This week on the New World Next Week: the Ellisons are the newest media moguls; the Ryiadh Comedy Festival highlights court jester hypocrisy; and the IUCN votes to use synthetic biology in conservation.

Robert writes in to ask James about the bundles of sticks behind the speaker’s chair in the US congress chamber. James responds with a history lesson about the fasces, its use throughout history, how it arrived on the shores of America, and what it really represents.

via Off-Guardian.org: The latest Independent Media Alliance panel discusses the principle of free speech and what exceptions (if any) should be made to this principal, including the age-old fire in a crowded theatre argument and the supposed hate speech exemption. They also tackle growing threats to free speech from both sides of the aisle in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination and how the right is embracing their own version of cancel culture.

This week on New World Next Week: the digital ID agenda rolls along in every country simultaneously; Pakistan extends Saudi Arabia its nuclear umbrella; and Trump continues the never-ending 9/11 emergency.

Let me give you some advice that could change your life forever. It's called, yes, and, and it will transform your arguments into productive conversations. Let me show you how.

James Corbett joins Hakeem Anwar of Take Back Our Tech to discuss REPORTAGE, open source journalism and the subtle difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy reality. For those who are interested, there is also an extra half-hour of conversation behind the paywall at the Take Back Our Tech Substack, so sign up to TBOT today to check it out.

If you've watched Dissent Into Madness then you'll not only know about the ways that psychological insights are being weaponized against us but, more importantly, you'll have an idea about what we can do about it. Today on #SolutionsWatch, James considers more ideas for escaping from this societal madhouse garnered from the new Psychology course at OpenSourceEducation.online.

Michel Chossudovsky of GlobalResearch.ca makes a presentation to the 20 Years Journey in Criminalizing War: What Next? in Kuala Lumpur commemorating the 20th anniversary of the signing of the 2005 Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalize War. He reflects on the lack of progress toward the vision of the criminalization of war and the unfortunate move toward the criminalization of justice that has instead taken place over the last two decades.

This week on New World Next Week: Nepalese nepos get taken down by Discord democracy; The Power of Siberia 2 is tanking Gazprom; and masks are the new orange in New Brunswick.

What if the delusions of the dissidents are in fact real? What if their paranoid fantasies are not fantasies at all? In other words, what if it’s not the political dissidents who are crazy, but the politicians?