Europe is convulsing as its “centrist” authoritarians impose an unprecedented regime of suppression of speech, but the mainstream media in America is silent about it.
Four Freedoms Wall at Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Memorial, Washington, D.C. (Wikipedia, Creative Commons ASA)
By Patrick Lawrence
The Floutist
This is the first of two essays The Floutist publishes, one glancing back and the other forward, as a year ends and another begins.
“We are just so shocked,” a German friend residing in Switzerland wrote the other day. “These cases affect us very much, as they will have consequences for us all.”
What cases would these be, you may wonder. What cases and what consequences?
You may especially wonder about cases and consequences if you are an American reliant on corporate media: Europe is convulsing as the “centrist” authoritarians who purport to lead it impose what looks to me like an historically unprecedented regime of censorship and the suppression of speech, but none of the mainstream dailies or broadcasters in America have had a word to say about it — a point to which I will shortly return.
It was the case of Jacques Baud that prompted my German friend’s distress — or radically escalated it, better put, for she had had an other-than-sanguine view of Europe’s drift toward tyranny long before news of Baud’s fate broke. And so, to some particulars.
Jacques Baud is a Swiss citizen now residing in Brussels. He was formerly a colonel in the Swiss army and served for many years as an analyst in Swiss intelligence and in the Swiss Foreign Ministry. He has held senior positions at the United Nations and was more recently an adviser to NATO covering Ukrainian affairs.
Former Swiss intelligence officer Col. Jacques Baudbaud interviewed by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, December 2025. (Screenshot, Deep Dive on X)
Baud is now 70 and has for some years applied his exceptional expertise to analysis and commentary on war, peace, geopolitics, and affairs of state, work that has earned him a reputation for insight and integrity.
His most recent books are The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat and Operation Al–Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher, which explains the events of Oct. 7, 2023 by way of Israel’s incessant breaches of international law over 75 years. Max Milo Editions, a small French house, brought out both books last year.
On Dec. 15, the European Union imposed sanctions on this distinguished man. He is now on the E.U. Sanctions Tracker, which lists the names and offenses of those the E.U. has summarily blacklisted. Here is Baud’s entry on this truly diabolic website:
“Jacques Baud, a former Swiss army colonel and strategic analyst, is a regular guest on pro–Russian television and radio programmes. He acts as a mouthpiece for pro–Russian propaganda and makes conspiracy theories, for example accusing Ukraine of orchestrating its own invasion in order to join NATO.”
Disinformers Denounce Disinformation
We are now in the land wherein those who propagate disinformation assert that they are countering “disinformation,” and let us observe our quotation marks, for “disinformation,” in Baud’s case as in many others, means accurate information.
If you can follow.
To net this out, Jacques Baud has written thoughtfully and extensively on the war in Ukraine and its bearing on relations between Russia and the West. This includes a sound analysis of NATO’s advances to the Russian Federation’s borders, the U.S.–orchestrated coup in Kiev in 2014, the West’s subsequent betrayal of the Minsk Protocols, and the Biden regime’s purposeful provocation of the military intervention Russia began not quite four years ago.
Whether or not one agrees with Baud’s take on this or that question, his is well-supported work. And the E.U. has just comprehensively sanctioned him for it.
Any European now risks the same if, to bring this home with an especially egregious example, he or she states perfectly discernible truths as to what prompted Moscow’s “special military operation” in February 2022. If invited to make this case on a Russian television station, the offender is yet further beyond the pale.
There are other aspects of the Baud case that have paying-attention Europeans in an uproar. Baud has not been charged with any criminal offense. There has been no investigation into his work, no evidence has been presented, there will be no judicial process, and he will have no opportunity to respond to the “case” — quotation marks again — the E.U. makes against him.
The sanctions he now faces were imposed in an exercise of extrajudicial — as in unlawful — power. As Costas Lapavitsas, a professor at S.O.A.S. (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), put it in a piece in Brave New Europe, published Christmas Eve, “An individual was punished by executive designation alone.”
“Baud has not been charged with any criminal offense. There has been no investigation into his work, no evidence has been presented, there will be no judicial process, and he will have no opportunity to respond to the
‘case’ … the E.U. makes against him.”
We have all read endlessly about sanctions and how much or little they matter, but in Baud’s case — and there are others facing this designation — they are grave.
