Election 2024: Did The First Presidential Debate Tell Us Anything We Didn’t Already Know?

Thomas Knapp: Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both old men. We already knew that. Neither’s brain can be honestly characterized as hitting on all the key cognitive cylinders. We already knew that. They’re both compulsive liars. We already knew that. Did listening to the two geezers argue about their golf handicaps in CNN’s June 27 “presidential … Continue reading Election 2024: Did The First Presidential Debate Tell Us Anything We Didn’t Already Know? → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Bribery Case Touches SCOTUS In A Tender Spot

Thomas Knapp: As a former mayor of Portage, Indiana, James Snyder will forever remain known for three things: First, steering $1.1 million in city business to Great Lakes Peterbilt for the purchase of five garbage trucks in 2013. Second, receiving a $13,000 “consulting fee” from Great Lakes Peterbilt in 2014. Third, getting the Supreme Court to pretend … Continue reading Bribery Case Touches SCOTUS In A Tender Spot → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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“Brexit” Key Figure Nigel Farage Claims That The West Provoked War With Russia

Voice of East: “Brexit” Key Figure Nigel Farage Claims That The West Provoked War With Russia By Uriel Araujo Speaking to BBC’s “Panorama” on Friday evening, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed the West provoked Russia into going into a full-scale military campaign against... Read More › - Voice of East


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Julian Assange Is Released from Prison: What Does it Mean?

Kim Petersen: The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, will at long last taste freedom again. He should never have been imprisoned. Nevertheless, the release is conditional on his accepting to plead guilty to espionage in the United States — in the far-flung US territory of Saipan. There he is to be sentenced to 62 months of time already […]
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A Holiday Proposal: Festivus in July!

Thomas Knapp: When, in the course of human events, it becomes obvious to all that the current American political system bears little if any resemblance to the values put forward in the 13 colonies’ July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence, it’s time to consider doing away with “Independence Day” as a positive commemoration. But not, I hold, … Continue reading A Holiday Proposal: Festivus in July! → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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What Role Did Foreign Spy Agencies Play In Sunday’s Terrorist Attacks In Dagestan?

Voice of East: What Role Did Foreign Spy Agencies Play In Sunday’s Terrorist Attacks In Dagestan? By Andrew Korybko Foreign spy agencies were likely involved to an uncertain extent, but they still relied on radicalized locals to do their dirty work, not their own... Read More › - Voice of East


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The Russian-Vietnamese Strategic Partnership Checks US Influence In Southeast Asia

Voice of East: The Russian-Vietnamese Strategic Partnership Checks US Influence In Southeast Asia By Andrew Korybko Russia is indirectly lending a helping hand to China as the centre of the New Cold War moves from Europe to Asia. The speculation among some about Vietnam’s... Read More › - Voice of East


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Don’t Buy The Tariff Lie — Real Tax Cuts Aren’t On The Table

Thomas Knapp: “If he returns to the White House,” Bloomberg reports, “Donald Trump has pledged to enact a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports that he says will raise billions of dollars in revenue to pay for more tax cuts.” He’s even floated the idea, per CNBC, of an “all tariff policy” and elimination of the federal income … Continue reading Don’t Buy The Tariff Lie — Real Tax Cuts Aren’t On The Table → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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ICC Arrest Warrant Against Netanyahu Once Again Highlights Western Hypocrisy

Voice of East: ICC Arrest Warrant Against Netanyahu Once Again Highlights Western Hypocrisy By Uriel Araujo Much is talked about the economic and geopolitical decline of the American superpower. The erosion of its supposed moral authority, however, is also a very concrete phenomenon, with... Read More › - Voice of East


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A Philippines-China Clash in the South China Sea

Kim Petersen: Donald Trump was likeliest correct when he told a CNN reporter: “Your organization’s terrible. … You are fake news.” The bias is so blatantly obvious in the 20 June 2024 CNN headline: “‘Only pirates do this’: Philippines accuses China of using bladed weapons in major South China Sea escalation.” To adduce that it is a […]
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Why Does the US Want a Nuclear-Armed Iran?

Thomas Knapp: “A major expansion underway inside Iran’s most heavily protected nuclear facility could soon triple the site’s production of enriched uranium,” the Washington Post reports. That expansion “could allow Iran to accumulate several bombs’ worth of nuclear fuel every month.” Even if the reportage is accurate, two questions loom large. First: Do the Iranians want to join … Continue reading Why Does the US Want a Nuclear-Armed Iran? → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Poland Was Just As Much To Blame As Britain For Sabotaging Spring 2022’s Peace Talks

Voice of East: Poland Was Just As Much To Blame As Britain For Sabotaging Spring 2022’s Peace Talks By Andrew Korybko The risk of World War III breaking out is now higher than it’s ever been since the Cuban Missile Crisis due to the... Read More › - Voice of East


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All Vivek Murthy Wants for Christmas is a Label Maker

Thomas Knapp: “It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms,” Vivek Murthy writes in a New York Times op-ed, “stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.” An incredibly dumb idea, but it enjoys a certain amount of public attention because Vivek Murthy’s day job is … Continue reading All Vivek Murthy Wants for Christmas is a Label Maker → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Polish President’s Call For “Decolonizing” Russia Proved That Putin Was Right To Warn About This Plot

Voice of East: Polish President’s Call For “Decolonizing” Russia Proved That Putin Was Right To Warn About This Plot By Andrew Korybko The Polish leader also inadvertently dealt a blow to his side’s credibility since its propagandists can no longer gaslight that the West... Read More › - Voice of East


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SCOTUS Gives Trump’s Anti-Gun-Rights Record an Inconvenient Election-Year Bump

