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By Kristen Breitweiser, one of the four 9/11 widows – known as the “Jersey Girls” – instrumental in forcing the government to form the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 2001...

Mark Dworkin is, together with Melissa Young, an award-winning documentary film director, and the director of an important new film called Plane Truths. You can find Mark and Melissa...

The earliest years of the 20th century were heavily influenced by Victorian moral principles. Women were still expected to be stay-at-home wives and carry out the domestic chores...

“When the Church asks publicly and authoritatively in the name of Jesus Christ that a person or object be protected against the power of the Evil One and withdrawn from his dominion...

As Vanessa Beeley explains, the war in Syria has been prolonged by journalists like Bowen and media outlets like the BBC

We reserve judgement, but here's the question: how much of Kanye's West approval for Donald Trump is the result of mind-control?

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Pro-Trump GOP Governors and Senators in Trouble Across Midwest; 538 Sees...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, October 15, 2018 Sears Bankruptcy Is Tragic Monument to GOP Retail Darwinism; Stock Mayvins...

A new testing program organized by The Detox Project in coordination with Kudzu Science, has released the first ever results for glyphosate levels in human hair, in an extraordinary...

Global food movement leaders and organizations representing hundreds of millions of farmers and food workers today set out their clear opposition to “gene drives” – a controversial...

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When she was told yesterday that some Universal Credit victims were being driven into prostitution, Esther McVey replied: Tell these ladies that now we’ve got record job vacancies...

Was Marx wrong? This is the question posed by Brexit. I’m prompted to ask by this from the government’s advice to business on what to do about a no-deal Brexit: UK companies and limited...

Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Following President Abdulla Yameen’s surprise defeat in the Maldivian election, the air of self-congratulation that pervades in New Delhi...

By Brahma Chellaney, Washington Times Grand on ambition but short on transparency, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s marquee project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), seeks...

Jim Rickards: We Are OVERDUE For A Global Monetary Reset by Jim Rickards interviewed on The Great Reset Opportunity Report, via https://www.silverdoctors.com/ Jim has...

Here Comes the ECB with a “Bubble” Warning, After it Caused the Most Absurd Bond Bubble Ever by Wolf Richter, https://wolfstreet.com/ “The ECB cannot and should not turn...

There is a temple where sculpture of a Baby in the Womb is found. Accurate position of the baby, as one would find in a Scan

Can we wonder if Samba was a product of his father's neglect? For was not Krishna spending most of his time with Arjuna and the Pandavas and in the politics of Kuru-kshetra?...

D.C. blogger Valerie Jablow reports here on the election spending for the school boards in the District. There is a district board and a state board. Much to no one’s surprise, the...

Education International is an organization of teachers’ unions. It just released the following statement about the American-created girls’ school in Liberia that was the...

Julian Assange barely even knows the far-right, Holocaust-denying Russian kook with six different names, the latest being “Israel Shamir.” That was the line in March 2011...

Nader Hashemi and I have an essay titled “Playing with Fire: Trump, the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry, and the Geopolitics of Sectarianization in the Middle East” in the Mediterranean...

Even in reruns, October is shaping up to be a record for Neil DeGrasse Tyson.  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert re-ran both of his September appearances this past week.  On the 9th...

Perhaps the biggest news in late night circles this past week was the end of an era (of sorts) for Conan O’Brien.  The October 4th edition of Conan marks the last time the show will...

By Paul Homewood     https://www.thegwpf.com/bbc-finds-lord-deben-guilty-of-misleading-public/  As I reported last week, the GWPF partially won its complaint against...

By Paul Homewood   As we found out last week, the directive has come down from on high at the BBC to ramp up climate alarm at every opportunity they get. The memo has evidently been received...

Experts are finding out wind turbines are not only an inefficient way to produce electricity, but that they are also wrecking the environment, natural habitats and even the climate...

In the first 9½ months of 2018,  368 scientific papers have been published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental...

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened To Service Learning? Fads come and go in education as any teacher or administrator over the age of 30 knows...

