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A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media
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End of an Era: Norman Podhoretz and the Much-to-be-Hoped-ForDecline of Neoconservative Power, by Jose Alberto Nino

20. Dezember 2025 - 6:10
The neocons captured George W. Bush and his administration, resulting in U.S. involvement in wars throughout the Middle East. Norman Podhoretz, the pugnacious Jewish intellectual who transformed Commentary magazine into the engine room of neoconservatism and spent half a century waging ideological warfare against enemies foreign and domestic, died December 16, 2025, at age 95....
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If Israel Gets to Undermine Our Rights, Then We Get to Undermine Israel, by Caitlin Johnstone

20. Dezember 2025 - 6:10
You are allowed to subvert and undermine Israel’s interests, because Israel is trying to subvert and undermine your rights. You are allowed to interfere in Israel’s affairs, because Israel is interfering in your country’s affairs. As Israel tries to exert more and more influence over western society and pushes western governments to crush our freedom...
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Sexual Blackmail and False Flags Make the World Go Round, by Kevin Barrett

20. Dezember 2025 - 6:10
Rumble link Bitchute link False Flag Weekly News link Was Bondi Beach a false flag designed to shut down anti-genocide protests that have rocked Australia? Were the "redacted Epstein Files non-release" and Trump's obsequious "handling" by Miriam Adelson and Mark Levin humiliation rituals? These and other pointed questions about the week’s news, and its context,...
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Donald Trump Is a Generic Republican in Populist Clothing, by Jose Alberto Nino

20. Dezember 2025 - 6:10
The narrative that Donald Trump represents a revolutionary populist disruption of American politics has become conventional wisdom among political commentators. Yet this characterization crumbles under scrutiny. A comprehensive examination of Trump’s actual policy achievements reveals not a populist insurgent championing working-class Americans against entrenched elites, but rather a conventional Republican administration advancing standard conservative priorities...
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Western Elites Fear a ‘globalised Intifada’ Because They Are Its Targets, Not Jews, by Jonathan Cook

20. Dezember 2025 - 6:00
While western publics are being demonised as racists, the technology and strategies used today against Palestinians will become the walls of tomorrow’s prisons for us all Western establishments’ fear of the phrase “Globalise the intifada” has little to do with any danger supposedly posed to Jewish populations from its use. The threat is posed by...
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Vladimir Putin Leaves No Doubt About Russia’s Demands to End the War in Ukraine… Do Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff Understand?, by Larry C. Johnson

19. Dezember 2025 - 6:15
Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual combined “Direct Line” call-in and year-end press conference on December 19, 2025, in Moscow, lasting over 4 hours. Ukraine and peace negotiations dominated early questions, with Putin projecting confidence in Russia’s military position while expressing conditional openness to diplomacy, but he insisted that Russia will not soften its...
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Will No One Rid Us of This Counterfeit Theory?, by Dennis Dale

19. Dezember 2025 - 6:10
The theory of stochastic terrorism classifies some public rhetoric as terrorism if it has the potential to incite political violence regardless of intent, specificity or even subsequent violence. While it did not originate on the left it was taken up and developed by leftwing theorists after the rise of Donald Trump. The term gained popularity...
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We're Workers Too, by Ted Rall

19. Dezember 2025 - 6:00
From an economic standpoint, governments look at citizens as workers, consumers or both. Most people, of course, are both: We work and earn, and we spend. Our dual economic roles inform the core of the affordability discussion at the center of current politics. For as long as everyone but the oldest of us can remember,...
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Rating Trump: 14 Viewpoints on the Right, by James Edwards

19. Dezember 2025 - 6:00
Talk radio host James Edwards assembled a special panel of accomplished academics and activists to evaluate President Trump’s first year back in office. The panel included a diverse mix of both American and international respondents. Listed alphabetically, each participant was asked to assign a grade to Trump’s first year on a scale of 1-10 and...
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Here's Why You Should Move to Morocco, by Kevin Barrett

