Just a few years ago, concepts such as "white supremacy," "systemic racism," and "structural intersectionality" were not the standard fare of prestigious medical journals. These are now the guiding ideas in a February special issue of Health Affairs that focuses on medicine and race.

Featuring nearly two dozen articles with titles such as "Racism Runs Through It" and "Sick and Tired of Being Excluded," as well as a poem called Identity, the Washington, D.C.-based, peer-reviewed journal analyzes racial health disparities not through biology, behavior, or culture, but through the lens of "whiteness," along with concepts such as power, systems of oppression, state-sanctioned violence, and critical race praxis - a sampling of terms that come up in the February issue.

Health Affairs, dubbed by a Washington Post columnist as "the bible of health policy," represents something much more ambitious than woke virtue signaling. Its February issue reflects the effort of newly empowered "anti-racist" scholars to transform concepts that are still considered speculative and controversial - and some say unprovable - into scientific fact. This growing effort to document, measure, and quantify racism is being advanced by other high-profile publications, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and Scientific American, which last year ran articles entitled "Modern Mathematics Confronts Its White, Patriarchal Past" and "Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy."

As I reported on April 4, Disney, once upon a time a respected and trusted company, is today a lobby for sexual perversion. The Florida legislature passed the "Parental Rights in Education" bill into law, and Disney's CEO, Bob Chapek, has taken issue with it. As far as Chapek is concerned, the rights of a tiny minority of sexual perverts take precedent over parental rights. Chapek thinks parents have no right to protest the public education system brainwashing their children into sexual perversion and transgenderism.

It turns out that Disney had purchased via campaign contributions from a previous legislature the right to govern itself independently of the county governments in which Disney resides. When Chapek announced that Disney's goal was to have parental rights " be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts" and to support organizations working to make that happen, Florida Ron DeSantis reminded Chapek that Florida "is governed by the interests of the people of the state of Florida — it is not based on the demands of California corporate executives." The Florida government has made it clear that Disney's unique privilege is subject to repeal.

A federal judge on Wednesday acquitted a New Mexico man of misdemeanor charges that he illegally entered the U.S. Capitol and engaged in disorderly conduct after he walked into the building during last year's riot.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden issued the verdict from the bench after hearing testimony without a jury in the case against Matthew Martin. McFadden, who was nominated by former President Donald Trump, acquitted Martin of all four counts for which he was charged.

Martin did not dispute that he joined hundreds of other people in entering the Capitol building during the riot. The judge said Martin's actions were "about as minimal and non-serious" as anyone who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

The source who distributed Hunter Biden's laptop to congressmen and media has fled the US to Switzerland, saying he fears retaliation from the Biden administration.

Jack Maxey gave DailyMail.com a copy of the hard drive from Hunter's abandoned laptop in the spring of 2021.

He also gave copies and material from it to the Washington Post, New York Times, and Senator Chuck Grassley in his role as ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee - but he claims they all sat on it for months.

What's really behind Disney's opposition to Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Bill?

Amidst Disney's opposition to Florida's falsely monikered "Don't Say Gay" bill - which aims to protect children from exposure to harmful gender ideologies and activism - the company's long history of employing individuals arrested for a variety of child sex crimes has come under scrutiny.

Initially, Disney executives stayed silent on the legislation - which bans teachers from pushing alternative gender identities and LGBTQ activism on Kindergarteners through third-grade students - before being pressured by its left-wing workers to oppose the bill.

Platform says USMC veteran and former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter violated "targeted harassment" rule.

Twitter "permanently suspended" the retired US Marine Corps officer Scott Ritter on Wednesday, accusing him of engaging in prohibited behavior by questioning the claims of Ukrainian authorities that Russian soldiers had massacred civilians in Bucha near Kiev. Ritter is best known as the former UN weapons inspector who doubted US claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, invoked by Washington as a pretext for the 2003 invasion.

"So apparently I've been suspended from Twitter for the crime of challenging the orthodox narrative of the so-called Bucha massacre," Ritter said on his Telegram channel, sharing a screenshot of the message he received from the Big Tech platform.

