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.
Russian Forces Forcibly Disappear Ukrainian Activist (Kyiv, December 22) – Russian forces forcibly disappeared Iryna Horobtsova, a resident of Kherson, Ukraine, in May 2022, and are understood to have unlawfully transferred her to Russian-occupied Crimea, where they are holding her incommunicado, Human Rights Watch said today. Horobtsova, 37, is an IT expert. Her family says that she
South Africa Should Bring Home Grandmother and Other Nationals from Northeast Syria “I’m an ‘accidental terrorist,’” Khadija, a 54-year-old South African woman, told me with a rueful laugh.
El-Erian: Saying a Recession Will Be Short and Mild Is 'Same Trap' as Saying Inflation Was 'Transitory' On Wednesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” economist and President of Queens’ College Dr.
Fatal Beating by Police Roils the Philippines Police in the Philippines again appear responsible for the fatal beating of a man in their custody.
Ancient Apocalypse & Graham Hancock’s ‘Dangerous Ideas’ It never ceases to amaze me what seemingly innocuous ideas the establishment media find ‘dangerous’ or ‘controversial’. Netflix recently released an eight-part documentary series titled Ancient Apocalypse, where Graham Hancock (who has a been a household name for “alternative archeology” since the release of his book ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’