19. Dezember 2025 - 6:00
Rumble link Bitchute link Podcast guest K. Barrett Bilali has recently published articles on ChatGPT’s crisis and AI in (Moroccan) art and music. An American “MomOf4” drew a quarter-million views with her YouTube video “Why I Moved to Morocco.” Apparently, moving to Morocco is becoming a thing. The other Kevin Barrett, who moved to Morocco...
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SF Progressive Sup, Jackie Fielder, Promotes Enclavism for the Mission, by Robert Stark

19. Dezember 2025 - 6:00
Photo credit: Robert Stark Progressive San Francisco Supervisor, Jackie Fielder, proposed stricter zoning rules for AI research and development, pushing back against the tech industry’s impact on city planning, which Venture Capitalist Y Combinator CEO, Garry Tan views as a threat to the industry and SF economy. In response, to a critique from a techie,...
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What Is an American?, by Kevin DeAnna

19. Dezember 2025 - 6:00
Kevin DeAnna tears apart Vivek Ramaswamy’s annual Christmas crash out, where he claims anyone who believes in “colorblind meritocracy” is just as American as the Founders. Kevin shows that America was built on blood, ancestry, and identity. Kevin is joined by Lyndon Perry of I, Hypocrite to discuss his Substack article, “Why I’m a Racist...
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Happy Day of the Invincible Sun!, by Laurent Guyénot

19. Dezember 2025 - 6:00
In The Final Pagan Generation, Edward J. Watts examines the religious life of the Romans on the eve of the Christianization. Imagine the state of constant angst of Christians living in Roman cities then. The gods—all of them demons from hell—were floating around and lurking at every street corner. Watts explains how Tertullian of Carthage...
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The Australian Israel Lobby Is Flat-Out Saying They Want A Ban On Criticism of Israel, by Caitlin Johnstone

18. Dezember 2025 - 6:15
Australians everywhere should be made acutely aware that the Australian Israel lobby is now explicitly advocating a ban on criticism of the state of Israel. Not just hate speech against Jews. Criticism of a foreign state. They’re coming right out and saying it. During a recent public video conference with the American Jewish Committee on...
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Mean Streets, by Trevor Lynch

18. Dezember 2025 - 6:15
Martin Scorsese is best known for his gangster films: Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Aside from Gangs of New York, these films unsparingly demythologize organized crime. Thus Scorsese’s first foray into the mafia genre, 1973’s Mean Streets, is...
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Julian Assange Is Back in Action, by Paul Craig Roberts

18. Dezember 2025 - 6:10
Julian Assange has brought an “instrument of war” legal case against the Nobel Foundation for illegally awarding the Nobel peace prize to a war-monger advocating the invasion of her country, Venezuela, by the United States. Maria Corina Machado was awarded the peace prize by the Nobel committee most likely on orders from Washington in order...
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Full Spectrum Dominance in a Multipolar World, by Marc Sills

18. Dezember 2025 - 6:10
In February 2025, the first full month of Donald Trump’s Second Coming, the new Secretary of State Marco Rubio is asked what he thinks of China’s assertion that present and future international relations should be conducted within the framework of a “Multipolar World.” Rubio accepts that terminology, but his interpretation is not at all the...
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The Truth About Trump’s Plot Against Venezuela Comes Out of Trump’s Mouth, by Paul Craig Roberts

18. Dezember 2025 - 6:05
“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America. It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before – until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the oil, land, and other...
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The Evidence Is Clear: Poverty Does Not Cause Criminality, by Edward Dutton

18. Dezember 2025 - 6:00
We all know why certain areas have high crime rates, right? It’s because the people who live there are poor and they’re either forced to commit crime to make ends mean or their poverty makes them so unhappy that they start taking drugs and this induces them to commit crime. Alternatively, being poor causes a...
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Re-Launch: Secretary of Perpetual War E-Book, by Caitlin Johnstone

18. Dezember 2025 - 6:00
Life got so hectic after I published the last issue of JOHNSTONE that I didn’t notice people were unable to download the e-book version of the magazine. Turns out my Gumroad account had been suspended for reasons that still haven’t been made clear to me, but it’s fixed now and the issue is up and...
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