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Evil Now Rules Over Good

Paul Craig Roberts • March 1, 2021

• 500 Words

Big Tech consists of Gestapo organizations that suppress the First Amendment; yet “democratic Americans” continue to support these fascist organizations. If Americans cared about democracy, they would boycott Big Tech and drive the Gestapo organizations into bankruptcy. Instead, Americans have permitted Gestapo institutions to be institutionalized in American social, political, and economic life. Today in... Read More

Biden’s Syria Attack: An Actual Impeachable Offense

Ron Paul • March 1, 2021

• 500 Words • 2 Comments • Reply

Last Thursday President Biden continued what has sadly become a Washington tradition: bombing Syria. The President ordered a military strike near the Iraqi-Syrian border that killed at least 22 people. The Administration claims it struck an “Iranian-backed” militia in retaliation for recent rocket attacks on US installations in Iraq. As with Presidents Obama and Trump... Read More

Audio Versions, More EBooks, and Gab Button

Ron Unz • February 28, 2021

• 2,100 Words • 9 Comments • Reply

At the beginning of this month, I'd released eBook versions of my American Pravda and Meritocracy article collections, each running a hefty 300,000 words or more, and together containing nearly all my published writings of the last thirty years, with the bulk of the material having been produced in the last few. The response was... Read More

Financial False Hope

I Know You’re Lying…but I Trust You with My Life!

Steve Penfield • February 28, 2021

• 12,800 Words • 14 Comments • Reply

Investing trust in the wrong people and policies can be ruinous. How much dishonesty does it take before the public stops putting blind faith in debt dealers, corporate crooks and the servile politicians who do their bidding? The widespread acceptance of ‘healthy’ inflation, monopoly patent rights, the ‘retirement’ trap and enslaving corporate ‘benefits’ would suggest... Read More

Andy Ngo’s UNMASKED: Antifa—Not "Anarcho-Communism", But Anarcho-Tyranny

James Kirkpatrick • February 27, 2021

• 2,100 Words • 8 Comments • Reply

See also: JOHN DERBYSHIRE: Merrick Garland—Antifa Attorney General Plans To Crush Dissent Andy Ngo’s new book Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy is as important to understanding where we are today as Ann Coulter’s Adios America! was before Donald Trump election. Ngo shows that far from being just an “idea,” as President Joe... Read More

Nigerians, Jews and Scrabble: An Update on the IQ Debate

Chanda Chisala • February 27, 2021

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Let’s begin by acknowledging a couple of kind (re)tweets from the hereditarian-HBD side on my last Unz article on IQ and race (Why Do Blacks Outperform Whites in UK Schools?): Murray tweet: Sailer tweet: After the recent death of the great James Flynn, I thought I should finally get back to writing some updated articles... Read More

A Time for White Leadership

Will the last American kindly turn off the Shining City on a Hill?

Ryan Andrews • February 27, 2021

• 3,500 Words • 19 Comments • Reply

With the passing of Rush Limbaugh, this feels like the right moment to reflect on the legacy of talk-radio conservatism—an "alternative right" which preceded us—and to consider how we might succeed where they failed. In their bones, millions of right-leaning Americans know that the time of ‘standing-up for America as founded’ has passed. Our job... Read More

Hot Off the Press: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Admits Israel Is the 'World's Lab.'

Gilad Atzmon • February 27, 2021

• 1,200 Words • 61 Comments • Reply

If Israelis are confused by the fact that their government treats them like laboratory pets, if they wonder why their freedom to travel, to socialise or even earn a living have evaporated, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla produced a genuine answer yesterday. In an interview on NBC Bourla said: I have no issue with medical experiments... Read More

Russia’s Policy of Peace Is Encouraging War

Paul Craig Roberts • February 27, 2021

• 900 Words

On February 25 the election thief ordered a US air attack on Syria that killed 17 Iranians. US and Israeli attacks on Syria have been ongoing for years with no consequences other than Syrian and Russian denunciations of the US and Israeli violations of international law. Clearly, the US/lsraeli agenda takes priority over international law.... Read More

Oppression by Orgasm?

