“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” ~ George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) Mass vaccination, and likely eventual mandatory vaccination, is on the horizon, and has already been accepted by most in this country and around the […]
According to news sources at least one COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine may be licensed by the Food and Drug Administration before the November 2020 election. The decision to vaccinate will likely be the biggest healthcare decision any American will ever make in their lifetime. Will Americans voluntarily line up and get immunized against the COVID-19 coronavirus? […]
For this piece, we have to enter the official world (of the insane)—where everyone is quite sure a new coronavirus was discovered in China and the worthless diagnostic tests mean something and the case numbers are real and meaningful. Once we execute all those absurd maneuvers, we land square in the middle of yet another […]
This article is about a recent event in eastern Canada, but it should ring a cautionary bell for people around the world, since we will all soon be facing a similar issue. New Brunswick’s education minister Dominic Cardy is fuming because an amendment to provincial legislation that he championed was recently defeated in a free […]
Due to the pandemic, the government is giving out $1,000 to all who qualify for it. This program is the equivalent of a temporary Universal Basic Income program. If Covid 19 continues, the Trump administration’s policy will more and more come to resemble UBI. What is the permanent version of this program? UBI has the […]
International Man: While many have been distracted by the unrest in the US, tensions with China are soaring. Recently, Beijing passed a national security law that would undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy. What comes next for US-China relations? Doug Casey: I lived in Hong Kong, on and off, from 1985 to 2005. When I first moved […]
After examining his record, New York Times readers should be skeptical of anything David Sanger writes, including his latest artful works of deception. Special to Consortium News The New York Times is pulling out all the stops in promoting its dubious story on Russia offering bounty for dead U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. Wednesday’s installment, a “news analysis” by Times veteran writers […]
The first time governments imposed business closures in the name of fighting the spread of COVID-19, the job market imploded. Forty million Americans lost their jobs, and at least 20 million of those are still unemployed. Income in America fell to such low levels that federal tax revenues fell by more than 50 percent year over year […]
Regarding the tumultuous 2020, there are some who are able to acknowledge the deeper roots of discontent in society – the underlying causes of division, angst, and anger. This is not to discount the purposefully created agitation – certainly driven by the press and the many political agendas for which the press plays merely a public […]
