Grand Archive: How Do You Know When COVID-19 Is Over?

By Emanuel Pastreich, February 21, 2023

Mainstream newspapers, the television news, and the alternative news blogs that we are forced to rely on for information have decayed into unstable and shifting palimpsests on which scraps of science, ideology and rhetoric are projected so as to confuse and to mislead us.

Energy Wars: Outing the Nord Stream Saboteurs

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 22, 2023

When news first emerged over explosions endured by the Nord Stream pipelines, known collectively as Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, an army of guessers was mobilised. The accusation that Russia had done it seemed counterintuitive, given that the Russian state company Gazprom is a majority shareholder of Nord Stream 1 and sole owner of Nord Stream 2.

Who’s Winning and Losing the Economic War Over Ukraine?

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, February 22, 2023

With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to impose crippling sanctions that would bring Russia to its knees and force it to withdraw.

African American Resistance in the Rural South from the Sharecroppers Union to the New Farmers of America

By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 22, 2023

Several years prior to the formation of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in 1934, a series of events in the state of Alabama would give rise to the formation of the Sharecroppers Union (SCU). This organization was founded with the assistance of African American leaders within the Communist Party in Alabama largely centered in the steel industry in Birmingham.

To Those Still Wearing Masks: Throw Them Away. They Don’t Work

By Michael J. Talmo, February 21, 2023

Last month, the Biden administration announced that on May 11, 2023, COVID-19 national and public health emergency declarations that were put in place under former President Donald Trump in early 2020 will end. Could the reason for this be that the lies and propaganda that permeate the COVID narrative have become so blatantly obvious?

The Global Disinformation Index (GDI): Government-Funded Group Targets “Riskiest Online News Outlets”

By Jonathan Turley, February 21, 2023

Goodbye Disinformation Board, Hello Disinformation Index. Less than a year after many celebrated the disbanding of the Biden’s Administration Disinformation Board, it appears that the Administration has been funding a British group to rank sites to warn people about high-risk disinformation sites.

America the Feckless. Lies and Hypocrisy Are at the Heart of the Biden Foreign Policy

By Philip Giraldi, February 21, 2023

One would think that the United States military staging an unprovoked “plausibly deniable” covert attack on a nation with which it is not at war would be at least considered newsworthy. That the attack did grave damage to a country with which the US is closely allied would seem to make the aggression even more unthinkable.