As TFTP reported earlier this year, body camera video showed officers with the Loveland Police Department attack 73-year-old Karen Garner as she walked home from Walmart. The officers neglected to provide aid, and they laughed and celebrated their brutality against an...
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TGIF: Thinking about Energy
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 20, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its sixth "assessment report" earlier this month. As usual it generated its share of alarmist headlines. The report is several thousand pages long, and I'm certainly not qualified to digest, much less...
Our Generals Are Complicit in Military Disaster
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 18, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In early July, Ron Paul penned a column titled “It’s Saigon In Afghanistan,” invoking the imagery of the fall of Saigon in 1975, when U.S. military helicopters scrambled to evacuate personnel from the roof of the U.S. embassy. But Paul suggested that maybe the...
SIGAR Report: A ‘Victorious’ Withdrawal From Afghanistan Was Impossible
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 18, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. government watchdog for Afghanistan released its final lessons learned report on Tuesday that said a “victorious U.S. withdrawal” was impossible due to unrealistic and shortsighted goals set by Washington. Since its inception in 2008, the Special Inspector...
Blame Bush and Obama for the Afghan Disaster
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Former President Trump, President Biden and their partisans are rushing to blame each other for the debacle unfolding now in Afghanistan. The “National Unity Government” and its military and police forces have completely evaporated in the face of the Taliban’s rapid...
Free At Last: Veteran Sentenced to Life In Prison for $30 Worth of Marijuana Released
by Matt Agorist | Aug 17, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Derek Harris is an honorably discharged veteran who put his life on the line for his country in Operation Desert Storm. His years of service to his country were but dust in the wind, however, to the state who threw him in a cage for the rest of his life for selling...
Government Never Had Control Over the Pandemic
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Aug 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the early 11th century, King Canute—while at the peak of his power—set out to demonstrate to his fawning courtiers the limited power of royal edicts. After having his throne placed by the sea’s edge, he sat down and commanded the tide to stop rising. When the water...
Nixon Closed the Gold Window and Stole My Political Innocence
by Jim Bovard | Aug 16, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. government would cease honoring its pledge to pay gold to redeem the dollars held by foreign central banks. Nixon declared he was taking “action necessary to defend the dollar against...