The Porn Industry as Jewish Anti-Fascist Activism & Cultural Terrorism

Kenneth Vinther • February 26, 2021

• 9,400 Words • 11 Comments • Reply

Following a series of instances in which porn websites were discovered to be hosting videos depicting the rapes of underage girls (in some cases the platforms refused to take the videos down), some 2 million have since signed a petition to take down a variety of porn sites and prosecute their executives for human trafficking... Read More

Merrick Garland—Antifa Attorney General Plans to Crush Dissent

John Derbyshire • February 26, 2021

• 1,600 Words • 136 Comments • Reply

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Of the sixteen persons nominated for a cabinet position, as listed in the January 23rd issue of The Economist [After the chaos of the Trump era, what can Joe Biden hope to achieve?] nine have now been confirmed by the U.S. Senate and have... Read More

From Communism to Remembering the Holocaust, in Tirana

Linh Dinh • February 26, 2021

• 3,000 Words • 71 Comments • Reply

Though long-inhabited, Tirana never became a city until after World War II. In 1938, it had but 38,000 people. Further, its architectural heritage has been much destroyed during the Communist decades, so there are almost no historical churches or mosques left. A striking exception is the Et’hem Bey Mosque, completed in 1821. Only shuttered by... Read More

The Government Shouldn’t Feel Vindicated Over the Begum Verdict

Patrick Cockburn • February 26, 2021

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A former Isis fighter once complained to me that western volunteers who travelled to the so-called Islamic State in northeastern Syria were a burden because they did not speak Arabic, had no military experience, knew little about Islam and had often come because they were bored or unhappy at home. He said that their main... Read More

Video: Unarmed White Woman Executed In Front of Children By Black Police Officer Was Covered Up By State Officials

Eric Striker • February 26, 2021

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A shocking 2015 body camera video of a Burlington Police Department officer shooting a white woman in her yard in front of her young children has emerged online six years later. Local officials fought a lengthy legal battle in Iowa courts looking to cover the incident up. In 2018, a federal judge forced them to... Read More

Trump -- Once and Future King?

Pat Buchanan • February 26, 2021

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"I don't know if he'll run in 2024 or not. But if he does, I'm pretty sure he will win the nomination." So says Mitt Romney, the sole Republican senator to have voted twice to convict President Donald J. Trump of impeachable acts. But is it possible Trump could win the nomination in 2024? What... Read More

Clown France

Guillaume Durocher • February 26, 2021

• 1,000 Words • 112 Comments • Reply

As our world tumbles forth towards ever-more-previously-inconceivable levels of absurdity, you better learn to laugh or you’ll be crying all day. The latest example is the move by the French government to ban Generation Identity (GI), a civil society movement opposing immigration and defending native European culture. GI had just executed one of its trademark... Read More

Live Show Tonight At 9 PM ET: Discussion with Borzoi On His New Book

Eric Striker • February 26, 2021

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We will be discussing Borzoi's new book tonight on The People's Square. Livestream. MP3 will be uploaded here. If you didn't catch it, here is an interview with National Justice editor Eric Striker on The Realist Report.

America’s Absurd Foreign Policy

Paul Craig Roberts • February 26, 2021

• 500 Words

On February 24, General Tod D. Wolters, who leads the US European Command, gave a speech that should disturb everyone on earth. There are a number of reasons we should be disturbed. General Wolters claims that the projection of American force abroad “is about generating peace” and that the US must take on Russia in... Read More

Don't Hate Rush Limbaugh. Copy Him

Ted Rall • February 26, 2021

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My death will make some people giddy with joy. That's cool. I like to make people happy. In the unlikely event that I'm somehow able to witness the gleeful grins and chortles of those who savor the sweet news of my demise, I hope that whatever is left of me on the astral whatever will... Read More

CPAC Pandering Leads to the Usual Disaster

Gregory Hood • February 25, 2021

• 1,500 Words • 142 Comments • Reply

It’s the oldest joke about the American conservative movement: “What do you call the one black guy at CPAC? The keynote speaker.” Every year, the Conservative Political Action Conference (sponsored by the American Conservative Union) tries to show it is not racist by propping up token non-whites to speak about “leaving the Democrat plantation” to... Read More

