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Greeks Refuse to Purchase Fifty Million Dollar Floating Dumpsters From the US Navy
by Bill Buppert | Dec 20, 2024 | Blog
These floating dumpsters cost the American taxpayer 500-600 million per ship. The US Navy is trying to garage sell these malfunctioning ships to Greece and they are onto the scam. The Greek Defense Minister is smarter than the average bear. Glad to see that even...
TGIF: The Unfortunately Forgotten Sumner
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 20, 2024 | Economics, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Some things haven't changed since 1883. In that year Yale University professor William Graham Sumner, the anti-imperialist laissez-faire liberal and pioneer of American sociology, noticed that "we are told every day that great social problems stand before us and...
Aesthetics and Frequencies w/Mano Elia
by Tommy Salmons | Dec 19, 2024 | Blog, Year Zero
Mano is back to discuss the image of God in the world.
American Diplomat to Meet with Al-Qaeda Affiliated al-Julani
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 19, 2024 | News
A top American diplomat in the Middle East is traveling to Damascus to meet with Mohammad Abu al-Julani. The trip is a sign that the US may lift sanctions on the al-Qaeda-affiliated rebel group that deposed former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. The Financial Times...
How the Captive Media Divides Us
by Thomas Eddlem | Dec 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Most political differences in America today aren’t a result of moral differences, or even policy opinions. Rather, they are generated by divergent media consumption. There’s a huge difference between those whose news comes primarily from the corporate Big Five...
COI #730: Israel and Turkey Invade Syria
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 19, 2024 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #730, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news from the Middle East. The Kyle Anzalone Show Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash...
Forty Years Sniping at Leviathan
by Jim Bovard | Dec 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
I have spent decades trying to turn political dirt into philosophic gold. I have yet to discover the alchemist’s trick, but I still have fun with the dirt. I was born in Iowa and raised in the mountains of Virginia. Wheeling and dealing with old coins as a teenager...
The Welfare-State Paradox
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 19, 2024 | Blog, Economics, Politics
"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...
The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse
by Bill Buppert | Dec 19, 2024 | Blog
Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...