Baud’s assets are now frozen in the E.U. and he cannot travel. He cannot access his bank accounts and various sources of income are blocked. As of now it is a criminal offense to transact with him — to sell him a house or groceries, to take in his shirts, to repair his car. “Although the regulation allows minimal subsistence payments,” Lapavitsas writes, “the effect is to paralyse a person economically and professionally.”
The Baud case is horrific all by itself, and so I give it generous column inches, but it is horrific times ten when we consider its larger implications — its “consequences for us all,” as my German friend put it.
Censorship and attacks on free speech are nothing new on either side of the Atlantic, to state the obvious. It is two years this coming spring since Germany refused entry to Yanis Varoufakis, the honorable Greek economist and activist, who was to attend a congress on Palestine in Berlin.
The Biden regime was notable for its connivances with Silicon Valley and its assaults on free speech. These have worsened dramatically during the first year of Trump II.
It comes time to understand our moment for what it is — the circumstance now upon us.
The Western order is collapsing. This is no longer a matter of interpretation or hyperbole or a figure of speech or a commentator’s shorthand. It is the reality within which we have to live.
The “centrist” regimes defending the gross disorder they insist is a “rules-based order” have tipped this past year toward a state of desperation. As Alastair Crooke put it in a piece published this past autumn, ours is “a new era of coerced dominance.”
In a holiday note the other day, Chas Freeman referred to “our new Dark Age.” This already proves a perilous time. “Today it is war without limits — without rules, without law,” Crooke writes. “Ethical boundaries, more particularly, are dismissed in parts of the West as ‘weak.’”
Where does this place the front line for those committed to resisting this swift drift toward lawlessness and tyranny in the cause of a moral and just world? I think it must be in defense of free speech.
The cases in point accumulate like fallen leaves around us.
As I was considering the ramifications of Jacques Baud’s travails, the condition of those hunger-striking in behalf of Palestine Action worsened. At writing, eight of those striking are at risk of fatal organ failure for insisting with their bodies on the direct-action group’s right to protest without being proscribed as “terrorists.”
And then the case of Greta Thunberg, who was arrested in a London street just before Christmas for holding a placard that read simply, “I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.” Thunberg is now out on bail until March, presumably to face charges under Britain’s preposterously antidemocratic Terrorism Act.
There is post–Bondi Beach Australia, where the New South Wales government now has the power to ban protests for up to three months — along with “hate speech” and “prohibited symbols.”
This following may seem a small matter, but it is a daily occurrence in Germany now and so betokens an emergency: A day or two before Christmas an “X” account under the name Irlandarra posted a video of a young man sitting at a café in Berlin when German police yank him out of his seat and arrest him. His offense was wearing a T–shirt with a Palestinian flag on it while talking quietly with friends.
There is an argument that the Europeans, who have gone right off the rails in any number of directions, their obsessive Russophobia and their criminalization of any critique of Israeli terror merely two of them, are out front in their suppression of free speech.
Ursula von der Leyen at a NATO defense minister session in 2019. (NATO)
Ursula von der Leyen recently gave a speech casting “information manipulation” as a virus and censorship as the required vaccine. “Prebunking” (as against debunking) is her term for this. O.K., the European authorities are using law to take the suppression of speech to an alarming extreme. But it is the same in America by other, less overt means.
You have read nothing in America’s mainstream press about the Jacques Baud case. Shockingly, there has been not a word about the hunger strikes or Greta Thunberg’s arrest or the increasingly aggressive conduct of the police in Britain, Germany, and elsewhere.
There is a simple explanation for this: Americans are not to know or think about the advancing suppression of speech and the rise of popular resistance to this. It makes for an immense lump under the carpet, but let us not forget: Mainstream media in the United States have been vigorous supporters of censorship since the Russiagate years and, I will add, the emergence of independent media as a presence in public discourse.
Independent media, to finish the thought, will be essential to any successful defense of free speech as increasingly assertive authoritarians across the West seek to extinguish it altogether.
The Jerusalem Post ran an interesting story on Christmas Day under the headline, “Georgetown University severs ties with U.N.’s Francesca Albanese over anti–Semitic remarks.” The special rapporteur for Palestine was a visiting scholar at Georgetown until the university purged her at the insistence of U.N. Watch, one of those disgusting Zionist groups dedicated to discrediting critics of Israeli terror.
