Payment processor PayPal has frozen alternative media powerhouse Consortium News’ (CN) donation page without warning, confiscating the site’s $9,348.14 balance with no explanation beyond the claim that “an investigation and review” of the site’s “history” found “some potential risk associated with this account.” CN was informed via email on Sunday that it couldn’t use PayPal anymore and told […]

“Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears to make a crisis go away. It comforts the powerful with the narrative they want to hear, one fed back to them by courtiers in the media, government agencies, think tanks, and academia.” – Chris Hedges by Alan Macleod <snip> MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA […]

It would be a mistake to think that responsibility for a potential nuclear conflict would lie only with the side that would start it but not with those, who “openly provide it with a reason” to take this step, the letter argues. “Morally binding norms are universal in nature,” it points out. https://www.rt.com/news/554739-berlin-letter-stop-weapons-ukraine/    

BY DAVID HARSANYI APR 29, 2022 Setting aside such a cynical use of “disinformation,” are we really supposed to believe that an administration that tells us with a straight face that a $3.5 trillion spending bill “costs zero dollars” or that showing an ID is tantamount to Jim Crow 2.0 or that your sex relies entirely on […]

The European Union’s top border protection official has resigned following claims that years of rights abuses occurred under his watch, including the alleged mistreatment of [invaders] who arrived in the bloc’s territory. Fabrice Leggeri, a French national who headed up the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, commonly known as ‘Frontex,’ confirmed his departure in […]

It seems unthinkable, but American leaders’ failure to think about it heightens the risk it will happen. By Peggy Noonan   No one since 1945, in spite of all the wars, has used nuclear weapons. We are in the habit, no matter what we acknowledge as a hypothetical possibility, of thinking: It still won’t happen, […]

By Sam Husseini The word “Iraq” was not uttered once during the three hour funeral of Madeleine Albright, who laid the groundwork for the US invasion of the country and helped set the stage for the current war in Ukraine. Indeed, the death of Albright on March 23 seemed to almost be a case of […]

by Victor Davis Hanson America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and partly the poet Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters. Nothing seems to be working. And no one in control seems to care. The once secure border of 2020 vanished. Two-million people have crossed […]

by J. Robert Smith The U.S.-Mexican border exists in name only.  Joe Biden erased it.  His is a wanton act of disregard for the welfare, safety, and security of Americans.  Impeachment is a must, should Republicans take charge of the U.S. House next January.  Biden’s actions amount to willful dereliction of duty that constitutes “high […]

by Paul Bois Human rights groups have apparently raised “concerns” about the alleged proliferation of hate speech on social media following billionaire Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Even though Elon Musk has implemented no new changes on Twitter, human rights groups have seized on Musk’s self-description as a “free speech absolutist” to fret about the […]