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DISCUSS: Inauguration Day

by Kit Knightly

Joe Biden’s big day is finally here. He’s had to work hard for it, sucking a lot of fingers, burbling a lot of nonsense, berating a lot of factory workers, fixing thousands of votes, but he’s finally going to be President. This particular inauguration is going to look a lot different from all the others …

Jan 20, 2021

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This Martin Luther King Day Let us End His 2nd Assassination

by Kit Knightly

Matthew Ehret Martin Luther King Jr. day has been celebrated every January 18 since it was a made a national holiday through the tireless efforts of Martin’s widow Coretta in 1983. While many people take the opportunity to treat Martin’s life as a pre-packaged hallmark card of cliché speeches, far too few take the time …

Jan 19, 2021

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Reimagining the World: Agroecology vs Post-COVID Plunder

by Kit Knightly

Colin Todhunter Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs …

Jan 19, 2021

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Why I Became a “Covid Denier”

by Kit Knightly

Kevin Smith There have been a wide selection of articles published here over the last year on Covid-19 and lockdowns. Since March, the thinking of many of us has evolved which has been reflected within the articles as time has gone on. Back in April and May, the focus was on the science, the presentation …

Jan 18, 2021

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Anteroom of Our Own Extinction

by Sam - Admin2

John Steppling If you want to deprive citizens of freedom of movement, freedom of assembly and the right to family life, there should be written reasons. They ask the department why they can hardly find such anywhere since the intervention was introduced in March. It is a mystery that hardly any Norwegian journalists have thought …

Jan 18, 2021

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Raskolnikov’s Dream Come True

by Sam - Admin2

Edward Curtin Something is happening here, But you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones? Bob Dylan, Ballad of A Thin Man It’s hard… Life today seems like a dream, doesn’t it? Surreal to the point where everything seems haunted and betwixt and between, or this against that, or that and this against …

Jan 17, 2021

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MSM calls for “new definition of free speech”

by Kit Knightly

Our current definition of "free speech" is outdated, no longer fit for purpose in the internet era, and potentially dangerous to democracy...according to a chorus of voices across the mainstream media.

Jan 16, 2021

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Trump’s been deleted from internet, and any one of us could be next

by Kit Knightly

Do you think the same architecture that just publically castrated the "most powerful man on Earth" and the "leader of the free world" will suddenly start doing what it's told when a "progressive" voice is in charge?

Jan 14, 2021

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Trump impeached for ‘record’ 2nd time

by Kit Knightly

The US Congress has voted on impeachment articles against President Donald Trump. Again. This time for “incitement of violence”, although neither the incitement, nor the violence, really appear to have actually happened. The “violence” (such as it was) refers to the “riot” on Capitol Hill on January 6th. Violence which the police readily and deliberately …

Jan 13, 2021

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