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Virtuous Reality

James Thompson • June 5, 2020

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America is in turmoil because of a video in which a Policeman seems very highly likely to have caused the death of an arrested man. He must face trial. Also, the techniques used in making arrests must be put on trial. Kneeling down on the back of the neck of a hand-cuffed man is not... Read More

Liberal Mush from the Mad Dog

Pat Buchanan • June 5, 2020

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In his statement to The Atlantic magazine, former Defense Secretary General James Mattis says of the events of the last 10 days that have shaken the nation as it has not been shaken since 1968: "We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers." Is "a small number of lawbreakers" an apt description... Read More

America Burning, Plus Coronavirus Missives from Vietnam and Philly

Linh Dinh • June 5, 2020

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On June 4th, Common Dreams’ lead story is titled, “‘This Isn’t Going Away’: Defying Curfews and Police Brutality in Relentless Push for Justice, Uprising Over Killing of George Floyd Keeps Growing.” The same day, I received a mass email from Jee Leong Koh, a Singaporean poet living in Harlem. In an 800-word statement about the... Read More

On Racism

Paul Craig Roberts • June 4, 2020

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If white people are racist, how was Obama twice elected president of the United States? That such questions do not occur to those shouting “white racism” indicates weak minds, the presence of anti-whites out to make mischief, and people who speak on the basis of an unexamined assumption that has been drilled into their heads.... Read More

Inside Boris Johnson's Plan to Transplant Almost Half of Hong Kong's Population to Britain

Eric Striker • June 4, 2020

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China's coming National Security Law, which will give the mainland the right to engage in counter-espionage against foreign intelligence operatives organizing riots in Hong Kong, has been met with indignation by the governments of America and the United Kingdom. The irony is especially rich in Britain's case. During the country's 2019 general election, UK intelligence... Read More

Operating Outside the Rule of Law: Washington Pressures International Criminal Court

Philip Giraldi • June 4, 2020

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There is apparently no limit to what the United States and Israel can get away with without any consequences. The United States has been waging devastating economic warfare against Iran and Venezuela while also blaming China for a global health crisis that it is unwilling to help address due to its withdrawal from the World... Read More

Irresponsible Dem/ MSM Complex Tells Childish Blacks to Riot—So They Do. Whose Fault Is That?

Lance Welton • June 4, 2020

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What kind of a person would tell white American children that they were, to some extent, justified in burning down the neighborhood stores that might one day employ them? That the teachers, and not they, were in charge of the school because the teachers were wicked people who wanted to hurt them? That teachers should... Read More

The Systemic Collapse of the US Society Has Begun

The Saker • June 4, 2020

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I have lived in the United States for a total of 24 years and I have witnessed many crises over this long period, but what is taking place today is truly unique and much more serious than any previous crisis I can recall. And to explain my point, I would like to begin by saying... Read More

Looting Is Local — Courtesy of Leroy & Lakisha

Ilana Mercer • June 4, 2020

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Dr. Michael Baden had determined that George Floyd died by cop. That, the courageous onlookers who filmed the snuff film could have told him. The nation’s foremost forensic pathologist was called in to weigh-in scientifically and independently about the demise of the Minneapolis man, whom millions across the world have, by now, watched slowly suffocate... Read More

All Races Suffer from Police Violence

Paul Craig Roberts • June 3, 2020

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Americans are so brainwashed that even some of my readers cannot believe that police violence affects more white people than black people. The majorty of victims are white; but dispoportionately (blacks are a smaller percent of the population) they are black. In turn, this disproportion can be explained by the fact that according to US... Read More

National Justice Exclusive: Brooklyn Based "Antifa" Network Helping Organize Violence Across the Country

Eric Striker • June 3, 2020

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As American cities burn and people are murdered in the street with impunity by groups protesting the death of George Floyd, very little reporting has been done on who exactly is responsible beyond tweets from Donald Trump about the mobs being led by "Antifa" (Anti-Fascist) -- an umbrella term anarchist organizations use as propaganda when... Read More

Pro-BLM Demonstrations Sweep Across Europe

We’re all living in Amerikwa

Guillaume Durocher • June 3, 2020

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In the great capitals of Western Europe, thousands of people have been protesting against the death of George Floyd and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In the Netherlands: In Copenhagen: And in front of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin: There is a long history of Europeans shaming Americans for mistreating Negroes. For... Read More

As US Protests Show, the Challenge Is How to Rise Above the Violence Inherent in State Power

