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Soul Muscles
Sylvia Shawcross Oh, the changing definitions of words we’re being subjected to these days. It boggles the best of...
A Nation of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans to Report on Each Other
John Whitehead “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had...
In the lands of the Dodo bird
Sylvia Shawcross Okay. The important thing is not to panic. It’s all going to be fine. We of the...
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Many Ways Our Rights Have Been Usurped Since 9/11
John whitehead “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the...
Curiosity Killed the Cat; Satisfaction Brought it Back
Todd Hayen It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and...
Watermelon Watershed
Sylvia Shawcross So I’m looking at the watermelon and thinking about the world we live in. It’s one of...
9/11: Twenty-Two Years On
Today marks twenty-two years since the towers – all three of them – fell in New York. The 9/11...
The Next Crisis Is Anyone’s Guess, But the Government Is Ready to Lockdown the Nation
John & Nisha Whitehead “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous...
Illusory Guilt
Todd Hayen You are not destroying the planet. You are not a cancer to the earth that must be...
The Foolish at Night
Sylvia Shawcross The foolish-hearted people exist in this world more than we really know. The foolish-hearted people do foolish-hearted...
How the Government Weaponizes Surveillance to Silence Its Critics
John & Nisha Whitehead “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it...
The Metaphysical as a Rational Option
Todd Hayen One thing I believe my bent toward metaphysics has prepared me for is when something that falls...
Peacocks Paradise
Sylvia Shawcross Come with me now down this path. It is a path soft with the fallen frailties of...
Cure By Suicide
Todd Hayen One of the cool things (or so it seems) about Canada is National Health Care. A bad...
From Press Room Raids to Indictments, Anything Goes When the Government Piles On
John Whitehead “When players are piled on top of each other after a mad scramble for a loose ball,...
The Tyranny of Cause and Effect Scientism
Todd Hayen The rape of the natural world is the phallic-like invasion of scientism. With its intent to rip...
Indoctrination, Intimidation & Intolerance: What Passes for Education Today
John whitehead “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking...
Knowing All that We Need to Know
Todd Hayen It is a mystery to me why human beings, as a whole, seem to think that the...
Technocensorship: The Government’s War on So-Called Dangerous Ideas
John Whitehead “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people...
The Lost Art of Connecting Dots
Todd Hayen Remember those dot games? Where you would spend hours going through a book of numbered dots, connecting...
