On Monday, the U.S. Commerce Department announced it was awarding Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) a $6.6 billion CHIPS Act subsidy for the fabrication of computer microchips in Phoenix, Arizona. TSMC will also receive up to $5 billion in low-cost...
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TGIF: Why Isn’t Antifa Marching for Apple?
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 12, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I was all ready to don a black mask for the Antifa demonstration when I realized that the self-styled antifascists hadn't planned a demonstration. What are they waiting for? After all, the national government has just started a new fascistic crusade. You'd expect the...
Israel Lets AI Decide Who Dies in Gaza
by Will Porter | Apr 11, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Israeli military has employed yet another AI-based system to select bombing targets in the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine has revealed. The new system has generated sweeping kill lists condemning tens of thousands of Palestinians, part of the IDF’s...
How Big a Factor is Iran in the War on Gaza?
by Ted Snider | Apr 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In both Ukraine and Gaza, the Joe Biden administration has adopted the dangerous doctrine of war management in which, while not stopping a war diplomatically, it attempts to contain it and prevent it from becoming a wider war into which the United States might get...
Triple Tap Murders…Oh Look, a Cat Video
by Kym Robinson | Apr 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recently the Israeli Defense Force murdered an aid convoy. A group of international aid workers who had coordinated with the IDF and who were travelling on an IDF approved route. When the aid workers came under attack, they contacted the IDF. Three assaults were...
Embracing Hayek’s Wisdom: The Paramountcy of Choice in Currency
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Apr 9, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
In an era marked by economic uncertainty and inflation, the insights of Friedrich Hayek, the renowned Austrian economist, resonate more strongly than ever. Hayek's essay, "Choice in Currency: A Way to Stop Inflation," offers a compelling argument for the...
Diagnosing Israel’s Imperial Narcissism
by John Weeks | Apr 9, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As it continues to engage in a “plausibly genocidal” mass murder spree in Gaza, the state of Israel has embraced the most psychotic and psychopathic interpretation of one of the most violent narratives from the Hebrew Bible. This is fueling a narcissism that puts the...
‘Journalists’ and the Fight to Save Freedom of Speech
by Jim Bovard | Apr 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
“What is a journalist?” is a contemporary equivalent of the ancient question, “What is truth?” The U.S. government's prosecution of Julian Assange hinges on the assertion that he is not a journalist and should be punished like a spy for a hostile country. The...
No, World War II Didn’t Cut Short the Depression
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Apr 8, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
A principal goal of Stark Realities is to “expose fundamental myths across the political spectrum”—and few myths are as universally embraced as the notion that US participation in World War II (1941-1945) lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression. This...
TGIF: Static Analysis Clouds Immigration Debate
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 5, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Opponents of people's freedom to cross national borders to where the best jobs are, aka open borders, make a rookie error: they engage in static analysis and overlook the dynamism of social processes that freedom produces. I was recently asked on Facebook: "Are you...
World War III Isn’t Preordained (No Matter What They Say)
by Brad Pearce | Apr 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A recent survey from YouGov found that 61% of Americans think a world war within the next five to ten years is “very likely” or “somewhat likely,” while only 21% say that such a scenario is “not very likely” or “not likely at all.” It’s notable that Democrats, who are...
The Growing Fissures in NATO Unity
by Ted Snider | Apr 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite the damage done in Ukraine and NATO’s now apparent inability to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia strongly enough, one item in the western win column is the claim that NATO is more unified following the damage done by Donald Trump. Even aside from NATO...
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US to Blacklist Israeli Military Unit Accused of Killing American Man
The State Department will place an ultra-Orthodox Israeli military unit on a blacklist preventing US weapons from reaching its soldiers. The sanctions, expected to be announced on Monday, have angered Tel Aviv. The move by Washington follows officials speaking with...
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House Passes $95 Billion Foreign War Bills
US lawmakers passed a raft of legislation containing some $95 billion in military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, also approving a bill that will allow Washington to hand Kiev assets seized from Russia and pave the way for a ban on TikTok.
One Killed in Explosion at Iraqi Base
One Iraqi militia fighter was killed and eight others injured after a large explosion rocked a military base south of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.
New Amendment Would Force Reps Who Support Ukraine Aid to Join Kiev’s Military
Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor-Greene has proposed an amendment requiring lawmakers who vote in favor of the $60 billion Ukrainian aid bill to join the country’s military. Taylor-Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) have pledged to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson...
Congress Condemns Pro-Palestine Slogan as ‘Antisemitic’
US lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to condemn a popular pro-Palestinian slogan as “antisemitic.”
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The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age
The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...
Here’s an Idea
If you can't tell the difference between 2024 America and 1930s Germany, let's not have a conversation, okay?
Meanwhile, Over in Sadist Land
Palestinian baby rescued from dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza hospital
Kyle Anzalone on Judge Nap: US Troops to Ukraine?
Watch Kyle's latest appearance on Judge Napolitano's show 'Judging Freedom.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG37NaExv_0
If Israel’s Apologists Insist ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is Genocidal…
Apologists for Israel’s genocide in Gaza reject freedom for Palestinians and insist on Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish supremacist state.
I Met a Man
Located nearly three hours drive from Adelaide, the property rested in the South-East. The nearest township a good thirty minutes if you pushed your vehicle over dirty unselaed road. It was a job that a mate threw my way, help out some old timers that he knew through...