One of the United States’ most venerable universities now joins not only in suppressing the speech of a highly visible public servant but also in attacking a figure distinguished for her unceasing defense of international law. Speech, of course, has been Albanese’s instrument.
Trita Parsi, the executive v.–p. at the Qunicy Institute, posted a brilliantly pertinent comment on “X” in response to the Jerusalem Post piece: “They can’t win a single argument, so they rely on silencing people.”
A more succinct summation of our moment I cannot think of. To resist silencing: This seems to me the first task of our time. As the year turns this responsibility presses itself upon us ever more urgently and personally.
What Are the Consequences?
What actually occurs when speech is suppressed? Conferences are canceled, as in the case of Yanis Varoufakis, and professors are suspended or fired or monitored. Newspapers, online journals, podcasts: These and other media are censored, siloed into algorithm ghettos, or forced to cease publication altogether.
You are arrested for carrying a placard or for what is stenciled on your T–shirt. Instagram accounts and messages on “X” are blocked. Readers report that Facebook does not allow them to repost work published in Consortium News, where some of my work comes out.
All this is now common — not quite “normalized” but nearly. The other day the aforementioned Irlandarra posted an item on “X” quoting a basketball star named Dwight Howard:
I tweeted Free Palestine. Less than 10 minutes later, I got a call from the NBA. Commissioner, agents, people in my foundation, and even folks from Texas, telling me to take it down. I damn near got kicked out of the league for it. And I’m trying to figure out, Why?!
“I tweeted Free Palestine. Less than 10 minutes later, I got a call from the NBA commissioner, agents, people in my foundation, and even folks from Texas, telling me to take it down.” – NBA star Dwight Howard.
Guess who runs the NBA? pic.twitter.com/g9xzJ3jbLG
— Irlandarra (@aldamu_jo) December 26, 2025
In one or another way, and in all such cases, the free use of language is forbidden. O.K., obvious enough. But what else happens?
As I considered this question and what more there is to it my mind went back to L.S. Vygotsky, the noted Soviet psychologist, who died in 1934 aged 37 (and whose works were suppressed until Stalin’s death in 1953). The brilliant Vygotsky developed his highly original argument in his most famous book, Thought and Language (sometimes Thinking and Speech in translation).
The primary function of language is not speech, Vygotsky discovered in his researches: It is thought. Jean Piaget considered this question a little later, and more years later so did Chomsky. Speech as we think of it follows “inner speech,” our language when we talk silently to ourselves, and then egocentric speech, when, as Piaget had it, young children talk aloud in languages known only to them.
It followed in Vygotsky’s theory that words are actions, an idea often associated with the Russian scholarly tradition: As language gives form to thought, thought eventuates in behavior, what we do. And so we come to the true and grave import of the threatening assaults on speech that confront us across the Western world.
Most immediately, to suppress speech is to suppress action. This is manifestly the intent of the authoritarians in Europe, in the United States, in Australia. If there is no speaking of Israeli atrocities or the true causes of the war in Ukraine or the apparently imminent attack on Venezuela there will soon enough be no objection to these things.
This is key to the process of “normalization.” The daily brutalities in Gaza, to take the obvious example, fall off the front page, people speak of them no longer, and resistance to them weakens to the point of vanishing.
No thought, no speaking, no action — a process major media incessantly reinforce. So does a grotesque, morally bankrupt silence descend upon us.
More than this, the suppression of speech transforms the future into a desolate tundra. Censoring speech, we need to know and never forget, amounts to thought control at one short remove.
When all alternative opinions and perspectives are effectively outlawed they survive only among the tenacious few and only underground — a term we ought to revive and get used to using. On the surface of life, where the orthodoxies reign, there are no alternative opinions or ways of seeing things.
To extend this thought, when authoritarian regimes posing as defenders of democratic rights ban free speech and, so, free thought, we are effectively confined like detainees in the prison of an eternal present — this the consequence when envisioning a different future is made a prohibition. Creativity, imagination, zones of possibility, and ultimately change — all are rendered beyond reach.
This is one of Huxley’s points in Brave New World. The “what-is,” as I call it, is all there is or will be. The administration of Soma, the state-provided drug that transports those who take it into an anaesthetized euphoria, becomes essential to social control. We should think of this as we consider the prevalent assaults on free expression.
The New York Times or any like mass-circulation daily fill their pages with all the things you must have and all the romance novels you must read and all the casserole dishes and cocktails you must try. This is more than mere frivolity: They offer readers their daily dosages on Soma. Those who are supposed to stand tallest for free speech now numb their readers to its absence.
