Israel has proposed a radical idea: to use crocodiles to guard prisons. The Jewish state has reportedly reclassified Nile crocodiles as “tended” animals, which could clear the way for the animals’ use as part of prison security. The controversial proposal to surround prisons with crocodile-filled moats was reportedly floated late last year by far-right National Security…
Click icon for full interview with Prof Ramesh Thakur for Reality Check Radio RCR A200-page policy report argues that global public health is no longer being driven by the needs of countries, but by financial incentives. At the centre of that argument is Professor Ramesh Thakur—a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and principal…
Stomach Bugs and Systemic Debt If it’s not a bizarre new geopolitical crisis, it’s a terrifying headline about the safety of our food supply. This, no doubt, is an age of constant, low-grade dread. Every time you open your phone, there’s a fresh, steaming pile of bad news waiting to greet you. But while the mainstream media…
The Trump administration has announced a renewed crusade against “far-left terrorism,” which sounds okay if you don’t know that the word “terrorism” only ever means “behavior which goes against the agendas of the western empire.” Reading by Tim Foley: The Trump administration has announced a renewed crusade against “far-left terrorism,” which sounds okay if you don’t know…
Finland has built an underground network beneath Helsinki capable of sheltering nearly one million people. Let that sink in. Nearly one million people. This is not a handful of bomb shelters scattered throughout the city, but rather an underground city stretching beneath the capital, consisting of more than 5,500 reinforced shelters connected by tunnels carved directly into…
The director of the legendary film Vaxxed, Andy Wakefield, is back to discuss his first book, The Bequest. Written as a fictional account of a family navigating the Oregon Trail in the 1800s, the book has the freedom to go places that his documentary films never could. The autism epidemic is only getting worse, with…
We are Superman strapped to a carefully machined chunk of Kryptonite we can no longer detach. I wrote Ultra-Processed Life to describe a peculiarly perverse structure of control that now dominates our entire culture and way of life: what’s presented as marvelously beneficial to both sellers and buyers / leaders and the citizenry is actually only beneficial to the sellers…
In October 2024, vaccine maker Sanofi shut down its clinical trial for its RSV vaccine for infants and toddlers. According to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information request, one child died during the trial. However, the company didn’t report any safety issues with the vaccine, claiming instead that it ended the trial because the…
Except It Lacks Transparency, Liquidity & Is About To Be Stress Tested History Private credit was born from the ashes of the Great Financial Crisis. In the aftermath of that debacle, regulators moved to limit the risks banks could take. Loans deemed too risky were no longer being originated by commercial banks. To fill that…
For years the official line has been the same: the grid is resilient, the lights will stay on, and the government has a plan. Then you go read what the government actually wrote when it thought nobody outside the Beltway was paying attention. According to Google AI, the government has never issued a warning… BULLSHIT! In…
