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Letter From a Young Canadian: Authoritarianism, Media Propaganda and Repression

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Letter From a Young Canadian: Authoritarianism, Media Propaganda and Repression Rav Arora, a 20-year-old writer from Canada, offers his perspective on his government's ongoing despotic response to the convoy protest. Glenn Greenwald  and  Rav Arora NOTE FROM GLENN GREENWALD:  As is true with all of the  Outside Voices freelance articles  that we publish here, we edit and fact-check the content to ensure factual accuracy, but our publication of an article or op-ed does not necessarily mean we agree with all or even any of the views expressed by the writer, who is guaranteed editorial freedom here. The objective of our Outside Voices page is not only to provide fresh, independent analysis and reporting, but also to provide a platform for young talent and writers outside the gates of corporate journalism to receive exposure for their work and have a venue to develop their independent voice and journalistic skills. A protester walks in front of parked trucks as demonstrators continue t

Who is Sam Brinton? 'Kink Activist' and Non-Binary Drag Queen Makes History as Top Biden Admin Official

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Thanks to GypsyFreyja for recommending this article... Who is Sam Brinton? 'Kink Activist' and Non-Binary Drag Queen Makes History as Top Biden Admin Official Sam Brinton has a Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is the director of global political strategy at a nuclear waste disposal company. By  Pragati Pal Updated  February 17, 2022 22:41 +08 00:56 Ukraine-Russia crisis: Whats happening? Ukraine-Russia crisis: Whats happening? Sam Brinton has become the first non-binary, gay drag queen to hold a federal government leadership position. The Biden administration appointed Brinton as the deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the office of nuclear energy for the Department of Energy. Brinton uses the pronoun they/them. Deputy assistant secretaries at Cabinet agencies are the kind of positions, which do not require Senate confirmation. Brinton has had an infamous history of promoting sexual kinks related to anima

Their Silence Is A Warning

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Their Silence Is A Warning Governments across the west are curiously silent about what is happening in Canada. Good Citizen The Eye of Silence,  Max Ernst   (1944) A shorter version of the following piece appeared in the   American Thinker . Fires In Liberal Democracies The fallacious position put forth by hate speech police who feel it their duty to call out “hate speech” wherever they’re offended by any speech and frame it as such, is to advocate the limits of free speech using the famously debunked “you cannot yell fire in a crowded theatre” argument. There are several worthy challenges to this argument which show it to be a fallacy in challenging first amendment rights and a poor if not shameful ruling by Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes. Perhaps no better refutation exists than  Christopher Hitchens’ 2006 speech  at a conference in Toronto of all places. The entire speech should be mandatory viewing, and homework assigned by civics teachers across the west. He opens his address from