By Peter Weber The Week As the sun rises on a seventh day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a 40-mile-long Russian military convoy appears stalled about 20 miles north of Kyiv, and the Ukrainian-held cities of Kharkiv, Kherson, and Mariupol are encircled. Russia also intensified its bombing of cities on Tuesday, […]
Rav Arora discusses the fallout from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergency Powers Act in dealing with trucker protests.
Russia Today Blasts have been reported in several Ukraine cities, as Moscow launched a “special operation” in Donbass. A series of explosions have been reported across Ukraine, with eyewitnesses saying blasts have occurred near a number of major cities as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order authorizing […]
By Callie Patteson New York Post A convoy of truckers opposed to COVID-19 mandates set off on a planned cross-country drive from Southern California to the Washington DC area Wednesday as the Pentagon approved a request to deploy approximately 700 unarmed National Guard troops ahead of the group’s […]
Free Thought Project (The Grayzone) Aubrey Cottle, the hacker claiming credit for stealing convoy donor info, has boasted of work with the FBI and Canadian law enforcement. The data was published by DDoSecrets, an anti-Wikileaks non-profit whose founder has disclosed “work in national security/counter-intelligence.” On February 13th, the […]
By Jane Stannus The Spectator It was the hot tub that did it. Photos of Canadian convoy supporters relaxing in a hot tub on a downtown Ottawa street last weekend were splashed all over the news. Now Justin Trudeau is mad and he’s gone and invoked war measures, […]
By Steve Scherer and Carlos Osorio Reuters OTTAWA, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Canadian police on Saturday used pepper spray and stun grenades, and made dozens of arrests as they cleared demonstrators from the street in front of parliament, where they have been camping for more than three weeks […]
By Peter Weber The Week Blasting “Baby Shark” and turning on the sprinklers didn’t dislodge a group of protesters against COVID-19 vaccine requirements who have been camped outside New Zealand’s Parliament building for two weeks, copying the tactics from Canadian “Freedom Convoy” blockades. So, as in Canada, police […]
Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” started three weeks ago, with truckers converging on Ottawa to protest a law requiring that they be vaccinated to come back into their own country.
Director of the Criminal Justice Program at the CCLA, Abby Deshman, details a lawsuit against the Canadian government over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act.
Ottawa Police image courtesy of AP Photo/Robert Bumsted. Truckers image courtesy of AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey.
Alberta and Saskatchewan were gonna further ease restrictions regardless. As for Ontario, these protests might have influenced Doug Ford’s decision to expedite further loosening. He denies it, but I’d say this had to impact it.
Krystal and Saagar give the full story on Canada’s final crackdown of the freedom convoy protestors and how the US deep state has mobilized against any potential trucker revolt in Washington DC
By Grayson Quay The Week Canadian police took aggressive action over the weekend to break up the Freedom Convoy protests that have occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks, USA Today reported. Police arrested 191 people and towed 57 vehicles on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, according to Ottawa Police. […]
By Sara Sirota The Intercept Top foreign policymaker Sen. Bob Menendez couldn’t say whether his bill would monitor where U.S.-funded arms end up. While Senate Democrats consider a way forward to send Ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars so it can buy new weapons, some of the most […]
By Natalie Kitroeff and Sarah Maslin Nir New York Times Officers in riot gear pushed to regain the area around the Parliament building in Ottawa, where demonstrations have roiled the nation’s capital for weeks and parked trucks have blocked the city’s downtown core. READ MORE
By Limin Zhou and Noé Chartier, Epoch Times OTTAWA, Canada—Police put the number of arrests at over 100, and the number of vehicles towed at 21 on the afternoon of Feb. 18 as law enforcement escalated its confrontation with protesters in Ottawa. Mounted police and officers on foot […]
By Alice Speri The Intercept Tens of thousands of people from dozens of countries have been detained in northeast Syria since the fall of the Islamic State three years ago. When dozens of Islamic State fighters attacked a prison in northeast Syria last month, setting off a 10-day […]
From the mind of acclaimed director Tony Stone comes TED K- a bracing, cinematic journey into the tortured mind of The Unabomber. Deep in the American Rocky Mountains lived a man who sought refuge from modern society. His dark writings forewarned of a society ruled by technology. As […]
Krystal and Saagar issue a strong condemnation of the actions taken against the Truckers Freedom Convoy by the Canadian government and US media reporters looking for lives to ruin
Trudeau wasn’t exaggerating when he said he idolizes China.
Imagine a government having to crowdfund Bitcoin for a war with another country.
By Sean Lyngaas, Anastasia Graham-Yooll, Tim Lister and Matthew Chance, CNN (CNN)A high-volume cyberattack that temporarily blocked access to the websites of Ukrainian defense agencies and banks on Tuesday was “the largest [such attack] in the history of Ukraine,” according to a government minister. Speaking at a press […]
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Newer strains of far-right movements fueled by conspiracy theories, misogyny and anti-vaccine proponents contributed to a modest rise in killings by domestic extremists in the United States last year, according to a report released Tuesday by a Jewish civil rights group. Killings by […]
Krystal and Saagar analyze the decision by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke emergency powers to crack down on the Trucker convoy and go after their bank accounts
by David Gilbert VICE GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada, was hacked on Sunday night. The Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada was hacked on Sunday night, and […]
New York Times Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the rare step of declaring a national public order emergency on Monday in a push to end protests that have paralyzed the center of the Canadian capital for more than two weeks and reverberated across the country. The move, the […]
The mainstream media, the Canadian government and the liberal establishment have uniformly denounced the Canadian trucker protests as reactionary, anti-vaxx and white supremacist, but that assessment doesn’t really jibe with the background and statements coming from the actual protesters.
