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‘Conspiracy theories’ on Covid-19 come from BRAIN DAMAGE? Questionable science is being used to pathologize real dissent Helen Buyniski is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter  @velocirapture23 19 Nov, 2020 17:46 Get short URL Protest against Covid-19 restrictions © Reuters / Henry Nicholls 23 Follow RT on People who believe in so-called conspiracy theories about Covid-19 are actually suffering from “neuropsychological impairments,” says a neurologist, in what sounds more than a little bit like Soviet-era weaponized psychiatry. ‘Conspiracy theorists’ who refuse to wear masks and embrace lockdowns are the victims of their own scientific illiteracy, which has fundamentally damaged their brains to such an extent that they cannot understand the science of Covid-19, claims neurologist Bruce Miller from the University of California, San Francisco, in a  paper published  earlier this month in the Journal of the American Medical Associatio...

  Now that the Biden/Harris ticket has prevailed in the 2020 US presidential election, one can expect a boost in social justice, especially as it pertains to race. What’s more, one can expect social justice to continue to be a multicultural endeavor. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris symbolize the black activist/white ally partnership that is becoming the norm in both academic and activist circles. This partnership is widely lauded as necessary for bringing about social change, but it has created the problematic phenomenon I call  virtue racism . Rapper  50 Cent’s recent tweets  implored his followers to vote for Trump—citing Joe Biden’s 62% tax rate. Comedian  Chelsea Handler  has interpreted this as a violation of black authenticity: So he doesn’t want to pay 62 percent in taxes because he doesn’t want to go from ‘50 Cent’ to ‘20 Cent’ and I had to remind him that he was a black person, so he can’t vote for Donald Trump and that he shouldn’t be influencing ...

  The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon. Glenn Greenwald The Trump era has engendered  numerous fractures, one might say realignments, in the political order. Long-time ideological allies are now adversaries, and long-time political enemies are now in full-fledged coalitions. These shifts are not temporary or Trump-dependent but enduring, because they are grounded in shared core beliefs about the defining debates shaping our new politics and how to consolidate real power: call it the Lincoln Project Syndrome. WASHINGTON, DC - Former Obama CIA Director John Brennan (R) with  The Atlantic ’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg during the Washington Ideas Forum at the Harman Center for the Arts (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) One major r...