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How the Media Mangled the ‘Russian Invasion’ of the Trump Administration
Throughout the Trump years, various reporters have presented to great fanfare one dubious, thinly sourced story after another about Moscow’s supposedly nefarious plots against the United States. The unsupported allegations about an illegal…
Racism and anti-racism as lies
The ideologies of anti-racism and racism are based on the same sham: there are separate human races that cannot have healthy common descent; a stupid postulate that everyone can see is nonsense. When questioned on the subject, the…
How the Pentagon Failed to Sell Afghan Government’s Bunk ‘Bountygate’ Story to US Intelligence…
Another New York Times Russiagate bombshell turns out to be a dud, as dodgy stories spun out by Afghan intelligence and exploited by the Pentagon ultimately failed to convince US intelligence agencies.
Was The American Revolution A Mistake?
This goes back to a term paper I wrote in graduate school. It was on Colonial taxation in the British North American Colonies in 1775. Not counting local taxation, I discovered that the total burden of British imperial taxation was about 1%…
Why the assault on a diplomat in Israel should come as no surprise
Israel subjugates its Palestinian citizens while being eager to showcase their successes in order to portray itself as a western-style democracy
Coronavirus: Pandemic may plunge 8.3 million Arabs into poverty
Number of poor in Arab world will increase to 101 million, UN says, with number of undernourished reaching 52 million
As the global war on drugs fades away, only the drug traffickers benefit
America shows signs of emerging from the century-long shadow of drug prohibition, with marijuana leading the way and a psychedelic decriminalization movement rapidly gaining steam. It also seems as if the mass incarceration fever driven by…
Manipulation Machines
During the Democratic debates on June 27, Senator Kamala Harris had a standout moment. Former vice president Joe Biden, the front-runner, had recently made news for defending his work in the seventies with senators who advocated racial…
Canadian Media Lies About Venezuela
Canada’s public media, the CBC, long-ago entered the ranks of yellow journalism when it comes to its reporting on Venezuela. However, two recent reports in particular, one on CBC radio’s “The Current” and the other a CBC News article by…
Witnessing the BBC’s Omissions on Fallujah
Ian Sinclair reveals how the mainstream media is downplaying US-British crimes in Iraq