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From Bioethics to Eugenics

One of the iconic moments from my Who Is Bill Gates? documentary is the clip of Gates at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival discussing a proposal to increase funding for public education by diverting money from end-of-life care for the elderly and terminally ill. Lamenting...

Interview 1565 – James Corbett in Democracy Down

Interview 1565 – James Corbett in Democracy Down

When I was in Mexico earlier this year, I was interviewed by Drew Media for "Democracy Down," a documentary that explores the future of human organization in interviews with thought-leaders across the political and philosophical spectrum. Each week, they are releasing...

Episode 382 – Your Body, Their Choice

Episode 382 – Your Body, Their Choice

Stripped of its contextual baggage, the phrase "My Body, My Choice" makes a compelling rallying cry because it conveys a fundamental truth that we all innately understand: I have the claim to my own body and what is done to it. So why, then, are we being asked to...

NATO 2030: Global Domination or Bust

It's like something out of a comic book. Speaking from his billion-dollar fortress, the Overlord of the dreaded military alliance, S.N.A.K.E. (Supreme Nasty Alliance for Killing Everyone) delivered his starkest threat yet, declaring a "S.N.A.K.E. 2030" vision that...

The Great Withdrawal

An extraordinary thing happened this week: Taro Kono, Japan's Defense Minister, got up and announced that the Japanese government would be halting its plan to deploy a new multi-billion-dollar missile defense system. Tokyo had committed itself to buy the Aegis Ashore...

Too Little, Too Late? India Stands Up to the CDC

Flying completely under the radar of the various crises that have come to define 2020, an interesting story is playing out in India. This story shines a light on the increasingly globalized nature of medical research and on the dark practice of using poor people in...