Sport's governing body rules cyclist is not currently compliant with its regulations.

A biologically male cyclist who now identifies as female was barred from competing in a women's championship race this weekend, following threats of boycott from female competitors.

Emily Bridges, who formerly competed against men as Zach Bridges, was cut from the women's British National Omnium Championship on Saturday.

A very alarming global food shortage has already begun, and it is only going to get worse in the months ahead. I realize that this is not good news, but I would encourage you to share the information in this article with everyone that you can. People deserve to understand what is happening, and they deserve an opportunity to get prepared. The pace at which things are changing around the globe right now is absolutely breathtaking, but most people assume that life will just continue to carry on as it normally does. Unfortunately, the truth is that a very real planetary emergency is developing right in front of our eyes. The following are 20 facts about the emerging global food shortage that should chill you to the core...

#1 One of France's most important government officials is telling us that we should brace ourselves for an "extremely serious" global food crisis...

France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the EU must get to grips with the prospect that the war in Ukraine could prompt an "extremely serious" global food crisis.

#2 Joe Biden recently admitted that food shortages are "going to be real", and his administration is now openly using the word "famine" to describe what is coming...

The Biden administration is worried Russia's invasion of Ukraine will cause famine in parts of the world, White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse told CNBC on Friday.

Welcome to Prison Australia where unvaccinated citizens are not able to leave. (And Canadians thought they were the only ones). If your best friend is getting married in Madagascar, the Africans will let you fly in, but you can't go because Australia won't let you out.

Australians who are unvaccinated or not-jabbed-enough can apply for permission to leave. But unless you need foreign medical care, live or work overseas, or are flying in the "national interest" (meaning you're a politician) you may not qualify. Trips need to be "longer than three months" for no good reason I can think of, except that it stops most holidayers. Which is obviously the point.

People may get an exemption if they need to work overseas. Which is fine if your boss wants to send you to conventions in the Greek Islands but you can't take the wife and kids unless she owns the company, and the kids are your employees. Otherwise, there's no pleasure cruises for the unjabbed peasants from Oz.
Unvaccinated Australians who want to leave pretty much have to escape

We can always drive to Broome. We might find an Indonesian fishing boat and get a lift back the other way, in a kind of reverse boat-people maneuver. With luck, Australian-boat-people might be able to apply for political asylum in Bali. But will Indonesia accept them? Otherwise it's only 150 kilometers from the top end of Queensland to Papua New Guinea. It's possible to swim or paddle across the Torres Strait, it's just that the crocodiles may appreciate your trip more than you do.

The ban doesn't apply to unvaccinated foreigners in Australia, (luckily for Novak, eh, or he might still be here?). Non-Australians are free to leave, so dual nationals could always renounce their citizenship but the rest of us just have to go stateless.

Right now, there are about 70 countries which allow unvaccinated travelers in. Places like France, Spain, Greece and the UK, as well as Norway, Israel, Denmark, and those bastions of freedom: Cuba, Russia and parts of Africa and central America.

When nations with medical systems as good as Haiti aren't afraid to welcome the Unvaxxed, it seems a tad odd that Australia is afraid to send them.

As it is, the Australian made vaccine is not on the approved list in Australia, so unvaccinated Australians aren't able to fly out of Australia to go to Iran where they could get an Australian vaccine. It's almost like we're owned by Pfizer.

"Zendegi megozara" (Life goes on), an Afghan proverb says - and Kabul, dubbed by the Western media as the city of hope and despair, could be a physical illustration of the saying. Weeks of fear and uncertainty under Taliban rule followed the withdrawal of NATO troops, the mass evacuations and the flight of the country's leaders. Despite a humanitarian crisis unfolding and the future seeming murky, however, the Afghan capital looks just as it did back in the republican days - on the surface, at least.

The airport in Kabul still isn't working at full capacity. After the Taliban took over the city on August 15 last year, most international carriers ceased flights to Afghanistan until the situation stabilizes - except for low-cost airline Fly Dubai, Mahan Air of Iran, and few more regional companies.