As Russia continues its advance west toward the key logistical city of Pokrovsk, whose fall would threaten Ukraine’s ability to supply its troops in the Donbas and expose fields to the west of the city over which Russian troops can pour into the rest of Donbas,...
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Information Isolation from Down Under
by Kym Robinson | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
"Misinformation and disinformation pose a serious threat to the safety and wellbeing of Australians, as well as to our democracy, society and economy”– Communications Minister Michelle Rowland The Australian government is looking to further control speech and...
Prediction Realized: The Fed Opts for a Rate Cut
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 25, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
In February of this year, I forecast that the Federal Reserve, despite all the bluster about "higher rates for longer," would eventually blink. Now, following last Wednesday’s FOMC announcement, that prediction has come true. The Committee, in a not-at-all-shocking...
When Capital Punishment Becomes Collectivized…
by Owen Ashworth | Sep 25, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Recently, the internet was lit ablaze by Tucker Carlson interviewing popular historian Daryl Cooper. Revealing that religion is not on the decline, like angry Catholics from the medieval times all of Twitter was out to burn Cooper at the stake for his views on World...
A New Primer Brings the ‘Great Debate’ Back To Form
by Brandan P. Buck | Sep 24, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
H.W. Brands' America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War is an informative and well-needed account of the vitriolic debates that preceded American entry into the Second World War. Brands's treatment is a welcomed addition to a field that, since the...
Americans Have Learned Nothing Since 9/11
by Connor Freeman | Sep 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
We should never forget that American civilians were blindsided twenty-three years ago this month when a small group of mostly Saudis and Egyptians hijacked our civilian airliners in a kamikaze mission that murdered thousands. Though none of them were Palestinian, the...
Hillary Clinton’s Sordid History of Secrecy and Censorship
by Jim Bovard | Sep 23, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
“You could drop Hillary into any trouble spot, come back in a month and…she will have made it better,” former President Bill Clinton declared in a 2016 speech championing his wife’s presidential candidacy. But Hillary’s entry into the brawls surrounding the 2024...
Victoria Nuland Counters Her Own State Propaganda
by James Wile | Sep 23, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland gave an interview with exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar that was published to YouTube on September 3 and the conversation deserves more attention than it received. While an interview from...
TGIF: “We Are All Social Engineers Now”
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 20, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I don't know if anyone has actually said, "We are all social engineers now," but someone might as well have. (The variation "We are all Keynesians now" was declared a long time ago, even by Milton Friedman, although see this.) When I say "all," of course, I don't mean...
Israel’s Pager Terrorism
by Brad Pearce | Sep 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Tuesday, September 17, Lebanon experienced one of the most widespread terrorist attacks in history. All at once, pagers across the south of the country indicated they had received a message and then exploded. As of Tuesday night it was said fourteen people were...
Ukraine at the Crossroads
by Ted Snider | Sep 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The West is being increasingly confronted with the cold realization that Ukraine cannot win this war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has set as a threshold for victory, not only the recapture of territory up to his country's prewar borders, but the reclamation...
The Case for Pessimism in Sino-American Relations
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On September 11, the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed by the director of the Asia Engagement Program at Defense Priorities and director of the China Initiative at Brown University, Dr. Lyle Goldstein, on the need for Washington to work to improve its relations with...
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Kenya to Bolster US-Backed ‘Police Force’ in Haiti
After months of failing to make progress against paramilitaries in Port au Prince, Nairobi plans to surge thousands of armed Kenyans into Haiti over the next four months. Kenya is planning to deploy 2,500 soldiers, officially dubbed police, to Haiti in a US-backed...
NATO Prepares for Mass Transport of Wounded Soldiers
As the North Atlantic alliance ramps up preparations for war with Russia, Brussels is considering how it might remove a large number of wounded NATO soldiers from the frontlines should conflict with Moscow breakout. Lieutenant-General Alexander Sollfrank, the head of...
US to Sanction Former Georgian Leader Over Opposition to NATO Membership
Washington is preparing sanctions against former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili over his opposition to Tbilisi joining the North Atlantic Alliance and the European Union. A senior US official told American state media, Voice of America, that...
Turkey Will Seek Justice for Turkish-American Protester Killed By Israel
Ankara will submit evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the United Nations regarding the murder of Turkish-American Aysenur Eyzi Eygi by the Israel Defense Forces during a protest in the West Bank. On September...
19 Palestinians Reported Killed in Israeli Strikes on al-Mawasi Camp in Gaza
At least 19 Palestinians were killed and 60 more injured by Israeli strikes on the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza early Tuesday morning, local health authorities said.
Victoria Nuland Admits US Discouraged Ukraine From Signing Peace Deal With Russia in 2022
Former US State Department official Victoria Nuland has acknowledged that the US discouraged Ukraine from signing a peace deal with Russia during the early days of the Russian invasion.
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Interview: Biden’s Faux Ceasefire Efforts Facilitate Israel’s Genocide
I discuss the latest news about Israel and the US role in its conflicts with the Palestinians and Hezbollah.
Failing Upward: The USAF and the Woke Circus
Now the excuse for this apartheid memo is "aspirational" but flag officer notions of aspiration become iron law in the ranks below, it is the nature of the military hierarchy. The Supreme Court made this broad-based discrimination in 2022 for officer selection illegal...
Stop the Madness: Existential Martial Incompetence
Jen Psaki’s quote from the podium from 8/31/2021 per the Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021 during an Offal Office press briefer to the Coprophile Media: “I don’t think anyone assessed that they [the Afghan government & forces] would collapse as quickly as they...
Foreign Interference
People are being told to be alarmed about alleged foreign interference in the upcoming presidential election. Maybe they should be understanding rather than alarmed. The U.S. government conducts a wide-ranging interventionist foreign policy, which can substantially...
Pager-palooza: The Remote Detonation Arms Race Begins
If Israel had this mass remote detonation capability a year ago, why level Gaza when surgical strikes would have sent a more clear message and not set the entire global Islamic world against them (even worse and more vociferously than before)? Inquiring minds want to...
Encourage Work and Abolish Welfare: AZ Sheriff Testifies to Congress
https://www.youtube.com/live/sEjWcefdE0g?si=KFL1XUQdwsRVe5Yg Sheriff Hathaway of Arizona explains the situation at America's border. As libertarians, we should be encouraging people to engage in mutually beneficial voluntary exchanges regardless of arbitrary...