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These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress

by Hunter DeRensis | Mar 18, 2023 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Politics

On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche authority to decide if and when to go to war. Twenty years later, this is a list of members of Congress who voted for the AUMF and are still in office. There are sixteen congressmen, including nine Republicans and seven Democrats. Ken Calvert (R-CA) Darrell Issa (R-CA) Mike Simpson (R-ID) Hal Rogers (R-KY) Sam Graves (R-MO) Chris...

Scott Horton on Kennedy Nation 10/17/2022: Biden has always been a degenerate

by Hunter DeRensis | Oct 18, 2022 | Blog

Three Kennedys and Scott discuss the recession, the war in Ukraine and Biden's sickening degeneracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_db95LMBhZI

A Dissenter’s History of the First World War

by Hunter DeRensis | Jul 11, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Just as villains can be more compelling than heroes, are dissidents more intriguing than the leaders of history? “I’ve been interested, in some ways, in the history of losers,” Justus Doenecke tells The American Conservative. Doenecke, who taught at New College of Florida from 1969 to 2005, made his reputation in the historical profession through an open-minded reappraisal of arguably the most prominent group of American losers in the twentieth century: the pre-World War II anti-interventionists. These were the middle Americans who saw Franklin Roosevelt’s foreign policy as the path to...

Press Release: Survivors of Israel’s Strike on USS Liberty Commemorate 55th Year

by Hunter DeRensis | May 23, 2022 | Blog, Events

Survivors and of the brutal Israeli military attack against the American communications vessel U.S.S. Liberty will gather at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. on June 8 to commemorate the memories of 34 Americans who were killed and host a 55 year reunion at the Holiday Inn Arlington, Virginia on June 6-9. While patrolling in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, the USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was savagely attacked without warning or justification by air and naval forces of the State of Israel. Of a crew of 294 officers and men, including three civilians, 34 crew...

Veterans’ Group Responds to Liz Cheney: ‘Put Up or Shut Up’

by Hunter DeRensis | Feb 7, 2022 | Blog, Foreign Policy

Today Bring Our Troops Home, a national organization of Global War on Terror veterans, called on Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney to stop using the U.S. Constitution "as a media prop" and support congressional war powers as stated in Article I, Section 8. "It is time for Liz Cheney to either put up or shut up. In a weak attempt to defend herself after the Republican National Committee rebuked her, Cheney tried to claim she was standing on constitutional grounds. It is a lie," said Sgt. Dan McKnight, Chairman of Bring Our Troops Home. In reaction to the censure enacted Friday by the...

Jim Bovard on C-SPAN Today, 9:30 EST

by Hunter DeRensis | Jan 31, 2022 | Blog

Journalist and regular contributor to the Libertarian Institute James Bovard will appear on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning to talk about COVID-19 testing. You can watch his appearance, starting at 9:30pm EST, at this link.

Merchants of Death: Origin of the Military-Industrial Complex

by Hunter DeRensis | Nov 12, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

This article was originally featured at The American Conservative and is republished with permission of author. Is it unethical to profit off the mass death of your countrymen, and should something be done about it? In a society where wealth of any origin is increasingly looked at with suspicion and envy, weapons contractors have somehow avoided the spotlight. Even domestic gunmakers have withstood more public criticism than the producers of battleships, humvees, and fighter jets. When did a healthy skepticism of war profiteering turn into social acceptance of massive corporate structures...

Soldiers Are Losing Faith in Their Commanders

by Hunter DeRensis | Sep 2, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

During the founding of the United States, Pennsylvania earned the nickname “keystone” for its essential role—geographic, economic, and political—in winning American independence. Two and a half centuries later, Pennsylvania maintained its Keystone State status in the now concluded war in Afghanistan. In 2013, after the peak of the insurgency, state Adjutant Gen. Wesley Craig said that Pennsylvania endured "by far" the most National Guard deaths of any state. In the past two decades, according to tracker icasualties.org, the state has seen 93 U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan in addition to...