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Low-tech / No-tech – #SolutionsWatch

Low-tech / No-tech – #SolutionsWatch

From the humble fax machine to call-to-listen podcasts and shortwave broadcasts to the dependable old printed word, today James explores ways to spread information that don’t require digital devices or Big Tech surveillance apps.

FLASHBACK: The Fake News Story of 2023

FLASHBACK: The Fake News Story of 2023

In this flashback from last year’s Annual Fake News Awards, Dinos host Bent Krockman bestows the Fake News Story of 2023 on Benjamin Netanyahu and the liars in the Israeli government for their cartoon propaganda about secret terrorist headquarters under hospitals in Gaza.

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March Open Thread (2024)

March Open Thread (2024)

Can you believe it's March already? I, for one, absolutely and categorically refuse to believe it. But still, the calendar insists otherwise so here we are in the March Open Thread. What's on your mind this month? Are you keeping up with the latest events in Gaza? Are...

A Brief History of Ukraine

A Brief History of Ukraine

The full-on hysteria that surrounded the announcement of Tucker Carlson's arrival in Moscow and his subsequent interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin—including Hillary Clinton branding Carlson a "useful idiot" and Bill Kristol's call to bar him from...

Your Guide to the Grand Chessboard’s Pawns

The observation that the great geopolitical struggle between nations is akin to a grand game of chess is hardly a novel one. After all, Khosrau II, the ancient Sasanian king, saw the connection over 1,400 years ago: "If a ruler does not understand chess, how can he...

The Internet Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.

Have you heard the latest? Canadians are losing their access to online news thanks to a new bill that would make tech companies liable for so much as linking to news stories. French President Macron is mulling a social media shutdown in the name of quelling France's...

July Open Thread (2023)

Ladies and gentlemen, today marking the 1st day of the month we call July, I present to you (without further ado than is reasonably necessary ((considering the monumental importance of such an event))) the one, the only, the much anticipated . . . July Open Thread....

France Pretends NATO is About the North Atlantic

Someone must have bought Emmanuel Macron a map. How else to explain his amazing geographical discovery that Japan is not, in fact, located in the North Atlantic? For those not keeping up with the wild, wooly world of geopolitricks, this latest round of cartographic...

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