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A Brief Note on Writing
Setting down a lifetime of this trade's tricks, one a time
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Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall
Germany investigates Roger Waters for incitement to parody
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Transcript, America This Week, May 26, 2022: "The Machine Starts"
How Walter learned to stop worrying and love DIAA, the "U.S.-supported e-government" app made for Ukraine. Then, an unpleasantly seamless transition to…
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The Democrats Have Lost the Plot
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Meet the Censored: Me?
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The American Press Is Destroying Itself
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House Democrats Have Lost Their Minds
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News Blackout in Effect
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Episode 40: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
Listen now (105 min) | Walter and Matt discuss Diaa, Ukraine’s new all-consuming everything app, and talk about “The Machine Stops,” the 1909 story that…
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The Federal Reserve's Human Sacrifice
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Interview on "Rising" Re: My Crazy IRS Case
On the IRS visit, the letter from Stacey Plaskett, and other issues
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Matt Taibbi
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Is Putin Trolling?
The Russian President's new "List of 500" sanctioned Americans looks like a Russiagate-media honey trap
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My Crazy IRS Case
A House Subcommittee investigation reveals new details about my IRS case that should unnerve any journalist, or any American, for that matter
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Australia's Creepy Covid Cops
On the heels of an expose down under, new documents show how America's Five Eyes partner cast a broad net over pandemic-related speech
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Twitter Files Extra: The Covid Censorship Requests of Australia's Department of Home Affairs
Twitter Files confirm that the Australian government has worked overtime to monitor Covid-related speech
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