It is time: Let us determine vigorously to speak in the year to come while accepting what consequences speech may impose, and I will come to those in the piece to follow.
Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a columnist, essayist, lecturer and author, most recently of Journalists and Their Shadows, available from Clarity Press or via Amazon. Other books include Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century. His Twitter account, @thefloutist, has been restored after years of being permanently censored.
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Follow the path .
Banned censored gagged disappeared
Youtube becomes one unending looping video .
How little brother has grown .
When he was small we praised or bestowed , in act ,telling him , arms spread wide , saying “so big” to help him grow , our support meant well .
Snore well , Orwell , a book that burned so well.
Catch me in the loop .
I have grown “so small” yet my presence made me tall like a big fish in a small pond.
I am Big Brother now .
“Baud has not been charged with any criminal offense. There has been no investigation into his work, no evidence has been presented, there will be no judicial process, and he will have no opportunity to respond to the ‘case’ … the E.U. makes against him.”
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With the incomprehensible, free-speech-destructive political persecution of Colonel Jacques Baud, any arguments/debates over the existence or non-existence of an operational Nazi Fourth Reich have been put to rest…
2ooo or so years ago a guy who is called John of Patmos wrote a book about the final days of a war between darkness and light. I personally am not inclined to that kind of extreme dualism and it seems far from the teachings of Jesus about building an alternative community of sharing food and wealth , healing, and a merciful Divinity who is better thought of as a loving parent than a harsh judge and manipulator of events.
But John’s vision is certainly a remarkable picture of a future where the imperial civilization dedicated to greed, slavery and violent domination was headed. The empire has changed hands a few times , Holy Roman, Protestant, Euro Colonialism, Corporate capitalists, British, 3rd reich USA perhaps the former Soviet Empire and for some China. But what is remarkable is the idea of a technocratic state that would demand a combination ID mark and absolute submission to the ruler. He describes a mark in the hand or forehead(implant?) with a number. Those who refuse the numbered mark, or refuse to submit to the order and leader of this global power would not be able to buy or sell. Later, Orwell foresaw a world dominated by a TV and torture administrated police state. Now we carry our all-seeing TV/computer?communication device/eye with us. Beureaucrats with armies use electronic metadata to target Palestinians for slaughter and have even planted explosives in phones. . With Baud and similar examples by the hundreds we are moving into an era of thought crimes with unstated laws. When a free and independent conscience is outlawed, only outlaws will be able to speak truth.
It seems that it would be shocking that those who call themselves Christians express little concern about Trump or other rulers.who deploy this technology. But it appears to be beyond their comprehension that they are themselves enthusiastically supporting it. More and more I think prophecy works this way, filtering up from the subconscious into a clear picture of where we are headed and what comes next. People shrug it off no matter how specific and uncanny and millennia ahead of its time the warning was, but it speaks to us relentlessly in art forms, dreams, religious texts, cartoons, investigative truth seekers. We find ourselves in a culture war between on one hand mind numbing fear, technologically advanced, and carefully orchestrated destruction which we are supposed to yield to without question and on the other hand any sliver of beauty, and hope for a free and friendly future, any truth rising up from nature, from human relations, from cooperative communities , from the arts and from the enduring ideals that shape our best selves.
Despite this defense of free expression, I do not think that personal individualism alone has much effect toward creating new possibilities that can cope with our problems. That requires a convergence of movements similar to what shaped the new deal, and probably an even more radical exploration of new possibilities of self governance.
Agreed JT! The resources of the planet are not infinite the growing pressure on them is real but not well understood to support the over population of the planet. Mismanagement, blatant waste and continuous wars waste treasure mankind cannot afford everyday and have for seventy years.
Then we have current problem of catastrophic failure of the two dominating political parties in Congress failing their responsibilities to maintain there authority by using it to be a check in the balance of powers of the branches of government as laid out in the Constitution.
Trump is in deep trouble around the globe. All of it produced by his own actions. This is not a secret, neither is the reality which exposes his performance as being constantly very much bizarre, impulsive / angry/goofy and spaced out or nodding out.
The country must get united and resist an authoritarian ruler at all costs.
Just when the country needs a strong leader to let the government work corral the big money lobby. Things are not good, unite and resist.
Be safe everyone!
