The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to...
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A Four-Step Guide to the Cancel Culture Playbook
by Thomas Eddlem | Mar 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
Cancel Culture only has a total of four plays in its playbook: Accuse of misinformation/fringe opinion Accuse of racism Accuse of sex abuse Accuse of national security threat/threat to democracy After that, they're out of plays. And Cancel Culture nearly always uses...
Taxpayers Left Holding the Bag After Cops Kill Man Who ‘Pointed Finger Like a Gun’
by Matt Agorist | Mar 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On the night of March 12, 2020, Donnie Sanders, 47, was merely driving down the road, minding his own business when an officer with the Kansas City police department began following him. Moments later, Sanders would be shot and killed. He was unarmed and had harmed no...
TGIF: Russia in Ukraine: Cui Bono?
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 11, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I don't know if the U.S. foreign-policy elite wanted Russia to invade Ukraine -- an argument could be made for the affirmative -- but I'd hate to think it did. Yet given its long record of global mischief (a polite word for its machinations), we certainly cannot rule...
Is Putin the New Coronavirus?
by Ron Paul | Mar 11, 2022 | Featured Articles
President Biden’s “maskless” State of the Union signifies the near-end of the COVID tyranny we have lived under for the past two years. Fortunately for Congress, the President, and the Federal Reserve, the Ukraine-Russia conflict is replacing COVID as a ready-made...
Whatever Happened to Medical Ethics?
by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 10, 2022 | Featured Articles
I recall being shown in grade school a series of short films about the danger of seemingly friendly men who drove popsicle trucks and tried to lure young children into accepting free treats. We were sternly instructed to stay far, far away from such people. How the...
DC ‘Experts’ Could Kill Us All
by Jim Bovard | Mar 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Biden administration appears to be blundering ever close to a war with Russia. People can condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the killing of civilians without fantasizing that the U.S. military has a magic wand to stop that war. Unfortunately, the American...
After Ukraine, Is Taiwan Next?
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 9, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While the western world busts its own fingers googling the location of Ukraine, many newly-minted Ukrainian partisans have loudly predicted that China will capitalize on the crisis to finally invade Taiwan. Indeed, the day the Russian military began its so-called...