Editor's Note: One of most profound analyses of the crisis of ignorance and stupidity in our fast-paced, media generated culture. Listen from the beginning to the end and celebrate the possibility of once again "thinking for ourselves". Please read the partial transcript below.

Humanity has faced devastating plagues throughout history. The Black Death wiped out a third of the European population. In just a few years. The Spanish flu claimed millions of lives in a matter of month (it was actually the vaccines, not the flu, that caused the deaths). Smallpox terrorized civilizations for millennia. 

But there is a silent pandemic happening right now that doesn’t destroy bodies. It annihilates something infinitely more precious - the human capacity to think.

We are not talking about comfortable metaphor or…

Otto Warburg published his Nobel lecture in 1931 and said, with the directness that won him the prize: 

"Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause.

Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar."

For forty years, his work was the leading framework for understanding cancer.

Then the genetic mutation theory emerged. Oncogenes. Tumour suppressor genes. DNA damage. The molecular biology of cancer became the dominant research paradigm from the 1970s onward.

Warburg's metabolic theory was not disproven. It was superseded by a framework that had more funding and more pharmaceutical applications.

The problem: the genetic…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a standing ovation at the Munich Security Conference following a forceful speech that focused on the dangers of illegal immigration, Christian revival and maintaining strong ties between the United States and Europe.

“We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world,” Rubio began, recalling the Berlin Wall’s erection and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He described how “Soviet communism was on the march” and “thousands of years of Western civilization hung in the balance” before it was halted by U.S.-European alliances.

Rubio went on to argue that such alliances are increasingly threatened by the dangers of unfettered illegal immigration. “In a pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the…

The Israel-Hamas war shows that Washington is the single most disruptive force in the world

By Tarik Cyril Amar

Israel’s assault on Gaza, as well as the escalation of violence by Israeli settlers in the long-occupied West Bank, is, or should be, a wake-up call.

More than 11,000 Palestinians, including some 4,650 children, have now been killed in a war started in response to the October 7 Hamas attacks which themselves claimed around 1,200 lives.

A halfway even-handed international community would have to step in and protect the victims of the disproportionate Israeli retaliation, which multiple international voices have called a genocide and an…