Jonathan Cook • June 3, 2020

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Here is one thing I can write with an unusual degree of certainty and confidence: Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin would not have been charged with the (third-degree) murder of George Floyd had the United States not been teetering on a knife edge of open revolt. Had demonstrators not turned out in massive numbers on... Read More

May Diary: Not About the Riots! the Geezer Election (I Think It's Awful); Ireland—Most Pozzed Country In World? ETC. [11 ITEMS]

John Derbyshire • June 3, 2020

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I put these monthly diaries together from things I've jotted down as they occurred to me through the month, in approximate chronological order. At the time this diary goes up on VDARE.com at the beginning of June, all the news is about the anti-cop and anti-white riots. Those riots didn't start up until the last... Read More

The Russians Did It

Paul Craig Roberts • June 3, 2020

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The Obama regime’s National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, the most unqualified person ever to have had that job, told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that the organized burning and looting violence of the George Floyd protests “is right out of the Russian playbook” — Other nutcases are blaming “foreign adversaries” such as China. Susan is not... Read More

Why America’s Revolution Won’t be Televised

Pepe Escobar • June 3, 2020

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The Revolution Won’t Be Televised because this is not a revolution. At least not yet. Burning and/or looting Target or Macy’s is a minor diversion. No one is aiming at the Pentagon (or even the shops at the Pentagon Mall). The FBI. The NY Federal Reserve. The Treasury Department. The CIA in Langley. Wall Street... Read More

Israelis Trained the Minnesota Cop How to Kill

Paul Craig Roberts • June 2, 2020

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Precisely as I reported– –Minnesota police received Israeli training. The knee-on-neck is an Israeli restraint hold that Israeli forces use for breaking Palestinian necks. I doubt the Minneapolis cop intended to kill Floyd. He probably thought he was just using a restraint technique. In so many of the cases of police-inflicted death and injury there... Read More

The Pandemic Revives Fears the U.S. Is Developing ‘ethnic Bioweapons’ Against Russia

Max Parry • June 2, 2020

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It has been 75 years since the surrender of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Russia postponed its annual Victory Day celebrations last month due to the health crisis as did other former Soviet states, with the sole exception of Belarus which went ahead with... Read More

The Crisis Is Not Over Until It Is Over

Paul Craig Roberts • June 2, 2020

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From the sucess of preventative measures in reducing the infection rate and limiting the crisis to specific geographical areas such as New York City, we are in danger of concluding that the virus threat was a global false alarm. Indeed, this claim has now emerged in a German government report sponsored by a person in... Read More

Assaulted and Vilified, the Cops Save the Cities

Pat Buchanan • June 2, 2020

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On the fifth night of rioting, looting and arson in Minneapolis, the criminal elements were driven from the streets. By whom? By the same cops who had been the constant objects of media derision and mob hatred. Without the thin blue line, far larger sectors of dozens of America's cities would be in ruins, burned... Read More

Government Mischief in an Age of Coronavirus

Bad decision-making continues

Philip Giraldi • June 2, 2020

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It is interesting to watch how the folks in Congress and the White House have been using the at-least- somewhat self-generated crisis over COVID-19 to serve as cover for legislation and other activities that many Americans just might object to. They are assuming that the public is so consumed with the virus, as well as... Read More

Sweden's Triumph; Staying Free in a Lockdown World

Mike Whitney • June 1, 2020

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Why is the media so preoccupied with Sweden? And why is the media so determined to prove that Sweden's approach to the coronavirus is wrong? Are we supposed to believe that the same MSM that promoted every bloody coup, intervention and war for the last 30 years has suddenly become a selfless advocate for elderly... Read More

Don’t Compare the George Floyd Riots to Charlottesville! (Oh, On Second Thought, Antifa Was Guilty There Too)

Jason Kessler • June 1, 2020

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When nationwide race riots broke out over the death of George Floyd Leftist Main Stream Media operatives brought up the August 2017 Charlottesville Unite The Right rally in an attempt to smear President Trump: (Eugene Scott is a black political reporter for the Washington Post who reports on "the politics of identity in the Trump... Read More

FED’s $10 Trillion Defends Assets of the Rich

Michael Hudson • June 1, 2020

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The Federal Reserve is directly buying stocks, bonds, junk bonds, mortgages, junk mortgages, all to prop up the value of assets owned by the top 5%. This does not spur much new production or create jobs. Michael Hudson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast

Rep. Omar Surrenders to Israel Lobby

Philip Giraldi • June 1, 2020

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The nearly complete corruption of the U.S. republican form of government has largely come about due to the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court in January 2010 that basically permitted unlimited donor-spending on political campaigns based on the principle that providing money, normally through a political action committee (PAC), is a form of free... Read More