I think you’re right about prophesy as bubbling up from the collective unconscious–as Jung had it. Explains modern art, too. Harsh lines like the chrome and glass pointy thrusty monstrous skyscrapers in every big city world-wide. Comforting to the 1%ers and and a reminder to the rest of us how small we are. Or blotches of color like abstract economic and political thought; disconnected from the living Earth, slouching toward chaotic breakdown.
As for individualism, a plus as a sense of self and a foundation for rights. But not as libertarian anarcho-capitalist techies believe–the Randroid myth of being entirely self-made, never needing help from anyone. So those not rich and powerful are lazy, defective, or stupid. Government aid for the needy merely encourages a lack of personal responsibility.
The New Deal was good for us lessers. FDR said about banksters, Robber Barons, and war profiteers: “I welcome their hatred.” Therefore the 1971 Powell Memo, forerunner to Project 2025. Basically a call to dismantle the New Deal. The Dem party was usurped by neolibs, enabling econopathy. The dominant econ philosophy, now infecting most of the world, comes from Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics. Friedman supported Pinochet because “democracy interferes with Market efficiency.” Yet there is little, if any, empirical data behind their claims. It’s all assumptions and argument by assertion, based on nothing more than a deep hatred of the New Deal and Keynesianism.
Rafi, a question, Am I wrong here by questioning Friedman’s claim that democracy interferes with Market efficiency when capitalism has worked so well for corporate interests around the world. It might be his opinion, which to me is just that!
I always figured Friedman was a tool for CIA and foreign policy wonks anyway. Which might be a story for another time.
I’m seeing amongst those around be unhappy faces in public, no longer many are not so cocky and filled with bravado.
Going to get very interesting , maybe much sooner than many think.
Take my word for it, pro Israel and pro Zionist make their presence know to me constantly and them the sass hole who. are simply trolls must get there ‘hacka’ in too.
Just as they don’t care about the effect of lack there of, of their actions, don’t see as anything other than what it is, very angry frustrated individuals. who are actually clueless to what it is that bothers them so!
This story addresses the reality which exists the world over, not to be thoughtlessly cast aside as being unimportant r trivial.
The separation of the the super wealthy elitists from the other 99% has grown into a very critical problem for all humans in the lowest one third of inhabitants on this planet. It is going to get much worse. The super wealthy elitists must be taught some lessons in respect and they are coming.
When the natives go quiet it will not b good!
Excellent as always …
Anyone else read the Baud persecution and think of Galileo’s inquisition or better yet that of Giordano Bruno, burned for “imagining” a different world than the one approved by the Church? What’s the modern equivalent of burning at the stake? If Putin says the sky is blue and you agree, are you guilty of thought crime?
Your article reminded me of Ray McGovern turning his back to Hilary Clinton at Georgetown University and being thrown to the ground by security ( or as the press described the incident as “removed”). His crime: the back of the T-shirt carried the message “Veterans for Peace.” As I recall the faculty never turned to witness the occasion absorbed as they were by Clinton’s topic on freedom of speech. Thus, not a surprise that Georgetown purged Francesca Albanese from teaching there.
Thanks so much for another extraordinary and profound piece of work.
Thanks Ed, for recalling for us all, my brother Ray’s silent encounter with Hillary back in 2011, silent, that is, for a while; not so silent when Ray was beat up outside the meeting room. Ray visited me and my family a few days later, and I was able to see for myself the severe bruises and contusions “administered” to Ray.
Ray is constantly following his own advice, urging that it is not enough to “talk the talk” (add: write the write), but to also get out in the street and protest, confront, demonstrate – nonviolently, of course – in the spirit of King and so many others. Among many such examples, one recalls his violent expulsion from the Senate hearing room considering the nomination of the atrocious Gina Haspel as CIA Director when he arose from his seat and asked why the senators did not probe deeper into Haspel’s direction of torture in previous CIA positions. The gentle Capital Fuzz reinjured an already bad shoulder while throwing the 79 year old Ray on the ground and handcuffing him in the back. (Ray told me later that he went to the hearing with, uncharacteristically no intention of protesting [“Larry, after all, I was in suit and tie, not my usual Veterans For Peace t-shirt”], but his frustration and a bit of his Irish heritage anger got the better of him.)
