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International Law? (2013)

International Law? (2013)

The idea of an international rule of law appeals to our innate sense of justice, but the most horrific plans are often cloaked in the most beautiful lies. . . .

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The Media Matrix

Media. It surrounds us. We live our lives in it and through it. We structure our lives around it. But it wasn't always this way. So how did we get here? And where is the media technology that increasingly governs our lives taking us? This is the story of The Media...

We’re All Dutch Farmers Now

For weeks now, farmers in the Netherlands have been engaging in fierce protests over their government's plan to halve the country's nitrogen and ammonia pollution by 2030. It is estimated that this plan—which will mandate emissions cuts of 95% in some provinces—will...

The Assassination of Abe

As you no doubt know by now, Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, was assassinated in broad daylight on Friday. So what happened? Who was responsible? And what does it mean? Following are the results of an open source investigation conducted by The Corbett...

Your Summer Reading List

As you probably heard me announce at the end of last week's New World Next Week, I'm going to be taking a couple of weeks off to get caught up on some of the website administration, get a head start on some of the projects I'm working on for the latter half of the...

G7 Tax Deal: From Global Tax to Global Government

Imagine if you spent months planning an elaborate 50th birthday party for yourself—hiring performers, decorating your place and inviting everyone you know—and when the big day finally arrived . . . no one bothered to show up. Embarrassing, right? Well, that's...

June Open Thread

It's the first weekend in June, so it's time for this month's open thread. What's on your mind? Do you have a theory about the big nothingburger of the Pentagon's non-report about UFOs? Are your skimming through the Fauci emails that reveal (amongst other things) that...

Why I Write

In 1946, Eric Arthur Blair (better known by his pen name, George Orwell) penned an essay entitled "Why I Write." Although just 43 years old when the essay was published in the pages of the short-lived literary journal Gangrel, Orwell—who had already gained...

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