Krystal and Saagar weigh in on the Biden administration’s correspondence with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the Canadian trucker convoy and how media liberals responded
As of today, Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history. Its predecessor, the War Measures Act, was last invoked by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (Justin’s father) in response to Quebec insurrectionists kidnapping the deputy Premier and UK diplomat back in 1970, which […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Canadian police moved in Saturday morning to remove protesters and end a five-day blockade of Ontario’s Ambassador Bridge, The Associated Press reported. A Canadian judge on Friday ordered protesters to stop obstructing the bridge, which they had blocked with their vehicles to protest […]
By Matt Taibbi Denouncing truckers for “unacceptable views,” Canada’s Prime Minister skipped town rather than face evidence of his own unpopularity. Is neoliberalism finally cracking? On the morning of the 21st of December, 1989, Romanian General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu was in a foul mood. The Berlin Wall had […]
By Timothy Snyder It is uncanny to watch two proud North American capitals stormed by their own citizens in the space of about a year. Just last January, no government authority was able to protect the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Now, just a bit more than […]
By Nick Turse The Intercept Biden hails the “over-the-horizon” raid that killed the ISIS leader, but similar U.S. tactics have failed to stop terror groups in Africa. After the news broke that a U.S. raid in Syria ended with the death of the leader of the Islamic State, […]
By Dani Anguiano The Guardian Shasta county’s recall efforts highlight how distrust in the government has led to increasing extremism in local politics. A retired police chief and self-described Reagan Republican with decades of public service, Leonard Moty checked all the boxes to represent his community in one […]
By Kyle Shideler Militant Wire On January 18th, an unnamed group of self-identified Black anarchists released a statement entitled: Black Armed Joy: Some Notes towards a Black Theory of Insurrectionary Anarchy which includes an overt call for armed violence and criticizes the contemporary anarchist movement in North America, […]
From 2018. Before the pandemic, the lockdown-induced recession, the BLM protests, the anti-lockdown protests, the 2020 election, and J6. By Mike Critelli On Sunday, October 21, I visited Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the first time, in advance of my Board meeting in Dublin, which began two days later. […]
In the third episode of our series, “A House Divided,” Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole says that the U.S. is not on the brink of a civil war and warns Americans to be cautious about repeating the claim that America is headed towards a civil war.
Author Barbara Walter says she believes the U.S. is at increasing risk of a second civil war. She discussed her new book, “How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them” with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett.
In the second episode of our new series, “A House Divided,” Stephen Marche joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss his new book, “The New Civil War,” and what another civil war might look like.
By Joel Mathis The Week Donald Trump is being Donald Trump again. He held another rally on Saturday night in Texas, the latest event in his probably-running-for-president tour, and as always he used it to dwell on his grievances. He’s angry about the multiple inquiries into his personal […]
This country is so much fun. A lot of twists and turns. I hope the writers have more in store for the next season
By Alice Giordano, Epoch Times Federal authorities arrested a former Kansas school teacher and mother of five and charged her with plotting terrorist attacks on American soil, including a shopping mall and a college campus. Allison Elizabeth Fluke-Ekren, 42, was apprehended in Syria late Thursday, according to the U.S. Department […]
J. Xie, S. Sreenivasan, G. Korniss, W. Zhang, C. Lim, and B. K. Szymanski Phys. Rev. E 84, 011130 – Published 22 July 2011 We show how the prevailing majority opinion in a population can be rapidly reversed by a small fraction p of randomly distributed committed agents […]
That anyone would be that fixated on the KKK today seems ridiculous. They’re a few thousand retards and losers at the most. There are plenty of other violent, criminal groups that are larger and much more active. By Glenn Rowley, Consequence Film Ezra Miller took to social media […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s been just over two weeks since the latest act of Islamic terrorism on US soil and the powers at be in the Fourth Estate already have it all figured out. Hell, it took those brilliant motherfuckers less […]
Three retired generals say there’s a real chance of another assault on democracy… and the armed forces should be wargaming it. But doesn’t the military have its own extremism problems? One of the generals, Paul Eaton, joins Mehdi to discuss.
Ten years ago, I thought that the US would be in 2042 where it is in 2022. Respected journalists and thinkers are writing articles about the speculation that the U.S. may see another civil war. In our new series, “A House Divided,” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell speaks to Barbara […]
By Joseph M. Hanneman, Epoch Times Two men sought by the family of Ashli Babbitt as witnesses to her death at the U.S. Capitol have been identified as previously arrested by the FBI and indicted on federal charges from the Jan. 6, 2021, riots. The family of Babbitt, […]
By Amanda Prestigiacomo Daily Wire Since a ban on numerous firearms took effect in May 2020, Canadians have only turned in 160 to the government — a stunningly tiny number, considering the original government estimation of there to be some 90,000 to 105,000 outlawed firearms in Canada. “Only 160 […]
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