The Fake Covid “Pandemic” Is the Excuse for Concentration Camps

Paul Craig Roberts • February 25, 2021

• 2,700 Words

Introduction by Paul Craig Roberts Since the year 2000, we have witnessed two epochal events, 9/11 and COVID-19. Both produced massive changes in civil liberty and government power, reducing the former and enhancing the latter. The official narrative of 9/11 is unbelievable as it is contrary to all known science. The official narrative of Covid... Read More

Democrats Imprison First Amendment for Sedition

Paul Craig Roberts • February 25, 2021

• 400 Words

Glenn Greenwald explains the Democrats’ determination to obliterate the First Amendment. The Democrats have resurrected the Third Reich in America: To further stamp out opposition to their one-party rule, the Democrats intend to criminalize American gun owners, thus obliterating the Second Amendment. To relieve the Establishment of the bother of independent citizens is why the... Read More

The Israeli Mutant, the IDF Prophecy and the Reality on the Ground

Gilad Atzmon • February 25, 2021

• 1,400 Words • 60 Comments • Reply

As of writing this article, 75.4% of Israel’s new Covid-19 cases are under 39. Only 5.5% were over 60. Only 59.9% of critical patients are over 60 years old. 40% are under 60. The country has also detected a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases amongst pregnant women. Many are in hospital, with 8 currently in... Read More

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Biden’s Journey: Change Is Imperceptible

Philip Giraldi • February 25, 2021

• 1,700 Words • 233 Comments • Reply

Biden has been a major disappointment for those who hoped that he’d change course regarding America’s pathological involvement in overseas conflicts. The new White House Team has been in place for more than a month and it is perhaps time to consider where it is going with America’s fractured foreign policy. To be sure, when... Read More

Virginia Legislature Declares "Racism" A Public Health Crisis, Ignoring Widespread White Poverty and Declining Life Expectancy

Eric Striker • February 25, 2021

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Virginia has become the first southern state to declare "racism" against blacks to be a public health crisis. According to the bipartisan resolution passed in the state senate, state employees will now be mandated to take critical race theory classes, criminal laws will be reformed to avoid prosecuting blacks at higher rates, health care will... Read More

Systemic, Institutional Rot: from Big Freeze In Texas to Fires In Cali

Ilana Mercer • February 25, 2021

• 1,300 Words • 20 Comments • Reply

Some blame a quasi-free-market in electricity for the collapse of the electrical grid in Texas, during a winter snow storm, mid-February, in which temperatures hovered at 0°F (or -18°C). The same people finger deregulation and isolation from the national and neighboring grids. Opposing opinion has it that an excessive reliance on renewable energy sources, like... Read More

Vaccination Procrastination

James Thompson • February 24, 2021

• 1,300 Words • 228 Comments • Reply

On Monday England was given an indication as to how it will eventually get out of lockdown. Gradually, and in very careful stages, seems to be the answer. We are in our third lockdown, and have staggered through two false dawns. What is different now is that vaccinations have been completed on 17.7 million citizens... Read More

House Homeland Security Committee Member Requests State Department Designate Proud Boys and Oathkeepers As Terror Groups

Eric Striker • February 24, 2021

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A House Homeland Security Committee member today sent Secretary of State Anthony Blinken a letter calling for the immediate designation of the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers as international terrorist groups. The author of the letter is Josh Gottheimer, a Jewish congressman from New Jersey. In the request, he cites a Jewish activist group, the Anti-Defamation... Read More

Review of Josh Neal’s American Extremist

Andrew Joyce • February 24, 2021

• 6,700 Words • 8 Comments • Reply

About a year after Charlottesville, I noticed the emergence of a new breed of young alternative thinkers in our circles. I’m more of a reader than a listener and, because these individuals were overwhelmingly engaged in podcasts and YouTube videos, my familiarity with them and their ideas was only developed gradually. At the inevitable risk... Read More

New York Times Tells Readers: Thinking Is Dangerous, Just Believe Us

Paul Craig Roberts • February 24, 2021

• 500 Words

The NY Times advises you not to think. Thinking requires using your unreliable brain and will lead you into conspiracy theories. Just believe whatever the NY Times tells you and you will have an approved source of information. The NY Times regards its own propaganda as truth. You remember the “violent resurrection at the Capitol,”... Read More

The Ukraine’s Many Ticking Time Bombs

The Saker • February 23, 2021

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While the Ukraine has mostly been out of the news, there were bigger stories out there, things have gone disastrously wrong under “Ze” (Zelenskii) and the Ukraine is now looking at several time bombs which could explode at any minute. Here is a partial list of problems which the Ze administration will have to deal... Read More

What to Do About Israel?

