It is not a new thing to try and shame or blackmail an individual into silence. Whether the evidence is real or doctored doesn’t matter; only the judgement of the public is needed to destroy a person's credibility. Governments and criminal organizations have deployed...
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Marco Rubio’s Hunt for Renegade College Students
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jun 3, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Given Marco Rubio’s long history of subservience to the State of Israel—which has earned him a mountain of campaign cash from the country’s U.S.-based collaborators—many Americans were understandably wary that his ascension from senator to secretary of State portended...
COVID Doubts Made You a ‘Violent Extremist’
by Jim Bovard | Jun 2, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Biden administration policymakers hated you more than you knew. Four years ago, I warned at the Libertarian Institute: “Libertarians are in the federal crosshairs…Many libertarians assume they have nothing to fear because they are not engaged in seeking to violently...
Labour Learns a Trade
by Owen Ashworth | Jun 2, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
Recently, the United Kingdom signed two “free trade deals” with India and the United States. Adam Smith and David Ricardo would justifiably take issue with the label of free trade because these deals have not established what the term refers to in the classical...
TGIF: The Worst Are Already on Top
by Sheldon Richman | May 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
After Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made a fool of herself by defining habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," Justin Amash, the libertarian former congressman, posted an apt quotation...
America’s ‘Harsh Enlightenment’
by Matt Wolfson | May 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
Two months ago, Maria Kovalchuk, a Ukrainian model whose last known appearance was at a party in Dubai she attended with two unidentified men “who introduced themselves as representatives of the modelling business,” was found, ten days after the party, lying on a road...
Why Ending the War in Ukraine Is So Difficult Now
by Connor O'Keeffe | May 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As President [Donald] Trump wrestles to deliver on his campaign promise to end the war on Ukraine by helping to bring about a negotiated peace deal, the effort has, in part, been undermined by an escalating exchange of kamikaze drones by both sides. The last week...
The Rise of Labour, and What It Teaches Us
by Michael Ellis | May 28, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, History, Politics
Every period of history, and indeed every event, is both entirely unique and simultaneously a carbon copy of some earlier model. At the moment, the British party system is in disarray; a new insurgent populist movement is capturing the energy of a great body of...
The Media Is Falsely Labeling Ukraine-Russia Talks a ‘Failure’
by Ted Snider | May 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 16, Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks since the first months of the former's invasion. Despite the pessimistic evaluation by Ukrainian and European leaders, the return to diplomacy is itself a major achievement and step forward. The talks lasted...
Warmongering Republicans Are Not ‘Pro-Life’
by Jack Hunter | May 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Republican Randy Fine wants to nuke Gaza. He said so after two Israeli Embassy employees were shot and killed in Washington DC on Wednesday. Fox News asked Fine on Thursday if he thought this could affect the ceasefire proposed between Israel and Palestine. Fine said...
One Good Senate Republican
by Karen Kwiatkowski | May 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was the only Senate Republican who refused to sign a fawning letter to President Donald Trump demanding the complete dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear program and disallowing Iran the right to enrich uranium for any purpose. “The Iranian...
Trump Calls Big Government ‘Beautiful’
by Thomas Eddlem | May 26, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
“I’m a fiscal hawk,” Trump announced to the press on May 21, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson in tow, with typical Trumpian humbuggery. “I’m a bigger fiscal hawk. There’s nobody like me as a fiscal hawk.” Of course, only the last part of that statement was true. Truly,...
A Libertarian Critique of the ‘Great, Big, Beautiful Bill’
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 26, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
On May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed H.R. 1, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a sprawling reconciliation package championed by President Donald Trump as “arguably the most significant piece of legislation” in American history....
TGIF: Maestro Trump and Drug Prices
by Sheldon Richman | May 23, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
When encountering a public problem, people tend to fall into one of two camps: one camp, the larger one, says, "There oughta be a law." The other one asks, "How has the government created or aggravated the situation?" We know which camp Maestro Trump belongs to. Take...
Republican Senators Want War, Republican Voters Don’t
by Jack Hunter | May 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Last week over two-hundred Republicans, including every GOP senator except Rand Paul (R-KY), signed a letter urging President Donald Trump to insist that Iran give up all enrichment capabilities in any nuclear deal with that country. In other words, they don’t want a...
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Senators Push Trump to Endorse Major Sanctions Bill
A bipartisan coalition of Senators is lobbying President Donald Trump to endorse legislation that will add new sanctions on Russia. The bill has sweeping bipartisan support in the Upper Chamber with over 80 co-sponsors. According to The Hill, Senators are prepared to...
White House Taps Palantir for Government-Wide Database Surveilling Americans
In a move raising red flags with civil rights organizations, the Trump administration is working with tech firm Palantir to develop a database for numerous government agencies to collect and store information on all Americans.
Erik Prince Working With Haitian Government in Fight Against Armed Groups
The US-installed government in Haiti has turned to American mercenaries, including Blackwater founder Erik Prince, to fight against armed groups that now control nearly all of Port-au-Prince. Drones operated by Prince’s firm have killed hundreds, but no high-value targets.
Russia Calls for Second Round of Peace Talks With Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow has prepared a document outlining its position on ending the war in Ukraine, calling for another round of negotiations in Turkey early next week.
Former Israeli PM Says Tel Aviv Is Committing War Crimes in Gaza
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert penned an op-ed in Haaretz on Tuesday that, among other things, accused Tel Aviv of systematically carrying out war crimes in the Gaza Strip. He called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “crime boss” fighting a “private...
Israeli Bombs, Gas Nearly Killed American Held By Hamas in Month Before Release
The father of Israeli-American IDF soldier Edan Alexander revealed that his son was nearly killed in an Israeli attack one month before Hamas released his son. The attack happened after Tel Aviv shut down the initial talks between Hamas and the Trump administration to...
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Anti-War Blog – Apparently, not evil. Just War.
In the past those of us distant from war could only see it in the print media and television. It was curated with the intent to gain sympathy, or conceal the brutality of those who we were supposed to be sympathetic for. As censored as it was at times graphic, though...
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In this special episode my wife joins me to discuss South African farm attacks and my son jumps on to discuss life as a young man trying to find his way. ALP
Fat Amy Performs as Expected
The F35 continues to shine as a boondoggle and taxpayer nightmare fuel. Taiclet’s boasts to investors about the program were quickly tempered by real world events the same day when video circulated of an out of control Air Force F-35 tumbling to a fiery crash in...
Big Surprises in Ukraine You Didn’t See Coming! New Episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show
Jon Hoffman, Ph.D., and Kyle Anzalone discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine, providing insightful analysis on recent developments. They touch on the potential for peace talks and the latest Russia-Ukraine war update. Stay informed with their expert opinions on the...
Scott Horton : Netanyahu Compares ‘Free Palestine’ to ‘Heil Hitler’ – New Episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show
Scott Horton breaks down the latest foreign policy news with host Kyle Anzalone.
The Continuing Erosion of US Dominance in Peer Combat
The predominance of Western military superiority in weapons systems is unraveling and the increasing dissonance in the US military complex coming to grips with existential changes in how peer competition in war is evolving is causing tremendous reduction in both both...