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“US-Backed Roll of the Dice Leaves Ukraine in Worse Crisis”
President Biden speaks to General Mark Milley after his 2023 State of the Union speech. (Photo credit: Francis Chung/Politico) President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.” Ukraine’s fall […]
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“That Lady from New England Who Shamed Us All.”
The mass media is reluctant to recognize civic heroes unless they display physical bravery such as rushing into a burning building to save a child. The media also lavishes vast coverage on sports heroes and entertainers. Unnoticed by the mass media was how it came about that the Illinois legislature, overcome by corporate lobbyists, passed legislation allowing […]
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Where Blindly Following a Politician’s Mantra May Lead
What did Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau repeat ad nauseam about COVID-19 and imposing mandates? That the “government has been focused every step of the way on following the best science”? And did he ever provide any scientific evidence to follow? Critical thinking demands that people demand evidence for questionable claims, and that is a […]
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The BRICS Have Changed the Balance of Forces, but They Will Not by Themselves Change the World
Mao Xuhui (China), ’92 Paternalism, 1992 In 2003, high officials from Brazil, India, and South Africa met in Mexico to discuss their mutual interests in the trade of pharmaceutical drugs. India was and is one of the world’s largest producers of various drugs, including those used to treat HIV-AIDS; Brazil and South Africa were both […]
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Paper of Record tells Tall Tale of Canada Pushing Democracy
Globe and Mail omissions enable its wild foreign policy claims. By failing to mention crucial history Canada’s ‘paper of record’ can claim the military spreads the “democratic gospel” in Africa. A recent front page Globe story headlined “Honduran women risk death and imprisonment as they try to access reproductive care” discussed the plight of women […]
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From Press Room Raids to Indictments, Anything Goes When the Government Piles On
When players are piled on top of each other after a mad scramble for a loose ball, it’s a free-for-all. There are no rules. Anything goes. That’s because there’s nobody in the pile to monitor what’s going on. — Mike Thomas, sports editor, Sportscasting, November 9, 2020 What is playing out before our eyes right […]
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Keeping Up Appearances: Merkel’s Hair and Scholz’s Pate
It was a shallow affair. Reputed to have exceptionally poor hairdo, the figure who became one of Europe’s, and indeed one of the globe’s most lasting and influential politicians, inspired memes aplenty for what she sported on her bonce. The teases, the parodying, the satire, began to bite. Stylists were sought in an attempt to […]
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“Divide and Rule”: Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni Is Biden’s “Political Asset”. U.S. Behind Niger Coup d’Etat. America’s Hegemonic Wars Against Europe and Africa
A year prior to Italy’s 2022 elections, Giorgia Meloni was invited to join the Aspen Institute, a Washington based strategic think tank with close relations to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Atlantic Council and the military industrial complex: “The Aspen institute is also involved in the arms industry, with links to arms manufacturing giants such […]
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The “Free-Speech Twitter” PSYOP
It’s never a very enjoyable experience, facing the fact that you’ve been bamboozled. Realizing that you’ve fallen prey to an elaborate con, or PYSOP, is painful. It’s embarrassing. People feel ashamed. No one likes to see themselves as a sucker. It’s humiliating. It makes people angry. It makes them want to lash out at someone. […]
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