State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 5
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This is the year when we will learn if Covid illiberalism will begin to be rolled back or has become a permanent feature of the political landscape in the democratic... Read more.
State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 4
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With help from the media, social media and police, people were frightened, shamed and coerced into submission and compliance with arbitrary and increasingly authoritarian... Read more.
State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 3
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There are signs that some pivotal countries might be at tipping points in the dominant narrative of safe and effective vaccines. Eminent British cardiologist Aseem... Read more.
State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 2
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How anyone can look at the Covid vaccination and mortality metrics of New Zealand, Australia, and Japan and still hold fast to the ‘safe and effective’ vaccine... Read more.
State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 1
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Governments were able to mobilise members of the public to exert peer pressure and societal coercion to enforce compliance, backed by often brutal police coercion... Read more.
Covid Crimes and Amnesty, Accountability and Justice
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The victims of casual cruelty, capricious public health diktats and enforcement brutality are owed justice. But what type of justice? It might be helpful to look... Read more.
What the US Can Learn From Elections in India
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A Rasmussen poll near the end of September found that 84 percent of Americans expressed concern about election integrity in the imminent congressional elections.... Read more.
Some Blunt Observations on a Trump Candidacy
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By contrast to Trump, after an initial but mercifully brief embrace of lockdown, DeSantis created Florida as a refuge of sanity in a world gone Covid-crazy. As Michael... Read more.
Are Lockdown Zealots Incapable of Introspection?
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Lockdown skepticism was foresight. Thus the prevailing uncertainty and lack of knowledge doesn’t wash with the benefit of hindsight. Professing ignorance now cannot... Read more.
Reality Check on the Vaccine Narrative
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Over two-thirds said the governments’ pandemic response had been too heavy-handed, 25 percent said the leaders had done the best they could, and 8 percent thought... Read more.
Preferred Pronouns Lit the Path to Covid Science Denialism
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The idea behind the move to preferred pronouns is that everyone’s own conception of their gender identity deserves the protection of law. The unintended and perverse... Read more.
Agree with Us or Hold your Tongue
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Every crisis, they say, is an opportunity. Governments, health bureaucrats and drug regulators all over the world have exploited the Covid-19 crisis to grab power... Read more.