West Bank: New Entry Rules Further Isolate Palestinians
(Jerusalem) – New Israeli guidelines on access to the West Bank for foreigners threaten to further isolate Palestinians from loved ones and global civil society, Human Rights Watch said today.
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KC Fed President: We're Looking at 'Pretty Low Growth' Despite Stimulus that Boosted Demand
During an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther George stated that despite fiscal stimulus and monetary policy creating lots of demand, “we are looking at still pretty low growth” due to constraints in supply. George stated, “[O]ne of the things I think
Paradise of Madness
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It is said that the mad do not know they are mad. They live with a certainty of everything. They never doubt. They shuffle through common knowledge until they pick out their stance as if it were a pearl inside a sea-stained shell, neither
San Francisco Art Gallery Owner Arrested for Spraying Homeless Woman with Hose
The owner of a San Francisco art gallery who was caught on video spraying a homeless woman on the sidewalk with water from a garden hose has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery in the incident. Video of the encounter was posted to the Internet and went viral. As
Prominent Pakistan Rights Lawyer Gunned Down in Court
The respected lawyer and human rights defender Abdul Latif Afridi was shot and killed inside the Peshawar High Court on Monday.
Sea Rescuers Still Waiting for Justice in Greece
Sarah Mardini and Sean Binder were thrown in jail on baseless charges for helping rescue migrants and asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea in August 2018.
Living in a Fascist Country
The move towards the Great Reset started many years ago.
Russia: War's Supersized Repression
(Berlin, January 12, 2023) – The Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine marked the start of a new, all-out drive to eradicate public dissent in Russia, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023. Russian authorities adopted a broad range of new laws introducing war censorship.
These laws provided
Is a Happy New Year Possible?
Albert Camus (L) and Edward Curtin Sr (R)
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Really? Or was he joking?
Whenever January rolls around and a new year begins with its implied
Report: Democrat, GOP Lawmakers Beat Terrible Stock Market in 2022
Both Democrat and Republican lawmakers on average beat the stock market again in 2022, according to Unusual Whales’ annual report.
Tolkien Anniversary: A Tribute to the Father of Fantasy
Today – 3rd of January 2023 – marks Professor JRR Tolkien’s one-hundred and thirty-first birthday.
This is strangely significant as ‘131’ is the same age that Bilbo Baggins was when he was gifted passage aboard one of the last ships to Valinor, when he, Frodo and Gandalf sailed west to the
What good are psychedelic humanities?
The revival of psychedelic research has been dominated by the biomedical sciences.Yet it raises questions that cannot be answered by laboratory experiments and clinical trials alone.
A Gift of Words
“The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.”
Karl Kraus, Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths
Things, possessions, life on the installment plan or credit card. This is the season to buy, to accumulate more folderols, to give things to one’s
Victims of AstraZeneca: Dr. Stephen Wright
The knighting of the CEO of AstraZeneca gives cause to shine some light on his criminal company and the terrible impact its experimental “vaccine” continues to have on the UK public.
Earlier today, we published an article written by Simon Elmer about awarding knighthoods to people whom the UK state
UK’s Thought Police arrest a woman because of what she “might” be thinking while standing on a street near an abortion clinic
A charity volunteer has been arrested and charged on four counts after she told the police she “might” be praying silently when questioned as to why she was standing on a public street near an abortion facility.
She wasn’t arrested for harassing anyone. She wasn’t arrested for protesting.
