Today, closed-circuit surveillance cameras are ubiquitous. You find them everywhere: at gas stations, stoplights, on government property, on private property. At the time of the April 19th, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, you could find surveillance cameras mounted at...
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Who Helped Timothy McVeigh Blow Up Oklahoma City?
by Richard Booth | Aug 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC
Cassville is located in the extreme southwest of Missouri, sitting adjacent to the northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas state borders. It’s about an hour away from the nearby cities of Joplin and Carthage and about two and a half hours, 130 miles, from Elohim...
The Oklahoma City Bombing Archives: An Introduction & Recommended Reading List
by Richard Booth | Aug 18, 2024 | Featured, Featured Articles, OKC
When I began compiling material for what eventually became “The Oklahoma City Bombing Archives,” I was simply doing background research for a book. Over a period of several years I used commercial databases, libraries, and services that allowed me to scan newspaper...
TGIF: Gaslighting
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 16, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I wonder who's gaslighting us now. Here are some of the major perpetrators: The pundits and pseudo-economists of all tribes who try to convince us that the government can spend, borrow, and create money almost without limit or harm. What happens when interest on the...
The Taiwan Problem You (Probably) Don’t Know
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 15, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Taiwan is today lauded for its vibrant democracy, open economy, and progressive society. However, behind this shining exterior is a dark and brutal history that is frequently overlooked; or in the case of Washington and its loyal corporate mouthpieces, purposefully...
Geoeconomics, Geopolitics, and Montesquieu
by Wendy McElroy | Aug 15, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
How nations approach foreign policy, including war, shifts dramatically with time. A shift in American foreign policy seems to be speeding up or, perhaps, the change is merely reaching the logical conclusion of policies developed in the post-World War II decades....
Lower Interest Rates Don’t Stimulate (Not Ever)
by Thomas Eddlem | Aug 14, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Fueled by panic over a weak July jobs report and a one-day crash in global stock markets, an unstoppable growing chorus arose among the political establishment calling for the Federal Reserve Bank to cut interest rates. The reality is that interest rates, as...
China’s Rising Diplomatic Power
by Ted Snider | Aug 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The United States is working hard to create a global narrative of itself as the leader of a generational struggle to advance democracy, peace, and international law and push back the forces of autocracy, aggression, and erosion of the rule of law. The facts look...