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CIA Front National Endowment For Democracy Quietly Removes Online Database
Kit Klarenberg, The Free Thought Project In recent months, a remarkable development in the Empire’s decline has gone almost entirely unnoticed. The National Endowment for Democracy’s grant database has been removed from the web. Until recently, a searchable interface allowed visitors to view detailed records of Washington-funded NGOs, civil society groups, and media […]

Biden Administration Announces $500 Million Weapons Package for Ukraine
The package includes parts for F-16 fighter jets, missiles for jets, air defense munitions, and other equipment by Dave DeCamp Antiwar.com recently reported on a $500 million weapons package. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced what is believed to be its last military aid package for Ukraine, which is worth $500 million […]

Seven Lessons Trump Learned, Incompletely
By Karen Kwiatkowski LewRockwell.com Trump learned Washington is filled with personal and organizational enemies. Rather than understanding that people may hate him and institutions may fear him, he lumps them together. Personalizing his individual and institutional enemies as demonic, he fails to focus on their various systemic weaknesses, and how to […]

Annexing Canada Would Be Like Adding a Second California
Donald Trump wants an open border with Canada. At least, that’s what would happen if Trump were to execute his stated preference for annexing Canada as the fifty-first state. In recent days, president-elect Donald Trump has made a number of comments suggesting that Canada should be annexed by the United […]

Trump Wants To Acquire Greenland
President-elect Donald Trump is actually quite serious about acquiring the country of Greenland. But he seems to be the only one sure he can do it. Russia has described the US president-elect’s plan as “eccentric” and “totally unworkable,” a sentiment further echoed by most other ruling classes. Trump’s idea has […]

Goodbye Jimmy Carter and the 1970s
Jimmy Carter has died. The first president to hit 100 years of age. In 2015, he’d been diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer, which had spread to his liver. That’s pretty much a death sentence for mere mortals. But not the 39th President of the United States. The presidents all […]

Israel’s Smotrich Calls for Major Destruction in the West Bank
He said several West Bank cities should look like Gaza’s Jabalia, which has almost been completely destroyed by the IDF by Dave DeCamp Antiwar.com On Monday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for massive destruction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, saying several cities should look like Gaza’s Jabalia. “Funduq, Nablus, and Jenin […]

Prank-O-Rama
“They found a cure for gluttony. Now do narcissism.” — Peachy Keenan James Howard Kunstler Poor “Joe Biden” can’t help himself as the sun sets on his ignominious career. He ordered the American flag to fly at half-staff into January 20, inauguration day, to signal grief and distress at Donald […]

Genocidal President, Genocidal Politics
by Norman Solomon Antiwar.com When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities necessary for Israel’s defense.” Following the reports last month from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch concluding that Israeli actions in […]
2025 Is Off To A Wild Start
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article ❖ The new year has kicked off with some truly bizarre and highly suspicious major news events. A US military veteran killed 14 people when he drove a pickup truck into a crowd in New […]