Janresseger: How School Choice in Michigan Accelerates Student Mobility, Stresses Educators, and Undermines Education Yesterday this blog examined how two school choice policies...

Winning the Space Race Please read a new essay by my colleague, John Yoo in Strategika. President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy set a new course by focusing on rebuilding...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review What has transformed the Democratic party into an anguished progressive movement that incorporates the tactics of the street, embraces maenadism...

When did you last stand in line? I mean really stand in line. It might have been the airport (average line time perhaps 15 minutes), the drug store, even in busy Manhattan, a minute or...

“Two princes: Kushner now faces a reckoning for Trump’s bet on the heir to the Saudi throne” — Washington Post headline, Oct. 15 Excerpted from: “Salmanella and the Glass...

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, with a focus on the NBA.  Here is one excerpt: Earlier three-point innovators were called crazy, and maybe they were. The Phoenix Suns...

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the law and economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. Using the universe of published opinions in U.S. Circuit Courts...

Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Guest post by Lisa Bonnington Robbie spent four years as a US Marine before he became a Green Beret Special Forces medic in the Army...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In a column by Post opinion writer Helaine Olen, she points out the “staggering hypocrisy” of Brett Kavanaugh. He has said he doesn’t...

The Electoral College method of choosing the president and vice president guarantees that each state, whether large or small in area or population, has some voice in selecting the...

Once one of the most peaceful countries on Earth, Sweden now finds itself compelled to offer amnesty to criminals — to get hand grenades and other illegal pyrotechnical devices...

Australia's Prime Minister announced that his country is considering the possibility of transferring its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The post Will Scott Morrison...

Jamal Khashoggi’s vision was an “Arab uprising” led by the Saudi regime. In his Arabic writings he backed MBS's “reforms” and even his “war on corruption,” derided...

Rising crude oil prices are set to send Nigeria’s bill for fuel subsidies rocketing, threatening to exacerbate the already precarious economic situation of Africa’s largest...

1. Old Paul Romer talk, which even presents the Nordhaus graph on the price of light, see for instance 5:45.  Via Kari Kohn. 2. New criticism of charter cities, and Mark Lutter’s...

David Davis lined up as interim prime minister (tags: Conservatives doom ) Victim slams not proven criminal rape case as a disgrace (tags: rape scotland law ) Reminder that when Brexiteers...

Why the Nordic Model hurts sex workers (tags: sexwork fail law ) Five days left to support trans and non binary people in England and Wales (tags: lgbt transgender UK ) Carlsberg brewery...

Sometimes, medications for ulcerative colitis do not adequately control the symptoms, and a person may need surgery. Learn about the types of procedure and what to expect...

Doctors do not usually consider ulcerative colitis (UC) to be a life-threatening condition, but it may increase a person’s risk of some serious complications. Learn more here...

High intensity ultrasound will clear all viral and bacterial infections: as medically published by the Moffitt cancer centre 2002.  In 100 patient double blind trial, HIUS will...

Or they were struck off the register of doctors.  That is their professional oath.  To be aware of, validated and use new medical advances.  And to do so with no financial favour. ...

US job opening hits a record high, 1.2 million job vacancies. The statistical information is so far from reality right now, if this was true we would see wages sky ... Read more...

From Cassandra Fairbanks / Gateway Pundit: “Despite numerous reports claiming that the communications of Julian Assange have been restored, they are not yet — and there will...

Songs are poetry.  The good ones are, at any rate.  I’ve had Bowie’s Five Years on my mind today, a beautiful, poetic song about what happens when we find out we only have five years...

I’ve been very open about the fact that I’m not a fan of Elizabeth Warren.  She talks a great game on economics, and I’ve no doubt she is well informed on that subject, but she didn’t...

Because I my interest in the topic had been ramped way up by a SustainFloyd Movie Night last year, I stopped my morning browse-fest to read an article from Ensia (highly recommended...

Every autumn, I tend to get a little bump in book sales. This autumn, I’m pleased to let visiting leaf-peepers know that my books can be found in an additional location: the new Maggie...