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Some voices on the left advocate violent tactics. Is this recommendation well informed or desperate?

Chris Kelly, former chief privacy officer of Facebook, explains how Tech Giants operate. Far-left extremist Vicky Osterweil took to Twitter on Sunday to spread violent messaging against law enforcement breaking platform policy – but Twitter has yet to pull the plug on her account. The "In Defense of Looting" Antifa author got away with advising her followers to "ATTACK" police officers in what she described as the only option as part of the left’s anti-police movement. "My shrill a** ...

Coming as it does in this weary universe of ours, a month after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in search of elected officials to kidnap or kill, “Unmasked” has to be taken seriously. Not because it is a serious book — it is nothing of the sort — but because Ngo’s prominence is evidence that false flags will continue to be planted, sometimes on the very same soil where violent reactionaries have spilled American blood. Advertisement A mainstay of conservative medi...

Facebook abandons any pretense of being a neutral private business player Share on Facebook Jazz ShawPosted at 11:06 am on February 1, 2021 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter As you may have already heard, there’s a recall effort going on in California right now, aiming to remove Governor Gavin Newsom from office. Even if the proponents of that movement manage to gather the required number of signatures and get the measure on the ballot, it’s far from a sure thing that there will be enough ...

L IBERALS HAVE become lazy when thinking about the mob. They have celebrated “people power” when it threatens regimes they disapprove of, in the Middle East, say, while turning a blind eye to the excesses of protesters who they deem to be on the right side of history—in Portland, Oregon, for example. In August 2020 a mainstream publisher, Public Affairs, produced “In Defence of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action” by Vicky Osterweil. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and ...

© Unknown Kenosha, Wisconsin: Car dealership on fire After excusing and ignoring riots from leftists all year, Democrats and their allies in the media are ready to condemn riots now that the turmoil has shifted to fit their narrative. On Wednesday, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. It was an astonishing display of anarchic protest that delayed congressional certification of the Electoral College vote formally handing former Vice President Joe Biden the keys to the Wh...

The Wages of Our Recklessness On January 6, 2021, the president of the United States fomented a violent insurrection against the federal government. On this point, the semantics matter. This was not a coup d’etat, the definition of which is an organized effort to remove the existing government, in which all the levers of governmental power are seized by force. Nor was this a mere protest. No sane observer could equate what happened yesterday with a public demonstration of dissent which, thoug...

January 7, 2021 Democrats and their allies in the media are ready to condemn riots now that the turmoil has shifted to fit their narrative. On Wednesday, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. It was an astonishing display of anarchic protest that delayed congressional certification of the Electoral College vote formally handing former Vice President Joe Biden the keys to the White House. The scenes from the dark day of disaster demonstrations illustrated a deteriorating c...

Jewish Currents 2020 Year in Review 2020 HAS BEEN A YEAR of protest and political upheaval, set against the backdrop of illness, isolation, and death. Throughout this tumultuous year, we have sought to articulate a new vision for Jewish political engagement, and to provide our readers with the intellectual resources to better understand and reimagine their place in the world. As 2020 draws to a close, we’re looking back on the work we published this year. Here’s a selection of some of the p...