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A German public broadcaster employee has written an open letter criticizing COVID’s ‘New World Order’ propaganda, which is being broadcast to 83 million Germans. Ole Skambraks has spent the last 12 years as an editor at the German public broadcaster ARD. Skambraks claims he can “no longer silently watch” the clear lies that has been given to him “for a year and a half now within my organization.” Skambraks writes: The values of “balance,” “social cohesion,” and “diversity” in reporting are enshrined in statutes and media state contracts. Currently, the polar opposite is occurring. There is no meaningful debate or...

By James Holmes,J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and a Nonresident Fellow at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs. Originally published in 19fortyfive.comBack in August in the Washington Examiner, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Michael Rubin (and a 1945 Contributing Editor) contended that Taiwan must go nuclear in the wake of the disastrous American withdrawal from Afghanistan. It can no longer count on a mercurial United States to keep its security commitments to the island. To survive it should obey the most primal, bareknuckles law of world politics: self-help.QED.Set aside...