I maintain that mental illness is a metaphorical disease: that bodily illness stands in the same relation to mental illness as a defective television set stands to a bad television program. There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. --Thomas...
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Last Weekend, Iran Changed Everything
by Ted Snider | Apr 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On April 13, Iran responded to Israel’s attack on its embassy compound in Damascus that killed seven Iranian officers, including a very senior military official, General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, by launching over 300 drones and missiles at Israel from Iranian soil. U.S....
FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security
by Ron Paul | Apr 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of...
Embracing Deflation
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Apr 16, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
In recent years, the specter of inflation has loomed large over the global economy, fueled by unprecedented monetary stimulus measures and supply chain disruptions. As prices have surged, concerns about the erosion of purchasing power and the threat of runaway...
FBI Records Link OKC Bomber to Bank Robbers, Suggesting Case is Still Unsolved
by Ken Silva | Apr 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC
This Friday marks the 29th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed at least 168 people, including 19 children in the deadliest domestic terrorist event in U.S. history. While that attack may seem like ancient history for some, one attorney in Utah...
One Hundred Years of IRS Political Targeting
by Jim Bovard | Apr 15, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
One hundred years ago, Senator James Couzens, a Michigan Republican, took to the Senate floor to denounce the Bureau of Internal Revenue for abusing its power and trampling innocent taxpayers. Couzens launched a sweeping Senate investigation of federal tax collectors....
Gold Is Doing Its Job
by MN Gordon | Apr 15, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
On Monday, the U.S. Commerce Department announced it was awarding Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) a $6.6 billion CHIPS Act subsidy for the fabrication of computer microchips in Phoenix, Arizona. TSMC will also receive up to $5 billion in low-cost...
TGIF: Why Isn’t Antifa Marching for Apple?
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 12, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I was all ready to don a black mask for the Antifa demonstration when I realized that the self-styled antifascists hadn't planned a demonstration. What are they waiting for? After all, the national government has just started a new fascistic crusade. You'd expect the...
Israel Lets AI Decide Who Dies in Gaza
by Will Porter | Apr 11, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Israeli military has employed yet another AI-based system to select bombing targets in the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine has revealed. The new system has generated sweeping kill lists condemning tens of thousands of Palestinians, part of the IDF’s...
How Big a Factor is Iran in the War on Gaza?
by Ted Snider | Apr 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In both Ukraine and Gaza, the Joe Biden administration has adopted the dangerous doctrine of war management in which, while not stopping a war diplomatically, it attempts to contain it and prevent it from becoming a wider war into which the United States might get...
Triple Tap Murders…Oh Look, a Cat Video
by Kym Robinson | Apr 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recently the Israeli Defense Force murdered an aid convoy. A group of international aid workers who had coordinated with the IDF and who were travelling on an IDF approved route. When the aid workers came under attack, they contacted the IDF. Three assaults were...
Embracing Hayek’s Wisdom: The Paramountcy of Choice in Currency
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Apr 9, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
In an era marked by economic uncertainty and inflation, the insights of Friedrich Hayek, the renowned Austrian economist, resonate more strongly than ever. Hayek's essay, "Choice in Currency: A Way to Stop Inflation," offers a compelling argument for the...
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New Amendment Would Force Reps Who Support Ukraine Aid to Join Kiev’s Military
Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor-Greene has proposed an amendment requiring lawmakers who vote in favor of the $60 billion Ukrainian aid bill to join the country’s military. Taylor-Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) have pledged to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson...
Congress Condemns Pro-Palestine Slogan as ‘Antisemitic’
US lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to condemn a popular pro-Palestinian slogan as “antisemitic.”
UN Report Finds Palestinians Face Severe Abuses in Israeli Detention
The UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) released a report showing that Gazans rounded up by the Israeli military have been subjected to severe abuses. UNRWA found some of its employees were subject to coercion and forced to make false statements about the...
Over 350 Humanitarian Sites and Convoys Have Been Attacked in Gaza
Prior to the Israeli military’s slaughter of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers in Gaza this month, Middle East Eye (MEE) reports that at least 357 humanitarian-run sites and convoys had been attacked. As with the incident involving the slain WCK workers...
US Will Try to Rally Other Nations to Sanction Iran Over Israel Attack
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will attempt to convince the international community to increase economic penalties on Iran as punishment for the drone and missile barrage Tehran launched at Israel. Iran’s attack followed Israel’s assassination of several...
US Official Says New Russian Arctic Pipeline ‘Dead in the Water’
A top US official declared that Washington is using economic warfare to prevent Russia from completing a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipeline in the Arctic. Officials in Washington threatened the Nord Stream pipelines before explosions destroyed three of the four...
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The Waco Tragedy
Last year, I sat down with author David Hardy and filmmaker Dan Gifford for a 13-hour in-depth review of the ATF, FBI and US Army's slaughter of the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas on this day in 1993. Also feat. James Tabor, Paul Fatta, David Thibodeau, Jim Bovard,...
TSA Gets a Raise
Are you bummed because inflation's got you again wit' yer broke ass? Well take heart. Federal Government employees are doing better than ever at your expense. So at least they've got that going for them.
Lexington and Concord: The Fire Begins
The divorce proceedings between London and America began on this day in 1775, 249 years ago. In Episode 011 of my podcast, I did a historical memorium to the events at Lexington and Concord. In honor of this day, give it a listen.
The “Israel Has the Most Moral Army in the World” Trope
Delusional supporters of Israel’s genocide in Gaza claim the IDF is “the most moral army in the world”. Here’s the stark reality.
Wheels Within Wheels: Complexity is Real in War
“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras...
F35 Fat Amy Follies: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Two Trillion Dollars... Pretty soon, we're talking real money. So we put this in perspective: Two trillion U.S. dollars in $100 notes would be 1,356 miles high. If they were one dollar bills, it would be 135,600 miles high (the moon is 238,900 miles from Earth)....