apparent that more and more, the global nature of disputes and conflicts is demonstrated in the interconnectivity of reactions and support for

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Afghan Girls Are a Pawn in a Taliban Game of Chess

Afghan Girls Are a Pawn in a Taliban Game of Chess

Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam University of St Andrews Sippi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam is an Iranian-born British national, Oxford graduate, international consultant and social scientist with 28 years’ experience in conflict and post-conflict settings, notably Afghanistan. Afghan children and teenagers have not had much to look forward to since the Taliban

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We’ve Heard This Tune Once Too Often

We’ve Heard This Tune Once Too Often

Despite (or, more likely, because of) its being one of the biggest-selling fiction books in history, literary types have an almost reflexive aversion to The Lord of the Rings. Few of their criticisms make sense, but one of the most perplexing is that it is “simplistic” in its treatment

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Which Country Is the Greatest  Nuclear Threat?

Which Country Is the Greatest Nuclear Threat?

JM White Information Opinion During the Cold War America defined standards of ‘rationality’ and then concluded the Soviets would not use nuclear weapons because rational leaders would not do it; otherwise they would be irrational. Using this standard of rationality gives us an idea of why the leaders of western

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What Japan Must Overcome to Rise Again

I was not surprised to see our mainstream media feature another story of a survivor of Hiroshima recalling the horrors of nuclear weapons as part of their anti-nuclear narrative. This again shows the wilful ignorance our media and political class have of the history of the Pacific Theatre during

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