How the CIA helped jihadist rebels invade and occupy the capital of the Palestinian diaspora Introduction The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria was thrust into international conscientiousness in March 2014 when the United Nations published the now iconic image...
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Trump: Great Strides Made in ‘Ridiculous’ Afghan War
Praises NATO's promised spending hikes Whenever President Trump is dealing with NATO issues, there is always the question of whether Trump is going to praise NATO as the greatest thing since sliced bread, mock them as a relic of the past, or somehow manage to do both...
New Jersey Moves Closer to Legalization
New Jersey took another big step towards legalizing the recreational adult-use of cannabis last week, but legislators stopped short of taking the historic vote. After a breakthrough in negotiations over taxes and regulatory oversight between Governor Murphy and Senate...
Journo and Sjursen Debate How to Solve Israel-Palestine Conflict
https://youtu.be/Mg1Y2V9Forc Elan Journo and Danny Sjursen debated how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and while Sjursen rightly won, both were wrong on a few key points. On March 18, 2019, the Soho Forum hosted a debate in which Elan Journo argued in...
Truth Is an Outlaw in Washington
“Truth isn’t truth,” declared Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, on Meet the Press last August. Giuliani’s comment was the “Trump era’s epitaph,” according to a Washington Post columnist. But truth really is defined differently inside the Beltway — when...
Trump Tells the Truth: Sanctions Cause People to Suffer
This week President Trump admitted what the Washington policy establishment of both parties would rather be kept quiet. Asked why he intervened to block a new round of sanctions on North Korea, he told the media that he believes the people of North Korea have suffered...
The American Old West: How Hollywood Made It “Wild” to Make Money & Advance Gun Control
Hollywood has a clever way of distorting our perspective on history, and a great example of this is Western film – a movie genre we've all come to love. Cattle rustlers, guns blazing, outlaws running loose, and vigilantes dishing out vengeance indiscriminately. These...
The Racist Roots Behind the Minimum Wage
Economist Walter Williams has called the minimum wage “one of the most effective tools in the arsenal of racists everywhere in the world.” Yet today’s “Fight for $15” has placed a federal minimum wage increase at center stage. "The federal minimum wage of $7.25 is a...
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