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T Is for Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead August 10, 2021 “Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates,  these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny . By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking

The World Economic Forum’s Totally Not Creepy New Idea Schwab and the boys are at it again. Paul Joseph Watson Davos globalists are worried that ubiquitous face masks are preventing the plebs from being identified via facial recognition technology. But don’t worry, they have a solution, and it’s not creepy at all! Source: Summit News The Post-Partisan Emporium's Purpose and Standards   This site does not have a particular political position. We welcome articles from various points of view, and civil debate when differences arise.   Contributions of articles from posters are always welcome. Unless a contribution is really beyond the pale, we do not edit what goes up as topics for discussion. If you would like to contribute an article, let one of the moderators know. Likewise if you would like to become an official contributor so you can put up articles yourself, but for that we need to exchange email addresses and we need a Google email address from you. Contributions can be

Potemkin Nation by  John Michael Greer There are advantages to learning about history. One of the big ones is that patterns repeat themselves across historical time, and if you know what happened just before other societies went through the important inflection points in their life cycle, you can tolerably often figure out when one of those is abojut to happen in the place and time where you happen to be living. I was reminded of this last week when news dispatches from Afghanistan started showing up in the news aggregator sites I watch. Would you like hubris with that? Afghanistan, in case any of my readers spent the last twenty years living under a rock, was invaded and mostly conquered by the United States in late 2001. Officially, this was in retaliation for the terrorist attacks that year; in the world of unmentionable facts, it was one of two beachheads established as part of the Bush II administration’s monumentally stupid attempt to conquer and pacify the Middle East—the other

Stephen Colbert likening Capitol Hill protesters to Taliban is not just a dumb joke, but DEMONIZATION of fellow Americans Nebojsa Malic is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT. Follow him on Telegram @TheNebulator  and on Twitter @NebojsaMalic 17 Aug, 2021 19:44 Get short URL Taliban fighters in Kabul (left) and January 6 riot at the US Capitol (right) ©  REUTERS/Stringer ;  REUTERS/Stephanie Keith 1 Follow RT on Comedian Stephen Colbert comparing the Taliban to January 6 Capitol rioters may seem silly and dumb, but when he’s joined by a chorus of Democrat activists, it becomes clear they’re really saying the quiet part out loud. “Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan? We’ve got our own on

A Hell Of Our Own Making Reflections on the road to Kabul Edward Snowden The last week has been hard for me, and yet I can only imagine what this week has felt like, and what the future will bring, for the people—the peoples—of Afghanistan. Nearly 20 years after it was launched in the wake of 9/11, the long war in Afghanistan, one of the great cruelties of my generation, has unexpectedly reached its expectedly tragic conclusion. I am certainly not sad to see it go, but it’s difficult to avoid a profound sense of regret at the error of it all. When I  recently spoke with Daniel Ellsberg , he pointed out that neither of us is entirely a pacifist. Dan and I agree, and are on-record agreeing, that certain wars are wrong, but if one can conceive of a  “just” war —or at least a less-injust war—there are wrong ways to fight it, and particularly wrong ways to finish it. There are also, come to think of it, wrong ways to begin wars too—namely  refusing to declare them . The war in Afghanistan w