“The mainstream media has become so biased in recent years that President Donald Trump popularized the phrase ‘fake news’ and Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, posts rants about them almost daily on his X platform. Both have sued the media for libel or defamation. But little has changed; outside of some pushback at a few publications like The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times due to their publishers, the mainstream media is doubling down with the slant and partisan bias …. the AP Stylebook Orwellianly dictates what words and phrases mainstream journalists must use, such as ‘election denier’ and ‘insurrection’ to refer to J6, so there is no way around that built-in bias. Mainstream journalists are required to follow that style, and even the few newspapers like The New York Times which have their own style guides mostly copy the AP Stylebook.” (03/17/25)
“If the world seems to you a little nastier and more confrontational than it was just a few years ago, you’re not alone. Many Americans say the world is a ruder place than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic and the public health responses that closed too many businesses and schools, effectively confined some to their homes, and isolated large numbers of people. Unfortunately, both current evidence and history suggest we may be stuck with a coarser world for years to come.” (03/17/25)
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Artin Dersimonian
“On March 13, speaking to reporters backstage at the 12th Global Baku Forum, Jeyhun Bayramov, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, unexpectedly broke the news that Armenia and Azerbaijan had finally agreed to all 17 points of their framework agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations. This apparent breakthrough comes some four years after the negotiating process began in the wake of Azerbaijan’s victory in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War. While such diplomatic triumphs are to be applauded, especially as an alternative to continued threats of military violence, the devil is in the details. And the details leave much to be desired.” (03/17/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The US is bombing Yemen again after Houthi leaders announced that their blockade on Israeli shipping would resume due to Israel’s siege on Gaza. Trump could have used Washington’s immense leverage over Israel to force Netanyahu to honor the ceasefire agreement and allow aid into Gaza. Instead he let the IDF lay siege to Gaza and started bombing Yemen for Israel, because he’s a warmongering Israel cuck. Trump is bombing Yemen for Israel, rushing weapons to Israel despite its flagrant ceasefire violations, and rolling out authoritarian measure after authoritarian measure to stop Americans from criticizing Israel. Because that’s what you get when you vote for America First.” (03/17/25)
“Religious liberty did not emerge from abstract speculation, but rather the concrete experience of Protestant republics in the Atlantic World.” (03/17/25)
“The decision to escalate against the Houthis is also more proof that the president prefers pointless hawkish policies most of the time. Intensifying the war in Yemen makes no sense for U.S. interests or regional stability. It will also guarantee that the Houthis resume attacks on commercial shipping after they had already stopped. The Houthis said that they would resume the Red Sea blockade in response to Israel’s ongoing starvation of Gaza, but they had not actually launched any attacks on commercial ships since the tenuous ceasefire took effect in January. The U.S. attacked them anyway, and now we can expect the attacks on shipping and U.S. vessels to begin again very soon. Trump has provided the Houthis with the perfect excuse to do the very thing that he demands that they must not do.” (03/16/25)
“While former convicted felon Hunter Biden enjoys a luxurious vacation in South Africa, with round-the-clock Secret Service protection paid for by the taxpayer, the first whistleblower to report Biden corruption is being brutalized in a Cyprus jail cell. Gal Luft, the Israeli-American professor who told the FBI in 2019 that Hunter and his uncle Jim Biden were paid millions by a Chinese company while Joe Biden was VP, has been in a bleak Cypriot jail for six months awaiting extradition over what he says are politically motivated charges carried over from the Biden Department of Justice. Luft was set to be a witness in the House Oversight Committee’s Biden corruption investigation but was arrested in Cyprus in February 2023, three weeks after Republicans took control. He had been secretly indicted on arms dealing and foreign agent violations three months earlier, exactly one week before the midterm elections.” (03/16/25)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Patrick Carroll
“National borders have become deeply ingrained in many parts of the modern world. While some borders do change from time to time, many others — such as the Canada/US border — have been the same for decades and have come to be taken for granted. … But with Trump’s recent moves, people are waking up to the fact that we don’t need to accept the longstanding status quo borders that we’ve inherited. If everyone is on board, we can just change the map if we feel like it. The people who drew the existing lines aren’t in charge anymore; we are, and we have every right to draw different lines if we so choose. The question then arises: What kind of political borders should we want? What’s the ideal size of a country, and, conversely, how many countries should there be?” (03/16/25)
