It’s the first weekend in September, so you know what that means: it’s time for the monthly open thread!

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Interview 1741 – Keith Knight Presents The Voluntaryist Handbook
Keith Knight of Don’t Tread on Anyone joins us to discuss The Voluntaryist Handbook (available for free on Odysee but support the work by buying a copy)
August Open Thread (2022)
Interview 1740 – Declare Your Independence From The Media Matrix
via FreedomsPhoenix.com: James joins Ernest Hancock for his regular appearance on the Declare Your Independence radio show to discuss how media is used to distract us from real life and real solutions.
Interview 1739 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: Pelosi goes to Taiwan as cold war machinations continue; Zawahiri is dead (just don’t ask for proof); and the UN declares war on conspiracy theorists.
A Mass Media Reading List – Questions For Corbett #088
Jackie writes in to ask for another book list, so James obliges by going through the reading list for the new Mass Media: A History online course.
Episode 423 – Into The Metaverse (The Media Matrix — Part 3)
We stand at a precipice. On one side is “reality”: the original, authentic, lived human experience. And on the other side is the metaverse: the world of constantly mediated experience. In the middle is hyperreality, that blurry space between the real world and the mediated world. And, living as we do on this side of the electronic media revolution, it is the only place we have ever known.
NEWSLETTER
Japan’s Stealth Army
Last month, while everyone was distracted by other events, the Japanese government did something rather remarkable: They activated a marine unit. Specifically, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force activated a 1,500-man unit known as the Amphibious Rapid Deployment...
Holiday Open Thread
As you may or may not know, I'm on vacation. But as you also may or may not know, the world has not stopped turning. So what burning issues are on your mind? What do I need to take a look at when I get back from my holiday? Corbett Report members are encouraged to log...
All Your Data Are Belong to Them
It's shocking, shocking, I tell you! Apparently, and I'm just learning this from some breaking news headlines so bear with me, but apparently Facebook has not been on the up and up when it comes to protecting its users' privacy. Incredible, I know. I mean, these are...
A Q&A On “Objective” Journalism
Of the many under-appreciated gems in The Corbett Report archive, my podcast episode on "The Myth of Journalistic Objectivity" may be one of the most important. Not only does it expose a few of the many examples of bias in the mainstream media (from Bilderberger...
Obama, Hiroshima, and the Politics of War Crimes
When it comes to American war crimes, there are no shortage of examples to choose from. For every well-known My Lai massacre there are a thousand lesser-known No Gun Ri massacres. For every Abu Ghraib that enters the lexicon there's a thousand Azizabads that barely...
US Special Forces In Libya To Fight the ISIS Problem They Created
by James Corbett TheInternationalForecaster.com May 18, 2016 In 2011 NATO rained bombs on Libya to remove the Gaddafi government from power. Openly backing known terrorists in their push to oust Gaddafi, the NATO powers, led by Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy, ended up...
The Greatest Blessing
We are programmed to look out for danger and respond to threats. It's instinctual, and well it should be. We live in a dangerous world and our family line wouldn't have made it this far if there wasn't an eternal vigilance against potential perils. But always focusing...























