The ruling class in Washington is planning on using America’s sons and daughters as cannon fodder to wage their long-awaited war against China. President Joe Biden along with the other de facto employees of the military industrial complex, including in Congress, have...
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Fake Crime! The Fiction of ‘Seditious Conspiracy’
by Ryan McMaken | May 9, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Last Thursday, Enrique Tarrio, a reputed national leader of the Proud Boys organization was convicted in federal court of seditious conspiracy along with three-co-defendants. This conviction in a District of Columbia court represents a victory for the Justice...
After Deadly World Tour, NATO Turns Its Sights Toward China
by Ron Paul | May 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
NATO’s post-Cold War history is that of an organization far past its “sell-by” date. Desperate for a mission after the end of the Warsaw Pact, NATO in the late 1990s decided that it would become the muscle behind the militarization of “human rights” under the Clinton...
Sino-Japanese Relations Are Deteriorating, But Western Media Ignores It…
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Apart from its well-practiced habit of uncritically repeating whatever the Pentagon, State Department, White House (or really any other government agency) have to say on a particular subject, of equal importance in any indictment of the so-called Fourth Estate is what...
Kent State: The School Shooting the Government Doesn’t Want You to Remember
by Claire Bernish | May 8, 2023 | Featured Articles
On May 4, 1970, a disorganized and nonviolent antiwar protest turned violent and deadly when the Ohio National Guard inexplicably opened fire on students at Kent State University—indelibly polarizing the United States populace to an extreme arguably unabated since....
TGIF: Abolish Billionaires?
by Sheldon Richman | May 5, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to abolish billionaires. You read that right. He says he'd confiscate 100 percent of people's money above the $999 million mark -- as if that would cover a significant portion of the nearly $7 trillion the feds will spend in the next fiscal...
Libertarianism Should Not Be Hostile to Women’s Liberation
by Kym Robinson | May 4, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A young college woman is raped by a man. No justice is found because the rapist is an otherwise “promising young man” with a future ahead of him. His victim is merely a blip on his sterling professional conduct. Those who witnessed or were aware of the rape pretend as...
The Iraq War Is (And Will Always Be) Undefendable
by Ryan McMaken | May 4, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This spring marks the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. After an initial frenzy of war fever in the early years of the war, support for the war has since largely evaporated. Nearly two thirds of veterans now say the war was "not worth...