The Monsters Aren't Just in History Books. They Live Among Us. They're Everywhere
Walter Salles’ new film I’m Still Here is a moving, true-story, Oscar-nominated portrait of a middle-class, leftwing family in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s struggling to come to terms with the father’s disappearance – 25 years later confirmed as murder – by the Brazilian military dictatorship.
The mother and a teenage daughter spend time inside a regime torture camp too, before being released..........
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/trumps-tariff-wars-will-hurt-us-the-most.html
Trump's Tariff Wars Will Hurt U.S. The Most President Donald Trump seems to believe that tariffs can help to bring manufacturing back to the States. Trump's tariffs have so far been aimed at four targets, the U.S. neighbors Canada and Mexico, China and, soon to come, the European Union. During his first term Trump negotiated the U.S.M.C.A. with Mexico and Canada, a free trade zone covering the U.S. and its neighbors. He is now attempting to change the rules of it. But the way he does so is inconsistent. On January 21 Trump promised tariffs on Canada and Mexico. On February 1 he announced them. Three days later he delayed the implementation of those tariffs. On February 27 he said the tariffs would go into effect on March 4. On March 5 he was again forced to pull back (archived):...................................
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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital on Thursday morning that he had hauled in $261,000 in campaign donations in recent days since President Donald Trump targeted him for ouster for opposing a government-funding measure.
"In less than three days, I’ve received $261,000 through 3,203 individual donations, without sending an email, a text, or a phone call. It’s a fundraising record for me and it’s boosted my current cash on hand north of $1.1 million," Massie said in a statement.
After Trump took a swing at Massie in a Truth Social post on Monday night, the congressman responded in a tweet on Tuesday by soliciting campaign donations.......
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https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/flu-vaccine-exposed-shocking-nih-discovery-they-dont-want-you-know
Flu Vaccine Exposed: The Shocking NIH Discovery They Don't Want You To Know
Via The Vigilant Fox
Two decades ago, CBS aired a bombshell report on the flu shot, revealing a truth that health officials didn’t want to admit. Despite flu shot uptake among seniors skyrocketing from 15% to 65%, flu deaths continued to climb...................
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https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/11/sectarian-violence-sweeps-syria-as-western-backed-security-forces-rampage-in-alawite-towns/
Sectarian Violence Sweeps Syria as Western-Backed Security Forces Rampage in Alawite Towns
By The Cradle
At least 147 people have been killed in Syria in the past two days, as security forces from the country’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – led government carried out a series of massacres and extrajudicial executions against Alawites in the country’s coastal regions as part of a broader security campaign to target remnants of the former Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
Videos of many instances of extrajudicial killings have been posted to social media showing HTS militants from the government of Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former Al-Qaeda in Iraq commander, killing unarmed Alawites in cold blood.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), 69 of those killed were Alawite minority members executed by security forces. At the same time, the rest included government security personnel (of the Sunni sect), and members of the former Syrian army (of the Alawite sect), and civilians caught in the clashes.
Among those killed were 15 Alawite men who were executed by HTS forces in the village of al-Muktariyya on 7 March. “It is not clear what or if any criteria were used for their execution,” Syria expert Joshua Landis wrote on the social media site X.....
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https://www.mintpressnews.com/professor-columbia-university-scandal-former-israeli-spy/289231/
By Alan-Macleod
Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal is Former Israeli Spy
he professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli intelligence official, MintPress News can reveal.
Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack on Gaza. Khalil’s dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer and official at Israel’s Mission to the United Nations. Yarhi-Milo played a significant role in drumming up public concern about a supposed wave of intolerable anti-Semitism sweeping over the campus, thereby laying the groundwork for the extensive crackdown on civil liberties that has followed the protests......
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https://responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-defense-spending/
By: Almut Rochowanski
European militarism on steroids is not good, either
Lacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks
U.S. security experts and leaders have been telling European NATO allies to increase their defense spending for at least a quarter century, initially as a gentle nudging, later more insistently, rising to a deafening din after Trump’s election.
The infamous White House press conference with President Volodymyr Zelensky on March 1 finally shocked Europeans out of their complacency and opened their purse-strings, according to American analysts, who seem very pleased with themselves.
But this approach puts the cart of military-spending-as-share-of-GDP before the horse of a dynamic assessment of the threats European countries actually face. Going on a spending spree to reach some arbitrary share of GDP or random number of billions of euros, to buy weapons systems favored by lobbyists but of dubious relevance, is a poor replacement for a comprehensive strategy for European security.....
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https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/11/chris-hedges-trumps-christian-fascists-and-the-war-on-palestine/
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine
Christian
Nationalists who form the bedrock of support for Donald Trump — 80
percent voted for Trump in the last election according to a voter survey
by the Associated Press — have mounted a concerted campaign calling on
the White House to back Israel’s annexation of the West Bank and Gaza.
This
campaign includes visits to Israel by prominent leaders, including
Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins and Mario Bramnick, petitioning the White
House, lobbying Congress and calls for annexation at Christian
conferences, including a resolution of support for Israeli sovereignty
over the West Bank adopted at the most recent Conservative Political
Action Conference. The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention
in Dallas, in March, gathered over 200 signatures from pastors and
right-wing religious leaders from across the United States calling for
the annexation of “Judea and Samaria” — the purported biblical name for
the West Bank —and declaring the two state solution “a failed
experiment.”...........
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https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2025/03/13/were-1-in-selling-weapons/
We’re #1 in Selling Weapons!
American Exceptionalism Defined
by William Astore | Mar 13, 2025
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
We’re #1 (once again) in selling weapons! Amazingly, the USA now accounts for 43% of the world’s trade in deadly weaponry. No country beats more plowshares into swords and pruning hooks into spears than America, which is also, obviously, the most Christian nation in the world.
Let’s take a look at a useful chart from Stephen Semler (be sure to check out his blog on Substack):....
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https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/03/when-dissent-becomes-a-crime-the-war-on-political-speech-begins/
When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins
by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead / March 13th, 2025
You can’t have it both ways.
You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.
You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.
You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.
There’s always a boomerang effect.
Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now—whether it’s in the name of national security or protecting America’s borders or making America great again—rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.
Arresting political activists engaged in lawful, nonviolent protest activities is merely the shot across the bow.
The chilling of political speech and suppression of dissident voices are usually among the first signs that you’re in the midst of a hostile takeover by forces that are not friendly to freedom.
This is how it begins...........
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https://ronpaulinstitute.org/my-weekend-in-moscow/
My Weekend in Moscow
by Andrew P. Napolitano
When an invitation from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the renowned Professor Alexander Dugin to visit them in Moscow arrived in my inbox, it was actually the culmination of a series of emails and telephone calls from Russian-American friends giving me a heads up. Still, it startled me.
So, last week, I flew to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and from there to Moscow. The sanctions President Joe Biden imposed on Russian persons and businesses — and kept in place by President Donald Trump — bar, among much else, direct flights to Russia from the West............
My in-person interview with Xavier Poussard, the journalist who exposed the secrets of the mysterious individual who has become "Brigitte