Listen to the Doctors, End the Lockdowns

Ron Paul • June 1, 2020

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Six hundred physicians recently signed a letter to President Trump calling for an end to the coronavirus lockdowns. The physicians wrote that, far from protecting public health, the lockdowns are causing “exponentially growing negative health consequences” for millions of Americans. Since the lockdowns began, there have been increases in alcoholism, drug abuse, and domestic violence.... Read More

I'm Interviewed by the Islamic Azad University News Agency

Linh Dinh • June 1, 2020

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[the below will be translated into Farsi and published at this website] The Iranian people would like to know how would you interpret Floyd’s death: an isolated case of officers mistreating criminals or a sign of systematic anti-black racism? -As we can clearly see in the film, Floyd was murdered, for an officer knelt on... Read More

The Minneapolis Putsch

C.J. Hopkins • June 1, 2020

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Well, it looks like the Resistance’s long-anticipated “Second Civil War” has finally begun … more or less exactly on cue. Rioting has broken out across the nation. People are looting and burning stores and attacking each other in the streets. Robocops are beating, tear-gassing, and shooting people with non-lethal projectiles. State National Guards have been... Read More

The George Floyd Protests

Is It Racism When Police Murder and Brutalize White People?

Paul Craig Roberts • June 1, 2020

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Dear Readers, It is June and my quarterly request for your donations. Your financial support is the only indication I have of whether my explanatory efforts are appreciated sufficiently to be continued. There are other more pleasant or more remunerative ways to use my remaining time. The monthly donors are the financial backbone of this... Read More

Where Have You Gone, Donald Trump? A Nation Turns Its Yearning Eyes to You

James Kirkpatrick • May 31, 2020

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Earlier (July 2016): America Demands Law & Order: Trump Has Thumbs On Evil Party’s Windpipe (If RATS Don’t Stab Him In The Back) President Donald Trump ran on a Law And Order platform in 2016 but he’s currently presiding over the most widespread civil disorder of this generation. The obvious reality: these riots are simply... Read More

The Entire TRS Crew Will be On the People's Square Tonight

Eric Striker • May 31, 2020

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The entire staff at The Right Stuff network will be on The People's Square tonight. This will be livestreamed at 9 PM ET here. The mp3 will be uploaded later here.

The External Cost of One Minnesota Cop Is Very High

Paul Craig Roberts • May 31, 2020

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Antifa blacks, an outfit of the Democrat Party, went on a looting and burning rampage in Atlanta. The female police chief and female mayor let it happen the first night. The female police chief protected the police rather than the city. She changed her mind when the governor sent in the National Guard. She reports... Read More

Some Thoughts on the Coronavirus Mess and a Missive from Indiana

Linh Dinh • May 31, 2020

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On April 29th, an American friend wrote from Spain, where he’d lived for 20 years, “The government announced new (legal) abilities to track and monitor people’s telephones. My youngest [son] asked if we could go to the U.S. if Spain moves towards communism. I didn’t know how to respond! Frightening where this could go.” I... Read More

Beijing Sees Trump’s Hand and Won’t Fold

Pepe Escobar • May 30, 2020

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Stranger things have happened. Everyone was expecting US President Donald Trump to go nuclear by de facto sanctioning China to death over Hong Kong. In an environment where Twitter and the President of the United States are now engaged in open warfare, the rule is that there are no rules anymore. So in the end,... Read More

Review: Twelve Monkeys

Trevor Lynch • May 30, 2020

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Twelve Monkeys (1995) is Terry Gilliam’s last great movie. It is a masterful work of dystopian science fiction, with a highly imaginative plot, a tight and literate script, fantastic steampunkish sets and props, and compelling performances from Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Madeline Stowe. Gilliam is usually far too ironic and self-conscious to deliver emotionally... Read More

Trump’s Withdrawal of Troops from Afghanistan Marks a Huge Failure

Patrick Cockburn • May 30, 2020

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In October 2001 I was standing on a hilltop 40 miles north of Kabul watching US aircraft bomb the Taliban front line. The night sky was lit up with the flash of explosions and the sparkle of ineffectual anti-aircraft fire. It was fairly obvious who was going to come out the winner. A few weeks... Read More

What Happens Next in Afghanistan? the Neo-Taliban

Ted Rall • May 30, 2020

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I shouted the text of my latest story about the invasion from a Palm Pilot into a balky Iridium satellite phone. It was at least my third attempt, and the battery was dying. A Village Voice employee assigned to take dictation on the other side of the world interrupted me. "I don't understand," she said,... Read More

