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Liz Collin
They’re Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd
Paper Birch Publishing, 2022
The Fall of Minneapolis (2023)
Directed by J. C. Chaix (more…)
Counter-Currents
Tag: Derek Chauvin trial
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Noni Olabisi’s mural Freedom Won’t Wait was inspired by the 1992 Rodney King riots.
Noni Olabisi’s mural Freedom Won’t Wait was inspired by the 1992 Rodney King riots.
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George Floyd most likely never met Rodney King. They are both dead. Their lives really “made a difference.” It would be good for them to meet. Comparatively speaking, that is.
The difference these particular agents of the feral underclass made was to turn race-rioting on a colossal scale into a form of “righteous” self-expression — but only for a chosen people. (more…)
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Stalin aiming a rifle at the Soviet Union’s Central Committee in 1934. His comrades took it as a joke; it’s doubtful many of them were still laughing a few years later.
Stalin aiming a rifle at the Soviet Union’s Central Committee in 1934. His comrades took it as a joke; it’s doubtful many of them were still laughing a few years later.
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One of the more fascinating spectacles of the twentieth century’s totalitarian smoke and mirrors was the show trial, courtesy of Joseph Stalin. With his Leninist view of history and its underlying theme of the triumphal ascendency of the Socialist Man as the thematic driver, the show trial — a fake legal proceeding with built-in theatrics — would become the national stage for an elaborate morality play and “teachable moment” that affirmed the moral perfection of Big Brother. (more…)
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Andrea del Sarto, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1527.
Andrea del Sarto, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1527.
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Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts for the “murder” of the beatified George Floyd. The jury, consisting of only two white men among twelve, found him guilty within a matter of hours. It was a quick decision that sent a clear message to America: black lives matter more than yours.
Despite being denounced by nearly every law enforcement official in the country, Derek Chauvin is the face of American police. (more…)
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StoneToss, Justice is Bind, 2021.
StoneToss, Justice is Bind, 2021.
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Officer Derek Chauvin should not have been convicted for murder in the death of George Floyd. But the conviction comes as no surprise, because it comes at the end of a long list of things that shouldn’t have happened. (more…)
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G. Gordon Liddy, photographed by Paul Hosefros in 1992.
G. Gordon Liddy, photographed by Paul Hosefros in 1992.
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White Supremacists Wearing Realistic-Looking “Black Men” Masks Continue Attacking Asians
Tariq Nasheed is a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction — a walking contradiction. He’s also the dumbest person on Twitter. (more…)
