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Brexit is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions

The decision by UK votersto leave the EU is such a glaring repudiation of the wisdom and relevance of elite political and media institutionsthat– for once –theirfailures have become a prominent partof the storyline.Media reaction to the Brexit vote falls into two general categories: (1) earnest, candid attempts to understand what motivated voters to make this choice, even if that means indicting one’s own establishment circles, and (2) petulant, self-serving, simple-minded attacks on disobedi...

Hillary Clinton’s Likely Pentagon Chief Already Advocating for More Bombing and Intervention

Michele Flournoy, the former Defense DepartmentofficialwhomDefense Onecalls “the woman expected to run the Pentagon under Hillary Clinton,” this week advocated for “sending more American troops into combat against ISIS and the Assad regime than the Obama administration has been willing tocommit.” In an interview with that outlet,Flournoy “said she would direct U.S. troops to push President Bashar al-Assad’s forces out of southern Syria and would send more American boots to fight the Islamic S...

Democrats’ War on Due Process and Terrorist Fearmongering Long Predate Orlando

Before the bodies were removed from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando last week, Democrats began eagerly exploiting that atrocity to demand a new, secret “terrorist watchlist”: something that was once the domestic centerpiece of the Bush/Cheney war-on-terror mentality. Led by their propaganda outlet, Center for American Progress (CAP),Democrats nowwant toempower the Justice Department — without any judicial adjudication — to unilaterally bar citizens who have not been charged with (let alone con...

Why Is the Killer of British MP Jo Cox Not Being Called a “Terrorist”?

British Labour MP Jo Cox was brutally murdered yesterday. Although the motive is not yet proven, there is mounting evidence that the detainedsuspect, 52-year-old white male Thomas Mair, was motivated by political ideology. Cox was an outspoken advocate for refugees. At least two witnesses say Mair, as he carried out the attack, yelled “Britain First,” the name of a virulently right-wing anti-immigrant party. He has yearsofaffiliation with neo-Nazi groups: what Southern Poverty Law Center desc...

Enquanto a corrupção assombra o Temer, caem as máscaras dos movimentos pró-impeachment

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O impeachment da presidente do Brasil democraticamente eleita, Dilma Rousseff, foi inicialmente conduzido por grandes protestos de cidadãos que demandavam seu afastamento. Embora a mídia dominante do país glorificasse incessantemente (e incitasse) estes protestos de figurino verde-e-amarelo como um movimento orgânico de cidadania, surgiram, recentemente, evidências de que os líderes dos protestos foram secretamente pagos e financiados p...

As Corruption Engulfs Brazil’s “Interim” President, Mask Has Fallen Off Protest Movement

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Momentum for theimpeachment of Brazil’s democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was initiallydriven by large, flamboyant street protests of citizens demanding her removal. Although Brazil’s dominant media endlesslyglorified (and incited) these green-and-yellow-clad protests as an organic citizen movement, evidence recently emerged that protests groupswere covertly funded by opposition parties. Still, there i...

Chega de explorar a opressão LGBT para demonizar o Islã e justificar políticas anti-muçulmanas

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No final dos anos 90, Eric Rudolph – criado na religião católica e afiliado por algum tempo a uma seita do movimento Identidade Cristã – detonou bombas em clínicas de aborto e em um bar gay por supostamente serem locais perversos e imorais. Em julho do ano passado, um judeu ortodoxo de origem israelense esfaqueou seis participantes da parada do orgulho LGBT em Jerusalém, justificando o ataque como um castigo talmúdico para homossexualid...

Stop Exploiting LGBT Issues to Demonize Islam and Justify Anti-Muslim Policies

In the late 1990s, Eric Rudolph —raised Catholic and affiliated for a time with a Christian Identity sect —bombed abortion clinics and a gay bar, insisting they were venues of immorality and evil. Last July, an Orthodox Jewish Israeli attacked the marchers in the Jerusalem LGBT pride parade, stabbing six of them, and one of them, a teenager, died of her wounds; justifying his attacks by appealing to Talmudicpunishments for homosexuality, he had just been released from a 10-year prison term fo...

Perfect End to Democratic Primary: Anonymous Superdelegates Declare Winner Through Media

Last night, the Associated Press — on a day when nobody voted — surprised everyone by abruptly declaring the Democratic Party primary over and Hillary Clinton the victor. The decree, issued the night before the California primary in which polls show Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a very close race, was based on the media organization’s survey of “superdelegates”: the Democratic Party’s 720 insiders, corporate donors, and officials whose votes for the presidential nominee count the same as the...

Andrew Cuomo and Other Democrats Launch Severe Attack on Free Speech to Protect Israel

One of the greatest free speech threatsin the west is the growing, multi-nation campaign literally to outlaw advocacy of boycotting Israel. People get arrested in Paris– the site of the 2015 “free speech” (for Muslim critics) rally – for wearing pro-boycott t-shirts. Pro-boycott students on U.S. campuses – where the 1980s boycott of apartheid South Africa flourished – are routinely sanctioned for violating anti-discrimination policies. Canadian officials have threatened to criminally prosecut...