Thomas Knapp: On June 14, the US Supreme Court overturned former US president Donald Trump’s 2018 “bump stock ban.” Like many SCOTUS rulings, this outcome turned on neither the plain text and meaning of the US Constitution (under which the ban was clearly illegal) nor common sense (under which the ban was clearly idiotic — everyday objects … Continue reading SCOTUS Gives Trump’s Anti-Gun-Rights Record an Inconvenient Election-Year Bump → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Sinophobia: Communist as a Pejorative

Kim Petersen: From the Red Scare of the 1920s to the McCarthyism of the 1950s to the Reagan Crusade against the Evil Empire of the 1980s, the American people have been subjected to a relentless anti-communist indoctrination. It is imbibed with their mother’s milk, pictured in their comic books, spelled out in their school books; their daily paper offers them headlines that tell them all they need to know; ministers find sermons in it, politicians are elected with it, and Reader’s Digest becomes rich on it.


— William Blum
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Standing Ovation: SCOTUS Gets It Right on Mifepristone

Thomas Knapp: On June 13, the US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval (in 2000) of mifepristone, aka RU-486, aka “the abortion pill.” The court ruled unanimously, but on an issue of standing rather than on the facts. The case was brought by a group of doctors who oppose abortion and … Continue reading Standing Ovation: SCOTUS Gets It Right on Mifepristone → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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The Warsaw-Based “Ukraine Communications Group” Is The New “Disinformation Governance Board”

Voice of East: The Warsaw-Based “Ukraine Communications Group” Is The New “Disinformation Governance Board” By Andrew Korybko This multilateral platform, which brings together Western propagandists on a pro-Ukrainian pretext, can be wielded by the US Government to meddle in the coming presidential election much... Read More › - Voice of East


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Ukraine’s Plan To Store F-16s In NATO States Raises The Risk Of World War III

Voice of East: Ukraine’s Plan To Store F-16s In NATO States Raises The Risk Of World War III By Andrew Korybko It can’t be ruled out that Zelensky might task one of his pilots with carrying out a mission directly from NATO territory without... Read More › - Voice of East


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Truth or Consequences? One Political Idea Checks Both Boxes

Thomas Knapp: Among descriptions of political libertarianism, “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” probably takes the prize for both simplicity and frequency of use. It’s especially useful in an election year. The Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate generally faces high media access barriers and limited opportunities to reach “low-information voters” with the elevator pitch for smaller, cheaper, less intrusive, and … Continue reading Truth or Consequences? One Political Idea Checks Both Boxes → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Modi Sent An Unmistakable Message To China By Thanking Taiwan’s Leader For His Congratulations

Voice of East: Modi Sent An Unmistakable Message To China By Thanking Taiwan’s Leader For His Congratulations By Andrew Korybko Modi’s seemingly innocuous but deliberately scandalous tweet conveyed the message that India is prepared to play hardball with China during his third term. Chinese... Read More › - Voice of East


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Biden Should Pardon His Son — And Every Other Prisoner of the Wars on Drugs and Guns

Thomas Knapp: “Will you accept the jury’s outcome,” ABC’s  David Muir asked US president Joe Biden concerning his son Hunter’s trial on federal gun charges, “their verdict, no matter what it is?” Biden: “Yes.” Muir: “And have your ruled out a pardon for your son?” Biden: “Yes.” The younger Biden faces up to 25 years in prison … Continue reading Biden Should Pardon His Son — And Every Other Prisoner of the Wars on Drugs and Guns → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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American Mainstream Expert Calls For Global War In Three Continents

Voice of East: American mainstream expert calls for global war in three continents By Uriel Araujo Unbelievably, such bellicose calls, rather than being confined to the hate speech of extreme and fringe individuals and organizations, pass as reasonable and mainstream discourse, produced as it... Read More › - Voice of East


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The 80th D-Day Anniversary Combines Historical Revisionism With A Proxy War Powwow

Voice of East: The 80th D-Day Anniversary Combines Historical Revisionism With A Proxy War Powwow By Andrew Korybko Zelensky’s attendance has more of a practical meaning than just reinforcing historically revisionist narratives about World War II since his discussions with the American, British, French,... Read More › - Voice of East


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Somalia’s Intent To Expel Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorist Forces Exposes Its Dirty Agenda

Voice of East: Somalia’s Intent To Expel Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorist Forces Exposes Its Dirty Agenda By Andrew Korybko Somalia has the right to conduct its foreign policy however it wants and to ask those who it invited into the country to leave, but the consequences... Read More › - Voice of East


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Your Vote Versus Differences Which Make No Difference

Thomas Knapp: As you’ve no doubt heard, a New York jury closed out the merry month of May by convicting former US president Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Media — mainstream, alternative, and social — are awash with analyses of how Trump’s criminal conviction will affect votes this November. Hunter Biden, son … Continue reading Your Vote Versus Differences Which Make No Difference → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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The Clooney Foundation Is Waging Lawfare Against The Employees Of Russian Media

Voice of East: The Clooney Foundation Is Waging Lawfare Against The Employees Of Russian Media By Andrew Korybko Considering what’s at stake, the latest development in the global information war is certainly significant, but it’s premature to describe it as a game-changer since Russia... Read More › - Voice of East


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An Ethiopian Analyst Shared Sharp Insight Into The American-Kenyan Military Deal

Voice of East: An Ethiopian Analyst Shared Sharp Insight Into The American-Kenyan Military Deal By Andrew Korybko It’ll take time to unfold, but this appears to be a game-changer in terms of American force projection in Africa and the Western Indian Ocean, both directly... Read More › - Voice of East


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