Here are some suggestions

Philip Giraldi • February 23, 2021

• 1,700 Words • 365 Comments • Reply

Critics of U.S. policy with and about Israel like myself have been relatively successful in describing the considerable downside in the bilateral status quo. We have demonstrated that the lopsided relationship supports absolutely no U.S. interest and that, on the contrary, considerable damage is done to the American people, to include involvement in armed conflict... Read More

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The Vaccine (Dis)Information War

C.J. Hopkins • February 23, 2021

• 1,600 Words • 172 Comments • Reply

So, good news, folks! It appears that GloboCap’s Genetic Modification Division has come up with a miracle vaccine for Covid! It’s an absolutely safe, non-experimental, messenger-RNA vaccine that teaches your cells to produce a protein that triggers an immune response, just like your body’s immune-system response, only better, because it’s made by corporations! OK, technically,... Read More

Biden: No New Cold Wars or Democracy Crusades

Pat Buchanan • February 23, 2021

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"What is America's mission?" is a question that has been debated since George Washington's Farewell Address in 1797. At last week's Munich Security Conference, President Joe Biden laid out his vision as to what is America's mission. And the contrast with the mission enunciated by George W. Bush in his second inaugural could not have... Read More

Is the "Variant" Being Used to Scare People Into Getting Vaccinated??

Mike Whitney • February 23, 2021

• 2,600 Words • 155 Comments • Reply

In a recent front-page article, the New York Times reported that the new mutated version of the Coronavirus was likely to be more contagious or lethal than the original infection. According to the Times, this new iteration of the infection could resist conventional treatments and force lockdown nations to extend the timeline for lifting restrictions.... Read More

The Art of Being a Spectacularly Misguided Oracle

Pepe Escobar • February 22, 2021

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The late Dr. Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski for some time dispensed wisdom as an oracle of US foreign policy, side by side with the perennial Henry Kissinger – who, in vast swathes of the Global South, is regarded as nothing but a war criminal. Brzezinski never achieved the same notoriety. At best he claimed bragging... Read More

The Axeman of Tacoma: Revisiting a Forgotten Black Serial Killer

Sinclair Jenkins • February 22, 2021

• 2,200 Words • 15 Comments • Reply

The mainstream media and the neoliberal bioleninist state that they empower operates from an outdated script. This is part stupidity and part laziness, but at its core, it is about maintaining the narrative. See, for instance, publicized hate crimes in the United States. Whenever the supposed victim is non-White, the media and politicos jump to... Read More

By Putting Big Pharma’s Patents Before Patients, Doctors Will Further Erode Trust in Expert

Jonathan Cook • February 22, 2021

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I have spent the past several years on this blog trying to highlight one thing above all others: that the institutions we were raised to regard as authoritative are undeserving of our blind trust. It is not just that expert institutions have been captured wholesale by corporate elites over the past 40 years and that,... Read More

France Cracks Down On Generation Identitaire, A Movement of the Patriotic Young Who Want Europe for Europeans

Rémi Tremblay • February 22, 2021

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Some 2-3,000 Parisians, mostly young, gathered peacefully in their city’s Place Denfert Rochereau this last Saturday (February 20) to reclaim their freedom of speech, and more specifically, to support Génération Identitaire (“Generation Identity”), the youth group currently targeted by the French government for dissolution [France: Protesters oppose move to disband anti-migrant group, by The Associated... Read More

Unintended Consequences and the Texas 'Big Freeze' Energy Disaster

Ron Paul • February 22, 2021

• 600 Words • 49 Comments • Reply

Last week Texas experienced a cold snap that resulted in serious statewide damage, death, and destruction. The collapse of the state’s energy grid left millions of Texans in the dark and freezing for days at a time. Tragically, at least 30 people died. There are many reasons why Texas became like a Third World country,... Read More

