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Cluster Bomb Catastrophe

by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 15, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The U.S. government’s disdain for international law as expressed in the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was made plain during the Global War on Terror, through its offensive military invasions and its programmatic torture and summary execution of suspects. The willingness to defy global opinion on these conventions has come to the forefront again with the announcement that cluster bomb munitions, the use of which by Russia was denounced by the Biden administration as criminal in 2022, are now being sent to Ukraine in 2023. The...

Tom Woods Show Episode 2378: Contradictions and Stupidities of Public Health

by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 14, 2023 | Blog

Tom Woods and I recently discussed the Coronapocalypse and Questioning the Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times: The Tom Woods Show Episode 2378: Contradictions and Stupidities of Public Health https://youtu.be/ez1hCYAOuHM

New Review Essay on Questioning the COVID Company Line

by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 5, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews

Brad Pearce (@thewaywardrabbler at Substack) has written a substantial (~4K word) and pensive essay on Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times. Opening Excerpt: Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times. Published by The Libertarian Institute. 2023. 279 Pages. “Trust the science!” they said. “Listen to the experts!” During the “Coronapocalypse” we heard the same tired refrains until we wanted to gouge out our eardrums. In reality, the “experts” were incredibly wrong about their own narrow specialties, and even had they been...

#1 New Release in Public Affairs: Questioning the COVID Company Line!

by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 3, 2023 | Blog

https://www.amazon.com/Questioning-COVID-Company-Line-Hysterical/dp/B0C9SPDZJT?ref_=ast_author_dp

Implausible Deniability: The US Government Approach to Ukraine

by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 1, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” said U.S. president Joe Biden of Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 26, 2022, during a speech in Warsaw, Poland. On December 5, 2022, multiple unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs, or lethal drones) were used in Russian airspace to attack military installations near Kursk. This incursion on Russia’s territory, which reportedly killed three people, was alarming in that it represented an escalation in the conflict over eastern Ukraine which could easily spin out of control, at least judging by the annals of history. If the war raging...

Lethal Drones at the U.S.-Mexico Border?

by Laurie Calhoun | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles

Fentanyl has caused many overdose deaths in recent years, and much of it has entered the United States through Mexico. A number of politicians have thrown their support behind a proposal to officially label narcotics traffickers based in Mexico as “terrorists." Not all of the Republican lawmakers who support this idea have openly embraced the use of lethal drones to eliminate such persons, but that would be the inevitable policy implication of such labeling, given the wording of anti-terrorist legislation. At least one presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, has said the quiet part out...

Turn Off, Don’t Automate, the Killing Machine

by Laurie Calhoun | May 30, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The quest to develop and refine technologically advanced means to commit mass homicide continues on, with Pentagon tacticians ever eager to make the military leaner and more lethal. Drone swarms already exist, and as insect-facsimile drones are marketed and produced, we can expect bug drone swarms to appear soon in the skies above places where suspected “bad guys” are said to reside—along with their families and neighbors. Following the usual trajectory, it is only a matter of time before surveillance bug drones are “upgraded” for combat, making it easier than ever to kill human beings by...

The Crony Capitalist Origins of Our Oligarchy

by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 28, 2023 | Featured Articles

Republicans have of late been setting the stage for war with China, which would seem to explain the sudden interest—after years of apathy on the part of nearly everyone but Senator Rand Paul—in determining the origins of the COVID-19 virus. Was or was not the deadly bug which upended the entire world released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Was or was not the creation of SARS-CoV-2 funded by the U.S. government, and made possible by gain-of-function research advocate Dr. Anthony Fauci, the very person appointed to lead the country’s pandemic response? Or perhaps the origin of the virus...