Leading political journalist calls banning the AfD an “authoritarian measure” that is “overdue,” insists that political repression is perfectly fine when it is exercised by a “constitutional state”

eugyppius Oct 15, 2024 This man is named Marco Wanderwitz. He is a member of the nominally centre-right Christian Democratic Union, and he’s been in the German Bundestag – our federal parliament – since 2002. He reached perhaps the apex of his career late in the era of […]

US early voter turnout surges

Wednesday, 16 October 2024 “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.” Steve Wozniak STORY OF THE DAY Company scores ‘irregular’ R122m health department contract By Azarrah Karrim The Department of Health irregularly appointed Brainwave Projects SA on a multimillion-rand contract for the provision of satellite internet […]

The unraveling of a cat tale

Oct 15, 2024 By Jacqueline Sweet “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs!” warned Donald Trump during the September 10 presidential debate. Seemingly flabbergasted by his own allegation, his voice rose as he pushed the point forward, delivering his rhetorical cat de grâce. “The people that came in, they’re […]

Available from The Red Salon

Troy Southgate Oct 15, 2024 MY deep gratitude to Christina Taylor at The Red Salon for publishing my new haiku collection, Where the Thames Flows Into the Shinano, and for making such a wonderful job of it. I am also grateful to Robert Taylor and Juleigh Howard-Hobson for […]

Friends Like These

Recently at The Signal: Daniel Bessner on who actually runs U.S. foreign policy. … Today: Lucan Way on why collaboration is intensifying among the world’s most powerful autocracies. … Also: Gustav Jönsson on how U.S. political parties have gradually separated from American civic life. The Signal explores democratic life, […]

Turbo-America, Simplified

“I think I’ll use crayons this time.” Niccolo Soldo Oct 15, 2024 Share Out of everything that I have written on this Substack, the concept that has gained the most traction has been the one that I call “Turbo-America”. Published back in April of 2022, you can read […]

The Threat

In the Review’s November 7 issue Laurence H. Tribe applies the lessons he’s learned in his decades as a constitutional scholar and advocate—he has argued before the Supreme Court three dozen times—to the stark choice presented by this year’s presidential election: The threat to all our personal freedoms and […]

Survivors of Israeli Bombardment Face New Catastrophe: Epidemics, Amputations, Starvation

“Everyone is malnourished, everyone is immunocompromised” Murtaza Hussain Oct 15, 2024 Amid Israel’s brutal onslaught in Gaza, Israeli weapons makers have seen unprecedented financial success and a unique opportunity to show off their latest tech. The Palestine Laboratory, a four-part podcast series, takes listeners on a global journey into how this […]

Columbus? Nah, columbYOU!

TOTW – Columbus? Nah, columbYOU! By EmmaAintDead Of His-story’s biggest bastards, Columbus is surely up there with the worst. Ol’ Christopher was intimately documented through the opening chapters of Zinn’s “A People’s History” and has been taking the heat across schools, parks, local legislatures, forums, and social media […]

Pepe vs the Snake Cult

by Michael Kumpmann Arktos Journal Oct 14, 2024 Michael Kumpmann explores how esotericists interpret animal symbols to explain political processes, drawing parallels between ancient myths like the Japanese legend of Jiraiya and modern political conspiracies involving snake and frog symbolism. Dark times reign in Nippon. Increasingly, shoguns — […]

A Lesson from Max Stirner

Troy Southgate Oct 14, 2024 I DID wonder, at one stage, whether our globalist friends were relying on mounting public dissatisfaction with mask-wearing as a means of encouraging the masses to go sprinting to the nearest vaxx-station in an effort to liberate themselves. On reflection, however, it seems […]

Trump Attempted A Coup

Trump attempted to illegally install himself as president after losing a fair election Bentham’s Bulldog Oct 14, 2024 1 Introduction Most Republicans seem to agree that what happened on January 6th was a big nothingburger—a few people got a bit too rowdy and broke in, no big deal. […]