I was just informed by Max Alvarez, the Editor-in-Chief at The Real News, that they will no longer run my show. The reason for the cancellation, he said, is that my critiques of Biden, especially for the genocide in Gaza, jeopardizes his nonprofit status. My last show with Dennis Kucinich, who is running as an independent for Congress in Ohio, was removed from the site.

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Sometimes you change the subject, and sometimes the subject changes you

Will Vance be Sacrificed?

In a Drop Site News exclusive, Hamas officials discuss their motivations, political objectives, and the human costs of their armed uprising against Israel

Billionaires have launched a public campaign to axe their FTC adversary

Wars rarely go to plan, especially if you believe your own rhetoric

Every sport. Every Team GB medal chance.

What the reaction to Nigel Farage and Reform reveals about our out-of-touch elites

My speech on the crisis facing British conservatism

Change is in the air. I’ve written previously on the panic currently effervescing through the global elites, made viscerally apparent at conclaves like the Davos forum earlier this year. But in America particularly, a deep worry is now consciously gnawing the ruling class—they can see it, feel it: that the American Empire is on its last legs, close to collapse.

After a brief hiatus marking a period of attempted deflection, where Ukraine and its Western sponsors tried desperately to misdirect our gaze to Russia’s putative ‘high losses’, this week has seen a spate of new articles again proclaiming Ukraine’s dire frontline straits.

On the days of revelation

Fifty Holy Wells, #43

After four years, we have over 20,600 subscribers, including 2,520 who pay; We’ll stay focused on housing, climate & poverty in Aotearoa-NZ, but with less news curation & more exploration of solutions

Including my Saturday morning podcast reflecting on the six things that mattered this week, and Charts, quotes & cartoons of the week, plus my weekend reading and scoops of the week selections

15 May was no 'party'... but the inquiry should look at 20 May... MPs should learn and enforce PUBLICATION of covid 'plans'

Lessons from/for the deep state for those thinking about AI, power, geopolitics and security

For Trump and MAGA, violence is a way to change history, just as it was for the Fascists.

And a stunning nature scene from Montana

The scale of Ottawa's defeat is a jarring and continuing indictment of the capacity of the Canadian state, and the state must reverse this situation, decisively.

Canadian leaders need to acknowledge what the real issue is: our women want to have more babies than they can.

The End of Media, Chapter 2: Everything Everywhere

Donovan Woods is starting to figure this stuff out

Ingen i uppropet för Gaza brydde sig när den största massakern på judar sedan Förintelsen ägde rum. Inte heller bryr de sig om barnen som Hamas tagit som gisslan. Dubbelmoralen är kväljande.

Anna-Karin har granskat hur Skolverket tagit fram en ny gymnasiekurs, med tydlig ideologisk prägel. Ivar har varit på gymmet och fått ett par använda kalsonger på huvudet.

Many people in the West have been surprised by the events of the last week in which American TV presenter Tucker Carlson followed his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin with a series of increasingly bizarre videos. Tucker discovers that Moscow Metro stations are grand and impressive, that Russian supermarkets have shopping carts that can be rented with a coin that you can retrieve on returning the cart, and that food is cheaper in Russia. I don’t wish to bore the time-starved reader by addressing this silliness but if you’re interested, read this footnote

By David Josef Volodzko

The US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani heaps substantial tension onto an already very tense US-Iranian relationship.

Stories from Turkey, Burkina Faso, Venezuela, and elsewhere

It told us nothing about the Royal Family and much more about Meghan, Harry and America

Congress cheered him to the echo, but that's not enough to save Israel, the United States and the west

This week, the Federal Court of Australia will hear a case with profound implications for women's rights and trans rights. It involves a women's app whose creator is being sued for discrimination by a trans woman because the app is exclusively for biological females. Here, the defendant shares her story.

How do you escape the shaming of the mob when you're a public figure with original ideas?

About those truckers…

A few thoughts on our times

Part 1: How feminine aggression works

My guest today is the psychologist and writer Rob Kurzban, co-author of the Living Fossils substack, and also the author of books including 'Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind' and 'The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit It.' We spoke about why modern parentin…

Jonathan Haidt thinks so. I’m not so sure.

Plus: Ukraine peace momentum builds, Biden’s China sanctions backfire, Bibi in DC, nuclear pebbles, hot Earth summer, power-hungry data centers, Zoom call with Bob, and more!

Things got very, very close to being very, very bad.

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock—to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures. - Flannery O’Connor,

Do Any Of You Even Remember What You Tried To Do To Us All?

Radical Media - by Maajid Nawaz

US-Russian joint tactical victory, European and Ukrainian defeat

"No man, no problem"

Also: OYL race heats up, Hazel scalpers, close but no cigar on health deal, a ministerial puppy and loads more

Sir John A's digs, Ghamari's gone for good, shilling in cottage country, defamation dodged, Grit nomination blitz continues (albeit slowly)

Every time you hear a "climate change" scare story, that person was PAID. He is a Rockefeller stooge. He may not know it; but his profession has been entirely corrupted

The Polite Left Started this Civil War for Personal Gain. The result? The end of Democratic Process, and Impending Economic Collapse