Review: American History X

Trevor Lynch • February 22, 2021

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Director Tony Kaye’s anti-skinhead morality tale American History X (1998) is proof that propaganda is far from an exact science. Just as Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket caused a surge in Marine recruitment, American History X actually increases audience sympathies with neo-Nazi skinheads, despite its best efforts to present them as hateful hypocrites and losers.... Read More

The Resurrection of the Third Reich in Amerika

Paul Craig Roberts • February 22, 2021

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Yes, the Third Reich is undergoing resurrection, but not by white supremacists. It is the white liberals in the Democrat Party and their presstitute propaganda machine—New York Times, CNN, NPR, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and the rest of the presstitute whores— that comprise the new Nazi movement. The only difference is that this time the target... Read More

Biden Launches Campaign to Silence Critics of Killer Vaccine

Mike Whitney • February 21, 2021

• 1,100 Words • 48 Comments • Reply

Imagine if an ordinary working man went on a rampage and killed 929 people and maimed 316 others. The media would naturally call such a man a serial killer or a homicidal maniac. Now imagine if a big pharmaceutical company did the same thing by releasing a vaccine that killed and maimed a similar number... Read More

It’s Clear the Capitol Riot Was a Dark Day in a Number of Respects

Patrick Cockburn • February 21, 2021

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The invasion of the Capitol on 6 January now stands alongside 9/11 as an act of war against American democracy. Unsurprisingly, news coverage of the incursion has come to resemble war propaganda. All facts, true or false, are pointed in the same direction with the aim of demonising the enemy and anybody who minimises its... Read More

France: Macron Government Looks to Outlaw More Anti-Immigration Activist Group

Eric Striker • February 20, 2021

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Two Jewish organizations in France, CRIF (Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions) and LICRA (International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism), are lobbying the embattled Emmanuel Macron government into beginning the process of outlawing Generation Identitaire (GI), a group that uses art and symbolic gestures to protest against globalization and immigration. According to French media, Macron... Read More

Bibi, Pfizer and the Election

Gilad Atzmon • February 20, 2021

• 900 Words • 43 Comments • Reply

Israel’s biggest news outlet Ynet reported a few hours ago that in the country voluntarily making itself Pfizer’s testing ground, “75.4% of those diagnosed yesterday were under 39. Only 5.5% were over 60. “The number of critical patients dropped to 858 - the lowest since January 4. However, this number is more than double that... Read More

Biden Freezes Texas

Israel Shamir • February 20, 2021

• 2,300 Words • 231 Comments • Reply

Freezing Texas should commission a monument: Greta Thunberg and Bill Gates save the Texans from global warming by turning them into icicles. So much for global warming, the reddest herring ever caught in the Gulf of Mexico! The Texans have got the real New Green Deal, very expensive and uncertain. The deal is “Freeze and... Read More

Biden’s Great Replacement Acceleration Act

John Derbyshire • February 19, 2021

• 2,200 Words • 45 Comments • Reply

Earlier: Biden's Treasonous Immigration Bill Opportunity For GOP Leader To Say Two Words "Immigration Moratorium" Thursday this week the Biden administration brought forth a bill on immigration. It comes in two versions, one for the Senate and one for the House, although the texts are well-nigh identical. Both versions are 353 pages long. [READ: Text... Read More

The Covid Deception Serves An Undeclared Agenda

Paul Craig Roberts • February 19, 2021

• 300 Words

There is no scientific basis for the measures in place to deal with the alleged Covid Pandemic. Among experts the support for these measures are largely limited to those with financial links with pharmaceutical corporations. Public health bureaucrats, such as Fauci at NIH, are also linked with pharmaceutical corporations. Medical practitioners take their guidance from... Read More

Coronapocalypse; Big Pharma's Doomsday Vaccine #666

Mike Whitney • February 19, 2021

• 3,100 Words • 321 Comments • Reply

Here's your Vaccine puzzler for the day: What do Dr. Barton Williams, Hank Aaron, and 46 elderly residents in a Spanish nursing home all have in common? Answer--- They all died shortly after getting the Covid-19 vaccine. But let's not jump to conclusions, after all, in every case, the media has assured us that the... Read More

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American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?

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