Turning a Threat Into a Hoax

Paul Craig Roberts • May 30, 2020

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Everyone knows that the official data about Covid-19 infections and deaths are not consistent among countries and are not complete because of inadequate testing and the unknown number of cases that are too mild to be detected. However, the reported deaths are real and even prior condition deaths are provoked by virus infection. Regardless whether... Read More

This Is America

Eric Striker • May 29, 2020

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In the last month, the left and the right have erected an evermore complicated game of twister for white people to play. The McMichaels must be punished for going beyond dialing 911. Amy Cooper must be punished for dialing 911. Derek Chauvin must be punished for being 911, and having a violent felon who did... Read More

Our Grim Future: Restored Neoliberalism or Hybrid Neofascism?

Pepe Escobar • May 29, 2020

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With the specter of a New Great Depression hovering over most of the planet, realpolitik perspectives for a radical change of the political economy framework we live in are not exactly encouraging. Western ruling elites will be deploying myriad tactics to perpetuate the passivity of populations barely emerging from de facto house arrest, including a... Read More

America on Video

DO I = 1,100; killburnloot CITY(I); LOOP

Fred Reed • May 29, 2020

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It was murder, plain and simple. There are no contradictory witnesses, no he-said-she-said. It is on the video, with no lapses. The man on the ground is clearly heard imploring mercy, begging to be allowed to breathe. Onlookers also implore. The officer knows the man is choking, yet keeps choking him. No police protocol calls... Read More

When Jews Define Fascism

Andrew Joyce • May 29, 2020

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Concluding one of America’s more infamous obscenity trials in 1964, Justice Potter Stewart absolved a controversial French motion picture with an opinion that has since passed into common parlance: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never... Read More

We’re Not Allowed to be Honest About Black Crime—So We May End Up with A Crazy Black Lady President

John Derbyshire • May 29, 2020

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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] America's most enduring problem, the problem of the blacks, has been dominating the news this week. The attitude I bring to these news stories is one of weary despair. They are reported and discussed publicly in language that bears very little relation to reality,... Read More

The Fear Is Real, Not Orchestrated

Paul Craig Roberts • May 29, 2020

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For years I have been watching what little intelligence the human race ever had slowly evaporate before my eyes as governments built up arsenals of thermonuclear and biowarfare weapons that they cannot use without destroying us all. So many important social needs are forsaken, such as a national health service, in order to acquire useless... Read More

A Fatal Failing of Establishment Elites

Pat Buchanan • May 29, 2020

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In his half-century in national politics, Joe Biden has committed more than his fair share of gaffes. Wednesday, he confused Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7, 1941, with D-Day, June 6, 1944. The more serious recent gaffe, a beaut, came at the close of a recent contentious interview with black activist Charlamagne tha God. A miffed... Read More

The New Hysteria

Paul Craig Roberts • May 28, 2020

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We now hear that wearing masks is not a safety issue but a control issue imposed on us to take away our liberty. How likely is it that every state, local, and federal health official, every state governor, every government in the world is involved in a control conspiracy? How can countries locked in intense... Read More

Caution Is the Safest Policy

Paul Craig Roberts • May 28, 2020

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Many commentators are interpreting the reopenings as signaling the end of the pandemic. Many of these commentators are those who deny the reality or seriousness of Covid-19, or deny the need for, or effectiveness of, the closedowns and social distancing and the need for, or usefulness of, masks. The pandemic and the official responses have... Read More

Private Property and COVID: Choice, Not Force, Part 2

Ilana Mercer • May 28, 2020

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The managerial elites find themselves in a pickle. The coronavirus pandemic is a serious event. Members of a serious society treat it as such; they look out for one another—and they don’t flee into conspiracy and denial in order to cope with the incongruity of it all. Alas, courtesy of its globalist elites, America is... Read More

The Great Replacement: Newark NJ vs. Minneapolis MN

Anthony Boehm • May 28, 2020

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See also: The Great Replacement in Minneapolis: From 99% White in 1910 to 60% White in 2020... I know what Minneapolis is going through tonight. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1948. In those days, it was a vibrant medium-sized city in the New York metropolitan region. It was over 80% white. We... Read More

The Campaign Against HCQ—Part II

Paul Craig Roberts • May 28, 2020

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A few years ago the British medical journal, The Lancet, published a paper touting the safety of HCQ. But this was before HCQ with zinc was found effective if used earlier enough against Covid-19. Covid-19 turned HCQ’s effectiveness into a big problem for Big Pharma’s big profits. The solution was another study by medical professionals... Read More

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