December 2024 archive

US Fighter Jet Shot Down Over Red Sea In Disastrous 'Friendly Fire' Incident US Fighter Jet Shot Down Over Red Sea In Disastrous ‘Friendly Fire’ Incident In the early morning hours of Sunday (local), two US Navy pilots were shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent friendly fire incident. This comes after more …

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Escobar: Anarchy In The Levant – Your Future Dream Is A Chaos Scheme Escobar: Anarchy In The Levant – Your Future Dream Is A Chaos Scheme Authored by Pepe Escobar, Tehran and Moscow harbor no illusions – and are preparing accordingly. The war on BRICS is just getting started. Syria as we knew it is …

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Would A Trump-Putin Agreement Bring Peace To Ukraine Or Just Set The Stage For More War? Would A Trump-Putin Agreement Bring Peace To Ukraine Or Just Set The Stage For More War? Authored by Jim Jatras via The Ron Paul Institute “I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the …

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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Will Rebuild Trust In Public Health Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Will Rebuild Trust In Public Health Authored by Wilk Wilkinson via RealClearPolicy, Just weeks before President-elect Trump announced that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya would be his nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Bhattacharya and I were together at Stanford University …

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The Indian Model Of Financial Multipolarity Is The Most Relevant For The Global South The Indian Model Of Financial Multipolarity Is The Most Relevant For The Global South Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Few can afford to be massively tariffed by the US, let alone sanctioned, and most aren’t willing to burn their bridges …

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Give Me Liberty, Not Pronouns Give Me Liberty, Not Pronouns Authored by Kenin Spivak via RealClearPolitics, It’s time to defrock the word police. The election, polls, and anecdotal evidence confirm that Americans want to end the obnoxious recitation of pronouns – “Latinx,” “birthing persons,” and other entries in the radical left lexicon – except in …

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The Democratic Party Changed While We Stayed In Place The Democratic Party Changed While We Stayed In Place Authored by Josh Stylman via The Brownstone Institute, Let me start by saying I loathe politics. I’ve always been drawn to liberal ideas—individual freedom, protecting the vulnerable, questioning authority, and the fundamental belief that consenting adults should …

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Online Shopping: Charting The Holiday Surge Online Shopping: Charting The Holiday Surge In the fourth quarter of 2023, online shopping was a record-breaking 17% of all retail sales. Put another way, one out of every six dollars was spent online. This graphic from Visual Capitalist’s Jenna Ross, in partnership with BGO, highlights the spike in ecommerce …

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Global South's Energy Rebellion At COP29 Signals A New Future Global South’s Energy Rebellion At COP29 Signals A New Future Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via RealClearWire, The climate movement’s annual showpiece, the United Nation’s Conference of Parties (COP), held this year in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been exposed to an unprecedented level of disinterest—even dissent—from developing nations. Leaders of …

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Provoked: The Long Train Of Abuses That Culminated In The Ukraine War Provoked: The Long Train Of Abuses That Culminated In The Ukraine War Authored by Carus Michaelangelo via The Mises Institute, [Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, by Scott Horton, The Libertarian Institute, 2024; 690 …

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