Today we look at the recent volatility of bitcoin and we probe a little deeper into questions about the real nature of money. Bitcoin is certainly a disruptive technology, but is it really any more reliable that fiat currency as a medium of exchange

"War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differi

Today we look at the "war on Christmas" which has been waged by faceless bureaucrats all over the Western world, manifest in the spontaneous removal of references to the Christian basis of this holiday season. This campaign to remove references to Christ

Mark Zuckerberg promotes internet.org Today we take a look at the truth about fake news, which is very different to the definition of that term which has been offered to us by mainstream sources. There are many ironies in all this, the biggest being per

Mark Zuckerberg promotes internet.org Today we take a look at the truth about fake news, which is very different to the definition of that term which has been offered to us by mainstream sources. There are many ironies in all this, the biggest being per

Pizzagate Montage The fact that mainstream media has declared that the entire collection of alternative media posts which go under the hash tag "Pizzagate" are "fake news" is perhaps a good reason to actually take it seriously. In today's show

We live in a time where political philosophies are becoming increasingly polarized and where labels such as "alt-right" and "liberal" are used with little care or understanding of either the etymology or the history of these words in English. U

In today's show we are joined by Seva Pulya, editor in chief of Russia Beyond the Headlines, a multli-language news organisation focussed on Russian politics, culture and geography. We begin our conversation on the topic of the US election and the w

Today we begin by reflecting on the true meaning behind the Nobel Prize being awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016. It is key to understand that the main body of Dylan's early work was deeply concerned with corruption, injustice, war and dishonesty in the s

In today's show we examine the confirmation bias of political allegiences, and the way that translates into false information becoming promoted as news. We also look at conflicting and contradictory positions taken by the candidates and their surrog