Dong Yunhu, an important political figure in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in developing its human rights propaganda, was put under investigation for alleged “serious violations of Party discipline and Chinese law,” reported the CCP’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The anti-corruption agency announced the investigation of 60-year-old Dong, head of Shanghai delegates in the…

Commentary Keeping up with the corruption of the COVID regime feels like drinking from a firehose. The volume of the fraud, the pace of new discoveries, and the breadth of the operations are overwhelming. This makes it imperative for groups like Brownstone Institute to digest the onslaught of information and communicate salient themes and dispositive…

Commentary According to Aldous Huxley, the tyrant of the future will use drugs and propaganda to convince the individual to “love his slavery.” In a 1958 interview with Mike Wallace, Huxley explained as follows: “You have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do partly by drugs, as I foresaw in…

WASHINGTON—China’s communist leadership is attempting to fracture European unity and sow distrust in international organizations, according to testimony received by a U.S. government agency. China now considers a politically fragmented Europe to be among its core interests, according to Andrew Small, a senior fellow for the German Marshall Fund think tank. “I think that has…

Commentary It’s common now to speak of the before times in contrast to the after times. The turning point was of course March 16, 2020, the day of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, though authoritarian trends predate that. Rights were suddenly broadly throttled, even religious rights. We were told to conduct every aspect of…

Commentary As nearly every standardized test is showing, our schools are doing an abysmal job teaching kids how to read or do math. In some cases, kids graduating from high school can barely read their diplomas. But the schools are wildly succeeding with their climate change indoctrination program. When I speak to kids on high…

Commentary In the world of Business Analysis there is a discipline called Process Modelling. Its output would be familiar to most people, consisting of diagrams to show how a business process, like say fulfilling an order, is supposed to work. As a discipline it strives for clarity and simplicity, through a complex syntax and method,…

Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…

Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…

No one was looking when the Global War on Terror turned into an assault on American liberty. U.S. spy agencies teamed up with Big Tech and the media to target free speech and undermine the very foundations of our constitutional republic. Now the United States is guided by the tyranny that the Founding Fathers and…