One also remembers (Yikes, just realizing that younger readers here may not remember, since it took place almost 20 years ago!) Ray’s 2006 confrontation of Rumsfeld. Can still see that on YouTube, I believe. He also sent me a photo of him standing on a street corner in Raleigh with a sign: ICE is here!
I could go on and on, but there are lots of excellent comments for us to read. I just want to add one thing. It’s a minor corrections but the Hillary protest took place at George Washington University, not Georgetown. But Georgetown’s severing ties with Albanese (are you kidding me??), unfortunately is in line with 2 other instances at Jesuit universities. Several year’s ago, Boston College (my alma mater) honoured war criminal Condoleezza Rice with an honorary degree, and the commencement address. (Thankfully, a good number of faculty and students stood with their backs to Rice). And then there’s Fordham University (Ray’s alma mater) , which gave another war criminal (and alum), John Brennan, the same: honorary degree and commencement address. And adding insult to injury, Fordham Law School has given Brennan a position as “Distinguished Fellow for Global Security” at its Center on National Security. (Can’t make this stuff up.) An additional insult to injury: Ray’s and my Dad, Joseph W. McGovern, was a long time, esteemed professor at Fordham Law. So esteemed that his portrait hangs somewhere in the school. Ray and I have discussed meeting at Fordham Law one day, and just taking the portrait down and bringing it home. I think our Dad would be pleased.
We CN readers deeply appreciate the work of your brother. His neologism “MICIMATT” says it all. We also appreciate your own comments–great in their own right (write) as well as thoughtful clarification. That 2011 back to HRC was totally savory! As someone who was a blue collar rank and file union activist for 28 years, to my kind neolib/neocon HRC proclaimed her true colors with that “a basket of deplorables” remark. Also deplorable is any mention of peace; an unforgivable affront to authority.
As one deplorable to another, solidarity!
Thanks so much for your kind, thoughtful words, Rafi. Much appreciated, and I’m sure Ray does, too.
And glad to see you mention the MICIMATT.
Wishing you well in 2026,
Fellow Deplorable
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I’m from New Mexico. In Brave New World the last bastion of “old” humanity was New Mexico, populated by”savages,” whom vacationers from the World State come to marvel at. Huxley’s (and Orwell’s) world is now upon us. There is no way out other than to become “savages” ourselves, which is to say, as Patrick so brilliantly articulates, utter and total rejection of what has the appearance of a fait accompli. It is time to go “underground,” as Patrick says, and seek human alternatives to the nightmare in which we find ourselves.
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“Rules based order.” Their rules. And since we the peasant working class majority are far too base to be trusted with political and economic decisions, the Ivy Dems, Oxbridge “Labour,” and Euro equivalents should order us as they see fit.
The same mentality Halberstam documented in his book on U.S. arrogance during the Vietnam war: //The Best and the Brightest.// The elites did learn; not that their high self-regard might be a problem, but that being outed certainly was. Never again! Therefore dissenting voices of any kind must be suppressed.
This tsunami of censorship is principally to cover up the long and continuing history of Israel’s terrorism, mass murder, and property theft. The silence of our politicians and mainstream press is clear and conclusive evidence that they are all criminal accomplices in these obvious crimes. The Collective West is ruled by ruthless criminals, who are tightening the noose with increasing mass surveillance and censorship. First they came for the Palestinians. Then they came for the Brits and Australians. Now they are coming for the Americans. Fortunately the internet is being flooded with new young poscasters who are openly discussing the Zionsts’ control of our society.
NOT Zionists=Jews=Isreal(is) – it is the Con LIKUD party in alliance with the world-wide Con-spiracy. Blaming ANY entity other than the radical, extremist LIKUD (=NAZI) party exposes you as an anti-Semite.
Nonsense, Zionism is a racist political ideology. It is an ideology shared with so-called Christians as well. To argue against this exposes you as a racist and a hypocrite.
It appears that it is not right to make the blind see leading to evangelists trying to make the blind see so symbols are banned but can become religious activity with God on ones side in wars as a symbol of belief.
The fight has to start sometime, it has to start somewhere. What better place than here, what better time than now
How diligent our wise leaders to shield us from wrongthink.
“Jacques Baud” is actually an official “topic” you can follow on Google News. At the moment, however, it contains only a single entry from ScheerPost on Jacques himself; the only relation the other articles there have to him is that they contain the term “sanctions,” usually on Russia. Is that incompetence or a conspiracy? Probably some of both.