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Brexit: What Does It Mean?

Congratulations, Britain! You've thrown off the yoke of the EUreaucrats! Now go out and celebrate! ...But before you go, we have a few things to discuss. Like the Brexit-geddon tearing its way through the markets. Or the EUpocalypse of disintegrating unions and crisis...

How To Beat The Banksters At Their Own Game

As events in Cyprus, Greece, Brazil, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere in recent years have taught us, the euros or real or dollars or yuan in your bank account are only as secure as the bank that holds them. In fact, the lesson is deeper than that: The money in your bank...

Everything You Were Taught About Nutrition Is Wrong

Do you like coffee? Well I have bad news for you. Or is that good news? Or maybe it's great news. Been carefully avoiding saturated fats? Well maybe you don't have to! Or maybe you do. And it seems you can stop avoiding egg yolks again, but if you still think...

This Does Not End Well…

This wasn't supposed to be a column about unemployment and political violence. I was supposed to be writing about the crisis of irreproducible results in science and the dangers of scientism and technocracy. But then I checked my Twitter timeline. Cue the Emotional...

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...

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...