A blatant example of excessive force has come to light as new video evidence reveals that Greensboro police officer Cpl. Matthew Sletten fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Nasanto Crenshaw on August 21, 2022. The video clearly shows that the teen was attempting to flee...
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Samantha Power, High Priestess of Insidious Authoritarianism
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Most people who remember Samantha Power know her either as a pro-war propagandist masquerading as a journalist in Bosnia or as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s loyal servant in helping to orchestrate the Obama administration’s disastrous military interventions in...
The World Is Changing, But Is Washington Finally Noticing?
by Ted Snider | Apr 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recent statements by two Biden administration officials hint that the United States is finally noticing that the world around them is changing. On April 11, CIA Director William Burns spoke at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. In a somewhat stunning...
Ex-CIA Chief Interfered in 2020 Election to Help Joe Biden
by Connor Freeman | Apr 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Mike Morrell, the former acting CIA director, revealed to the House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan, that he played a key role in rallying former intelligence officials to sign a letter which sought to discredit reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal...
A Middle American Town is Being Sacrificed to the Cold War
by Ken Silva | Apr 25, 2023 | Featured Articles
The Department of Energy uses words such as “remediation,” “decommission,” and “deactivation” to describe what’s going on in the tiny Appalachian town of Piketon, Ohio—the home of a facility that was used to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs during the Cold War. But...
Bannon, Guo, Yan: Where a Populist Right Idol Gets His Funding
by Kyle Matovcik | Apr 24, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
As we roll into the 2024 political season, you can rest assured the political right will be posturing more and more against China, while rightfully calling for an end to Ukraine aid. This trend was highlighted by a long line of recent Republican congressional and...
NPR Can’t Justify Its Existence
by Laurence Vance | Apr 24, 2023 | Featured Articles
One of the hallmarks of authoritarian countries is that the media is state-run or under the direct supervision or control of the government. The Xinhua News Agency is the official state news agency in China. Al-Akhbar, Al-Ahram, and Al-Gomhuriya are state-owned...
TGIF: Politics Corrupts Money
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 21, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Money does not corrupt politics. Politics corrupts money. Politics as we know it is inherently corrupt; it's the way to select government officials, who then use the legalized threat of physical force, and force itself, to make peaceful people do or not do things...