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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.

Biden Administration Wants to Boost Defense Spending to Nearly $900B

The Biden administration released its nearly $7 trillion 2024 budget request to Congress on Thursday, which included $886 billion for defense — a 3.2 percent boost from the prior year’s defense budget. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) acknowledged that the request is “among the largest in

Some of the descendants of Nazis in positions of power today

The response to the “Covid-19 pandemic” has much in common with the birth of the Third Reich and descendants of former Nazis remain influential in today’s world. Hitler was, perhaps, the first to see that liberal democracy can be subverted by playing on the unconscious fears of the masses.

Russia Remained Germany's Top Coal Supplier Despite EU Sanctions

Russia maintained its position as the largest supplier of coal to Germany last year, despite Berlin’s supposedly being on the opposite side of the war in Ukraine, as well as the government’s far-left climate goals. According to analysis from the German Coal Importers Association (VDKi), Germany actually increased

Eastern Approaches Podcast: Ukraine—"I'm not buying into ideologies from either the East or the neo-Marxist West"

The latest Eastern Approaches Podcast between Alex Thomson and Gevorg Virats turns to Ukraine.

Ukraine: Human Cost of Brutal Russian Invasion

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine starting on February 24, 2022, has left a terrible path of destruction in its wake.

‘More evolved than you’: Evolutionary spirituality as a cultural frame for psychedelic experiences

One of the dominant cultural frames for psychedelics in western culture over last 130 years has been evolutionary spirituality.

The World Wants to Be Deceived

My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I mentioned him. It’s an old truth that has not changed a bit over the centuries. I think, however, it would be more linguistically accurate to say that most people

Confronting the figure of the “mad scientist” in psychedelic history: LSD’s use as a correctional tool in the postwar period

Since reports about CIA-funded LSD studies came out in the 1970s, psychedelic drugs have invoked images of unethical experimentation and “mad scientists” in the public imagination.

War Certainly Is A Racket

In 1935, Major General Smedley Butler’s seminal book “War Is A Racket” warned of the dangers of the US military-industrial complex, more than 25 years before the outgoing US President Eisenhower implored the world to “guard against” the same thing. One of the most decorated soldiers in US military

WARNING: The designer war in Ukraine is rapidly escalating

The plot to start the Russia/Ukraine war began in 2014 when America and the European Union helped overthrow a democratically elected government in Ukraine. The US wanted a puppet regime on Russia’s doorstep as a launch pad for a planned NATO war with Russia. Now we are heading

DR Congo: Atrocities by Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed summary executions and forced recruitment of civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today.

The World is Far More Corrupt than You Feared

The BBC doesn’t really do ‘news’ any more.

The invasion of Ukraine has prompted militaries to update their arsenals – and Silicon Valley stands to capitalise

Silicon Valley is closer to the world’s militaries than ever.