The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Post-Epstein Document Dump: The Moment for Left-Right Populist Unity? Benjamin Bartee That a multinational cabal of sadistic, rapacious pedophiles has infested every major institution of the West, insulated from the law, has never been more indisputable than at present. For years, for reasons that make no logical sense, this simple reflection of reality was coded as “right-wing conspiracy theory” and dismissed out of hand by the self-professed practitioners of respectable journalism. Furthermore, anyone espousing it — we all remember #Pizzagate, the purveyors of which have been vindicated in spades with the recent Epstein email dump — was portrayed as a threat to Democracy™ who ought to have their social media accounts suspended and should probably be prosecuted for hate speech. That was then; this is now. What a difference a few million emails from Epstein and Co. make —  replete with obviously coded language  about “young coconuts from Thailand,” “grape soda,” and “ch...

  Cheering the Militarization of Everything Reflections on the 6th anniversary of when Covid was declared a “national security threat” Debbie Lerman Illustration by:  Anthony Freda On February 4, 2020, word went out from the biodefense military leadership  to pharmaceutical companies that the “novel coronavirus” circulating in China was a “national security threat” – a designation that opened the floodgates for development, manufacture and distribution of “military countermeasures.” On that day there were zero deaths and fewer than a dozen cases reported in the United States, and fewer than 500 deaths worldwide. On the same day,  Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)  and the  PREP Act  – laws intended for rushing countermeasures to the scenes of bioweapons attacks – were activated, giving the  global biodefense public-private partnership  the ability to develop, manufacture, distribute and administer such countermeasures without any legal or reg...