Before he was gunned down by an officer with the North Las Vegas Police Department, Darin Dyer, 38, served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was honorably discharged as a Marine Corps sergeant in 2010. He had no criminal record and on the night he was killed, he had...
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We Have Just One Planet, Let’s Not Nuke It
by Kym Robinson | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”- President John F Kennedy There was a time when a lot of people feared nuclear war. The Cold War was a delicate...
Don’t Let Biden’s Attempted Vaccine Mandate Fall Down the Memory Hole
by Jim Bovard | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
If you pick up a COVID infection during your next visit to a hospital or medical office, maybe send a thank-you card to President Biden. His COVID vaccine mandate was one of the most perverse public-health edicts in modern times. Vaccination status went from being a...
The War for Our Language
by Jeff Deist | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
"Language is the perfect instrument of empire."- Antonio de Nebrija, bishop of Ávila, 1492 The bishop was correct, in his time and ours. Spain proceeded to become the most powerful empire in the world over the following century, spreading her mother tongue across the...
A ‘Defend the Guard’ Explainer
by Michael Maharrey | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Presidential administrations come and go but the war machine churns relentlessly on. “Defend the Guard” legislation can throw a monkey wrench in its cogs. Defend the Guard is a state-level bill that would stop the deployment of a state’s National Guard units unless...
Zelensky: Peace Talks Are an ‘Impossibility’
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday signed a decree that ruled out any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring they would be an “impossibility.” The decree was first put forward by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine....
Power Elite Analysis: Lessons from the ‘Conspiracist’ Right and New Left Academics
by Brandan P. Buck | Oct 4, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
The United States is amidst a full-blown moral panic concerning the authenticity and proliferation of online discourse. This latest culture of information anxiety over "misinformation" is an example of what one preeminent scholar called "conspiracy panics." This panic...
‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ Still Sanitizes the Vietnam War for American Audiences
by John Weeks | Oct 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
Hollywood filmmakers are adept at selling us goods and services. The industry has developed product placement (or “brand integration”) into a filming technique as impressive as its cinematography and sound design. Director Peter Farrelly’s new film, The Greatest Beer...