The central tenet of those who support unrestricted mass immigration has long been its putative economic benefits.
When the social costs of mass immigration were pointed out, the Homo Economicus argument would be deployed.
I have long seen through the sham of this argument and I am on record slamming it regularly.
See or example:
Immigration sophistry debunked…again
The [...]
Dr Mega (left) and Stephen Schwartz (right), paid shills or merely educated bigots?
Have agents of Serbia’s Radical Party or perhaps renegade elements of the Serbian Intelligence Service successfully penetrated the US right-wing media establishment to conduct False Flag Operations against legitimate critics of Serbia?
Sometimes it seems that way.
It appears that someone is successfully seeding [...]
The happy innocent days when Serbs thought that with Slobo gone, they would be treated fairly.
I have received a number of emails from friends curious to know the inside track on the Kosovo situation from their man on the ground in Serbia.
The problem is that when one is very close to the situation, and are [...]
Belgrade’s Holocaust Memorial - one of several in a city populated by a people famed for their resistance to the Nazis
I am used to reading lies and vitriol about Serbs and Serbia but an article emailed to me today is one of the most racist, hateful and biased articles I have read in a [...]
Augean Stables, makers of “Pallywood” and “Birth of an Icon“, have put up a ten-minute documentary on the Gaza Beach explosion that killed seven of the Ghalia family on June 9, 2006.
Once again a gut-wrenching tragedy looks highly suspect and staged by the Palestinian propaganda machine.
YouTube - Gaza Beach Tragedy: Exploiting Grief
Gaza Beach [...]
I first heard about Otpor (”Resistance”) and Center for Applied NonViolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) in a superb Reason article from 2006 called “The 50 Habits of Highly Effective Revolutionaries“.
Last week I read that Stratfor (the civilian CIA) thinks that Hugo Chavez’s recent political reverse may be due to the CANVAS activity in Venezuela.
From [...]
Is the New York Time — the ultra liberal defender of minorities - an anti-Semitic organ against Jews? Here is the charge sheet according to The American Thinker
1) the paper offers support, praise and prizes for people who “indulge in anti-Semitism”;
2) the paper has warned anti-Semitic hate [...]
Abdel Bari Atwan, editor in chief of the London based al Quds newspaper, said on CNN Worldwide this morning that the Israeli attack on Beirut was like like the attack on Dresden at the end of WW2 (transcript not up at time of posting).
He is talking comments from the usual suspects, and misapplying them.
Mr [...]
From Slate.com comes “Counterinsurgency by the Book - The lessons of a new Army Field Manual By Fred Kaplan“:
Two messages flutter between the lines of the U.S. Army’s new field manual on counterinsurgency wars, its first document on the subject in 20 years.
One is that Pentagon planning for the Iraq war’s aftermath was at least [...]
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The Second Draft. This website is devoted to exploring some of the problems and issues that plague modern journalism. In this age of globalization, the media has unprecedented influence on the way we see the world. And yet, whether out of misplaced good intentions, unconscious agendas and predispositions, or unwarranted faith in false [...]