Why Do We Keep Feeding the Merchants of Death?
STORY AT-A-GLANCE According to mainstream media, the Ukraine war is going well and Russia will be solidly defeated.
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39 questions about the war in Ukraine
Igor Strelkov’s Angry Patriots Club (КРП) has published a list of questions about Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
Most of their questions are highly pertinent; some of them are a bit superfluous; a few—in your correspondent’s humble opinion—are misguided and a bit silly.
But
Archeologists Discover 175 Roman Coins in Italy
Archeologists in Livorno, Italy discovered 175 silver Roman denarius coins, nearly all of which were in good condition.
This Week in the New Normal #61
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. You will go nowhere and be happy
The age of “cheap flights” is over, Bloomberg reported this week. They
Wool Over Our Eyes
It is curious to me that people do not understand that historically, perpetrators of evil have always made an effort to convince people in general that what they are doing is not evil, and in fact is good for them.
There have been no exceptions to this rule throughout history—
1,000-Year-Old Viking Treasure Found by Young Girl with Metal Detector
A thousand-year-old Viking hoard consisting of coins and jewellery was reportedly found by a girl armed with a metal detector.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F.
Fiscal Insanity: The Government Borrows $6 Billion a Day, and We’re Stuck with the Bill
We’re not living the American dream.
Chinese Researchers Warn Tech Industry ‘Unsustainable’ Under Sanctions
Beijing Academy of Military Sciences researcher Zhao Xun published an article in Chinese Communist Party media on Monday warning that China’s current model of technology and weapons development is “unsustainable” due to Western sanctions, so China must become more self-reliant by funding more research and reducing bureaucratic red tape.
Five Years On: The OPCW-Douma Deception Continues
Published simultaneously in Propaganda in Focus, UK Column and OffGuardian
On 7 April 2018 reports emerged from a suburb of Damascus, Douma, claiming that a chemical weapons attack had occurred. Images of dead women and children inside an apartment building were circulated over the internet along with hospital scenes showing
New World Order: The International Criminal Court and War on Russia
“It is in the ranks of the Party, and above all the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.”
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
On 17 March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant
The New Normal Left
So, I went to London to speak to the Left … no, not “the Left” you’re probably thinking of.
Cognitive liberty and the psychedelic humanities
This research aims to conceptualize cognitive liberty and the psychedelic humanities by examining their constitutive elements.
Australia Commits to Protect Schools During Wartime
Australia is the 117th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration, an intergovernmental political commitment to reduce the likelihood that students, teachers, and schools are targeted for attack during armed conflict. Schools should be places of study and safety for children. If armed forces use schools as military bases, firing
Biden, Sunak, Macron, Trudeau et al are leading us into Nuclear War
Canada and Germany have now been described as legitimate targets for military attacks.