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How Covid Lockdowns Primed the Current Financial Crisis
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How Covid Lockdowns Primed the Current Financial Crisis
March 17, 2023

The lockdowns and the stimulus required to keep the economy alive helped drive inflation. Then the Fed jacked up interest rates. And all hell broke loose.

Betting All on Hegemony; Risking All, To Stave Off Ruin
March 13, 2023

The West is too dysfunctional and weak now to fight on all fronts. Yet there can be no retreat without some de-legitimising humiliation of the West.

Alastair Crooke
Betting All on Hegemony; Risking All, To Stave Off Ruin
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State Power and Covid Crimes
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State Power and Covid Crimes
January 5, 2023

The three major controversies over pandemic management for the past three years have been lockdown measures, universal masking recommendations and mandates, and Covid vaccines. 

18 Times Boris Johnson Was Accused of Breaking Rules – and Got Away With It
January 26, 2022

From illegal lockdown parties to secret financial interests, the prime minister has a long history of sailing close to the wind.

18 Times Boris Johnson Was Accused of Breaking Rules – and Got Away With It
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The Lesson of Covid: When People Are Anxious, Isolated and Hopeless, They’re Less Ready To Think Critically
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The Lesson of Covid: When People Are Anxious, Isolated and Hopeless, They’re Less Ready To Think Critically
January 7, 2022

The corporate media is not our friend. Its coverage of the pandemic is not there to promote the public good. It is there to feed our anxieties, keep us coming back for more, and monetize that distress. The only cure for this sickness? A lot more critical thinking.

The Strategy Session, Episode 39
December 16, 2021

Internationally published journalist Robert Bridge explains some of the big problems he sees in the break-down of civil society in Austria. New mandates pose a big problem, and threaten to entirely eliminate important lessons learned in the 20th century about coercion and freedom.

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The Strategy Session, Episode 39
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The EU’s Case for Lockdowns and Blackouts – Hoping to Contain Inflation (to Save the Euro)
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The EU’s Case for Lockdowns and Blackouts – Hoping to Contain Inflation (to Save the Euro)
December 14, 2021

In technical terms, the euro was born to be deflationary, Marco Rocco writes. The aim was to devalue the euro to favour, particularly, German exports.

Marco Rocco
Flattening the Curve or Flattening the Global Poor? How Covid lockdowns Obliterate Human Rights and Crush the Most Vulnerable
December 3, 2021

Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of Covid-19. Now, they’re back with a vengeance.

Flattening the Curve or Flattening the Global Poor? How Covid lockdowns Obliterate Human Rights and Crush the Most Vulnerable
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