Corporate media this week reported on a Japanese study favorable to Ivermectin as a treatment for the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, and a second, from Johns Hopkins, that concluded government lockdowns were “ill-founded” and had virtually no impact on reducing COVID deaths.Continue Reading

The Grayzone reports that the British government has sponsored an influence operation using a popular YouTube influencer to shape public opinion of the Johnson administration’s COVID policies.Continue Reading

President Biden has threatened to cancel the already-completed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if Russia invades Ukraine. It’s not clear how he’ll do that, but the bigger question is whether Europe can give up 1/3 of its energy supply in the middle of winter.Continue Reading

The congressional committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol January 6, 2021 is claiming nearly unlimited power to obtain information on private citizens, ignoring limits defined by the Constitution and a pair of McCarthy-era Supreme Court rulings.Continue Reading

Western media reports that the Kremlin is planning to oust the government in Ukraine and replace it with a pro-Russian regime. The irony of this unsourced story is that it’s the reverse of what the Obama administration did in Ukraine in 2014.Continue Reading

Neocons in Washington, DC argue that war with Russia might be necessary to stop Vladimir Putin from reconstituting the Soviet Union. This assumes Putin wants to reintegrate an unfriendly state like Ukraine, and it ignores similar US policies like the Monroe Doctrine (which also declared that the US would not interfere in Europe).Continue Reading