“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Ray Bradbury Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on...
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
The US Navy is sending at least three destroyers and various other craft to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, allegedly on a mission to combat drug cartel activity. In...
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”...
For anyone who still thinks Donald Trump does not represent the interests of what is called “the deep state” but is actually the shallow or official US state, it...
“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.” John...
In June 2025, the newly mitred Pope Leo announced his support for the Rome Call for AI Ethics, issued by Vatican in 2020. The call received support in 2023 from representatives of...
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.” Hannah Arendt The government’s war on homelessness—much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on...
“Now by coming in and being part of the cover-up, the Trump administration has become part of it. I mean, it’s just you cannot see it any other way.” Alex...
In the latest IMA panel, host Jason Bermas and guests Ryan Cristian and Steve Poikonen discuss the recent developments (or non-developments) in the Epstein case.
The world is always ending according to some pundit or other. But after thousands of years of spectacularly false predictions of the end of the world, why are people...
“You think we’re arresting people now? You wait till we get the funding to do what we got to do.” Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar America is rapidly becoming a...
Today the Independent Media Alliance (IMA) brings you a panel focusing on the newest steps taken in the direction of the bio-digital control grid and how this overlaps with...
There’s an episode of Mad Man – great series, highly recommend – where the Madison avenue ad executives of Sterling Cooper are tasked with rescuing the public reputation of...
Originally published by Unity News Network ‘Events, dear boy, events’. So said British prime minister Harold Macmillan on the fallibility of leaders due to unanticipated, uncontrollable factors. ‘Shit happens’,...
And all this time you thought Israel was fighting something called “Hamas”! Poor dears, what else could you think, what with all the U.S. news outlets and “experts” and...
Less than an hour ago, President Donald Trump announced that the US Air Force had conducted “targeted strikes” on Iranian nuclear sites. He’s addressing the nation as I type...
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie...
“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human...