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CaspianReport Does a Terrible Job Showing Why Argentina is Not Rich

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu22RNjjrG0 In December 2022, a YouTube channel with over 1.3 million subscribers, known as CaspianReport, uploaded a video titled "Why Argentina is not rich". The thumbnail of the video fittingly shows Juan Peron in front of the Argentine flag. This seemed no doubt understandable. The legacy of Peron's spendthrift populism has definitely not left Argentina after all these decades, as shown by the multiple Presidents and legislative politicians who have called themselves "Peronists" over the years, including current President Alberto Fernandez. Seeing that, one expected that maybe the video was going to go over the very dumb things that happened under his presidency/dictatorship. These would include, but not be limited to: restriction of international trade, wage-and-price controls, seizure of private property, nationalization of multiple industries, and creating a Nordic-style social democracy that was largely financed by money...

By Deontological Libertarian Ethics, Palestinians’ Rights Were Clearly Violated by the Nakba

                 May 15, 2023 is remembered by Palestinians the world over as the 75 th anniversary of the Nakba. Meaning “The Catastrophe” in Arabic, this day is in remembrance of the events that constituted the ethnic expulsion and/or the causing to flee of around 700,000 Palestinians from what is today the State of Israel, the destruction of around 400 to 600 villages and erasure of evidence of their existence, and even acts of biological warfare by means of poisoning wells to prevent people from being able to return. As shown by the horrors of deliberately targeting a non-threatening village in Deir Yassin, the Zionist militias of the Irgun and Lehi were more than willing to engage in what can only be described as crimes against humanity. The main Zionist militia, which would later become the IDF, the Haganah, may not have been such as extreme, but their complicity in Palestinians being driven out to make room for Jewish settlers is ...

The Juice Media Surprisingly Acknowledges the Consequences of Artificially Low Interest Rates

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxXRigHri4 The Juice Media is an Australian company that mainly operates on YouTube, wherein they promote left-wing politics, both in their home country and abroad, through their internationally-seen “Honest Government Ads”. These ads are meant to seem like what the creators imagine brutally honest, vulgar equivalents of government public service announcements would sound like. They sometimes offer decent historical and contemporary interpretations of conflicts in obscure places in the world, such as the brutality that has been and is happening in West Papua at the hands of Indonesia’s imperializing government, but most of the time, they stick to economic analysis and subsequently push left-wing economics and advocate voting against perceived right-wingers, including the Australian Labor Party, in favor of whatever the most progressive alternative is. The Australian Green Party, their home country’s case. Coming across as basically the social demo...