Religious Freedom Isn’t About Employment “Accommodations”

Thomas Knapp: In 2019, Gerald Groff quit his job, then sued his employer for causing him “much anxiety and distress” by expecting him to show up for work and, after various attempts to accommodate his absenteeism (more than 24 missed shifts in two years), disciplining him when he didn’t. If he’d sued because working on Sundays interfered … Continue reading Religious Freedom Isn’t About Employment “Accommodations” → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Exiling Prigozhin And His Collaborators To Belarus Serves Russia’s Interests

Voice of East: Exiling Prigozhin And His Collaborators To Belarus Serves Russia’s Interests By Andrew Korybko This pragmatic de-escalation deal served more Russian interests than just nipping a potentially incipient civil war in the bud, however, though the following outcomes were of course improvised... Read More › - Voice of East
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“Progress”: We Are Where We Are Because We’ve Been Where We Were

Thomas Knapp: At least once a week, I come across a column by a conservative (or even supposedly “libertarian-leaning”) writer whose usual beat runs the gamut from “government is too big” to “taxes are too high” to “regulations are too onerous” to “by golly, America is turning into [insert Totalitarian Regime of the Week here] because Marxists … Continue reading “Progress”: We Are Where We Are Because We’ve Been Where We Were → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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The US Manipulated Alt-Media Into Waging Its Infowar On Russia In Africa By Smearing Wagner

Voice of East: The US Manipulated Alt-Media Into Waging Its Infowar On Russia In Africa By Smearing Wagner By Andrew Korybko By “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” upon smearing all of Wagner as Western regime change agents after emotionally overreacting to the... Read More › - Voice of East
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Deepfake Porn is Creepy, Disgusting … and Speech/Expression

Thomas Knapp: “Some [creators/distributors of ‘deepfake’ pornography,” Nina Jankowicz writes at The Atlantic, “seem to believe that they have a right to distribute these images — that because they fed a publicly available photo of a woman into an application engineered to make pornography, they have created art or a legitimate work of parody.” Jankowicz, who served as … Continue reading Deepfake Porn is Creepy, Disgusting … and Speech/Expression → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Westerners Cheering For Wagner’s Prigozhin Want Another World War

Voice of East: Westerners Cheering For Wagner’s Prigozhin Want Another World War By Andrew Korybko Russia’s “Balkanization” via “civil war” is a political fantasy that many Westerners on social media enjoy indulging in, but what they don’t realize is that cheering for Prigozhin actually... Read More › - Voice of East
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China’s Spy Base in Cuba?

Kim Petersen: On the heels of China’s weather/spy balloon downed by a US F-22 comes a report of the construction of a Chinese listening post in Cuba. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., supports the Biden administration’s claim that China is setting up a spy station in Cuba. Gaetz calls it a “stationary aircraft carrier right off the coast […] - Kim Petersen
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By Inviting Macron To BRICS Summit Does South Africa Want Putin To Boycott In Protest?

Voice of East: By Inviting Macron To BRICS Summit Does South Africa Want Putin To Boycott In Protest? By Andrew Korybko If South Africa is unable to promise that it won’t execute the ICC’s politicized arrest warrant, then its policymakers might gamble that it’s... Read More › - Voice of East
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Philippines: Knowing Who Your Friends Are

Kim Petersen: On 3 April 2023, deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh announced the United States expanding into four new military sites in the Philippines. “In addition to the five existing sites, these new locations will strengthen the interoperability of the United States and Philippine armed forces and allow us to respond more seamlessly together to address […] - Kim Petersen
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The Industrial Revolution: Truth and Consequences

Thomas Knapp: “The Industrial Revolution and its consequences,” reads the opening lines of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s notorious manifesto, “have been a disaster for the human race.”  Kaczynski, who recently died in prison, blamed that period of history not just for “severe damage to the natural world,” but for destabilizing society, making life unfulfilling and inflicting indignity and … Continue reading The Industrial Revolution: Truth and Consequences → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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