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The Bloodless Political Class & Its Lack of Empathy

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Why watch COVID press conferences and briefings by politicians? They are just upsetting. These people seem to have no clue about why the virus is ignoring them. They keep issuing strange and arbitrary rules that they make up, change by the day, all enforced by

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Small Signs of Hope That Lockdowns Could Soon End

Small Signs of Hope That Lockdowns Could Soon End

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and diagnostics, plus rising loneliness, drug overdoses, depression, and suicide. Every day has been as dark or darker than the previous one. And yet here

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Letter From Myanmar

Letter From Myanmar

Interesting times in Myanmar As promised in my last letter, I thought we would have a bit of a change this week. There is so much going on in the UK that I would need a letter a day to do justice to it. Resignations from the health sector, no

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Trump Is Making Mid-East History

Trump Is Making Mid-East History

Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize for, well…nobody’s really sure what. Being (half) black and winning an election, so far as anyone can tell. The fact that Obama went on to preside over Libya becoming a failed state, the rise of ISIS and a murderous secret war-by-drone-strike

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Beijing’s Bullshit Artist in Full Flight

Beijing’s Bullshit Artist in Full Flight

One of the hallmarks of communist regimes has been their ability to lie outrageously to people who know without doubt that they’re lying. The question is whether the recipients go along with the obvious lies or not. “To assent to obvious lies,” says Theodore Dalrymple. “Is in some small

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Australian Government to Tear up China Deals

Australian Government to Tear up China Deals

The Morrison government is hardening its stance against China even further. Just the day after the communist nation’s deputy ambassador unleashed a diatribe against Australia at the National Press Club, the Australian PM has announced new laws to curb China’s influence in Australia. By hauling into line treacherous

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Governments Are Faking It & Copying Each Other

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org/article A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies, no matter the threat level of the virus, and without firm evidence that interventions had

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Israel-UAE Deal: Arab States Are Tired of Waiting on Palestine

Israel-UAE Deal: Arab States Are Tired of Waiting on Palestine

Gary Grappo fairobserver.com The August 13 announcement of normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates breaks the quarter-century standstill in Arab-Israeli relations and shows that Arab states will no longer hold their interests hostage to the long-dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. President Donald Trump made the announcement of

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Why Americans Should Adopt the Sweden Model on COVID-19

Why Americans Should Adopt the Sweden Model on COVID-19

Gilbert Berdine, MD mises.org Gilbert Berdine is an associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and an affiliate of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. Figure 1 illustrates the daily mortality attributed to COVID-19 in Sweden, New York, Illinois, and Texas. The figure

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Postcard from Canada: 18 August 2020

Postcard from Canada: 18 August 2020

Geoff Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays

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