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The Seizure of Virtue The trucker convoy and leftist re-alignment Rhyd Wildermuth The current political re-alignments we’ve seen since the arrival of COVID are maddening. It really feels like the world’s been turned upside down, with anarchists arguing for brutal repression of people who oppose vaccine mandates and right-wingers arguing against the state the way that anarchists once did. The truck convoy and occupation of Ottawa in Canada is one particular place where things have flipped very severely. Yesterday, I checked in on several of the social media accounts of influential left activists, especially Antifa sorts, and found them all fully supporting Trudeau’s decision to claim emergency powers against the protesters. Many of them have compared it to the occupation of the US capitol on 6 January, and apparently see both events as manifestations of a growing “fascist” threat to democracy. In particular, there were quite a few think-pieces used to explain how certain aspects of the ...

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What kind of "left" attacks the working class as "fascist," and pushes FOR the "vaccination" of the poor worldwide? It's not a "left" that serves the working class, or anybody other than the globalists who manage it Mark Crispin Miller While all eyes have been on Canada, there also have been massive Freedom Convoys, and joyous multitudes applauding them, and turning out to help them, all around the world. We’re seeing it (despite the usual blackout by the quisling media) in Australia, where 1.4 million vehicles, and between one and two million protestors, have taken over Canberra, Australia’s capital, the people calling for an end to all restrictions, and the ouster of that once-free country’s quisling politicians. There, too, the biggest protest in that nation’s history has been just as peaceful as it is diverse—a wondrous mass display of solidarity, to re-assert our fundamental human rights, spontaneously led by many thousands of real worke...

There Is a Limit to the Tyrant’s Power: Ottawa Freedom Convoy Tears Down Illusion of Democracy in North America Matthew Ehret No, there is a limit to the tyrant’s power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals With fearless heart to Heaven, And thence brings down his everlasting rights, Which there abide, inalienably his, And indestructible as stars themselves. -Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell’s Rutli Oath Who would have thought that Canada would ever be a spark plug for a freedom movement against tyranny? As the editor of a  Canadian geopolitical magazine  for over 10 years and author of  four books on Canadian History,  I am a bit embarrassed to say that I certainly didn’t think that Canadians had this in them. The “monarchy of the north” certainly isn’t something that exudes revolutionary sentiment- having been founded on such non-revolutionary principles as “Peace, Order and Good Governance” which have stood in stark...

We Are Not Useful Idiots! Honest injun. We’re not useful idiots here at Contra Corner! We do think, however, that the entire Ukrainian crisis is a Washington-confected con job. And we came to that conclusion without relying on a single scrap of information peddled by Russki propagandists appearing on Strategic Culture Foundation or Zero Hedge. Actually, we thought it up all by our lonesome! Well, we’ll grant we did have a fair amount of help from Google, which insofar as we know works for the CIA, not the Russian SVR (foreign intelligence service). In any event, at the very center of the crisis is the Washington claim that the rule of law and the sanctity of sovereign borders are on the line in Ukraine and that, therefore, Russia must not be allowed to encroach a single inch into sacrosanct Ukrainian territory. That is to say, it is not a matter of America’s national security interest in the precise Ukrainian geography, which happens to lie cheek-by-jowl on Russia’s border, but the ve...

The Revolt of the Imagination Part One: Notes on Belbury Syndrome John Michael Greer Maybe it’s true that life really does imitate literature. Over the last week or so, certainly, a detail from one of my favorite works of imaginative fiction played out at least twice in the real world, with microphones live and cameras rolling. I’m thinking here first of German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, who promoted vaccine mandates with this bit of fascinating logic:  “No one will be vaccinated against their will; the vaccine mandates will simply lead people, ultimately, to accept voluntary vaccination.”  See if you can find a way to parse those words that makes sense of them. I can tell you already that it doesn’t help to read them in the original German. Then there’s Jen Psaki, spokesflack-in-chief for poor bumbling Joe Biden. She was asked by a reporter at a recent presser about the people, and of course there are a great many of them, who are increasingly worried about the futur...