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Free Speech & Its Enemies
Europe is convulsing as its “centrist” authoritarians impose an unprecedented regime of suppression of speech, but the mainstream media in America is silent about it.
31.12.2025
Peace President? Yeah, Right.
On December 17, surrounded by festive holiday decorations, US president Donald Trump delivered an upbeat — one might even say manic — address to the nation, preempting — and enraging fans of — network TV shows such as Survivor, The Floor, and Christmas in Nashville.
29.12.2025
Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech
Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, historical and cultural opinions of a guest on Carlson’s podcast.
18.12.2025
The Richest Men in the World Are Media Moguls
Alan MacLeod on the capture of media systems by the planet’s mega-rich and the existential threat that poses to an open society and the free flow of information.
05.12.2025
Iran: Three Things The New York Times Gets Wrong
On November 9, The New York Times published an update on the situation with Iran’s nuclear program. The article contains some valuable material. But it also gets three important things wrong.
17.11.2025
The Perilous Norm of Weapons Testing
On October 29, just before meeting with China’s President XI Jinping, President Trump posted on the right-wing social media network Truth Social that “because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”
14.11.2025
Honor Veterans by Ending Wars
One of my family’s favorite regular getaways is Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri.
11.11.2025
Norwegian Peace Council Rejects Peace Prize Winner
Norway’s largest peace organization, the Norwegian Peace Council, has announced that it would forego its traditional torchlight procession for the Nobel Peace Prize winner this year after widespread dissatisfaction with the Nobel Committee’s selection of Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado as this year’s laureate.
30.10.2025
The Rubio Doctrine: Neocons Are Back!
According to several recent news reports, the two major Trump foreign policy shifts last week are the handiwork of Marco Rubio, the President’s Secretary of State and (acting) National Security Advisor. As with all neocon plans, they will be big on promises and small on delivery.
28.10.2025
Trump’s Military Occupation of America
Nick Turse covers the U.S. president’s push in the direction of a genuine police state as he deploys armed forces in U.S. cities and proclaims he is waging a “war from within.”
20.10.2025
The Geopolitics of Algorithms: TikTok, Oracle & Israel
Miguel Ruíz on the union of technology, geopolitics and the military in the interests of Israel.
10.10.2025
Power & Justice
The world broke its silence at the U.N. late last month, but force alone is what counts for Trump and Netanyahu, who propose to stand astride the world like co-emperors.
07.10.2025
Donald Trump’s Dangerous Tilt Towards War at Home and Abroad
Donald Trump’s speech yesterday at Quantico to the assembled General Officers of the US militaray was a tour de farce of narcissism (not a tour de force).
02.10.2025
The War Dept’s War on Media
The Pentagon’s new restrictions will bar correspondents covering the American military from covering the American military, as the Trump regime attempts to exert full-spectrum control over media.
30.09.2025
Looney Climate Change is Not Science
President Trump’s U.N. speech covered a variety of topics, ranging from his peacemaking accomplishments in seven different wars.
27.09.2025
Free Speech and Its Discontents
A government that can silence the speech you hate today can silence the speech you love tomorrow
26.09.2025
Our Age of Unreason
We have lost that connection between reason and morality …. We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.
23.09.2025
A Charlie Kirk Ministry of Truth
The proposed “Charlie Kirk Act” would give the U.S. government sweeping new powers to decide what does and does not constitute propaganda and untruth and administer penalties accordingly.
19.09.2025
The Department of War Is Back!
But Victoryless Culture Remains
19.09.2025
Israel’s Qatar Attack Rattles the Gulf
Like its Gulf neighbors, Qatar invested in a security system premised on U.S. reliability and Israeli restraint. Both pillars have now collapsed.
18.09.2025
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