Patrick J. McShay “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech” — Benjamin Franklin – Founding Father, Statesman, Author, and Diplomat “Take away the highfalutin talk about countering hate and reducing harm and anti-disinformation is just a bluntly elitist gatekeeping exercise” — Matt Taibbi – Best Selling Author and Investigative Journalist “Liberty as we all know cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control over everybody and…
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Edward Snowden, America’s Open Wound: The CIA is Not Your Friend
Edward Snowden “Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.” ― Baruch Spinoza It hasn’t been a month since President Biden mounted the steps of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, declaring it his duty to ensure each of us understands the central…
The 10th Anniversary of the Benghazi Attack Arrives This Sunday, The Events Look Different Against Latest Deep State Revelations
Sundance On Sunday September 11, 2022, it will be the 600th day of Joe Biden in office. It will also be the 10th anniversary of the attack at a U.S. embassy outpost in Benghazi, Libya. The “Benghazi Brief” remains the most in-depth research report CTH has ever produced. The brief took over two years of independent research to construct and contains hundreds of very specific citations supporting it. Eight years after the brief was originally written in 2014, nothing within the outline has ever been identified as inaccurate. It has…
Biden-Putin Teleconference: Putin Rejects Biden’s Demand That U.S. Take Control Over Negotiations Between Ukraine and Its Former Donbass Region
By Eric Zuesse The two-hour December 7th Biden-Putin conversation (via video-conference) focused mainly on the conflict between Ukraine and its breakaway former Donbass region, which is in Ukraine’s far east and borders on Russia. In order to understand the conversation, some basic history that produced the current situation there needs to be stated, because this is the point-of-reference behind the summit-conversation that occurred on December 7th: The September 5, 2014 Minsk Protocol, and its followup February 12, 2015 Minsk II Agreement, established the agreements between Ukraine and the Donbass breakaway region, that…