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Dissecting The New Plea for COVID Amnesty Recapping the mistakes that were made throughout COVID-19, and what can be done to prevent them from happening again. A Midwestern Doctor Many of you may remember Emily Oster’s disingenuous plea for amnesty in  The Atlantic . The responses to it were almost all “How about [insert your preferred profanity].” My favorite response was someone choosing to pay to fly this over her house after  the article  came out: In Oster’s plea for amnesty, I felt she was providing an excellent example of a pseudo-apology—she “asked for forgiveness” but simultaneously refused to admit she was in any way at fault for any of her previous actions, and used a variety of linguistic constructs to try to both have her cake and eat it too. I really hate when people do that, so I decided to write a response to her  article : The Forgotten Side of Medicine Dissecting the Deceptive Plea for COVID-19 Amnesty One of the difficulties with most forms of medi...

Another point of view on the new left and "Cultural Marxism"... Woke-ism is Not Cultural Marxism BY   DR JAMES ALEXANDER Sometimes we hear the following argument: Wokery is Cultural Marxism. Originally Marxism was about class struggle and oppression. What happened in the late twentieth century, with the breakdown of old heavy industry and the decline of the old working class, was that Marxists began to study other  forms  of oppression: and hence other  objects  of oppression, which they understood in classical Marxist manner as being oppressed by the capitalist system of expropriation. Wokery is Marxist because it continually talks about capitalism, neoliberalism and so on as cause, and various forms of oppression as consequence. I don’t like this argument. I think it is slack and careless. This is because it involves a misrepresentation of Marxism – and this has to be said even before we say that Marxism necessarily involves a misrepresentation of Marx (as Mar...

The Chinese 'Spy Weather Balloon' Story As Manufactured Crisis: An Alternative Reading Previous constant headlines of the Ukraine-Russia war were put on pause Friday into Saturday as the American public's attention and discourse got temporarily consumed by the bizarre Chinese 'spy balloon' saga, which grew more dramatic by the hour until it was shot down by the Pentagon over the Atlantic Ocean. But few are currently asking the necessary deeper questions related to the timing. Given the last major balloon crisis to take over 24/7 network news coverage ended up being a complete hoax (remember the  "balloon boy" stunt of 2009  which had the world breathless and on edge for a full news cycle?), the current context to the Chinese balloon story and the  question of  cui bono  is worth a deeper dive ... Images: The Billings Gazette/AP Entrepreneur and geopolitical commentator Arnaud Bertrand, who as a Westerner has spent many years living in China and freque...