In the first week of March 2020, as news of a virus was everywhere, intellectuals associated with the Yale University school of public health penned a letter expressing the conventional wisdom of the moment: we should not lock down. That harms the poor and vulnerable populations. Travel restrictions achieve nothing. Quarantine, if it is deployed […]
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Fake Intellectuals Working For Think Tanks Funded By the Arms Industry Are Driving Support For War After War After War
Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Russia, China, and Now Iran Afew days after the October 7 attacks in northern Israel, The Atlantic Council ran an inflammatory article on its website by Jonathan Panikoff, a former deputy national intelligence officer, entitled “It doesn’t matter whether Iran planned the Hamas attack—Tehran is still to blame.”[1] Source Views: 0
Former Heads Of State, Politicians, Artists, And Intellectuals Call On Biden To ‘Let Cuba Live’
Above Photo: Thousands across Cuba have mobilized in support of the revolution. Minrex. An open letter signed by over 400 personalities calls on US president Joe Biden to lift the 243 unilateral sanctions imposed on Cuba during the administration of Donald Trump. The sanctions have greatly aggravated the economic situation on the island. Over 400 […]
Intellectuals launch magazine on European Jewry’s population ‘crisis’
Jewish journalists, academics and other writers from across Europe have established a new magazine focused on the “current situation of European Jews,” or what they deem a “crisis” signified by the continent’s shrinking Jewish population.K., which is named after the protagonist of Kafka’s novel “The Castle,” launched Monday online with a French-language edition and another […]
Why the demand for the release of intellectuals?
The intellectuals whose release we are demanding are those who have stood firm against the oppressive and communal attacks waged by the Modi government on Indian society. They have made huge sacrifices, and are now braving a life in prison but they have never shied away from their duty to speak truth to power and […]
Peace and the Intellectuals: Trump’s Korea Initiative vs. ‘The Blob’
President Trump’s Korean peace initiative is the most significant US diplomatic effort since the end of the cold war: if successful, it means the end of an era in northern Asia. The Koreans realize this; the Chinese realize this; it’s only the American punditocracy that just doesn’t get it. There are a few reasons why […]
The War on Freedom of Speech: France’s Antifa “Left” Silences Anti-war Intellectuals
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Por que é urgente romper a paralisia do Banco do Sul?
Os governos da América do Sul se encontram em uma encruzilhada. As economias da região latino-americana se contraíram em 2015 e, segundo diversas estimativas, terão um crescimento nulo em 2016. Nada indica que os preços dos produtos primários vão subir. De novo surge o dilema entre realizar ajustes de gasto público e solicitar empréstimos às […]
ISIS Will Soon Have the Capability to Nuke Multiple U.S. Cities
Last week, I unveiled the content of an email from a former Lt. General who had very grave concerns about Jade Helm. In a subsequent email, this same source expressed concern over series of possible nuclear detonations on American soil. “My (and others) greatest fear is that rouge elements within […]