On March 17, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by a woman named Mary Anastasia O’Grady titled, “Giving up on Haiti Isn’t a U.S. Option.” She argues, in short, that Americans don’t have a choice but to continue doing all the things that have failed in the past...
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Is America a Rogue Superpower?
by Ted Snider | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world. In global affairs, a hegemon is a nation that leads because it has the...
Collateral Murder 2.0
by Kym Robinson | Mar 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When the footage of Reuters journalists and civilians were Wikileaked to the world, there was outrage. A shame exhibited by some in the American government caused them to reel from the crime that had been exposed, to downplay the prevalence of such murders, and...
The Fed and the Fight for 2%
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Mar 26, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last week, Jerome Powell & Co. met to issue an immediate decision regarding the status of the federal funds rate for March, and to provide some insight into the trajectory of monetary policy for the rest of 2024 and into 2025. As with the past few inflation...
Truth Has No Chance on Capitol Hill
by Jim Bovard | Mar 25, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Americans are encouraged to believe that the U.S. Congress is practically on automatic pilot to serve the public. Happily, most Americans are not so gullible and Congress receives much of the contempt it deserves in public opinion polls. But the media and the...
What Is ‘Extremism’?
by Owen Ashworth | Mar 25, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Amidst protests in the United Kingdom that have been going on since October 7, there have been multiple allegations of extemists among the protestors intimidating, harassing, and scaring innocent people who are not involved in the demonstrations. It seems that even...
TGIF: Leave TikTok Alone
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
This is America, last I checked. Surely, the government would not force the sale of a social-media company or ban its app from the Google and Apple stores. Would it? Well, yes, it would, could (perhaps), and might. A bill in Congress, backed by the government's...
CIA Further Discredits ‘Uyghur Genocide’ by Admitting Covert Influence Campaign
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 14, Reuters released a bombshell report: in 2019 the Donald Trump White House began a clandestine CIA influence campaign to smear China's international reputation. According to three former U.S. officials with direct knowledge, “the CIA created a small team...
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IDF Officer: ‘We Are Demolishing Everything Before Entering’
A senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer said that Tel Aviv is engaged in an overly wasteful war in Gaza. The soldier went on to estimate that Israelis could have achieved similar results against Hamas with only ten percent of the destruction inflicted upon the...
UN Expert Says Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza
UN experts on human rights stated Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. The statement comes as the nearly six-month-long Israeli onslaught in Gaza has killed at least 32,000 people and has put over a million Palestinians on the brink of famine. Francesca Albanese,...
Ukraine Demands More Weapons: ‘Give Us the Damn Patriots’
During an interview with Politico, Ukraine’s top diplomat demanded that the West send Kiev more missile defense ammunition. The official said Ukrainian forces were losing ground due to insufficient ammunition. While President Joe Biden promised that the West would...
DoD Used $300 Million in ‘Savings’ to Send Arms to Ukraine While Facing $10 Billion Deficit
Over the past few months, the White House has employed multiple budgetary schemes to free up funds to send weapons to Ukraine. Last year, the Joe Biden administration sent $300 million in weapons to Ukraine using money that was authorized by Congress on Saturday....
Most Americans Believe US Will Be in World War Within Next Decade
The majority of Americans believe it is likely that the US will be involved in a world war during the coming decade. Under President Joe Biden, the US is preparing for great power wars with Russia and China, engaged in multiple Middle East conflicts, and posturing for...
Israel Bars UNRWA Aid Shipment to Northern Gaza as Region Nears Famine
The head of the UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) said that Israel barred all shipments of assistance to northern Gaza. The international watchdog on food crisis warned that famine will be official in northern Gaza in the coming weeks. On Sunday, UNRWA...
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Joe Lieberman is Dead
The Iraqis won't miss him because they're dead too because he killed them.
The Eternal Panopticon: The State as Predator
Lizard Farmer did an excellent synopsis of how the state stalks its prey. The observations are older but still germane. If London had this technology in 1770, America would not have been born and Paul Revere, the Committees of Correspondence and his colleagues would...
The Great Max Blumenthal on the Genocide Democrats
At the Woman’s National Democratic Club in Washington DC on March 7, 2024 https://youtu.be/kS3HOEss9rk
Jerusalem Post: You Go Fight a War to Destroy Iran For Us
We would like it better if Iran was broken up into six warring ethno-states, they say. Just in case you thought America's problems with Iran had anything to do with America's national interests. No, it's all about Israel. Has been since at least 1993.
Liberals Are So Horrible
Vote Vets, which was created by Democrats to cash in on opposition to Iraq War II, is now running ads attacking Republicans for holding up more billions for war in Ukraine. They pretend that somehow American forces will have to go fight the next war for Poland or some...
$5400
One of the terrorist-murderers captured in Moscow claimed that he was paid the equivalent of US$5400 to kill innocent people. In his native Tajikstan that is no doubt a lot of money. His willingness to kill for money is not new, the mercenary trade is one steeped in...