A Visit by the German Thought Police
CJ Hopkins
Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my wife, and confiscated...
PANEL: The IMA Discuss Free Speech
The latest IMA panel discusses the principle of “free speech” and what exceptions (if any) should be made, including the age-old “fire in a crowded theatre” argument and the...
Charlie Kirk; Or How the Right Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cancel Culture
Kit Knightly
Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week the theories have been flying thick and fast. The alleged shooter has been identified as a pro-transgender campaigner into furry internet...
Stirrings of rebellion in unhappy Britain
Niall McCrae
I read it right, the first time. An ‘elite police division’ has been assembled by the Home Office to monitor remarks made by social media users on immigration, at...
WATCH: How the EU Manufactures Misinformation with Norman Lewis
Dr Norman Lewis is a writer, speaker and consultant on innovation and technology and a visiting research fellow for MCC Brussels. He joins James Corbett to discuss his new...
WATCH: UK Censorship and the Future of BitChute
Ray Vahey, founder of BitChute.com, joins James Corbett to discuss the recently introduced UK Online Safety Act of 2023 and how it has forced BitChute to discontinue its video...
The Enemy of My Enemy
CJ Hopkins
One of the most effective thought-terminating clichés is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” It is particularly effective because it works on both people who are, let’s...
Bitchute, the UK and modern censorship in action
Kit Knightly
Last week, alternative video-sharing platform BitChute announced they would no longer allow UK-based users to view content on their site. The opening of their official statement makes the reason...
This Week in the New Normal #99
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...
…and here comes the Online Safety Act
Kit Knightly
The UK’s Online Safety Act officially came into force two weeks ago, and they have wasted no time using it. Alternative social media network Gab has already been threatened...
Making Our Rights Disappear: The Authoritarian War on Due Process
John & Nisha Whitehead
“If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you. The Trump regime is already targeting immigrants who are here legally simply because they expressed opinions that Trump disagreed with....
The War on Whatever
CJ Hopkins
The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by...
The Speech Police
CJ Hopkins
OK, this one is for all the professional “sensitivity editors” out there, and for the US Department of Homeland Security, and President Donald Trump, and the European Union censors,...
When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Once the principle is established that the government can arrest and jail protesters…officials will use it to silence opposition broadly.” Heather Cox Richardson, historian You can’t have it both...
The Year of the Zealot
CJ Hopkins
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was a year of brilliance, it was a year of buffoonery, it was a year of...
A Tale of Two PSYOPS
CJ Hopkins
Once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there was born a global-capitalist empire. It was the first global empire in the history of empires. It dominated the...
The Armchair Rioters – Part 4
Iain Davis
This is the final article in a four-part series. The first three parts are available here, here and here. In his 1859 essay “On Liberty” the British political philosopher...
Disinformation Isn’t the Problem. Government Coverups and Censorship Are the Problem
John & Nisha Whitehead
“What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not...
Guilty!
CJ Hopkins
So, the Berlin Appellate Court overturned my acquittal today. I am now, officially, at least according to the New Normal German authorities, a “hate-speech” criminal. I’m officially a “hate-speech”...
“Overthrowing the Constitution”: All Sides Are Waging War on Our Freedoms
John & Nisha Whitehead
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln...
