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Keith Preston

The Israeli Resistance to Populism

Trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser New in Telos Insights The Israeli Political Moment, Part 2: The Israeli Resistance to Populism by Paul Gross The Israeli Declaration of Independence’s promise of equal rights, quoted at an anti-government protest in Jerusalem in 2023. Photo by the […]

The Inner Light

winter oak Read on blog or Reader The Inner Light By winter oak on January 4, 2025 by W.D. James For whatever reason, I was recently drawn to pull a book off the shelf I had not read in ten or fifteen years and go back through it. It is […]

Revolution ?

By Cake Boy You know, people like Kevin Carson and Cake Boy always said that anarchism in the present time in the West could only develop slowly through the dual power strategy. The mutualist strategy, in which you set up your own institutions, and so ignore the state. […]

Whiteness as Perpetual Revolt

or, How to Create a 21st Century Racial Identity and Self-Interest. Dimes Jan 03, 2025 During the early days of the most recent conflict between Israel and Palestine, many in the fringe political milieu I inhabit were not only picking sides but demanding that others follow suit unless […]

The X Files

X censorship and hypocrisy Michael Rectenwald Jan 02, 2025 Elon Musk has declared “war” on “America First” X users. He has revoked the magic checkmarks of prominent users and demonetized those who challenged his stance for legal H-1B visa immigration while banning dozens of relatively large accounts. In […]

A Grim Fairy Tale

by Christian Chensvold Arktos Journal Jan 03, 2025 Christian Chensvold reflects on the ballet as a sublime embodiment of the European imagination, a forgotten wellspring of creative spirit that must be rediscovered to revive a civilization on the brink of collapse. Planet Earth has never known a force […]

The Hope of Telemedicine in 2025

December 18, 2024 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, Happy New Year! As we look toward the new year, let’s take a moment to reflect on the year passed—and let’s be […]

Goodbye, Jimmy

JANUARY 3, 2025 Goodbye, Jimmy As an Ex-President, Jimmy Carter Fought for Peace → On Sunday, former president Jimmy Carter died at age 100, making Joe Biden, 82, the oldest of the five living US presidents. Many world leaders and journalists, including our publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel, looked […]

BFP Needs Your Support!

Troy Southgate Jan 02, 2025 Happy New Year, everyone! AS an independent publisher operating on a small budget and whose authors and contributors work hundreds of hours without receiving any income, Black Front Press desperately requires support from those people who are prepared to go one step further […]

Israeli Indifference

Sponsored by the University of California Press David Shulman A Deadly Apathy A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel’s collective conscience. Caroline Fraser Dispirited Away The rise and fall of an evangelical church, founded with progressive intentions and undone […]

Hiroshima: Ground Zero

by Piero San Giorgio and Chris Millennium Arktos Journal Jan 02, 2025 Piero San Giorgio and Chris Millennium recount how the atomic bomb ‘Little Boy’ annihilated Hiroshima, claiming over 140,000 lives and ushering in the devastating age of nuclear warfare. This is an excerpt from Piero San Giorgio […]

2025 Is Off To A Wild Start

Caitlin Johnstone Jan 03, 2025 Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The new year has kicked off with some truly bizarre and highly suspicious major news events. A US military veteran killed 14 people when […]

The Reality War

Gnostics. It’s just Gnostics all the way down. N.S. Lyons Oct 29, 2021 What if I told you our world isn’t as it seems? That much of what we call politics and the “culture war” is really an ancient theological war over the metaphysics of reality, colliding with […]